Around the dial

This week begins at the Broadcast Archives where we get another poignant display of a time when technology was viewed in a more benign light than today: the 1964 World's Fair pavilion, where RCA has color television on display.

The bad news: Jack's regular Hitchcock Project is now concluding at bare•bones e-zine, with a wrapup where you can find links to all the posts, covering every episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour! The good news: next year the book comes out! I've already got something to look forward to!

Here's something else to look forward to, if you're a fan of The Dick Van Dyke Show: at Comfort TV, David gives us ten reasons to love the episode "Bupkis," which is seldom mentioned as a fan favorite, but after reading this, see if he won't change your mind.

At Cult TV Blog, Jack takes us to the anthology series Six Plays by Alan Bennett, and "One Fine Day," starring Irish comedian Dave Allen, in a rare dramatic role, as a commercial estate agent faced with a breaking point in his life, who finds a unique way of coping.

Talk about an identity crisis: this week at RealWeegieMidget, Gill (and her Darlin Husband) offer us a double dose of Patrick Duffy in "Shoot-Out at Land’s End," an episode from The Man From Atlantis that involves said man and his doppelganger. Unless we find out it was all a dream. . . 

Forced labor, smuggled across the border from Mexico (with all its ethical implications), is more than just ripped from today's headlines; it's the theme of this week's A-Team episode, "Bad Time on the Border," which Roger reviews at The View from the Junkyard.

At A Shroud of Thoughts, Terence takes us back to happier times with a look at some vintage fall television promos. There are many of these on YouTube, dating back to the 1960s, and some of us remember highlights from those years, such as NBC Week. Good times.

Finally, it just wouldn't be a normal day here at It's About TV without some kind of self-promotion, so here's the link to the latest episode of American TV with Mitchell Hadley, in which Dan Schneider and I discuss American television in the 1990s. Ring any bells with you? TV

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