tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post5467327903265001711..comments2024-03-27T22:27:16.556-04:00Comments on It's About TV: This week in TV Guide: January 18, 1969Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-65249966776872382732019-01-28T16:54:26.844-05:002019-01-28T16:54:26.844-05:00"Funny You Should Ask" would be revived ..."Funny You Should Ask" would be revived in a slightly-different format as a syndicated show in 2017.Jofushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05591730159623555357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-21891572566635655902018-11-24T20:48:12.394-05:002018-11-24T20:48:12.394-05:00Time Machine Time!
Why I didn't notice this b...Time Machine Time!<br /><br />Why I didn't notice this back in '15 … <br /><br />George Gobel started his career on WLS Radio in Chicago, as a yodeling boy singer on <i>The Old Barn Dance</i>, when he was a teenager.<br />Offhand, I'd say that qualifies him as 'country'.<br />It always pays to look things up … Mike Doranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427528138598549103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-16754048797631047862016-02-28T00:29:48.458-05:002016-02-28T00:29:48.458-05:00Fred Silverman, then CBS vice-president of daytime... Fred Silverman, then CBS vice-president of daytime programming, thought game shows drew older audiences, preferring the more youth-appeal soap operas.<br /><br /> Tony Randall, of course, would come to series TV the following year with THE ODD COUPLE...alongside BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, only with black actors as the newlywed couple--the male being Sullivan guest Scoey Mitchll.<br />(Skye Aubrey is the daughter of infamous CBS-TV president James "The Smiling Cobra" Aubrey")<br /><br /> I'm surprised they got as far as considering a pilot for a series featuring Truman Capote's anti-heroine--especially after the disastrous attempt to turn it into a Broadway musical several years earlier, with Mary Tyler Moore in the role (and Richard Chamberlain as the writer/kept man--it folded in previews)<br /><br /> I have seen THE OUTSIDER once, in one of those TV movie mashups of two episodes Universal was fond of doing. In fact, I feel that it was what they delivered to NBC in place of what the network wanted--a weekly COLUMBO series, in the wake of the success of the PRESCRIPTION:MURDER TV movie--that Peter Falk did not wish to provide. McGavin presumably was a private eye version of the lieutenant.Paul Ducanoreply@blogger.com