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So what's on tap this week? Plenty, that's what!At bare•bones e-zine, Jack's Hitchcock Project features the fifth of Joel Murcott's offerings, the fourth-season thriller "Man with a Problem," starring...
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This week in TV Guide: October 25, 1969
This week's cover features William Windom, star of the NBC series My World and Welcome to It. My World is, for the time, a high-concept show combining live action and animation, as Windom plays...
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Doctor Who comes to the big screen
The following is part of the Third Great Hammer-Amicus Blogathon, running this weekend at many of your favorite blogs. Be sure to check our sponsors,Cinematic Catharsis and Realweegiemidget, throughout...
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What's on TV? Saturday, October 25, 1969
An uneventful day in an uneventful week, and I suppose we should be grateful for small favors like that. Over on NBC, one of the two schools on College Bowl is the University of Minnesota at Morris,...
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TV close-up: The Hollywood Palace, October 25, 1969
How about something from this week's listings? We don't get to do this all that often, and it's always kind of a kick to find a show in its entirety from that particular day. Of course, if you have a...
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This week starts off with the happy news that Episode 115 of the Eventually Supertrain podcast is up, which means that Dan and I are talking Search once again: specifically, "Countdown to Panic," which...
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This week in TV Guide: November 1, 1980
After months of long, hard, and at times tedious and controversial activity, Campaign '80 is at its conclusion. And TV Guide tells you how you can pick the winner!But first, a word from our...
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What's on TV? Sunday, November 2, 1980
X know we were just looking at 1980 a few weeks ago, but today we get to view America's two great pasions: football and politics. When they get to come together like this, it's the greatest combo...
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Xxe begin once again this week with the Hitchcock Project at bare•bones e-zine, where Jack's focus is on the fourth-season episode "A Personal Matter," Joel Murcott's sixth script for Hitchcock, and an...
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This week in TV Guide: November 6, 1976
I've written on-and-off over the years on the sometimes tempestuous relationship between television and the movies. The big studios have variously viewed television as a novelty, a threat, and a...
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What's on TV? Thursday, November 11, 1976
We all know that November 11 is Veterans Day, right? Not in 1976, it wasn't. Thanks to the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, Veterans Day was changed to the fourth Monday in October, starting in 1971. It...
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Cash talks trash
From December 19, 1973, Johnny Cash sings "Nasty Dan" to his new fan, Oscar the Grouch. An appropriate way to celebrate Sesame Street's 52nd birthday, don't you think?TV
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Portrait of the Author as an Old ManXet's lead off this week with Cult TV Blog, where John tells us about "Who Plays the Dummy?" an episode of the 1969-70 series Department S. And why should we care...
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This week in TV Guide: November 15, 1969
A funny thing happened on the way to television's coverage of the second manned lunar landing. The funny thing involved an astronaut, Pete Conrad; a camera lens; and the sun. We can all laugh about it...
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What's on TV? Friday, November 21, 1969
This week we travel to New York City for our pre-Thanksgiving listings. There were listings from a few other channels in New Jersey and Connecticut, but we're sticking with New York, New York. After...
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This week in TV Guide: November 22, 1958
Xne of the things I've noted in the past regarding Thanksgiving is that because it doesn't have a fixed date, you're never entirely sure when it's going to show up in a late November TV Guide....
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What's on TV? Tuesday, November 25, 1958
I don't know much about the history of Nebrasa television, other thank that glorious moment in 1975 when it turned out that NBC had spent upwards of $1 million to design a new logo that was, except for...
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Let's give thanks for Thanksgiving!
Some of you may know that we've been in the process of relocating, once again. During the lifespan of this blog, I've written from seven different homes, and this one makes it eight. There's an air of...
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