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What's on TV: Tuesday, July 29, 1975
This Tuesday's listings give us a good look at some old friends, shows that we don't get much of a chance to see here. For example, just look at CBS's schedule: Good Times, M*A*S*H, Hawaii Five-O, and...
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The ABC Evening News, 1970
I think I might have shown this before, but I really like this clip. It's a promo for the ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner, and although it's from five or six years before this...
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At Thrilling Days of Yesteryear, Ivan reviews the DVD release of Laugh-In's fifth season. As he points out, the show is getting a little grey around the edges; now, more than ever, it's become a...
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This week in TV Guide: July 27, 1968
Dick Hobson leads off this week with an article that's very interesting, although I'm not sure exactly what it all means. It is a demographic study, done by A.C. Nielsen, on what Americans watched on...
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What's on TV? Friday, August 2, 1968
This is an interesting TV day - not necessarily for the specific programs, but for the little things that you notice. For example, at 8:30 a.m. on KMSP, It's Happening features "Joe" Feliciano singing...
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At bare-bones e-zine, Jack continues the Hitchcock Project look at the work of writer Clark Howard; this time the tenth-season episode "Night Fever" with Colleen Dewhurst, and Tom Simcox, as well as a...
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This week in TV Guide: August 5, 1967
Far be it from me to suggest for even a moment that a country like Russia might attempt to exert influence over United States media. I mean, who ever heard such a foolish thing as that?Believe it or...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, August 8, 1967
We've got a lot to look at this week, an almost full slate of channels from the Minnesota State Edition. What's missing? KTCA, the St. Paul-Minneapolis public television station, is off for the week....
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Clancy and Willie and Carmen
This week, I thought we’d take a brief look at another of the kids’ shows that you see in this week’s TV Guide. Two shows, actually, involving three of the Twin Cities' great TV personalities: John...
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At Comfort TV, David says something I've believed for a long time: the end of the classic era of television starts with the end of television as a communal experience. (No wonder we get along so well.)...
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This week in TV Guide: August 10, 1963
There's no single dominant story this week, so we're just going to skip around a bit and see what we can come up with. OK with you all?I've Got a Secret was on the cover of a lot of TV Guides. The game...
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What's on TV? Thursday, August 15, 1963
I may have mentioned this before, but for several years I hosted a political talk show on public access television. I mention this not to brag, but to point out something that I've often said: being on...
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I did not know this previously - which is one reason why I read all these blogs, and why you should, too - that there are now novelizations of The Avengers. They're non-canonical; in other words, not...
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This week in TV Guide: August 20, 1966
This week's cover boy is the seemingly-ageless Red Skelton, who - like all of us, I suppose - eternally fights against the fear that "this time he will not be funny."Dwight Whitney visits him in Vegas,...
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What's on TV? Friday, August 26, 1966
This week we're in western New York, thanks to John Rowe, the source of this week's TV Guide, who replied earlier in the year to an appeal for issues to fill some gaps. John's not only a loyal and...
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It's Finally Here! The Electronic Mirror
Television is our history, no matter when we were born, for it tells us not only who we were then, but who we are today, and how we got there. - From THE ELECTRONIC MIRRORClassic television: married...
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Let's start this week with another edition of "The Hitchcock Project" at bare-bones e-zine. This week Jack's back with a follow-up on Emily Neff, the author of the short story "Partner in Crime," about...
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This week in TV Guide: August 29, 1970
Do you think of Green Acres as being from the 1960s or the 1970s? An easy answer, I guess; it ran from 1965 to 1971, which puts it 75 percent in the '60s. I suppose that's why I'm always a little...
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