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And Paramount Television on Family Ties was not the only studio that UBU associated with-- that outfit also worked with NBC in and of itself (NBC Productions) on a short-lived '85 comedy called Sara, w/Geena Davis in the title role. Here's the broadcast of Wed. Jan. 30, 1985 (first part of title sequence is cut off); you'll also see the UBU logo, and NBC Productions w/the 1979 bird (that 1979 bird not having the N behind it): And here's more on Sara, from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_(1985_TV_series)

Which is, I believe, where he coined "Turducken."

John Madden (famed Raiders coach, and even more so as an NFL color man on all networks, most of it alongside Pat Summerall) has passed on @ 85.

And it didn't last very long after that-- just those 1986 episodes, and one in 1987, and The A-Team was done for.

Seeing Dr. Kildare on DVD for the first time from the first-season Warner Archive DVD release; this 60s NBC medical series is far better so far (through 6 episodes) than any other I've seen, generally because of Richard Chamberlain in the title role (Dr. James Kildare), but also the late Raymond Massey as Kildare's superior/mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie; the practice of medicine was far different then than it is now, but there are still plenty of truths to be gleaned from it that are still applicable today.

And the cover image was what I grew up around when I was a boy; that image is also inside the book (forget what page); the caption on it shows it as being from 1980, but that is not entirely correct, as the CBS Sports logo on the jackets of Musburger, Greek and Cross started in 1981, so this is, again, from when I was a boy.

You Are Looking LIVE! by Rich Podolsky (2021 retrospective on how The NFL Today on CBS w/Brent Musburger, et al. changed sports broadcasting as we know it)

Now on the third and final of the three main Kissing Booth books, One Last Time (novelization/adaptation of the script of the Kissing Booth 3 film on Netflix):

Yep-- that was pretty much the gist of it! Even so, it was quite the page-turner.

Completed the first of The Kissing Booth novels by Beth Reekles, and now onto the second one...

What is so involved with walking across the street that takes ten pages to write?

The first of the novels in The Kissing Booth series, by Welsh author Beth Reekles (decided to read these because I saw and enjoyed the films, so why not read the books):

The original-recipe Five-O family is now officially no longer-- Al Harrington (who was Ben Kokua there) has passed on @ 85. https://deadline.com/2021/09/al-harrington-dead-obituary-hawaii-five-o-actor-was-85-1234843275/

And BTW, an example of a "blooper" (this one not used on the show, though): "In The Kissing Booth films, Elle Evans was played by actress Joey Bishop" (correct answer: King). The underlined part is what was incorrect, and what had to be corrected. Also, the bonus game was called The Gauntlet of Villains, and the winning player had to correct 10 more bloopers in the basic space of 60 sec., plus one more second for every $100 earned in the game during charging and blocking (so if a player had, say, $700 won up front, that would be 7 more seconds added onto the base minute, so the player would have 67 seconds to clear the villains). Each villain had a screen called a "Telly Belly," and Tom would read a blooper with the last part wrong (here, in the bonus game, only the last part was wrong with each blooper). If the player was right and in time, the villain's arm would lower, and the player could continue; else, he/she had to stay on that villain as long as it took to defeat it. $100 was paid for each correct answer, but clearing the villains won $25K and retired the player (because CBS' winnings limit at the time was $25K; IIRC, there is no limit now). Here is an example of a successful Gauntlet run by well-known (albeit deceased) player Randy Amasia:

Hearing Tom Kennedy say it, I take it?

Buzzr has an old CBS Tom Kennedy game show on now called Whew!; it's kind of like a timed mountain climb version of Jeopardy!. What you had to do is correct what were called "bloopers" (clues with one part wrong, usually, but not always, the last part). You (the player playing the board, who was called the "charger") had to do that once per level on each of 6 levels within a minute; your opponent (the "blocker") could stymie and frustrate that goal by laying "blocks" (6 in total), and if you ran into one, you lost 5 seconds from your clock. If you fulfilled the goal (reached the top), you won a round; else, the blocker did. Here's an early episode of Whew! uploaded by the great Wink Martindale; this will, I trust, illustrate what that short-lived CBS game was all about:

That, I think, was what endeared him to many-- wishing happy birthdays to centenarians and showing them on Smucker's jars; here's an example from 2010:

Just heard it that famed Today weatherman Willard Scott has passed on at 87. https://www.nbcmiami.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/willard-scott-legendary-today-weatherman-dies-at-87/2544452/ And alongside Bryant Gumbel, Jane Pauley and Gene Shalit on Bryant's first broadcast on Today, 1/4/82 (next year will mark 40 years):

End-title billing as Lou Grant on MTM (as Edward Asner); MTM herself was the only cast member billed at the top (because she was the star of the show, and the show was named for her); all others (including Asner, Knight, McLeod, etc.) were billed at the bottom (from MTM condensed all-in-one)...

Billing cards, from CBS DVD Dynasty releases (first from Seasons 4-6 [1983-86], and then Season 7 [1986-87]):

That was MTM Enterprises (vanity label of the great, late Mary Tyler Moore).

I associate the Barry and Enright Productions logo w/shows like Tic Tac Dough w/Wink Martindale, and The Joker's Wild w/Jack Barry, among others. I also associate the Mark Goodson Productions logo w/The Price Is Right in the Barker era, Family Feud w/Ray Combs, and the Bob Eubanks Card Sharks, among others.

Finally, recently, saw (for the first time in a long time) the formerly long-lost 1989-90 20/20 opening (long-lost opening from that ABC newsmagazine), from the broadcast of Fri. Jan. 5, 1990 as uploaded by "pannoni 8". First, the ABC News logo passes diagonally, top right to bottom left, across a piece of reflective material. This material then solidifies itself into what appears to be the bottom of one of the 20s in the title. As it does, it reveals itself to be a 20 figure (the right-hand portion of the title). This 20 figure moves out to the right, and the other 20 (left-hand one) comes in. As the 20s zoom out, four pieces of reflective material come in behind them and come together to make a mirror background for the 20/20 title. Two more pieces come in diagonally from the top and bottom middle of the screen to make the slash between the 20s and complete the title. The completed title has a mirror-like sheen to it. This all occurs as the late Bob Cruz (ABC News announcer) says, "From ABC News, around the world and into your home, the stories that touch your life...with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters, this is 20/20." Speaking of which, this was the first 20/20 opening to have those words in the opening (before, Bob would simply say, "On the ABC News magazine, 20/20, with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters" [before that, when it was simply Hugh Downs, he would just say "Tonight" after he said the title]). This was also the first 20/20 opening to have a dateline on its title card (here, Bob said, "Those stories tonight: January 5, 1990"). The main reason why I am saying this is because when I found that this broadcast was uploaded, my heart beat quite quickly, because of the prospects of finally (finally!), after a long dry spell, getting to relive what I saw when I was 8 years old (and believe it or not, this broadcast came two days after my 9th birthday [meaning that my 9th birthday was on a Wednesday in 1990]). Also, the opening has a tiny video glitch, but even so, that didn't matter to me-- getting to relive this opening for the first time in a while took priority in my mind. Here is that broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Plk-RcJOw

Speaking of Capote, I'm also considering reading his 1958 classic Breakfast at Tiffany's-- what's that one like?

And I've heard of it (and the 1967 Columbia Pictures film of the same name), but have never read the book until now (or seen the film).