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Sunday, October 13, 2024

Top Ten #323: Special "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Halloween" Edition

1) Jan Miner/Nancy Walker: Actresses, pitchwomen, and now stars of our newest bonus episode game. talk about multitalented!

2) Marie Osmond: Happy 65th birthday to the co-star of Donny and Marie. She, of course, played Marie.



3) National Hockey League: Hockey is back! I doubt Hall and Oates are involved these days, though:


4) Nobel Prizes: Multiple awards were announced this past week. Mike and I are still in the running for the Nobel for TV Podcasting.

5) Sinatra--The Main Event: 50 years ago tonight, ABC aired this special taped from Madison Square Garden starring Ol' Blue Eyes. For some reason (boxing/MSG tie-in, I guess), Howard Cosell introduced him. What a pair: One guy wants to punch everyone, the other makes everyone wants to punch him.




6) Herb Alpert: Only one man could follow Sinatra in 1974, and that man was Herb Alpert, who had his own special right after the Sinatra one on ABC that night. He wasn't alone, though; he was helped by The Muppets, who were exiled to this one after Fozzie had accidentally no-showed a gig opening for Frank in Vegas in '72.




7) Archie Bunker's Place: The program, not part of the streaming package of All in the Family, is now on Roku Channel--sort of. Available are Season 1's 24 episodes, 19 episodes of Season 2, and a whopping 4 of Season 3. Imagine Archie Bunker sitting in his chair, leafing through his TV Guide and trying to find Season 4 of the show were he ran a bar.

8) Diff'rent Strokes: The series aired its second (by my count) bed-wetting episode 40 years ago tonight, this night with Sam doing it for real. The show dealt with this sensitive topic in typically tender fashion, depicting with gentle humor Drummond's solution to buy a brand-new mattress every day until the problem vanished.

9) Saturday Night Live: 40 years ago tonight, the show welcomed Bob Uecker and Peter Wolf.



10) R.I.P. Nicholas Pryor: More known for work in theatrical movies like Risky Business and for soap operas outside the time frame, but he was also in TV movies like this one:




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