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What's on TV? Saturday, June 13, 1970
The listings this week give us a blend of old and new, which you can see right off the bat with the Saturday morning offerings. The familiar favorites, The Jetsons, Bugs Bunny, Underdog, and The...
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When good comes from evil
Life, as I have remarked more than once, is at heart a human drama. And not just any drama, but one shrouded in mystery. Oftentimes, it seems as if the act of living provides us with more questions...
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Come see me at Mid-Atlantic
The lineup for this year's Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention is just about complete, and if you're in the Baltimore-Washington area or have the opportunity to come out for a long weekend, I invite you...
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This week in TV Guide: June 22, 1968
At an hour when I should be watching television, or reading a TV Guide, I'm instead working on the third, and (hopefully) penultimate, draft of The Electronic Mirror. It is for that reason and none...
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What's on TV? Thursday, June 27, 1968
This is a pretty good week - starting to see some of the summer replacements pop up, while Friday night features the first football game of the season (the old Coaches' All-America Game, feature...
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Around the dial
Ah, now here's an interesting one to start off the week: the first of two stories by John Cheever to be adapted for Alfred Hitchcock Presents. It's the sixth-season episode "The Five-Forty-Eight," and...
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This week in TV Guide: June 28, 1975
One more week of reruns. I hope you don't mind; this one is from five years ago, and as was the case last week, I'll have brand-new listings for Monday. I figure I've made about two thousand changes to...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, July 2, 1975
This week the Bicentennial year begins, to conclude on July 4, 1976. On Friday night, Tom Snyder and Tomorrow celebrate with a six-hour extravaganza, and on Thursday night we go to Oklahoma City for a...
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Independence Day!
From July 4, 1972, NBC's broadcast of Oklahoma City's annual Stars and Stripes Show, hosted by Ed McMahon, with Bob Hope, Anita Bryant, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, Nancy Wilson, and others. The...
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Around the dial
We begin the week at bare-bones e-zine, where Jack continues his Hitchcock Project look at John Cheever's stories with "O Youth and Beauty!", a sixth-season episode adapted by Halsted Welles and...
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This week in TV Guide: July 9, 1960
Believe it or not, part one: there once was a time when it was your duty to watch the quadrennial political conventions on TV. At least that’s according to this week’s As We See It, in which Merrill...
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What's on TV? Monday, July 11, 1960
This week's listings are dominated by the Democratic Convention, so I tried to find a day where the impact on programming was as minimal as possible. I think Monday is pretty good, but on the other...
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Around the dial
Politics is such a contentious thing today, and television has done more than its share to promote that; the Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland takes us back to a day when broadcasters...
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This week in TV Guide: July 11, 1970
This is one of those issues that is a pleasure to go through - not a lot of research required, just a chance to do some serious typing on some really cool things.We'll start with a brief mention of Ray...
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What's on TV? Monday, July 13, 1970
This week's listings come from the Twin Cities, and while there isn't anything earth-shattering on tap, it's one of those days when you get a pretty good idea of what television was like in the day....
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The Bedtime Nooz
It's time again to take a closer look at one of the local programs spotlighted in this week's Twin Cities edition of TV Guide. It's The Bedtime Nooz (or Newz, as it sometimes appeared), WCCO's Saturday...
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Around the dial
At bare-bones e-zine, Jack starts a new cycle of "The Hitchcock Project" with the first of two Clark Howard stories that were adapted for Hitch. This week it's the third season drama "Enough Rope for...
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This week in TV Guide: July 26, 1975
I've mentioned in the past my preference for the ABC evening news when I watched the news back in the late 60s and early 70s. After Peter Jennings left the anchor desk (for the first time), Frank...
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