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This week in TV Guide: December 13, 1958
The greatest newsman of the time, Edward R. Murrow, has an article this week about "How TV Can Help Us Survive." If you've read The Electronic Mirror, you know that I have a section in which various...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, December 16, 1958
We're 10 days out from Christmas, and we do have a couple of seasonal shows on tap tonight; Songs of Christmas on KTCA at 6:00 p.m. (I wonder if high school choirs are even allowed to sing sacred...
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The untold stories of history, as seen on TV
There's a scene in the classic Yuletide movie The Bishop's Wife—the original version, with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven—in which Grant's character, an angel, explains to a history...
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Around the dial
It's the last edition of "Around the Dial" before Christmas, so let's see what kind of shiny things might be under our classic TV Christmas tree!It's Volume 1, Number 11 of The Twilight Zone Magazine...
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This week in TV Guide: December 16, 1961
This week's cover story is on Richard Chamberlain, star of NBC's new hit medical drama Dr. Kildare, based on the long-running movie and radio series. The emphasis of the unbylined article is that...
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What's on TV: Sunday, December 17, 1961
Well, it occurs to me that we haven't looked at a Sunday listing lately, and I couldn't find the last time we'd done one from the 1961-62 season, so here we are. This is a genuine Twin Cities issue,...
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Around the dial
Well, we're just four days from Christmas, so here's an early Christmas present: this week's look around the dial.I've always appreciated the concept of Robert Lansing's spy series The Man Who Never...
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This week in TV Guide: December 21, 1957
Isn't this a great cover? Colorful and joyful and just a bit goofy. That's how Christmas seems when you're a kid, and even though I won't be born for another 2½ years, things won't be a whole lot...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, December 25, 1957
It's Christmas Day, 1957, and there's plenty of festive programming to help make for a relaxing day. Many of the regularly scheduled serials are being shown; I'd suspect they might be filler episodes...
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Season's Greetings!
From 1966, CBS's famous Christmas interstitials, pen-and-ink drawings designed by R.O. Blechman and animated by Willis Pyle, with musical accompaniment arranged by Arnie Black. I can't think of...
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Around the dial
Well, it's the final spin around the dial for 2018, and this seems to be an appropriate time to look at David's latest at Comfort TV, in which he reflects on "things you can only see on classic TV."...
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This week in TV Guide: December 28, 1974
I've talked at length about the awful year 1968, and I suppose that in my lifetime, it ranks with 1963 and 2001 in terms of sheer awfulness, although one could argue that 1968 has the added agony of...
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What's on TV? Monday, December 30, 1974
Miami must be an interesting place to spend the New Year, if you're into that kind of thing. I can't remember if we've ever traveled there for one of these TV weeks, but here we are now. The next...
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Lenny Bruce introduces us to the 1960s
LENNY BRUCE UNDER ARREST—AGAINHappy New Year, kids! Today we're kicking off 2019 with this clip of Lenny Bruce appearing on Steve Allen's show, April 5, 1959—one of only six appearances that Bruce ever...
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For the first Hitchcock Project of the year, Jack at bare-bones e-zine wraps up his overview of Bernard C. Schoenfeld's work with season five's "Hitch Hike" (which I haven't seen yet, so I'm not going...
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This week in TV Guide: January 3, 1970
It's not only the start of a new year, it's a whole new decade, and something about the 1970s seems to contain the promise of exciting, dynamic change. After all, we've already landed on the moon; can...
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What's on TV? Thursday, January 8, 1970
Well, I don't think we've ever seen anything quite like this. It's our first trip to Montana, and I think it speaks to the state's wide-open spaces that every single local station has at least two, if...
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The Broadcast Archives at the University of Maryland links to this article at Closer on the death of Edith Bunker on All in the Family, and the kind of impact it carried.At The Horn Section, Hal looks...
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