Tom Holmberg

R.I.P., Cindy Williams. Never watched the show, but I liked the two stars. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/cindy-williams-dead-laverne-and-shirley-1235313231/

On Thurs. TCM will be running all the Young Dr. Kildare series. I watched them a few years ago and was surprised at some of the subject matter. I wouldn't have thought they would tackle some of these in those times. (I also liked how they got rid of Kildare's fiance when they realized him being married might hurt the box office.) I also feel sorry for the treatment of Lew Ayres (even though he won battle stars as a medic), who was a conscientious objector during WWII.

I think the movie would have worked better if it was only a short, maybe 10-15 minutes in length.

R.I.P. Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday

On Saturday TCM is playing "The Terror of Tiny Town", the best midget Western ever made (of course the only midget western).

R.I.P. James Yoshio Yoda, better known as Fuji in "McHale's Navy" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/yoshio-yoda-dead-mchales-navy-1235307153/

Camp TV of the 1960s: Reassessing the Vast Wasteland Isabel Pinedo & W. D. Philips (Editors) ISBN: 9780197650752 Camp TV of the 1960s offers a comprehensive understanding of all of the many forms camp TV took during that critical decade. In reevaluating the history of camp on television, the authors reconsider the infantilized conceptualization of sixties television, which has generally been characterized as the creative and cultural ebb between the 1950s Golden Age of television and the networks' shift "relevance" in the early 1970s. Encompassing contributions from a broad range of media and television scholars that (re)consider programs like Batman, The Monkees, The Addams Family, Bewitched, F Troop, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, chapters closely examine beloved 1960s American prime-time programs that drew significantly on aspects of camp, many of which were widely syndicated and left continuing imprints on popular culture. Other chapters consider key TV precursors from the early sixties; British camp television programs such as The Avengers; the use of musical codes to convey camp humor (even on black-and-white sets); the role that the viewing strategies of queer communities played - and continued to play even decades later; and how camp's multivalence allowed for more conservative readings, especially among older audiences, which were critical for the move to "mass camp" throughout American culture by the early seventies. Camp TV of the 1960s is essential reading for students and scholars in television studies and others interested in the history and theory of camp, the 1960s, or popular culture, as well as fans of these well-known but generally understudied television programs.

I like how the current owner looks almost exactly the same as granddad

I work with someone whose mother made ketchup spaghetti. She grew up thinking that's what it was!

"Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country?" They are also being told their ears are disgusting.

I used to get Movies! with my previous cable company, but AT&T seems very reluctant to pick up retro channels (they only added COZI in the last 6 months). TCM frequently shows the Thin Man movies. In fact, they had a Thin Man marathon New Year's Eve. They showed a Blondie movie once a few years ago. I always wished they'd add the Blondie series to their Saturday morning "series" series.

I don't get Decades but I'd like to watch the Blondie show and movies. Blondie movies used to be a staple of local TV's movie blocks, but very rarely show up today. You can forget about Gunsmoke though.

Tonight (1/19) TCM is running the French Holocaust movie directed by Louis Malle "Au Revoir les Enfants" (1987) about a Catholic boarding school hiding Jewish children from capture.

Tonight (1/18) TCM is showing "The Bank Dick." It's been a while since I've seen a W.C. Fields on any channel. Locally they used to show Marx Bros. and W.C. Fields movies on New Year's Eve, but its been a long time since that happened (they also used to show "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" on St Valentine's Day).

Could be, though I don't get MeTV2 (though with those listings I wish I did.

Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television Thea Glassman Running Press Adult (June 27, 2023) ISBN: 9780762480760 The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Life, Dawson’s Creek, Freaks and Geeks, The O.C., Friday Night Lights, and Glee) that shaped the course of modern television and our pop cultural landscape forever. The modern television landscape is defined by influential and ambitious shows for and about teenagers. Groundbreaking series like Euphoria, Sex Education, and Pen15 dominate awards season and lead the way when it comes to progressive, diverse, and creative storytelling. So how did we get here from Beverly Hills, 90210? In Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson’s Creek, entertainment journalist Thea Glassman takes readers behind the scenes of seven of the most culturally significant series of the last three decades, drawing on dozens of new interviews with showrunners, cast, crewmembers, and more. These shows not only launched the careers of such superstars as Will Smith, Michael B. Jordan, Claire Danes, and Seth Rogen, but they also took young people seriously, proving that teen TV could be smart, revolutionary, and “important”—and stay firmly entrenched in pop culture long after it finished airing. And while many critics insist that prestige dramas like The Sopranos and Mad Men paved the way for television, some of the most groundbreaking work was actually happening inside the fictional hallways of high schools across America in teen shows whose impact remains visible on our screens today.

Agreed, but "Gunsmoke" is on like 4 or 5 stations. If one "Gunsmoke" showing a week disappeared it would be no great loss.

Unfortunately this was some sort of screw up in my cable guide. Me-TV isn't showing "77 Sunset Strip". *damn it*

New Book about Siskel & Ebert due out in Oct 2023. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever Matt Singer G.P. Putnam's Sons (October 24, 2023) Hardcover ‎ 320 pages ISBN‏: ‎ 9780593540152 A fascinating and lively dual biography of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert—two reporters with no formal training in cinema or television who evolved from sworn enemies in the Chicago film scene, to reluctant collaborators, to one of the most famous and powerful film critics in entertainment history. On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for eight years before they’d ever exchanged a word) met for lunch in a Chicago pub. Gene Siskel was the film critic for the Chicago Tribune. Roger Ebert had recently won the Pulitzer Prize—the first ever awarded to a film critic—for his work at the Chicago Sun-Times. To say they despised each other was an understatement. When they reluctantly agreed to collaborate on a new movie review show with PBS, there was at least as much sparring off-camera as on. No decision—from which films to cover to who would read the lead review to how to pronounce foreign titles—was made without conflict, but their often-antagonistic partnership (which later transformed into genuine friendship) made for great television. In the years that followed, their signature “Two thumbs up!” would become the most trusted critical brand in Hollywood. In Opposable Thumbs, award-winning editor and film critic Matthew Singer eavesdrops on their iconic balcony set, detailing their rise from making $325 a week on local Chicago PBS to securing multimillion-dollar contracts for a syndicated series (a move that convinced a young local host named Oprah Winfrey to do the same). Their partnership was cut short when Gene Siskel passed away in February of 1999 after a battle with brain cancer that he’d kept secret from everyone outside his immediate family—including Roger Ebert, who never got to say goodbye to his longtime partner.But their influence on in the way we talk about (and think about) movies continues to this day.

Book due out on the movie: "No Crying in Baseball" by Erin Carlson (Hachette, Sept. 2023. ISBN: 9780306830181)

Definitely. The show is kind of going down hill with this plot, the pregnancy plot (along with Mary's leaving the church) and the unresolved casino plot. All things I'm not interested in.

I like "The Rifleman" but they could bump "Wagon Train."

Unfortunately they replaced the Sat. episode of "Maverick" when they could have replaced "Gunsmoke".

They might only show color episodes in the trailers because some (younger) viewers dislike B&W shows and movies. I'll bet they aren't showing Charles Aidman either.

The cable guide was really rubbing it in. It listed Me-TV running "The Saint" "Burke's Law" and "Route 66" this morning. I wish.