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At Comfort TV, David reflects on Lee Meriwether's 91st birthday, and what a regular figure she was on the comfort TV of the era by presenting highlights of her appearances, from Miss America to The Time Tunnel and Barnaby Jones, to guest shots and game shows. And always a comfort.

"Out of Body, Out of Mind" is the latest episode of The Omega Factor to come under John's gaze at Cult TV Blog, and as both the story and the plots within the story thicken, this show confirms a place at the table the next time I juggle the schedule.

This week, our heroes of The A-Team take on evil corporate chemical executives dumping waste in places where it shouldn't go in "Waste 'Em!", and this either becomes a plot of a 1950s sci fi movie about superannuntated monsters, or the next review by Roger at The View from the Junkyard.

A Shroud of Thoughts celebrates its 22nd anniversary this month, and in honor of the occasion, Terence looks at his best posts from the past twelve months. You might recognize some of them from being linked to here, but they're all worth another look.

It was on June 3, 1949 that the radio series Dragnet made its debut, and Martin Grams looks back to "one of the ten best detective programs ever broadcast" on radio, including a PDF of a script for one of the show's few "lost episodes, "The Big Lover."  

And incredibly, this week would have been Marilyn Monroe's 100th birthday. Like so many figures who died young, it's impossible to think of Marilyn as being any age other than she was, and at Classic Film and TV Corner, Maddy looks at her top five Marilyn performances. TV

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