tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post5206576494741036523..comments2024-03-27T22:27:16.556-04:00Comments on It's About TV: This week in TV Guide: March 11, 1967Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-24821956902075377712017-04-23T18:30:45.650-04:002017-04-23T18:30:45.650-04:00It wasn't just the smaller schools that wanted...It wasn't just the smaller schools that wanted a 2 class system. The larger schools opposed the one class system because under the region map used the the Twin Cities Metro area only had two teams in the tourney despite having over half of the states population. And in a bit of irony the last one class champion(when all schools played in one class,not the Sweet 16 we had in 1995 and 96) came from a small school.paulsonj72https://www.blogger.com/profile/18118231322032199900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-53742571445938635632017-04-23T18:03:42.274-04:002017-04-23T18:03:42.274-04:00Edina had been in the Hockey tourney 6 times befor...Edina had been in the Hockey tourney 6 times before this(including 1967) and would make it again in 1968 but they didn't actually win the title until 1969. They were the 1st Twin Cities Suburban school to win the title(St. Paul Johnson had won 4 titles before this) Since this time,it is usually(but not always)a Suburban school winning the title. FWIW a Suburban school DID NOT win the AA(old 1 class tourney) this year. An old Northern Minnesota powerhouse,Grand Rapids did, and it was their 1st title since 1980 paulsonj72https://www.blogger.com/profile/18118231322032199900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-40500068508603330252017-03-14T15:39:58.284-04:002017-03-14T15:39:58.284-04:00I just read an article discussing how PORGY AND BE...I just read an article discussing how PORGY AND BESS hasn't been seen anywhere for years, and there may not even be a decent print to show.Paul Ducanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-44771257003488978632017-03-14T02:13:30.989-04:002017-03-14T02:13:30.989-04:00Call this a follow-up:
- The Pruitts Of Southamp...Call this a follow-up:<br /><br /> - <i>The Pruitts Of Southampton</i> had its origins in an early novel by the writer who became famous as 'Patrick Dennis', creator of <i>Auntie Mame</i>.<br />The novel had been sitting on the shelf for some years; at one point the producers almost had Beatrice Lillie talked into playing the lead (it was supposedly her idea to cast Reginald Gardiner), but that went south, and so back to the shelf, until someone thought of Phyllis Diller.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527404061764217504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-81324150727068218202017-03-13T22:33:34.420-04:002017-03-13T22:33:34.420-04:00Well, the hockey tournament was a big deal as well...Well, the hockey tournament was a big deal as well - but it was constrained by having to be played in the St. Paul Auditorium, which at the time seated maybe 9,000, as opposed to Williams Arena. The hockey tournament was also dominated at the time by the Iron Range schools - that might have had made its appeal more regional than statewide, I'm not sure. No question, though, that by the mid-70s the hockey tournament was on top - I think it was sometime during that decade that it outdrew the basketball tournament for the first time, even with the latter having been expanded.Mitchell Hadleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-34502410959992520782017-03-13T15:51:55.241-04:002017-03-13T15:51:55.241-04:00I thought that in Minnesota, the state high-school...I thought that in Minnesota, the state high-school hockey tournament was much bigger than it's basketball counterpart.<br /><br />Or did that happen only after the Twin Cities got an NHL franchise?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-60092174467881797852017-03-12T21:00:23.837-04:002017-03-12T21:00:23.837-04:00"The Saucer Season", that was a classic ..."The Saucer Season", that was a classic Green Acres episode during the second half of Season 2 when the series was dabbling into the bizarre an absurd. Towards the end of the episode, whenever Eb or anyone else would try to describe the UFO they were forcibly bleeped. The humor on that show still holds up some 50 years later.<br /><br /> As for "Anastasia", as I write this, TCM just aired the film a few hours ago, so the nightly and late night movies of the 60's are just about anytime on TCM in the 21st Century.RJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06282134839806055820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-43636036209260027462017-03-12T00:13:48.929-05:002017-03-12T00:13:48.929-05:00Funny you should mention high-school state tournam...Funny you should mention high-school state tournaments, as I type the Nebraska Boys' Basketball State Tournament has just concluded. KOLN, the CBS affiliate in Lincoln, began as KLIN-TV channel 12. The station decided to change to KOLN channel 10, giving channel 12 to the University of Nebraska for an educational channel. Today that is KUON, the flagship of the Nebraska Educational Television Network (NET/PBS affiliation). For years both KOLN (and its satellite, KGIN Grand Island) and the Nebraska Educational Television Network both carried the Nebraska State Tournament (Girls' too after 1975). A few years ago, KOLN dropped the state tournaments, leaving NET (as NETV is now branded) as the sole provider of the tournament.timdub70https://www.blogger.com/profile/09891461198896930029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-67329833698079733622017-03-11T20:20:32.161-05:002017-03-11T20:20:32.161-05:00From the bottom:
- Read that Kraft Music Hall it...From the bottom:<br /><br /> - Read that <i>Kraft Music Hall</i> item a little more closely.<br />Perry Como is <i>not</i> the weekly host, nor (as it turned out) even an occasional one.<br />The reconstituted KMH was an anthology of variety - essentially a special a week.<br />There were many shows here that I'd love to see again, with all kinds of unlikely people doing comedy and music.<br /><br /> - Also, look a little closer at those Friday listings.<br />That night's episode of <i>Tarzan</i> is Part 2 of "The Perils Of Charity Jones", featuring Special Guest Star - Julie Harris.<br />That's right: a Julie Harris double-header (with <i>The Man From UNCLE</i> in between).<br /><i>Tarzan</i> and <i>Hallmark</i>, almost back-to-back - such things were fairly frequent back then.<br />I've read that Julie Harris got an initial kick out of doing things like <i>Tarzan</i> as a break from prestige - and to see how the snootier "critics" would react to it.<br /> - Not long after this, Julie Harris appeared on <i>Kraft Music Hall</i>, playing sketches with Steve Allen, and even singing "Lost In The Stars".<br />Rex Reed, who was <i>Women's Wear Daily</i>'s TV critic at the time, practically had a stroke when he saw this; he compared Harris's singing to Florence Foster Jenkins (the first time I ever heard of that estimable lady, at least in print).<br /><br /> - You obviously don't remember <i>Captain Nice</i>: Mrs. Nash (Alice Ghostley), the hero's mother, wasn't evil - just a nag. She stole the Selma Diamond in order to get her son's police department job back.<br />By the way, Selma Diamond was friends with Leonard Stern, Buck Henry, and most of the <i>Nice</i> team, so no problem there.<br />A half-hour earlier, <i>Mr. Terrific</i> had to rescue a defecting Soviet ballerina, played by Barrie Chase (if you want to make comparisons there ...).<br /><br /> - On Sunday night, WGN-ch9 in Chicago had an interesting late movie at 10 pm:<br /><i>Anastasia</i>, starring Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes.<br />Probably just a coincidence ...<br /><br />- The color section has a funny story about the Hollywood Hackers, who play sort-of golf tournaments for charities.<br />Many familiar names get mentioned here, in humorous context.<br />I don't know if the Hackers are still in existence; I hope they are - or at least something like them.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527404061764217504noreply@blogger.com