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Wet's see, we'll start this week at Silver Scenes, where the Metzingers have a review of Character People, a book that looks at the careers of some of the great character actors of Hollywood and Britain. It covers movies, but how many of these faces will you also remember from your favorite shows?

And speaking of character actors, at A Shroud of Thoughts, Terence offers a Memorial Day retrospective on those character actors who showed their character by their service in World War II. Thanks to all of them.

At Cult TV Blog, John's latest entry in his review of the series The Omega Factor is the episode "St. Antony's Fire," and the mysteries in this ten-episode series continue to mount and deepen. When things calm down a bit here, I'm definitely checking this out.

One of the things I really like about Herbie Pilato is his insistence that we drown out the noice and look at what's right in the world, and at The Upbeat News with Herbie J Pilato, he offers a 50th anniversary personal tribute to two of his favorites, Charlie's Angels and The Bionic Woman. Has it really been that long?

A small company being bullied by a rival business. Just another day in the life of The A-Team, as Roger points out at The View from the Junkyard in the episode "Knights of the Road." Of course, these baddies don't know the kind of trouble they're getting into, do they?

How many of you remember "Miniature," the sole Twilight Zone appearance by the great Robert Duvall? Well, at Shadow & Substance, Paul looks back at one possible reason why Duvall starred in this memorable episode.

And in case you missed it on Wednesday (and if you did, why?), here's the latest episode of "American TV" in which Dan and I talk with Michael J. Socolow about the rise and fall of CBS. Check out a great show, if I do say it myself. TV

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