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What's on TV: Thursday, May 18, 1961
IÂ promised the TV listings would be new this week, and so they are. It is, I think, a pretty average day TV-wise, but as always what strikes me most from this time period is the local flavor of the...
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G-Men vs. Commies
Efrem Zimbalist Jr., left, receives an award for "patriotic civilian service" from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, center, and Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Army chief of staff, in Washington, Dec. 4,...
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This week in TV Guide: May 21, 1966
Here's another encore presentation, which is a fancy way of describing how I've simply repeated a piece from five years ago. Fear not; we'll return with something new next week, just in time for the...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, May 25, 1966
As was the case with last week's "encore presentation," I was not doing a "What's on TV?" feature back when Saturday's TV Guide story was first run, so this is brand-new. We're looking once again at...
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The defense that never rests
Stick with me here - it may be slow going at first, but I think you'll agree the payoff is worth it.Last week the Church celebrated Pentecost, the day in which the Holy Spirit descended upon the...
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Around the dial
See that picture up there? Now that's the house I would have liked to have grown up in! Anyway, on to this week's highlights.At Thrilling Days of Yesterday, Ivan has a truly captivating review of the...
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This week in TV Guide: May 27, 1967
I'm baaack!Now this may be good news or bad news, depending on how you look at things - but admit it, you're glad to see new material, aren't you?This week we're looking at the many faces of America,...
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What's on TV?: Friday, June 2, 1967
We're back with the Minnesota State Edition, for a wholly unremarkable day of television. As you know if you've read these in the past, that's not meant as a criticism; it just means there's nothing...
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Freberg encore
A couple of weeks ago I shared a pair of Stan Freberg's classic TV spoofs, on Dragnet and The Lawrence Welk Show. As a radio and recording artist, Freberg's satire was nonpareil. But he could do...
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Around the dial
We'll start the week with yet another talk show I'd never heard of, courtesy of the Broadcast Archives at the University of Maryland: 1972's The Scoey Mitchell Show, hosted by the actor and comedian.At...
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This week in TV Guide: June 1, 1974
The issue before the television house, in June 1974, is whether or not the impeachment of President Nixon, if it comes to that, should be televised.Remember, we're still a long way from regular...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, June 5, 1974
We're in the Bay Area this week, looking at the listings from San Francisco and Sacramento, with San Jose thrown in for good measure. What struck me as I was going through this was the list of...
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Around the dial
Afine roundup of classic TV bits and pieces awaits us, so let's get right to it.We'll start at The Twilight Zone Vortex, where Jordan reviews the submarine drama "The Thirty Fathom Grave," one of the...
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This week in TV Guide: June 6, 1959
Ah yes, the story of the show that laid an egg. It was a live series called Music Theater, hosted by Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson, and when it was on the air, it aired on NBC. The producer of...
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What's on TV? Friday, June 12, 1959
After a couple of weeks in the 70s, we're back to 1959 this week. You won't see all the stations you may be used to looking at in the Minnesota State Edition - KCMT, the infamous Channel 7 from my days...
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In honor of the World Cup
The World Cup, the biggest sporting event in the world, kicks off tomorrow in Russia, and so I thought it only right to take this very, very funny look at soccer as seen through the eyes of Monty...
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Around the dial
Hey, Hondo's back! Actually, it's Hal at The Horn Section who's back, and this week he's telling us about the November, 1967 episode "Hondo and the Judas,"and some very sloppy work on the show's...
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This week in TV Guide: June 13, 1970
I feel as if I've given kind of short shrift to the programming part of this feature over the past couple of weeks, so this week we're just going to look inside the cover and see what's on. For all our...
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