tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post1026669347920258358..comments2024-03-27T22:27:16.556-04:00Comments on It's About TV: What's on TV? Wednesday, January 14, 1970Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-61046011592453878302018-01-19T23:27:01.857-05:002018-01-19T23:27:01.857-05:00This Just In:
From The Obit Patrol again, word ha...This Just In:<br /><br />From The Obit Patrol again, word has come that Dorothy Malone has passed on, aged 92.<br /><br />Waiting now for Number Three ...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527404061764217504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-85291791264115167702018-01-19T11:41:18.342-05:002018-01-19T11:41:18.342-05:00Hello, Ken; first things first:
That Rowan &...Hello, Ken; first things first:<br /><br /> That Rowan & Martin show isn't <i>Laugh-In</i>.<br />At the turn of the '70s, there was a turf war at <i>Laugh-In</i> over who was really running the show.<br />On one side were George Schlatter and Ed Friendly, who believed that they had actually created the format; on the other were Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, and their designated head writer Paul Keyes, who were convinced that they were most responsible for <i>Laugh-in</i>'s hit status.<br />In order to pacify the feuding factions, NBC made separate deals with Dan & Dick, and with Schlatter and Friendly, for their own specials; the R&M show, <i>Rowan and Martin Bite The Hand That Feeds Them</i> was part of that deal.<br />The R&M/S&F feud worsened as time went on, ultimately resulting in Schaltter's faction getting bumped in <i>Laugh-In</i>'s final season - but that's <i>another</i> story ...<br /><br /> - As to <i>Hawaii Five-O</i>:<br />It <i>was</i> that Al Michaels.<br />In the late '60s-early '70s, Al Michaels was the radio-TV voice of the Hawaii Islanders of the Pacific Coast League (AAA).<br />In those days, the Islanders were famous for only playing night games, due to the local Hawaiian climate.<br />Al Michaels attracted a lot of attention in his post as the voice of the Islanders; the Major League teams were scouting him, and it was about a year or so later that the Cincinnati Reds scooped him up for their media team - and that's <i>another</i> story ...<br /><br /> - That pilot on NBC, <i>The Shameful Secrets Of Hastings Corners</i>, was an all-out farce/take-off on <i>Peyton Place</i>, which had long since left the air anyway; my (possibly incorrect) memory is that this had been sitting on NBC's shelf for a year or so.<br />This was one of the first times I'd seen a Broadway leading man who was making a tentative play at TV film: Hal Linden, who here was playing "good and evil twins"; this was just one of the many bad ideas in this pilot - and that's yet <i>another</i> story ...<br />( ... and yes, I did see this one, which is how I know ...)<br /><br /> - Also on Wednesday, Channel 11, the NET (ultimately PBS) station in Chicago, had one of its signature shows, Robert Cromie's <i>Book Beat</i>.<br />This week, Bob Cromie had a rare TV interview with John D. MacDonald, creator of Travis McGee - and long-time correspondent with Dan Rowan, <i>op cit.</i><br />Years later MacDonald and Rowan published a collection of their letters to each other, which was one of the sources I used in the first item of this comment of mine ... <i>another</i> story, I know ...<br /><br /> - And as long as I'm here ...<br /><br />I see from The Obit Patrol that Bradford Dillman has just passed on, aged 87.<br />In his memoir, Dillman called himself "the Safeway actor"; he and his longtime wife Suzy Parker had six children in the aggregate, so he concentrated on working as much as he could.<br />That memoir is brief, but packed with some of the best stories you'll ever read on this subject.<br />So There Too.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527404061764217504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-54438526916356818062018-01-19T02:40:42.959-05:002018-01-19T02:40:42.959-05:00Well, things seemed to have progressed in "Th...Well, things seemed to have progressed in "The World's Worst Town"(TM) where Mr. Hadley grew up, as KCMT has graduated to showing syndicated fare (Welcome Inn was a locally produced show, I'm pretty sure). One thing I can't figure out: what the heck is Laugh-In doing at 8 O'Clock when it's supposed to be a 7 PM show? And why classify it as a special? I know it was mighty popular by this time. Did NBC just want Gene Kelly on at an earlier hour? Beats me.<br /><br />It seems WDIO decided to show a Bob Hope flick instead of Dick Cavett's show (this would be my pick to still air after Cavett), I suppose with "The Say Hey Kid" on Carson and the leader of The Lovin' Spoonful with Merv, they decided to pull out all the stops and try something different. <br /><br />The Five-O ep this night was "Run, Johnny, Run" with Marcy Lafferty (then going by the name Marcy Brown) and a young Christopher Walken. Nephi Hannemann played Johnny. Also in the cast were Jack Ging and Al Michaels-but probably not THAT Al Michaels. <br /><br />As for what was shown on KGLO, WKBT and WEAU, I haven't the foggiest notion, tho I'm sure it was more of the same shrift-and Fashions In Sewing played well in their markets, too.Ken Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15658517406339380796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-5981070478955536182018-01-18T22:56:22.770-05:002018-01-18T22:56:22.770-05:00I have a promo reel with the spot for FLIGHT TO TA...I have a promo reel with the spot for FLIGHT TO TANGIER on it...Paul Ducanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-46561824276108028292018-01-15T09:52:06.552-05:002018-01-15T09:52:06.552-05:00I have a question this time about the excerpt from...I have a question this time about the excerpt from the listings of Jan. 14, 1970 for THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, which is at the top of this page. The TV GUIDE description on channel 4 (at 6:30 PM) has the plot for "The Clampett Look", a (IMO) hilarious episode which helped make that season the best and most highly-rated. On this night CBS aired an original episode, "What Happened to Shorty", about Shorty Kellems from "back home". Did WCCO-TV instead air a B&W rerun of a 6-year-old episode that night? (I noticed that only "4" is by that listing, so the other CBS affiliates may have aired the original episode that night.) If that's true, to me it's still strange that a CBS affiliate would choose to air a B&W rerun that night instead of an original color episode provided by the network, even if it was funnier.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483417885845331990noreply@blogger.com