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Ary as I might to avoid it, I can't keep from promoting my latest podcast apperances. We'll lead off with Tumbleweeds and Cowboys, where I join Hunter to discuss three episodes of The Twilight Zone that take place in the Old West. This is a terrific podcast, by the way; I can warmly recommend you make it a part of your classic television podcast listening. After that, it's the latest episode of Eventually Supertrain, as Dan and I discuss Garrison's Gorillas; you'll also want to catch segments on Ghosted and one of Dan's all-time favorites, Bronk. (Just kidding, there!) And now, a return to our regular programming.

At Cult TV Blog, John continues his in-depth look at "Arrival," the first episode of The Prisoner, and whether or not the series serves as an allegory for Soviet Russia. I really enjoy this kind of speculative analysis, epecially when dealing with a series as deep and complex as this one.

Speaking of continuations, at Captain Video we're on to the third version of the Space: 1999 pilot, "Moonless Night," as seen in the comics. It's all a part of the 50th anniversary of the premiere of the series. 

A quick but classic entry at the Broadcast Archives, with an ad for Ernie Kovacs's morning drive-time radio program on WABC, done even as Kovacs also was doing a mid-morning show on NBC-TV. Monday through Friday for both of these; mayhem in the a.m. indeed!

'Tis the season for a classic Halloween TV movie, don't you think? David has the answer at Comfort TV, with the 1978 telemovie Are You in the House Alone?, an excellent demonstration of how television didn't need blood and gore to portray horror. 

Did we know that the guys on the A-Team were venture capitalists? Well, why the heck not? Over at The View from the Junkyard, Roger's latest on The A-Team takes us to the episode "The Maltese Cow" because, again, why not?

One of the shows on my "want" list is the 1962 drama The Gallant Men, and at Television's New Frontier: The 1960s, it's a look at episodes from the one and only season of the World War II drama. A big thanks for the shout-out to my interview with Brandon Hollinsworth from a few years back!

This has nothing to do with television other than the connection that we've probably all seen The Moody Blues on the tube, but at A Shroud of Thoughts, Terence pays tribute to the great John Lodge, who died late last week. I was fortunate enough to see the Moodys live twice; they were always one of my favorite groups, and I wouldn't pass up the chance to make mention of him here. TV

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