December 2013 saw a handful of Alpha Video releases, including an episode of the obscure 1959 CBS sitcom Peck’s Bad Girl and episodes of the 1954 syndicated kids show The Tim McCoy Show.
December 2013: The Month in Home Media
Category: Columns
Bookshelf: The Wonderful World of TV Soap Operas
My review of The Wonderful World of TV Soap Operas, written by Robert LaGuardia and published by Ballantine Books in September 1974.
November 2013: The Month in Home Media
November saw the release of a number of DVDs relating to obscurities, including My Mother the Car, The Capture of Grizzly Adams, a Perry Como special and a two-part episode of Salvage 1.
Bookshelf: America’s Long Vigil (TV Guide, 1964)
My review of “America’s Long Vigil,” a special section published in the January 25th, 1964 edition of TV Guide chronicling the television coverage of President Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963.
October 2013: The Month in Home Media
October saw the release of a handful of Alpha Video titles plus a few shows added to Warner Archive Instant and Hulu, including Bronk and Date with the Angels.
Bookshelf: The SCI-FI Channel Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction
My review of The SCI-FI Channel Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction, published in 1998. It was incomplete then and now wildly out of date.