TV listings: November 22, 1963
As listed in the Dallas Morning News on the morning of November 22, 1963. (With a H/T to BD Sullivan at the Radio Discussions message board. I do in fact have the paper, but he was the one who took the...
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This week in TV Guide: November 23, 1963
This week begins as last week ended, with all programming being cancelled in the wake of John Kennedy's assassination. Minnesota was scheduled to take on Wisconsin on CBS' college football game of the...
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Classic Playback: Happy Thanksgiving!
I've offered a few bonus pieces over the last week, so I think I'm entitled to an easy week. Below is a Thanksgiving piece from two years ago, in the first year of the blog. It's a nice cross-section...
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This week in TV Guide - December 3, 1960
The holiday season from Thanksgiving to New Year has always been a big time for television, with all kinds of specials and events making the rounds.This week the big production is the TV revival of...
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Around the dial
Well, it's hard to believe, but it's already December! Where has the time gone? Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. Now let's see if we can keep the momentum going through the end of the...
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Why is it we love Rudolph again?
Well, it may only be December 5 (or later, depending on when you read this), but Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer has already aired. What with Thanksgiving being as late as it can be this year, CBS was...
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This week in TV Guide: December 10, 1966
We're only a couple of weeks out from Christmas, and though the airwaves aren't dominated yet by Yuletide programs, we're seeing more and more specials to put us in the mood. On Sunday evening CBS...
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The day in TV: December 12, 1966
As I mentioned last week, RadioDiscussions.com is no more. It had a great classic TV discussion board (which I hope will be resurrected at another site in the near future), a place where TV nerds like...
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This week in TV Guide: December 16, 1961
It's a week until Christmas, and this issue of TV Guide is full of programs we’d never see on network television today.Take, for example, NBC’s Project 20 documentary series, which on Wednesday night...
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Around the dial - appendicitis edition
Now, where was I?Oh, yes - as I was saying before I went to the hospital, or at least as I would have been saying, we have an interesting series of links to look at this week. But, seeing as how I've...
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A week in the life: the Moore family of Minneapolis, 1961
Although some of the TV Guides I peruse each week were mine to begin with (bought at the grocery store or through a long-held subscription), most of them were at one time someone else's - purchased...
View ArticleStudio One, "The Nativity," 1952
This won't be the first time I've pointed out how much TV has changed since its inception, and how that change reflects similar shifts in American culture. It's illustrative though, in that there's so...
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This week in TV Guide: December 21, 1963
I know I've been doing a lot lately with issues from 1963, but I find it irresistible when I've got the chance to go back 50 years to the day. It means that "This week in TV Guide" really is this week...
View ArticleThe Bell Telephone Hour, 1959
My apologies for the relative silence this week - remarkably, I've been spending more time celebrating Christmas than I have blogging. And I don't feel one bit guilty about it.Perhaps I should have...
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This week in TV Guide: December 28, 1963
There's something about the cover of this issue I really like. It's colorful and cheerful and fun (the picture at left really doesn't do it justice), and perhaps after the grim last month, it was meant...
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The day in TV: January 1, 1964
You have to think that people are hoping January 1, 1964 signals a beginning to a better year. In fact, I think 1963 was for most a harbinger of bad things to come. By 1968 there will have been more...
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Raging against the machine
I'll be making a tangential comment about Duck Dynasty coming up, but I'm not issuing my standard disclaimer about skipping this piece if it doesn't interest you, because this isn't really about Duck...
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Around the dial - New Year's edition
They say that as you get older, time goes by more quickly, and I'm increasingly inclined to believe this. It doesn't seem possible that it's 2014, does it? But before we bid 2013 adieu completely,...
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This week in TV Guide: January 5, 1974
After spending a few weeks in 1963, we're skipping ahead by 10 years, taking a look at what's happening in January 1974.In general, issues from the 70s aren't my favorites; this might be strange...
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Medic, 1955 - the calm before the storm
Last night as we were watching an episode of Richard Boone's mid-50s medical drama Medic, I was struck once again by how much society has changed during the television era, and how helpful TV can be at...
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