tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post1830189466795043391..comments2024-03-27T22:27:16.556-04:00Comments on It's About TV: This week in TV Guide: May 26, 1956Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-63011943490358452802016-05-23T12:25:07.000-04:002016-05-23T12:25:07.000-04:00Continuing from tomorrow's comment (see above)...Continuing from tomorrow's comment (see above):<br /><br />About that ch11 movie, "The Judge":<br /><br />To start with, Milburn Stone, before he got <i>Gunsmoke</i>, was one of those utility actors, not quite handsome enough for a leading man, not quite ugly enough for heavies, so he went back and forth in B movies like this one.<br />In "the Judge", he's the bad guy - a crooked lawyer who catches his wife cheating with a crooked doctor, and plots murder.<br />The 'Judge' of the title is the movie's narrator; this may have been an attempt to start a series of Bs, along the lines of <i>Suspense</i> or <i>The Whistler</i>; that didn't happen, and the B programmers were among the earliest features to be sold to TV.<br /><br /> - Lately, I've been looking at the old Lawrence Welk shows on PBS.<br />Mainly, they're coming from post-1965 - the year they started doing the show in color.<br />Wouldn't you just know it - Welk's cast was loaded with lovely ladies with very lovely legs, which were all over the place (in every sense of that term).<br />Oh well - Welk always said that he tried to keep up with the times ...<br /><br /> - Right now, as I'm typing, Channel 7, the ABC station, is carrying a live tribute to Ron Magers, who's retiring as WLS-TV's principal anchorman after thirty-something years (this total may include a lengthy stay at Channel 5-NBC, I'm not entirely certain).<br />Just thought I'd throw that in ...<br /><br /> - The Robert Montgomery play "Who":<br />Does your edition have a cast list in the listing?<br />You might like to take a look at the actors playing the various Whos.<br />You might find a familiar name in there somewhere ...<br /><br /> ... Yes, that's right: William Darrid, who married Kirk Douglas's ex-wife, thereby becoming Michael Douglas's stepfather!<br />(...but seriously folks, take a look at that list ...)<br /><br /> - You migt also want to check out the color section again, particularly the features about Hans Conreid, June Foray (still active at 90-something!), and Richard Simmons.<br />That's the guy who played <i>Sgt. Preston of The Yukon</i> - not the other one.<br /><br /> That about covers this one. Going Down ...Mike Dorannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-10541983983063146392016-05-22T08:46:12.292-04:002016-05-22T08:46:12.292-04:00I remember reading about Lawrence Welk firing Pete...I remember reading about Lawrence Welk firing Pete Fountain. While there were probably other issues involved, the flashpoint was Pete's insistence upon "jazzing up" a Christmas carol.Mark Harrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-79650812836285707972016-05-21T11:17:56.626-04:002016-05-21T11:17:56.626-04:00Alice Lon lived most of her last two decades in Da...Alice Lon lived most of her last two decades in Dallas; first husband Bob Waterman played his football at SMU. She passed away too young (only 54 in 1981).<br /><br />On the cheesecake story: I imagine money was the big issue. Welk didn't seem to get into a lot of conflicts, like, say, Arthur Godfrey did. La Rosa was one of many.<br /><br />Mitchell, I'm working on two more of these of my own, the two remaining F Troop covers. One of them is a Ronald Searle article with three of his illustrations accompanying. Halhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09291930694234773688noreply@blogger.com