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A Year in TV Guide: 1966-1967 celebrates the 60th anniversary of the 1966-1967 television season through the pages of TV Guide magazine. Each week, I’ll examine the issue of TV Guide published exa...


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Here’s a very short promotional spot for Sweating Bullets on CBS Late Night, from Monday, November 25th, 1991. The action series was produced in Canada, where it was called Tropical Heat. It aired from 11:35PM-12:35AM ET on Monday nights into Tuesday morning. This specific promo aired on WJW (Channel 8) in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Actress Eva Marie Saint died last week (October 6th) at the age of 102. One of the last surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Saint is best known for her roles in two iconic 1950s films: On the Waterfront (1954) and North by Northwest (1959). She won an Academy Award for her work in On the Waterfront.

For nearly a decade before making her film debut in On the...


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A Year in TV Guide: 1966-1967 celebrates the 60th anniversary of the 1966-1967 television season through the pages of TV Guide magazine. Each week, I’ll examine the issue of TV Guide published exactly 60 years earlier. The goal is not simply to examine what was on television each week but rather what was being written about television.

Week #5
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Here’s a promotional spot for the ABC Saturday Superstar Movie, which debuted on ABC in September 1972 airing on Saturday mornings. It featured animated specials, some of them based on popular ABC television shows like The Brady Bunch, Nanny and the Professor, Gidget, and That Girl.

Do you remember watching AB...


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