Tag: classic television
THE NIGHT MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL WAS BORN — SEPTEMBER 21, 1970
Can you imagine the NFL without Monday Night Football? On September 21, 1970, America sat down for the first regular-season…
Who Remembers “The New People”?
I remember The New People, but oddly enough I remember the sound of the show more than I remember the…
Liberace Feelin’ Groovy
This may be one of the strangest—and most wonderfully 1968—things I’ve come across in a while. That’s Liberace getting “groovy”…
He & She: One Season on TV, 64 Years Together in Real Life
On Friday I shared a post from Classic Movies Digest celebrating Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss and their remarkable 64-year…
F Troop
There’s no special birthday or anniversary behind today’s Ken Berry clips. They just happened to come up, and after seeing…
Mayberry R.F.D.
How many of you kept watching Mayberry after Andy Griffith left? Mayberry R.F.D. continued the familiar small-town setting, but shifted…
CBS Sunday Nights 1978
This short CBS promo was advertising a surprisingly historic Sunday night on March 19, 1978. All in the Family said…
CBS Sports Spectacular
Do you remember when CBS Sports Spectacular could fill an afternoon with sports we rarely saw anywhere else? This short…
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
“Good evening.” With those two words, Alfred Hitchcock welcomed viewers into a weekly world of murder, mystery, suspense and wonderfully…
Emergency! Inspired a Generation of First Responders
How many of our viewers became EMTs, first responders or entered another medical field because of the television show Emergency!?…