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I've been reading about the Titanic lately, specifically On a Sea of Glass, the terrific book by Tad Fitch, Kent Layton, and Bill Wormstedt; I'm looking at it right now, in fact, so it's no surprise that we start this week at Realweegiemidget, where Gill is reviewing the 1979 telemovie S.O.S. Titanic, a decent retelling that stars David Janssen as John Jacob Astor, David Warner as Lawrence Beesley, Ian Holm as J. Bruce Ismay, and other stars of the era. If I'd had more time, I might have jumped into this blogathon, but I've had my hands full lately.

I'm also a classic Doctor Who fan, of course, and so you might know I'd be a fan of John's latest post at Cult TV Blog, a look at P.R.O.B.E., the first spin-off from Who, a television show that wasn't really a show but went directly to VHS and then to DVD without passing either go or a TV broadcast. Check it out!

At Comfort TV, David takes the occasion of a recent event in Somerset, Kentucky involving the Dukes of Hazzard General Lee jumping over a fountain as the jumping-off place (see what I did there?) for a look at other classic TV cases of life imitating art. It's nice to remember that we do have fun in this hobby.

Speaking of fun, I was never the biggest fan of The Mike Douglas Show back in the day, but today's talk shows manage to make Mike look like one of the giants of all time. Anyway, the Broadcast Archives looks back at The Mike Douglas Cookbook, featuring recipes from guests who appeared on the show. Fun, and delicious, I'm sure.

And news that's not only great and fun, but great fun: our friend Jodie at Garroway at Large is now the new proprietor of a truly great website, the Monitor Tribute site, dedicated to preserving the legacy of the legendary radio program. I wrote about Dennis Hart's terrific book on Montor several years ago, and I'm so pleased that he's decided to hand the site over to someone who truly cares about it.

At A View from the Junkyard, Roger is back in the world of The A-Team, and this week's episode is "The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing," in which we continue to explore the question of whether or not Murdoch is really mad. Great fun, if you ignore the question Roger poses about pressure equalization in a plane where someone's shot a hole in the side.

From the end of last week, at The Lucky Strike Papers, Andrew celebrates the 75th anniversary of the television debut of Your Hit Parade: July 10, 1950. The show predated this debut, of course; it started on radio in 1935, and continued on television until 1959.

And we've got another appearance from yours truly on Dan's Eventually Supertrain podcast, with another delightful episode of Garrison's Gorillas, plus Bronk and Ghosted. If you're not sated after that, I'm afraid I can't offer you anything more. TV