We may be going back 60 years here, but it's impressive how many of these programs we can still watch today. It's a feast for classic TV fans, really: Tennessee Tuxedo, Supercar, The Alvin ...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/05/whats-on-tv-saturday-may-9-1964.html
This TV Guide came out the day after my fourth birthday, but that's not why I picked it up. No, I ran across this isolated copy in an antique store and, despite the fact it was somewhat bat...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/05/this-week-in-tv-guide-may-9-1964.html
Xxwe open things this week with a 2022 article from The New Yorker (H/T Garry), where Colin Marshall takes a perceptive look at "WHAT THE TWILIGHT ZONE REVEALS ABOUT TODAY’S PRESTIGE TV ...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/05/around-dial_01870135346.html
The other night, we were watching one of my favorite police shows of the 60s, The F.B.I. (Call me nostalgic; I enjoy remembering the days when federal officers were the good guys.) Now, whe...
As you can see from the image above, Milton Berle is the guest star on tonight's F Troop. It's part of what I think of as Berle's nostalgia tour on ABC (after being freed from his 20-year c...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/05/whats-on-tv-thursday-may-11-1967.html
The "minority" mentioned in the headline for Edith Efron's cover story is not a racial minority, or even a sexual minority. And, as Efron points out, it's not all that small, either. The "m...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/05/this-week-in-tv-guide-may-6-1967.html
Xt BARE-BONES E-ZINE, Jack's Hitchcock Project continues with the second te,leplay from the team of Albert E. Lewin and Burt Styler, "CRAIG'S WILL ," a rare Hitchcock comedy, with a fitting...
Didn't feel like doing much heavy lifting today; that'll come next week. In the meantime, one of the running themes we've seen here is that of how much things have changed over the years. (...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/05/the-changing-face-and-pictures-of.html
I don't know much about the Burt Bacharach special airing on WCCO at 8:30 p.m., but it has all the earmarks of being a non-network (i.e., syndicated) special: the lack of any ad, not being ...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/04/whats-on-tv-tuesday-april-30-1974.html
I'm not quite sure why QBVII isn't better-remembered. Perhaps it's because it was so quickly overshadowed by the epic miniseries craze, Rich Man, Poor Man, Roots, Holocaust and the others...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/04/this-week-in-tv-guide-april-27-1974.html
At REALWEEGIEMIDGET, Gill looks at the 1956 Robert Montgomery Presents version of SUNSET BOULEVARD . Most of us are probably familiar with the classic movie, starring Gloria Swanson and Wil...
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A while back, I had a note from James McGrail, a loyal reader and regular commentator, who had an interesting suggestion for a new series of articles: Have you ever thought about a blog ...
Tonight's heavyweight title fight between champ Joe Frazier and challenger Dave Zyglewicz, live from Houston (6:30 p.m., KTXL), is for the "five-state" heavyweight championship, and if that...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/04/whats-on-tv-tuesday-april-22-1969.html
You may recall the sensation that was The Beatles: Get Back, the eight-hour documentary directed by Peter Jackson that ran on Disney+ over three consecutive nights beginning on Thanksgiving...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/04/this-week-in-tv-guide-april-19-1969.html
Before we get to our usual Friday content, a couple of notes from the mailbag. First, reader Gary asks if anyone knows whether or not there are copies of extant episodes of Woody Woodbur...
Tonight's Academy Awards broadcast begins at 7:00 p.m. here on the West Coast, which means it starts at 10:00 p.m. out East. Now, if you think that's really late, remember that the show is ...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/04/whats-on-tv-monday-april-18-1966.html
I can appreciate that some of you are, by now, tired of the continuous references to Vietnam in the TV Guides of this era. If, like me, you lived through that time, you might well prefer no...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/04/this-week-in-tv-guide-april-16-1966.html
All right, we're ready for another week, and we'll start at COMFORT TV, where I've been enjoying David's trip through 1970s TV; he's now up to SATURDAY, 1973 , and unless you have a favori...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/04/around-dial_01998953318.html
Considering the number of times I've mentioned Mystery Science Theater 3000 here, it can't be a bombshell that it's now part of the Top Ten; in fact, the only thing surprising about it is ...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/04/the-new-top-ten-mystery-science-theater.html
Unlike politics today, the Republican presidential nomination was anything but wrapped up by April 6, which makes tonight's network coverage of the New York and Wisconsin primaries must-see...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/04/whats-on-tv-tuesday-april-6-1976.html
Our introduction to Liz Torres, the newest cast member of CBS's sitcom Phyllis, comes with the heavy shadow of Barbara Colby, the cast remember she replaced, who was murdered on July 24, 19...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/04/this-week-in-tv-guide-april-3-1976.html
Xfter last week's break, we're back for another look at the classic TV blogosphere, so let's dive right in and see what's what. Sadly, a trio of classic television figures have passed in t...
Last week, I MENTIONED Ernie Kovac's1961 series Silents Please, and how it paralleled the resurgence in silent movies that was taking place in the late 1950s and early 1960s, thanks in lar...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/04/book-review-stumbling-into-film-history.html
We're back in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul for the first time in quite a while, and it's something about which I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I enjoy seeing the fami...
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2024/04/whats-on-tv-friday-april-7-1961.html