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This week in TV Guide: March 6, 1971
The late 1950s and early 1960s were the glory years for the literate political thriller, beginning with 1959’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Advise and Consent, a look at the seamy underbelly of American...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, March 10, 1971
I don't know how it is that I wound up with such a stash of TV Guides from Philadelphia. It's logical to assume I got them all at the same time from the same vendor, sometime in the past year. I'm not...
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What I've been watching: February 2020
Shows I’ve Watched:Shows I’ve Bought:The Wild Wild WestDoctor Who: The MoonbaseStar Trek: The Original SeriesDoctor Who: The War GamesThe Outer LimitsIt’s often said that nostalgia is a way of reliving...
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One thing about the coronavirus: since we're all supposed to be self-isolating, it gibes us plenty of time to look at the best from the world of classic TV.At bare•bones e-zine, Jack's latest look at...
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This week in TV Guide: March 14, 1970
To fully appreciate Eric Sevareid's interview with Neil Hickey about bias in television news, it needs to be put in proper context, and that's going to require a little bit of work from yours truly.It...
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What's on TV? Saturday, March 14, 1970
We're in the Big Apple again this week, and I enjoy these trips to New York, having never been there in person myself. You don't see the variety of local programming on Saturday that you see the rest...
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Apocalypse Theater
How does one approach the end of the world?The End of the World, capitalization required, isn't nearly as prominent a topic as the Post-Apocalyptic World. For one thing, The End doesn't come with...
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If you're like the folks in the picture above—and does anyone actually dress like that to watch television?—you've found yourself all cooped up, with no place to go. Fear not: our courageous bloggers...
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This week in TV Guide: March 18, 1967
The relationship between television and boxing has always been a complex one. At the dawn of television, boxing was a major sport—more popular than professional football, comparable to baseball and...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, March 22, 1967
It seems as if it's been awhile since we visited the Twin Cities, but then for a few weeks that's all we were looking at, so I suppose things have evened out. Besides—well, I probably shouldn't tell...
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NBC Opera Company: Gian Carlo Menotti's Labyrinth
Since we seem to have some extra time on our hands nowadays, how about something truly confusing? This is an extremely rare color videotape of an NBC Opera Company presentation, in this case the world...
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It occurs to me that, what with everything that's going on in the world right now, it's probably time for us to take a moment and see how everyone's doing. Here at TV HQ, I'm among the fortunate able...
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This week in TV Guide: March 28, 1970
Is there a laugh to be found on the set of Laugh-In? Or is Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In? That’s Bill Davidson’s mission this week, as he goes behind the scenes of NBC’s groundbreaking variety show to...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, March 31, 1970
In this week's "As We See It," Merrill Panitt takes a moment to look at the dilemma of counterprogramming in children's programming. When Sesame Street took to the airwaves, the producers specifically...
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TV Jibe: April Fool!
There's always been a next frontier when it comes to television: from smaller pictures to large, black-and-white to color, analog to HD, 2-D to 3-D. All interesting, to be sure, but what if you could...
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That picture up there reminds me of an old saying, or at least it was meant to be old; I think I first heard it on the miniseries Captains and the Kings. It goes, "Never tell people you don't think, or...
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This week in TV Guide: April 2, 1954
This week we get a brief glimpse into how the TV Guide empire was assembled, way back when. We're in Philadelphia, and just before the programming section, there's a preface called "Happy Birthday To...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, April 6, 1954
On Saturday I mentioned some of the differences between the TV Guide of 1954 and that of the later years we're more used to seeing, and there are more on display today. You'll notice right away that...
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This week saw the deaths of two of classic television's stars, and I defer to Terence at A Shroud of Thoughts for his remembrances. First: James Drury, also known as The Virginian, one of the biggest...
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