Exploring forgotten TV from the 1920s to today.
Listen to the closing to the October 7th, 1972 episode of October 7th, 1972 on CBS, with promos for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, and Mission: Impossible, as broadcast by station WISH-TV in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Obscure TV shows celebrating anniversaries in September 2025 include The Tammy Grimes Show, My Mother the Car, The Headmaster, Timecop, Emeril, The Ben Stiller Show, and Men Into Space.
Listen to a December 1972 commercial break from Indianapolis television station WISH-TV, with a political ad and a PSA.
Adventures in TV Audio explores some of the television audio in my collection. Today’s installment explores eight reel-to-reel tapes used to record a variety of network and local TV programs between 1967 and 1972.
My review of Paul Fairman’s TV tie-in novel Bridget Loves Bernie, from 1972.
The 1972 CBS fall season introduced some long-running hits–M*A*S*H and The Waltons–as well as some failures–The New Bill Cosby Show and The Sandy Duncan Show. The network’s jingle was “Have We Got a Fall for You.”