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Posted on November 4, 2016September 17, 2018

TV Guide Close-Up: Casals at 88 (Rebroadcast)

Partial scan of a TV Guide Close-Up for Casals at 88.

Here’s a TV Guide Close-Up for a March 1965 rebroadcast of the CBS special “Casals at 88,” originally aired in December 1964.

Posted on November 3, 2016January 3, 2017

October 2016: The Month in Home Media

The Grinder (FOX, 2015-2016) and Constantine (NBC, 2014-2015) were released on DVD in October 2016. Constantine is also available on Blu-ray.

Posted on October 31, 2016October 20, 2016

New Spotlight: The Building

This month’s Spotlight is on The Boys, a short-lived sitcom starring Bonnie Hunt, Holly Wortell, Don Lake, Tom Virtue, Richard Kuhlman, and Mike Hagerty. It ran on CBS for five weeks during the summer of 1993.

Posted on October 28, 2016September 17, 2018

TV Guide Close-Up: 1976 Presidential Debate

Partial scan of a TV Guide Close-Up for the 1976 Presidential Debate.

Here’s a TV Guide Close-Up for the first presidential debate between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. It aired September 23rd, 1976 on all three networks (plus PBS).

Posted on October 24, 2016October 26, 2018

Index to Nielsen Bottom 10: 1987-1988

Index to Nielsen Bottom 10: 1987-1988

Index of historical Bottom 10 weekly TV ratings from the 1987-1988 season.

Posted on October 24, 2016October 25, 2018

Nielsen Bottom 10, April 11th-17th, 1988

A look at the 10 lowest-rated programs on TV during the week of April 11th-17th, 1988. A paid political program on ABC was at the bottom of the ratings chart.

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