2) Burt Reynolds: Burt has since returned to BOTNS with his appearance on Entertainment Tonight promoting Paternity. Who knows, maybe he will return to the podcast someday.
3) National Banana Split Day: Enjoy!
4) Make Room for Granddaddy: This short-lived (13 episodes) reboot of Make Room for Daddy is now on Roku Channel, and odds are good it will show up elsewhere like other FilmRise properties. It's not peak Danny Thomas, but it's a true rarity that looks great, so I'm thankful to see it.
5) Blair Underwood: Happy birthday to the former L.A. Law star.
6) College football: The second-most popular form of American football returns this weekend with a handful of games that should be just the ticket to take your mind off transfer portals, NIL, and--Nope, didn't work. I'm still thinking of that. Maybe an old Penn State football game promo will take my mind off it.
7) There Have Been Some Changes Made: The most popular form of American football received a prime-time special on CBS 50 years ago tonight leading into a preseason game. Pat Summerall hosted a look at the rule changes in the NFL, and man, that title is pretentious even for NFL Films.
In case you're wondering, the changes were mostly designed to increase scoring. The league went from encouraging utter mayhem to encouraging extreme violence.
(The below clip is not from 1974)
8) Tom Skerritt: Happy birthday to the star of a quite different David E. Kelly show, Picket Fences.
9) Rashomon: The film's Japanese premiere was on this date in 1950, and it went on to inspire countless TV plots (Actually, THIS is how it happened...), including--wait, Small Wonder?
10) R.I.P.: Phil Donahue, Roger Cook: You can listen to our Donahue episode right here. We also salute the longtime castmember of This Old House.
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