tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post5878876264183985517..comments2024-03-27T22:27:16.556-04:00Comments on It's About TV: This week in TV Guide: June 28, 1975Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-73601132817191308682018-07-10T00:16:07.374-04:002018-07-10T00:16:07.374-04:00From what I remember seeing & reading, the CBS...From what I remember seeing & reading, the CBS BICENTENNIAL MINUTE began on July 4, 1974 and continued until Dec. 31, 1976. It was a nice look back on an important occurrence in US history 200 years before that date, though it probably went into very obscure occurrences to find an event every day to highlight. Outgoing President Ford hosted the final night's BICENTENNIAL MINUTE on New Year's Eve going into 1977.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483417885845331990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-87421503673919483832018-07-03T02:39:27.829-04:002018-07-03T02:39:27.829-04:00The galloping Matt Dillon open on Gunsmoke happene...The galloping Matt Dillon open on <i>Gunsmoke</i> happened in <b>1968</b>, as a result of the assassinations of that summer - part of that fall's "anti-violence" crusade. <br />This in its turn led to a continuing revision of the <i>Gunsmoke</i> titles, calling more attention to the co-stars.<br />By 1975, the final season, the Dillon Staredown was back, although they stopped short of shooting.Mike Doranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427528138598549103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-85098847752512078572018-07-02T17:27:52.650-04:002018-07-02T17:27:52.650-04:00Actually, according to Wikipedia, the preferred te...Actually, according to Wikipedia, the preferred term for a 250th anniversary is Sestercentennial. The number 2½ is expressed in Latin as "half-three". The term relates to being halfway from the second integer to the third integer.<br /><br />So we'll have parades led by Uncle Sester. Rays profilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13375762252351537791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-19951254308349823692018-07-02T17:19:46.506-04:002018-07-02T17:19:46.506-04:00CBS aired it's first "Bicentennial Minute...CBS aired it's first "Bicentennial Minute" (one-minute vignettes about American history) on July 4th, 1975.<br /><br />They continued every night at approximate 8:58 P.M. Eastern time (7:57 in the Twin Cities) through July 4th, 1976. <br /><br />I say "approximately" because there were probably a few nights during that year when special programming was broadcast that precluded a commercial break right at 8:58 Eastern time, so the "Bicentennial Minute" might have aired a few minutes earlier or a few minutes later than usual.<br /><br />I wonder if CBS-TV will broadcast "Sesquicentennial Minutes", with a similar history theme, each night at 8:58 P.M. Eastern time (approximately) from July 4th, 2025 through July 4th, 2026??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-40511912624350774272018-07-02T09:58:41.423-04:002018-07-02T09:58:41.423-04:00It was the crusade against ''TV violence&#...It was the crusade against ''TV violence'' that killed TV Westerns. At the date posted above Gunsmoke was limping through it's last few reruns (Trivia: How can you tell a 1975 Gunsmoke? The open, Matt Dillion is riding a galloping horse when the title comes up - instead of the classic showdown). After that left, the only ''Westerns'' that existed were Grizzly Adams (a nature show dolled up as a Western) and Little House on the Prairie (a family drama dolled up as a Western).<br />The true ''death of Westerns'' though was Heaven's Gate - which nearly killed Columbia Pictures. By that point the Blues Brothers joke ''we like all kinds of music, Country AND Western'' started becoming ironic as radio stations began dropping the ''and Western'' and that genre got absorbed into Country. YIHnoreply@blogger.com