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At Comfort TV, David talks about how classic television can help one get through the holiday season with a little more comfort and joy. I know that this time of the year weighs heavily on some, and I'd wholehertedly endorse all of David's choices.

The A-Team has been messing with Roger's mind lately at A View from the Junkyard, tweaking the old and familiar episode formula, and this week, throwing it right out the window, in "Harder than it Looks." And is it? Well, read it and find out.

At Cult TV Blog, John continues his analysis of whether The Prisoner could reference Soviet Russia. This week, a look at "It's Your Funeral" and "A Change of Mind," two episodes in which the analogies to the Soviet state are obvious: surveillance, conformity, and punishment.

Television's New Frontier: The 1960s takes on a series that, while running for only one season, still sparks fondness with many who remember it: I'm Dickens...He's Fenster, starring John Astin and Marty Ingels. Blame Route 66 and Sing Along With Mitch for its cancellation.

At RealWeegieMidget, Gill is back with movie reviews of some of her horror/thriller favorites, many of which you may have seen on TV (Dracula A.D. 1972, anyone?), and one that's not a movie at all, but certainly a favorite: the first season of The Twilight Zone.

Terence celebrates the 70th anniversary of Saturday morning cartoons this week at A Shroud of Thoughts, and what happy memories that brings back for yours truly. My sweet spot, naturally, falls into the mid '60s, but I do feel for kids who grow up today not knowing what this was like.

Finally, Martin Grams reviews a book that I can heartily endorse, The Moose That Roared: The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, a wonderful history of the show and its stars, by Keith Scott. I read this many years ago, and it's just as much fun today as it was then. TV

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