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This week in TV Guide: February 24, 1979
The last time we saw James Arness, he was patrolling Dodge City as Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke. He's now on a different network, ABC, in a different role, Zeb Macahan, on a different show, How the...
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Dead affiliates walking - February 28, 1979
It's that time again - time to look at a day in the week of our most recent TV Guide. (Loyal readers know this probably means I don't have anything else ready to post today, but that doesn't mean it...
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Oscar, Oscar, Oscar*
I've written before about the Academy Awards on television, about how I used to look forward to it with great anticipation but now scarcely pay any attention to it. This isn't going to be another hit...
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This week in TV Guide: March 4, 1961
Raymond Burr was on the cover of TV Guide at least a dozen times, between Perry Mason and Ironside, not to mention his turn as Pope John XXIII. There's very little new to be written about him, and we...
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Lucky Us
The Lucky Strike Papers: Journeys Through My Mother's Television Pastby Andrew Lee Fielding(BearManor Media, 264 pages, $22.58 paperback)When it comes to books about the world of classic television,...
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US-USSR hockey, 1960 Winter Olympics
A little late with this perhaps, but I just ran across this footage today: CBS' coverage of the first period of the US - USSR hockey game at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, CA, with - I...
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This week in TV Guide: March 18, 1961
Perhaps no star demonstrates the change in popular culture over the last 60 or so years more than Ingrid Bergman. In 1950 there were fewer stars bigger than Bergman, who had appeared in a string of...
View ArticleWe Interrupt This Week, 1978
What we have here is that rarity, a program that proves PBS has a sense of humor.The show in question is We Interrupt This Week, and it was the first game show to be broadcast on Public Television. I...
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Sports, Westerns, Game Shows and More! Don't cry UNCLE - it's just Around the...
We haven't done one of these for a while (my apologies to my partners in the classic TV blogosphere), so let's take a quick look around the dial to see what caught my eye:Such is the dismal state of...
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This week in TV Guide: March 23, 1968
We are, in a sense, revisiting this week's issue, having used it once before in last year's discussion on the content of Saturday morning children's programming.* And that was an interesting topic,...
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Reader mailbag - The Untouchables
It's question time! From the electronic mailbag, Jeff writes to ask:I have watching The Untouchables on ME-TV and been wondering what happened to Jerry Paris (Martin Flaherty) on the Series. At first...
View ArticleTop Gear remembers Ayrton Senna
This is a bit of a change of pace, I know, but the timing is right. Today would have been the 54th birthday of Ayrton Senna, arguably the greatest Grand Prix driver ever. Senna was killed in an...
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This week in TV Guide: March 25, 1961
It's possible you might be getting just a bit tired of 1961, since we've spent most of March there. To tell the truth, regardless of my affinity for the year I'm getting a bit tired of it as well....
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We can be heroes, just for one day
Originally posted at Our Word and Welcome to It on June 4, 2008The nice thing about collecting vintage TV Guides is that you never know what you're going to find when you open the pages. The latest...
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This week in TV Guide: April 5, 1958
When, the cover asks, will we see new movies on television? Back in April of 1958, could one possibly have imagined that someday you'd be able to pay to see a movie on television the same day it...
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When TV series say goodbye
When I'm not watching television (which, you may be surprised to learn, is actually most of the time), I'm often reading about it, including shows and series that I never watch. (And if you think...
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Around the Dial
There's lots of good stuff out there, and I've been negligent lately in pointing it out to you. Let's take a look, shall we?Cult TV Blog revisits one of my favorite shows, The Avengers, looking an an...
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This week in TV Guide: April 9, 1966
We're a hard lot to please, aren't we? First we wonder when TV's going to give us new movies, and now we complain about the ones they won't let us see! It sounds a lot more sinister (or provocative)...
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The magic of the past - what classic television tells us about ourselves
We all like classic television around here; that goes without saying.* Besides the entertainment value, which is considerable, the shows of the past tell us something about ourselves and the times in...
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Race to Riches - 1967
This ring a bell with anyone? It's from a late-60s series called Race to Riches. This ad appeared in the Fayetteville, NY Bulletin, but Race to Riches was syndicated throughout the country, and I've...
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