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This week in TV Guide: March 7, 1959
Walter Brennan—veteran of nearly 40 years in the movies, three-time Oscar winner, and currently the star of ABC's The Real McCoys—has some interesting thoughts on television: "It's like ice cream....
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What's on TV? Saturday, March 7, 1959
After looking at the Tuesday listings for three consecutive weeks (albeit from three different years), I think it's time to look elsewhere, don't you? So let's take a look at the Saturday listings in...
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Stranger in a strange land
This is a piece I first wrote about five years ago, and I think it's as relevant today as it was back then—maybe even more so, I don't know. It captures a certain feeling, a mood that's symbolic of...
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Xefore we get to our regular Friday fare, some housekeeping:It's time once again for my occasionally somewhat annual call for guest writers. In the past I've had various excuses—I mean, reasons—for...
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This week in TV Guide: March 12, 1955
As you know, Sunday has long been considered the graveyard of cultural programming, a time when the networks could prove their commitment to the edification of their viewing public by airing shows that...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, March 16, 1955
Xome familiar names greet us in these listings from what's called the Mid-States Edition, comprising Iowa and Illinois, and including a pair of DuMont affiliates. For starters, Jack Paar's name jumps...
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A wilted rose by any other name is still Hell
Fernando Blanco FariasFirst, let me explain.I don’t actually watch The Bachelor (or The Bachelorette), and I’m pretty sure I'm not going to start—sure in that “Even with the possibility of nuclear war...
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We'll lead with the biggest story of the week, which is my final appearance on Eventually Supertrain, as Dan and I wrap up the underappreciated Search. There's more cool stuff on this episode,...
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This week in TV Guide: March 21, 1959
One of the items that has remained consistent in TV Guide throughout the '50s and '60s is the question of television's effect on children. As you recall, a couple of weeks ago we read an article that...
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What's on TV? Thursday, March 26, 1959
Xhis is about as representative a week of television as you're likely to find, and there's nothing wrong with that. We know, for example, that not all shows during the Golden Age were really golden,...
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The Decent into Hell: "The Architects of Fear" (1963)
The time: the early 1960s.The place: a secret conference room in a secret underground laboratory somewhere in the world.The audience: a dozen of the world’s top scientists. As we look in, Scientist A...
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Xet's start this week with bare-bones e-zine, as Jack's Hitchcock Project introduces us to a new writer: Sarett Rudley who adapted the magazine story "The Baby Sitter" into a teleplay of the same name...
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This week in TV Guide: March 26, 1955
I know we've been spending quite a bit of time in the 1950s lately, but I'm going to stick with it for one more issue, because I'm a sucker for what the Academy Awards used to be.The Oscars are yet...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, March 30, 1955
Naturally there's more on TV tonight than the Oscars, as you can see in this Chicagoland TV Guide. Disneyland (6:30 p.m., ABC) has a tour of two of its fabled lands, Fantasyland and Adventureland,...
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Star power
Xarlier this month, someone on Facebook asked me about my March 7, 1959 TV Guide writeup—in particular, about a teaser that ran across the top of the cover. What, he wondered, was the story "How Deals...
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Xet's start this week at Soul Ride, where Gary reviews Impresario: The Life and Times of Ed Sullivan, by James McGuire. You'll recall that several years ago—in fact, now that I look at it, it was the...
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This week in TV Guide: April 1, 1967
A while back, I caught The Sit-In, the Peacock documentary covering the historic week in 1968 when Harry Belafonte served as Johnny Carson's guest host on The Tonight Show. It was pretty good, and it...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, April 4, 1967
I don't know who David Hedison's agent is, but whoever it is, he deserves a lot of credit. Hedison plays Captain Lee Crane in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, but he's all over the dial this afternoon:...
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What is baseball without a Rhubarb?
Tomorrow is Opening Day of the baseball season, delayed as it has been. Granted, I haven't watched a baseball game in years; I hate the modern game, its absurdly slow pace, and the emphasis on "three...
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At Cult TV Blog, John has a very interesting comment in his review of the ITV Playhouse episode "Last Summer": "Writing these posts keeps reminding me that television was treated very much as if it was...
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