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This week begins with Garroway at Large, where Jodie looks back at Today's 30th anniversary celebration in 1982, a gala celebration with most of the show's living former hosts, including the original...
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This week in TV Guide: January 16, 1960
Cliff Arquette is one of those personalities whose name means different things to different people, depending on how old you are. To a certain generation he'll be known, if at all, as the grandfather...
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What's on TV? Friday, January 22, 1960
It's been a while since we looked at my old stomping grounds of Dallas, Texas, and while I haven't particularly missed being there, it is nice to revisit some of the old shows. I hadn't quite been born...
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The descent into Hell: 1984 on TV
Eddie Albert comes face to face with Big Brother in 1984 (1953).InĀ Christian theology, the "descent into Hell," as enumerated in the Apostle's Creed,Ā refers to the time between the Crucifixion and the...
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Ah, but that picture brings back memories, in the days when you could go to a store that specialized in selling televisions, rather than buying from a big box electronics store. They called them...
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This week in TV Guide: January 22, 1955
We might as well get it out of the way right now, because you're not going to be able to concentrate on anything until you know the answer to the question: what makes Ed Sullivan laugh?It's a fair...
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What's on TV? Thursday, January 27, 1955
We've looked at TV Guides from New York City before, but I don't think we've ever gone this far back in time, and it's a pleasure to look at all the familiar names on local broadcasts: news from Robert...
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Harry Reasoner and the meaning of living
Harry Reasoner was one of the finest television journalists and commentators from the 1960s through the 1980s. He was a mainstay at CBS, where he backed up Walter Cronkite for years, was one of the...
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This picture is an anachronism, but why? Is it because we see a family watching television together, or is it because people are watching baseball on television? Only AC Nielsen knows for sure. One...
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This week in TV Guide: January 29, 1966
I'm generally not one to make hay of other people's misfortunesāat least not most of the timeābut there's a line in Robert De Roos' cover story profile of Pat Crowley that shouts out for...
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What's on TV? Monday, January 31, 1966
It isn't always the case that the celebrity guests on game shows and variety shows just happen to have shows of their own on the same network. For example, the guests on Password this week are Ross...
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Let's start off the week with a question from one of our readers. Mark is a fan of Mission: Impossible, and wonders if there's any information about the music from the first season episode "The Short...
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This week in TV Guide: February 5, 1955
Remember a few weeks ago when I referred to the week's programming as "putting the classic in classic TV"? Well, we've got another example of that this week, and so why don't we start things off with...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, February 8, 1955
The last time we looked at an Iowa edition of TV Guide, almost five years ago, I made some most unflattering comments about our neighbors to the west. These "jokes" portrayed the state in a very...
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The Descent Into Hell: Darkness at Noon (1955)
Producers' Showcase was one of the prestige anthologies that aired on NBC in the mid-1950s. It was a monthly, rather than weekly, series, which added to the gravitas it projected, the idea that its...
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Idon't generally make a point of offering an extensive commentary on one of this week's links, but I'm going to make an exception for this excellent article by David at Comfort TVĀ in which he discusses...
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This week in TV Guide: February 11, 1961
Until a few years ago, the most I could say about Peter Gunn was that Craig Stevens played a suave private eye, and it had one of the coolest themes of all time. I had to have seen it at some point in...
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What's on TV?: Saturday, February 11, 1961
There's something relaxed about this Saturday's lineup. It's not wall-to-wall sports crammed into the afternoon; just some college and pro basketball, and a replay of an NFL game from last fall. Prime...
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Pat Paulsen for President
Am I dating myself to say that I remember Pat Paulsen and his 1968 presidential campaign? Probably, but I hold out hope that most of my loyal readers know who I'm talking about. (If not, this is a good...
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