Top Ten #353: Special Mother's Day Edition

1) Mother's Day: To quote Ralph Kiner once again, to all you mothers out there, happy birthday!

2) The Death Probe: Brick Mantooth does it again with this outstanding look at one of the bestest TV-related toys of the Seventies! Reminder, you can click here for our podcast discussing the original Six Million Dollar Man episode with this fearsome menace.

3) The Twilight Zone: I don't know why today is Twilight Zone Day. It's not the anniversary of the show. It's not Rod Serling's birthday. It's not even the anniversary of the day they decided to reboot it in the 1980s. But let's just take the opportunity to enjoy the series (SYFY has a marathon today) and not worry if this seems odd or bizarre or...eerie.

4) TV Guide: We've been running some pics from a 40-years-old TV Guide this week here on the site, and what a treat it is to revisit the days when it was THE premiere periodical in the nation.

5) Lace and Lace II: The cover subject of that Guide is the sequel to the "must have been popular because otherwise, why would they do a sequel?" miniseries.

6) Letting Go: 40 years ago tonight, this TV movie paired John Ritter and Sharon Gless. I love how back in the day, you could out a star from this random TV show with a star from that random TV show, and, bam, you have your hook. "Together at last!" How many hapless viewers suffered through the early 1980s waiting for Ritter and Gless to join forces?

7) The Muppets Green Album: Disney is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Muppets with--well, not a lot of new stuff, but it reminds us of release of The Green Album, and it looks cool:

8) Dragon's Blood: 40 years ago this morning, CBS premiered this Storybook Special in which host Bob Keeshan introduced kids to the concept of the Red Wedding in a bloody fury heretofore unseen on Saturday morning television.

9) UFOs Past, Present, and Future: Oh, the psuedoscience was strong back in the 1970s!This 1974 documentary got a television broadcast this weekend in 1975.

10) R.I.P. Chet Lemon: The White Sox/Tigers outfielder was the guest star when we discussed The Baseball Bunch in Season 9.