TV & Radio

Nov292018 by Chris HolmesNo Comments
TV Listings Flashback: November 29, 1973

TV Listings Flashback: November 29, 1973

TV & Radio
It's been awhile since my last TV Listings Flashback, so let's get right to it! Here are the evening/prime time TV network TV listings from November 29, 1973. This particular grid is courtesy that day's edition of the Tampa Times. Let's take a look and then get into the shows. Remember that visiting any of the Amazon show title links below will help me in keeping this site running! I'm going to focus on just the three big networks although you can see what PBS and the local independent station had in store that evening too. Channel 8 (WFLA - NBC) 6:00 Local news / NBC Nightly News 7:00 What's My Line? 7:30 To Tell the Truth 8:00 The Flip Wilson Show with guests Richard Pryor and Tim Conway 9:00 Ironside "The Hidden Man" - POW returns home, discovers that revenge-cr
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Aug202018 by Chris HolmesNo Comments
Vintage TV Show Trading Card Packs of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s

Vintage TV Show Trading Card Packs of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s

TV & Radio
Few things indicate that a TV show has broken through into pop culture at large like getting its own set of trading cards. Naturally, most of these programs don't really need or deserve a trading card set, but that's another topic altogether. While some shows -- particularly ones heavy on action or in the sci-fi/fantasy genres -- lend themselves to interesting cards, more often than not you just got a still photo of some cast member that says, "Remember that this was a person on our show? So do we." Regardless, let's look take a trip back to the days when you could find cards for almost any show imaginable, issued by giants of the field such as Topps, Donruss, and Fleer.
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Jun152018 by Chris HolmesNo Comments
Vintage NBC Promo Slides

Vintage NBC Promo Slides

Auction Finds, TV & Radio
Many, many years ago, when television technology was still somewhat crude, stations used still images to promote upcoming shows or events. Often they used slides that were simply projected to the screen. Of course, the need for these slides is long past but they remain a fascinating reminder of a simpler TV age. And so I was thrilled to come across a series of them for sale on eBay recently. According to the seller of these slides, they were used by NBC affiliate WRC-TV Channel 4, and were shown thanks to a piece of technology called a film chain. The film chain allows a station to convert a slide into an electronic signal and project it to a TV camera for broadcast. I'm not certain of the dates on these, but I suspect many of them are from the 1950s and '60s. I know the 1960s are in...
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Oct72016 by Chris HolmesNo Comments
Don’t Touch That Dial #3: The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, 1976

Don’t Touch That Dial #3: The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, 1976

Advertising, TV & Radio
I was a little too young to have seen the Paul Lynde Halloween Special from 1976, but as a lifelong Kiss fan I knew of it. Here's a national newspaper ad that ABC ran for the special, which aired on October 29, 1976. Featured on the show were Tim Conway, Roz Kelly, Margaret Hamilton, Florence Henderson, Betty White, and of course the aforementioned Kiss.
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Sep202016 by Chris HolmesNo Comments
TV Listings Flashback: NBC Prime Time, September 21, 1973

TV Listings Flashback: NBC Prime Time, September 21, 1973

TV & Radio
Rather than share the entire prime time schedule as I've done before, I want to share this fantastic, large newspaper ad touting NBC's prime time television lineup from the evening of September 21, 1973. This is the ad as printed in The Cincinnati Enquirer. Click on the ad for a larger version, and then let's talk about this greatness. Remember that visiting any of the Amazon show title links below will help me in keeping this site running! OK, first things first. I had never seen that NBC 73 logo before and it is glorious. If anyone has a color specimen please let me know. Now let's look at that lineup: 7:00 To Tell the Truth 7:30 The New Dating Game 8:00 Sanford and Son 8:30 The Girl with Something Extra 9:00 Needles and Pins 9:30 The Brian Keith Show
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Jun302016 by Chris HolmesNo Comments
TV Listings Flashback: July 3, 1970

TV Listings Flashback: July 3, 1970

TV & Radio
Here are the evening/prime time network TV listings for the Newburgh, NY market on Friday, July 3, 1970, as published by the The Evening News. As you might expect, the schedule was full of reruns on the eve of the July 4th holiday. Remember that visiting any of the Amazon show title links below will help me in keeping this site running! Channel 2 (CBS) 7:30 Get Smart - Smart and 99 mistaken for doctor and his nurse by hoodlums. (R) 8:00 He & She - Hollisters celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary by being remarried in gala fashion. (R) 8:30 Hogan's Heroes - Hogan and cronies staggered by urgent order from London. (R) 9:00 Ten Little Indians, Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton (1964), suspense thriller Channel 4 (NBC) 7:30 The High Chaparral - Buck and Mano
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Jun72016 by Chris Holmes1 Comment
TV Listings Flashback: June 9, 1980

TV Listings Flashback: June 9, 1980

TV & Radio
Here are the evening and prime time network TV listings for the Pittsburgh, PA market on Monday, June 9, 1980, as published by the Beaver County Times. As you might expect, the schedule was full of reruns, with a scheduled baseball game being one of the few pieces of original programming. Remember that visiting any of the Amazon show title links below will help me in keeping this site running! Channel 2 (CBS) 8:00 WKRP in Cincinnati - Everyone at the station is convinced Johnny has gone mad when he claims God talked to him. (R) 8:30 Channel to Pittsburgh - Host Marlynn Singleton 9:00 M*A*S*H - A critically injured patient faces permanent paralysis or death unless he is operated on within 20 minutes at the poorly equipped 4077th. (R) 9:30 House Calls - Amos arrange
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