tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post297452441463705117..comments2024-03-17T18:19:49.076-04:00Comments on It's About TV: What's on TV? Sunday, April 22, 1973Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-12180441043009620312019-04-29T20:33:28.321-04:002019-04-29T20:33:28.321-04:00I think the WHA playoff game was between the New E...I think the WHA playoff game was between the New England Whalers (who then were based in Boston and played their home games at Boston Garden) and the Cleveland Crusaders.<br /><br />The Whalers won the first WHA title that spring (CBS in fact carried what tuned out to be the last game of the Avco Cup Finals), but moved to Hartford in 1974, eventually becoming the Hartford Whalers and one of only four WHA tams to survive the NHL/WHA merger of 1989 (and the only U.S.-based WHAT team to survive the merger). <br /><br />The Whalers' stay in Hartford ended in 1997, when they moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, becoming the Carolina Hurricanes. The Hurricanes won the 2006 Stanley Cup, which must have infuriated many Hartfordites, who could only dream about what might have been!Jofushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05591730159623555357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-404582651246509222019-04-29T20:27:58.448-04:002019-04-29T20:27:58.448-04:00With the NBA playoff game running long, "Howa...With the NBA playoff game running long, "Howard Cosell's Sports Magazine" probably got pre-empted.<br /><br />Maybe some of the segments ended up being shown the next week.Jofushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05591730159623555357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-87093190898281778082019-04-26T02:51:22.867-04:002019-04-26T02:51:22.867-04:00HEC RAMSEY was probably considered a crime drama r...HEC RAMSEY was probably considered a crime drama rather than a western here because it was part of the NBC MYSTERY MOVIE franchise, even though it was set in the Old West. I don't think I've seen any part of it since 1974 (if even then), but I have seen COLUMBO, MCCLOUD, MCMILLAN AND WIFE, and even BANACEK on Me-TV when it was showing the old Mystery Movie segments late night weeknights.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483417885845331990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-91193347040305118172019-04-23T08:10:31.516-04:002019-04-23T08:10:31.516-04:00A lot of hockey and no basketball or baseball. I ...A lot of hockey and no basketball or baseball. I wonder if somewhere there are tapes of WHA playoffs telecasts (a short lived upstart hockey league that only had national coverage in it's first year). <br />Growing up in central Minnesota, the only station one could get in clear (sans able cable) was ch 7 out Alexandria. A strange hybrid station of mostly NBC lineup but inserted in the odd ABC show. Somehow I remember the show Echoes from Calvary, needless to say a Christian themed family show consisting of a group of preteen sisters and their parents. I think they just sang sometimes using bells plus a sermon. I wonder whatever happened to them? Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01050857323785108411noreply@blogger.com