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It used to be that one of the one of the rituals of the new year was seeing how long it would take for you to correctly write the new year on a check—in other words, when you'd automatically write "26" instead of "25" when filling in the date. Now that we do most of our transactions electronically, I suppose that's another quaint custom gone by the wayside, but time marches on, as they say, 

We'll keep marching on here as well, to Cult TV Blog, where John returns to The Prisoner with a provocative proposition: suppose the order of episodes was reshuffled so that the final episode, "Fall Out," was not the final one? Think that's ridiculous? Read on, and think again.

David's journey through 1970s TV continues at Comfort TV, and we're now up to Monday nights, 1977, which includes a few series you might not recognize, including Young Dan'l Boone, Rafferty (starring the aforementioned Patrick McGoohan), The San Pedro Beach Bums, and more.

Oh dear! Hal is back with another Love That Bob review at The Horn Section, and this one sounds concerning: "Bob Falls in Love." Could we be losing our favorite playboy photographer? Is this the last show of the series? Can I stop this from sounding like the end of a Batman episode?

At RealWeegieMidget, Gill reviews Karen Romanko's book Historical Women on Television, a look at 120 real-life women, and how they were portrayed on television. What a fascinating concept! With Romanko's friendly writing style, it sounds like a great addition to your TV library.

The A-Team continues to shake up the formula at The View from the Junkyard, as Roger discovers in "Deadly Maneuvers," an episode that finds the team being kidnapped one by one, to be used as bait in a deadly plot designed to capture Hannibal.

At A Shroud of Thoughts, Terence closes out the year with a tribute to Gil Gerard, who died last month at the age of 82. Although he didn't make it to the 25th century, his long and successful career, including Buck Rogers, stands as a tribute to, by all accounts, one of Hollywood's good guys.

We're still in the twelve days of Christmas, which means we're never too late to learn something at Mavis Movie Madness, where Paul looks back at seven animated Christmas classics, putting me in the mood to watch them all over again.

Finally, and in keeping with the season, my latest video podcast on television history with Dan Schneider centers on three "Carols for Christmas": Carol Burnett, Diahann Carroll, and Carroll O'Connor. Not a bad way to round out the year.

And with that, we're off and running on another year. How long can we keep it up? Keep tuning in and see! TV

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