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This week in TV Guide: January 11, 1969
There is no mention of it on the cover, no story on the inside, no viewer's guide with recipes for the parties held on the big day. Instead, at 3:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, January 13, there is just a...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, January 15, 1969
Here we are in Philadelphia, and while there's nothing on today that would occupy a place in television history, I like this lineup. Even though we're only a year from the start of the '70s, today's...
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The Cincinnati legend and the legendary day
It's not my place to go telling you all out there about my problems (unless they have to do with TV), but I do have a point to this. Currently, I'm going through what people euphemistically refer to as...
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I'm not really sure just how much stock to put in lists, and that includes—perhaps especially—my own. They're always fun to read, though, which is why the Classic TV Blog Association, to which I...
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This week in TV Guide: January 18, 1969
It's the dawn of a new era in American politics, with the Inauguration of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew as President and Vice President of the United States. Out with the old, corrupt LBJ...
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What's on TV? Sunday, January 19, 1969
Well, here we are back in Philly again, back-to-back weeks. (I'll bet these two issues came from the same lot.) The professional football season finally comes to an end, with both leagues playing their...
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My turn: my little list of classic TV programs
The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you. But it really doesn't matter whom you put upon the list, For they'd none of 'em be missed — they'd none of 'em be missed! (CHORUS)You may put...
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Well, we haven't had quite enough of lists yet, so I'll start this week off at Comfort TV, where David comes up with one I really enjoy: the 10 most iconic costumes in classic TV. As you know, I...
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This week in TV Guide: January 25, 1964
It's time once again for a dip into the archives of past TV Guide articles. I mentioned my current (un)employment situation a couple of weeks ago, which means that the Hadley TV Guide collection is...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, January 29, 1964
As I mentioned on Saturday, this is probably my favorite TV Guide, and I feel as if I know most of the programs in this issue intimately, so many times have I read it over the years. Long before I got...
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Ithink most of you can tell that's Lyndon B. Johnson. LBJ was a great television watcher, both before and while he was president; in the Oval Office, he had a console installed with three television...
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This week in TV Guide: February 4, 1984
Look familiar? It should; as I mentioned last week, we're in a brief hiatus from new TV Guide reviews, which means a blast from the past. This week, we go back six years to a rare look at an issue from...
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What's on TV? Thursday, February 9, 1984
I still find it hard to comprehend that 1984 was 35 years ago; some of you out there will look at these shows as every bit as deserving of the "classic" moniker as the shows from the '50s and '60s. It...
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Another world, not my own*
*With apologies to Dominick Dunne.Odysseus sat on the beach, Anthony Esolen tells us in the opening to his new book, Nostalgia: Going Home in a Homeless World, casting his eye upon the sea, as he has...
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Ever heard of an episode of Father Knows Best called “Twenty-Four Hours in Tyrantland”? Neither had I, until it wound up on David's list of "The Unshakeables" at Comfort TV. I mentioned on Wednesday...
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This week in TV Guide: February 13, 1965
This week's cover profile of Andy Williams was written by John Gregory Dunne; I don't have anything against Dunne, although I do prefer the work of his brother, Dominick Dunne, to either John Gregory...
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What's on TV? Monday, February 15, 1965
We've gone back almost 20 years in time this week, to the Minnesota State Edition of 1965. It's the day after Valentine's Day, but I don't think we've missed any special programming; at least, I can't...
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TV Guide: America's Time Capsule
A number of you have been asking if it would be possible for me to post the presentation I gave at the Mid Atlantic Nostalgia Convention last September, "TV Guide: America's Time Capsule." Thanks to my...
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At bare-bones e-zine, Jack continues the Hitchcock Project review of James P. Cavanagh's works with the Emmy-winning season two episode "Fog Closing In."Speaking of Hitch, working with the master is...
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