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What's on TV? Friday, July 29, 1966
This happens more often than you'd think: I open the TV Guide and find a listing for something I've just seen. (Considering the number of years I've been at this, I suppose it's a surprise it doesn't...
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A friend, a sitcom, and a museum, or, what I did on my summer vacation
It had been over a year since we'd had anything like a "vacation," which I understand is an extended period of time away from work and home, usually doing something enjoyable; and it had been nearly...
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Xs you know if you've been reading this column for any length of time (and if you haven't, why haven't you? Not that I'm not grateful you're reading it now, but still), you know that Comfort TV's David...
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This week in TV Guide: August 2, 1986
I've been doing this gig now for what, 12 years? You'd think I'd know the answer to that, but it's been demonstrated that many of you out there are more familiar with what I've written than I am....
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What's on TV? Tuesday, August 5, 1986
Saturday’s piece was, in a sense, about growing old, and the TV Guide of the 1980s is not for old eyes. With cable stations being listed, there are now so many channels, with so much information, that...
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What I've been watching: July, 2022
Shows I’ve Watched:Shows Next on the List:The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (abandoned)MaverickTightropeLooking at the MasterpiecesUnknown hour-long dramaXs you've by no doubt realized if you read this site...
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Xirst of all, happy birthday to George Jetson, who was born in this year back in 1962. OK, we don't know the exact date, but we do know that the cartoon debuted in 1962, that it was set one hundred...
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This week in TV Guide: August 8, 1964
Sensation monger or boon to mankind? If that's the question, the answer can only be Mike Wallace, and this is years before 60 Minutes. But' as Edith Efron writes this week, that's what you get with...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, August 12, 1964
I've mentioned before that we're in an odd era right now. We've gone through the New Frontier and now the Great Society, and television can be transmitted across the oceans by satellite. And yet we're...
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At bare-bones e-zine, Jack's review of Victor Wolfson's Hitchcock contributions concludes with the season five episode "The Ikon of Elijah," which Jack sums up as a "brilliant, haunting story in which...
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This week in TV Guide: August 14, 1965
ABC News has a problem: nobody watches its nightly news program. They hope they have the solution: Peter Jennings.At age 28, the boy wonder is set to take on Walter Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley as...
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What's on TV? Friday, August 20, 1965
The first thing we can do is forget all those notices about Gemini mission updates preempting regular programming. The launch won't be until tomorrow, so it's business as usual. And what about that...
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Clearance--Free Book!
 don't know this for an absolute fact, but it's my suspicion that not all of you have taken advantage of the opportunity to purchase my book, The Electronic Mirror. For one thing, I used to be able to...
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One of the shows that always fascinated me—not because of the content, necessarily, but that it could get on television in the first place—was the Johns Hopkins Science Review, which aired on DuMont in...
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This week in TV Guide: August 21, 1954
Considering how sexual television has become, the kiss is perhaps one of the tamer expressions of sensual pleasure we're likely to see, although, as the Baptists say about dancing, we all know how one...
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What's on TV? Thursday, August 26, 1954
I've probably mentioned this before, but one of the great losses in contemporary television is that of local programming. In turning America into one big market, we've seen local stations become...
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The Bing Crosby Show, 1964
Here's something you don't see often: a Bing Crosby special that's not for Christmas. It was aired on CBS February 15, 1964 (preempting The Defenders), but it had actually been recorded nearly a year...
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A bit of business to take care of first: only four copies of The Electronic Mirror remain, so if you're interested in getting one for free (plus postage and handling) send me an email! And now we...
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This week in TV Guide: September 2, 1967
This is, by my count (and I actually did check!), the 538th edition of "This Week in TV Guide," and even when you allow for a number of reruns I've done over the years, that still makes for a lot of...
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