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This week in TV Guide: September 30, 1961
From the beginning of time – or at least the introduction of television – there’s been much handwringing about the content of programming and its effect on viewers specifically, and culture in general....
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What's on TV? Wednesday, October 4, 1961
Today's listings include the opening game of the 1961 World Series. As you'll notice, it's not only played in the daytime, it begins at 11:00 a.m. CT. The official boxscore shows the start time in New...
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At the political-industry site The Hill, Jack Lule blames television news for our increasing hatred of politics, and cites Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death (which, contra Lule, is not a novel,...
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This week in TV Guide: October 7, 1967
There's every reason to be excited about this year's World Series. The National League champions, the St. Louis Cardinals, are a powerful team favored by the experts. They're facing the Cinderella...
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What's on TV? Monday, October 9, 1967
There's a note at the beginning of today's listing that if the World Series requires a fifth game, it will air on NBC starting at 1:00 p.m., with a pre-game show at 12:30. The Minnesota Twins were...
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But can you dance to it?
For some reason—because I seldom remember having watched it when I was growing up—I found myself immersed in watching this clip from American Bandstand. It's an episode from the end of 1967, and it...
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This week at The Twilight Zone Vortex, Jordan reviews one of the more problematic episodes, "He's Alive," a story that should have been more intriguing than it was, with Dennis Hopper as a neo-Nazi...
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This week in TV Guide: October 17, 1964
Hmm. The Hollywood Palace is preempted this week by a Dinah Shore special, and there's no Cleveland Amory review. I wonder if it's too late to change issues...Just kidding! I know we've gotten used to...
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What's on TV? Sunday, October 18, 1964
As you can perhaps tell, there's an election coming up in a couple of weeks, so regular programs are subject to preemption at a moment's notice. Kind of like a civil defense emergency, I suppose. You...
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Reliving the RFK assassination with CBS newsman Joseph Benti
Joseph Benti breaking the news of Robert F. Kennedy's shooting on June 5, 1968If this was a perfect world, I would have published this in a more timely manner, perhaps in June or July. Of course, if...
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They don't make them like Vincent Price anymore; smooth and debonair, yet often sinister and evil. As a mark of his versatility in roles, he starred in Roger Corman films, and portrayed The Saint on...
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This week in TV Guide: October 23, 1965
The picture at left is of Chuck Connors, former major league baseball player and pro basketball player, best known for his 1958-63 ABC western series The Rifleman, later co-star of ABC's 90-minute...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, October 27, 1965
Iwon't attempt to recap each of the stations from this week's Minnesota State Edition, but there are a few tidbits worth pointing out. For example, that's a spectacular lineup Mike Douglas has on WCCO...
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David Brinkley's view of television
This is from David Brinkley's gravesite in Wilmington, North Carolina. I wish I'd seen this earlier, when I was writing The Electronic Mirror. (I ran across it last week while looking up a factoid that...
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Last month at Thrilling Days of Yesteryear, Ivan reviewed the new Blu-ray Television's Lost Classics Volume 1, which featured a pair of John Cassavettes performances; this week he's back with a look at...
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This week in TV Guide: October 27, 1956
Don't you like how the TV Guide logo was turned into a Halloween treat, complete with the stem? Anyway, on with the rest of the festivities. If you're not careful, you're always going to find something...
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What's on TV? Thursday, November 1, 1956
This is one of the older issues in the collection, and it gives us a good look at how TV Guide has changed just as much as how television itself has changed. There are still a good number of local...
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Let's all sing some Pumpkin Carols!
I don't know; perhaps if you're of a certain age - my age, for example - you'll recognize this. I came across this typewritten sheet (which alone may tell you how old it is) in the archives of Thomas...
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At Comfort TV, David has a really interesting take on the benefits of, well, comfort TV. It is not, as some people claim, a way of escaping from reality; rather, it "offered a wealth of opportunities...
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