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Posted on January 18, 2016January 15, 2016

Q & A: Commercial Testing with Unsold Pilots

Question: Were two unsold pilots (“Bumpers” and “The Ugily Family”) used to test commercials in the early 1980s?

Posted on January 15, 2016May 25, 2023

Dan Haggerty (1941-2016)

Actor Dan Haggerty, who starred in NBC’s The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams from 1977 to 1978, passed away today at the age of 74.

Posted on January 14, 2016July 3, 2018

Bookshelf: Best Television Plays (1956)

My review of Best Television Plays, a 1956 collection of eight television dramas by the likes of Rod Serling, Paddy Chayefsky, and Reginald Rose.

Posted on January 12, 2016January 11, 2016

50th Anniversary of Batman

Batman celebrates its 50th anniversary today. The iconic ABC series premiered on ABC on Wednesday, January 12th, 1966. Were you watching?

Posted on January 12, 2016May 10, 2016

WCBW Schedule, Week of July 6th, 1941

Schedule for WCBW, the CBS station in New York City, for the week starting Sunday, July 6th, 1941.

Posted on January 11, 2016February 5, 2019

Q & A: TV 101; The Kids from C.A.P.E.R.

Q & A: TV 101; The Kids from C.A.P.E.R.

Questions: Was there a TV show about a high school AV Club running a TV station? Was there a TV show similiar to The Monkees about four young men with super powers who sang?

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