Television Obscurities

Television Obscurities

Keeping Obscure TV From Fading Away Forever

Monthly Archives: August 2010

Nielsen Top Ten, March 12th – March 18th, 1973

Here are the first ten programs from the twenty-seventh week of the 1972-1973 television season, which ran from Monday, March 12th, 1973 through Sunday, March 18th, 1973. There were a total of 62 programs broadcast during the week and The Los Angeles Times published the complete Nielsen report on March 28th, 1973. Once again All … Continue Reading →

WTMJ-TV Schedule, Week of Sunday, April 25th, 1948

  • Friday, August 6th, 2010 at 11:45AM
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Here’s the schedule for station WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the week starting Sunday, April 25th, 1948, straight from the weekly television listings printed in The Milwaukee Journal. Baseball took over much of the schedule during the week, with the station televising its first American Association baseball game during the afternoon of Tuesday, April 27th. … Continue Reading →
Bookshelf: Mannix

DVD Tuesday: Hawaii Five-O

Every Tuesday I take a look at obscure and/or classic television programs, specials, miniseries or made-for-TV movies being released on DVD. For the record I consider anything broadcast prior to 1980 to be classic or else there wouldn’t be much to discuss. The releases referred to in these posts are encoded for Region 1 use … Continue Reading →

Mitch Miller (1911-2010)

Mitch Miller, long-time music producer and host of NBC’s Sing Along with Mitch, passed away on Saturday (July 31st) at the age of 99. Miller worked as an “artists and repertoire” (A&R) executive at Mercury Records and later Columbia Records, signing artists like Patti Page, Frankie Laine and Tony Bennett to the latter label. He … Continue Reading →