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This week in TV Guide: April 27, 1957
There’s discontent rising in the land, my friends, and it’s about to boil over. It pits neighbor against neighbor, city against city, network against network; and there’s no telling how far it may go...
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What's on TV? Friday, May 3, 1957
This week's TV Guide is advertised as the Northern Minnesota edition, and you'll see some differences from our usual Minnesota State Edition. The stations shown include a pair from Fargo, North Dakota,...
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Taking TV seriously
"Pop culture can fill you with empty calories; that’s just what it wants. Once you pop, you can’t stop.”That quote comes from "Searching for Life in the Time of Easter Eggs," Sean Fennessey's article...
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Lately, I’ve been considering cutting the cable and going with a streaming service. It seems to make sense, since probably 90% of what we watch (outside of sports and news) comes from DVDs or Amazon...
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This week in TV Guide: May 2, 1981
Care for some charasmatic newsmen? Gerald M. Goldhaber's article on the most popular TV newsmen confirms what we've always been told: Walter Cronkite has the most charisma.Goldhaber is Chairman of the...
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What's on TV? Thursday, May 7, 1981
By 1981, we were no longer living in the World's Worst Town™, and so this issue is another from my personal collection, with our St. Paul address on the label. I don't know why I kept this particular...
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It's not like it's the end of the world or anything...
When Ted Turner started CNN way back in 1980, it was with the promise that the network "would stay on until the end of the world." Now, according to several news stories, it transpires that CNN is...
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The Kuklapolitan Opera! I just like the way that sounds! And having Kukla, Fran and Ollie doesn't hurt; at Garroway at Large, Jodie takes us back to Dave Garroway (doing Milton Cross!) and Arthur...
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This week in TV Guide: May 14, 1966
What better way to kick the week off than with a look at the undisputed heavyweight Chairman of the Board?Leslie Radditz' article, which accompanies an encore presentation of Sinatra's acclaimed NBC...
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What's on TV? Thursday, May 19, 1966
What is there to say about this week's listings, which come from the Minnesota State Edition? Well, there are a couple of things that are exceptions to TV Guide's style guide: The Saint, at 3:30 p.m....
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Arlene Dahl's Beauty Spot, circa 1966
When you've seen as many of TV Guide's listings from the 1960s as I have, you get used to certain things that probably haven't been on TV in at least 40 years. One of those things is the daytime...
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Does the Dali Lama read It's About TV?I think most of us who are of a certain age got their introduction to many classic movies by seeing them on television, and so it's fitting that Classic Film and...
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This week in TV Guide: May 17, 1969
The biggest bomb of the season? How about one of the biggest fiascoes in the history of television? You've read about it before, you might even have seen it, but this week we get a chance to learn...
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What's on TV? Thursday, May 22, 1969
I never cease to be fascinated by these New York City TV Guides, even when—as is the case today—there's nothing particularly important or distinctive being broadcast. For someone who grew up in the...
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How TV compliments your lifestyle
Recently I was browsing through a bookstore that I’ve been known to frequent from time to time, doing what I usually do when I’m in a bookstore: looking for television shows on DVD. To be clear, that’s...
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Acouple of non-classic TV pieces that I include here to start off the week, because I think they have meaning when studying the scholarship of classic television. First, at The Federalist, Ben Domenech...
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This week in TV Guide: May 21, 1977
The Quiz Show Scandal, you may recall, had to do with public deception. Television viewers were tricked into thinking that a contest between two people, a battle of knowledge, was legitimate—on the...
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What's on TV? Saturday, May 21, 1977
We're in the Bay Area this week, and no matter how often I see a TV Guide from this part of the country, I don't think I'll ever get accustomed to the time change. It's one thing to live in the Eastern...
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Let's go a bit off-topic this week, since there isn't a lot to report in the classic TV universe.Alison Herman's article at The Ringer about the Deadwood movie-finale brings up a number of things about...
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