2) Forgotten series: Please check out our bonus episode this week for a list of programs we feel have been neglected somewhat despite immense popularity in their times. There may be a few you don't particularly wish to remember, but all had some degree of success--and not "Gary Deeb likes it" success, but genuine commercial succsss.
3) Smokin' Joe Frazier: Heavyweight champ...heavyweight showman. Muhammad Ali never sang "My Way" on a Bob Hope special (though he did appear in at least one).
4) Saturday Night: One of my favorite TV books returns in a new anniversary edition, apparently featuring a fresh intro and a host of new photos. Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad's 1986 work covers the first decade of the show.
5) Johnny Carson: While we're talking books here (Hey, we DO read, you know...about TV). Bill Zehme's long-anticipated bio of the icon is out this week, completed by a collaborator after the author's death.
Personally, I think we're overdue for an epic Ed McMahon biography. That reminds me. IT'S TIME!
6) Breakdancing: Mere months after the craze astonished Jim McKay and Peter Jennings, the breakdancing trend peaked 40 years ago tonight on NBC with Joey Lawrence. You know, back in the Eighties, a fad wasn't taken seriously until it was on Gimme a Break.
6) Frosty and Rudolph: The two legends move to NBC this year, and I've already seen people complain that they have been taken off streaming. I am sure if Peacock add them for December, people will complain that they are on streaming, so consider this a PSA: The programs will be on NBC December 5 and December 6!
7) Sesame Street: The venerable program (Lot of ICONS this week!) premiered 55 years ago (!) today on PBS. Interesting...
8) Dr. No: 50 years ago tonight, the first theatrical 007 flick made its network TV premiere on ABC, and I am getting nostalgic for that opening.
9) Lou Ferrigno: Happy 73rd to one of the true heroes of Seventies television!
10) R.I.P.: Alan Rachins, Quincy Jones:
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