There are many tributes to Gene Hackman, whose death (along with his wife and dog) was reported yesterday. Amongst our cohort here, you can find recollections from Maddy at Classic Film and TV Corner and Trav at Travalanche.
Sportscaster Al Trautwig also died during the week, and while his primary fame may have been from his coverage of New York-based sports teams, he was also a familiar face on broadcast and cable TV as well, covering everything from the NHL to the Olympics, with a lot in-between. Inner Toob has an appropriate, typically quirky tribute.
At Cult TV Blog, John has a post on the Interlude films, short films that were presented as interludes during live drama broadcasts to give the actors a breather; they were also used to fill the time between the end of the time period between children's programming and adult broadcasting. It's a wonderful, eccentric little piece of TV history, as well as what the interludes say about how British television was run in the 1950s. (There's a little inside joke there.)
At Comfort TV, David has some thoughts on that Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary montage of skits that wouldn't be considered "acceptable" today. What does it say about the future of comedy when you're forced to justify it to future generations?
The View from the Junkyard returns to the world of The New Avengers, as Roger looks at the episode "Faces," a thrilling story involving doppelgangers that puts our three heroes into a state of constant doubt, and overcomes any disbelief we might have in the concept to begin with.
At A Shroud of Thoughts, Terence offers a tribute to the 75th anniversary of Your Show of Shows, the legendary comedy variety show that made icons of Sid Casesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris, and continues to be considered one of the great shows of all time. TV
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