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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

May 14, 1992


#4 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending 5/16/92

Eddie's still feverish, and I'm still embracing unexpected days off from work, although today was a day away from the library anyway.

"Aren't you going to get in trouble?" JoAnna asks me.

No, but then if this keeps up, people might realize how dispensable library directors can be.

Eddie sleeps from 8 to 12.  I check in on him every 15 minutes, fearing the worst each time I enter his bedroom.  I can't believe he can sleep for so long.

I enjoy an inactive morning, watching two episodes of Perry Mason sandwiching a Joan Rivers sleazefest about alternative sex practices.  After 40 minutes of her show, I feel as though I need a shower.

Friday, February 15, 2013

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

TVs Grow on Trees

National Geographic, March 1952



Thursday, January 10, 2013

Thursday, October 11, 2012

"McHale's Navy" Debuts on October 11, 1962



Broadcast on ABC.  Thursday.  9:30 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Military sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine, whose movie career had started to go into eclipse by 1959.  Ran for 4 seasons and was the 22nd most popular show during the 1963-64 season.

Comment found at tv.com  One of the all-time classic tv shows. I joined the Navy because of this show.

Not one of my favorite shows, I'll confess, but one that I watched with regularity on the Nelson family's black-and-white RCA console TV.  Color didn't come to our house until 1967.

"The Gallant Men" Debuts on October 5, 1991



Broadcast on ABC.  Friday. 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern time.

War drama, with pretty much of a no-name cast.  Ran for 1 season.

Episode list.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

"The Eleventh Hour" Debuts on October 3, 1962


Broadcast on ABC.  Wednesday.  10:00 to 11:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Medical drama starring Wendell Corey in season 1 and Ralph Bellamy in season 2 as psychiatrists.    Ran for  2 seasons.

List of 62 episodes and other information.

"Our Man Higgins" Debuts on October 3, 1962



Broadcast on ABC.  Wednesday.  9:30 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Ran for 1 season.  Sitcom about a butler from Scotland (Sterling Holloway, one of the most recognizable voices in the world) who works for a couple in suburbia.

"Going My Way" Debuts on October 3, 1962



Broadcast on ABC.  Wednesday.  8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern time.

Ran for 1 season.  Not the highlight of Gene Kelly's career.  Based on the 1944 movie starring Bing Crosby.

Two notable co-stars:  Leo G. Carroll and Dick York.



Tuesday, October 2, 2012

"Combat" Debuts on October 2, 1962



War drama broadcast on ABC.  Tuesday.  7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern time.

Ran for 5 seasons, same day, same time slot.

#10 most popular show during the 1964-65 season.  Otherwise, it never cracked the top 25.

Combat Fan website.

Monday, October 1, 2012

"Stoney Burke" Debuts on October 1, 1962



Broadcast on ABC.  Monday.  9:00 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Ran for 1 year.  Jack Lord stars in the title role as a modern-day professional rodeo rider.   Supporting cast includes Bruce Dern and Warren Oates.





Sunday, September 30, 2012

"I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" Debuts on September 28, 1962



Broadcast on ABC.  Friday.  9:00 to 9:30 Eastern time.

Ran for one season.

The show's history.

Friday, September 28, 2012

"The Nurses" Debuts on September 27, 1962


Broadcast on CBS.  Thursday.  9:00 to 10:00 Eastern time.

Ran for 3 seasons.

Whatever happened to Zina Bethune?
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She made occasional guest appearance on TV after "The Nurses".  

She died as the result of a hit-and-run accident in Los Angeles in February 2012.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

"The Beverly Hillbillies" Debuts on September 26, 1962



Broadcast on CBS.  Wednesday. 9:00 to 9:30 Eastern time.

Ran for 9 years.  The #1 rated show for the 1962-63 and 1963-64 television seasons.  In the top 20 every year except its final one.

I missed the first episode, but a lot of my friends were buzzing over it at school the next day.  I much preferred the show that preceded the Beverly Hillbillies on CBS's Wednesday schedule.



Even better was the 9:30 offering, but with a morning paper route, Mom made sure I was in bed by 9:30.  (I was never the easiest person to wake up back then.)

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

"Empire" Debuts on September 25, 1962


Broadcast on NBC.  Tuesday.  8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern time. (Brought back for a shortened second season by ABC.)

Contemporary Western set on a ranch in New Mexico.   Co-stars include Ryan O'Neal, all of 21 at the time, and Charles Bronson.

"The New Loretta Young Show" Debuts on September 24, 1962


Broadcast on CBS.  Monday.  10:00 to 10:30 p.m. Eastern time.

One season.   Loretta Young plays a continuing role (Christine Massey) in this short-lived series.

Monday, September 24, 2012

"Ensign O'Toole" Debuts on September 23, 1962



Broadcast on NBC.  Sunday.  7:00 to 7:30 p.m. Eastern time.

Ran for 2 seasons.   The first of two military comedies -- the other being McHale's Navy -- to be introduced to TV audiences in the fall of 1962.

Quite the cast:  Dean Jones, Jay C. Flippen, Jack Albertson, Harvey Lembeck, Beau Bridges.



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