Happy Thanksgiving!

We don't want you to miss our brand-new episode today, but we also want to share our traditional Thanksgiving favorite with you. Have a great holiday, everyone!

Show Notes and Video Playlist: Episode 13-6: Mulligan Stew

*Thanks for listening to our exploration of USDA/4H educational 1970s series Mulligan Stew. Do you remember seeing this one? 

The show premiered on PBS stations in 1972 and aired in syndication and in classrooms throughout the decade and beyond.

*Here is the 1974 New York Times article I mention.

*RFK Stadium opened in 1961. The Washington Senators played there until 1971 and then moved to Texas and became the Rangers.

*Teisco was a Japanese guitar brand big in the Sixties. It was owned by Kawai at the time of this series.

*4-4-3-2 = 4 bread and cereal, 4 fruits and vegetables, 3 from milk, 2 from meat.

*This series should not be confused with short-lived 1977 NBC series Mulligan's Stew starring Elinor Donahue.

*ABC aired The Monkees 1966-1968.

*I couldn't find any more information about nutrition expert Peggy Walton.

*Here's a great look at the series and the tie-in comic book!

*I can't find the other series mentioned in the above article: 1986's "Blue sky below my feet adventures in space technology" from 4-H and NASA.

*Leesburg is in Loudon County in Northern Virginia, about 40 miles from Washington D.C.

*Please enjoy our video playlist for this episode with nutritional PSAs, commercials, and more! We put all 6 Mulligan Stew episodes at the front of the list, so just skip through if you don't want to watch all of them. Click below to go right to the list, or you can always visit our official YouTube page for all of our past episodes and similar lists for each one of them!

Episode 13-6: Mulligan Stew

Just in time for Thanksgiving, we whip an episode about Mulligan Stew, the little-remembered but perhaps oft-seen early seventies show about healthy eating habits. Most of the kids of Mulligan Stew fall prey to the easy appeal of the Flim-Flam Man's fad diets, and only Mulligan and Wilbur can save them. Along the way, they sing some songs and teach us such vaulable lessons as 4-4-3-2, VITAMIN D FOR HEALTHY BONES AND TEETH, and meat comes from hogs!

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YouTube Spotlight: Kate and Allie for TV Guide

One of the clips in this week's playlist for Kate and Allie is this promo for an issue of TV Guide.

I wish there were more of these ads where the cover subjects touted their own appearances in the issues. Usually we'd get a rundown of the contents, maybe a jingle, but not the stars themselves telling us to check it out! I wonder how far in advance this was planned. It would be great to hear Susan and Jane say, "And check out Robert MacKenzie's review of The Rousters!"

Power Rankings: Show titles that wouldn't lose any impact if the names were reversed

I was thinking about this week's subject, Kate and Allie, and pondering what would the world be like if it were named Allie and Kate? In my opinion, not that much different! However, Son and Sanford would be an abject disaster, and such a program would have flamed out and made NBC's 1970s even tougher.

So, then, we rank 10 shows of the BOTNS era that would not lose if the titular names were reversed. the course of TV history would not have changed. If you're thinking the trick is to have the old "one syllable name, conjunction, then two-syllable name" pattern, well, I ask you? What about Hutch and Starsky? Would that sound right?

Well, anything Ernie Anderson said in 1977 sounded right, but you get my meaning.

This list reflects how these reworked show titles would fare on a neutral field in Schenectady, New York.

1) Simon and Simon: Call me crazy, but...I think it sounds better this way.

2) TV's Practical Jokes and Bloopers: I mean, I think I said it this way a half-dozen times on the podcast, so...

3) Marie and Donny: Ladies first, right? I believe it's somewhat gallant to put Marie first. Sonny and Cher and Captain and Tennille are fine, though, because it's like you're rewarded for putting up with the first name.

4) Shirley and Laverne: Would this reversal intensify their feud or lessen it? I'm not sure.

5) Mindy and Mork: No problem at all with "leading up to" Mork.

6) Lacey and Cagney: I think only their agents would care.

7) Tina and Mr. T: The show was doomed to begin with, or was it? There's something pleasing about doing it this way instead of as Mr. T and Tina. I'm not sure what it is, but it's there.

8) Makepeace and Dempsey: I'm no expert on this British show, but does this lose anything? Absolutely not.

9) Alice and Ted and Carol and Bob: I'm gonna wager that unless you were of moviegoing age when the feature film was released, you'd need a minute or two to get the order right anyway for the 1973 ABC adaptation.

10) Alias Jones and Smith: I mean, how can it matter? They're aliases!

Also receiving votes: Bones and Fitz, Hart to Hart, McCormick and Hardcastle, Company and Charlie.

Top Ten #381

1) Allie & Kate: Yes, the subject of this week's podcast is actually Kate and Allie, but what's wrong with mixing it up every now and then?

2) Susan St. James and Jane Curtin: And I am only putting her first because the Emmys put Curtin first by giving her two Emmys.

3) Deli: Coming out of "Kate's Friend," which we focus on in our Kate and Alliei discussion, who doesn't enjoy a good assortment of deli meats (unless there is some kind of health, philosophical,  or religious reason)?

4) Celebrity Cooks: Our pal Steve talks about this series on this excellent podcast crossover event.

5) The Legend of Valentino: Maybe you're not interested in Rudolph Valentino, the subject of this TV movie that debuted 50 years ago tonight. Well, how can you not be interested in this cast? Franco Nero has the title role, and he's joined by Suzanne Pleshette, Yvette Mimieux, Milton Berle, Lesley Ann Warren, and Judd Hirsch!

6) National Cashew Day: Still my favorite of all nuts.

7) Columbus Circle: 40 years ago today, ABC premiered this Weekend Special comedy which features Nancy Walker in a supporting role as a New York City bag lady.

8) Johnny Mandel: It's the 100th birthday of the composer of the theme from MASH.

9) Open All Night: A couple recent videos by Paul Van Scott have me thinking about this short-lived but very funny (as I remember) ABC sitcom starring George Dzunda. Johnny Mandel had nothin' on this theme!

10) R.I.P.: Bob Caudle, longtime wrestling announcer; and Ralph Senetsky, who died several weeks ago at the age of 102 (!) and left behind a great website, a lot of sharp memories, and an amazing resume of TV direction.