2) National Game Show Day: A bit of a contrived one, perhaps, but are YOU gonna sit back and refuse to celebrate?
3) CNN: The Cable News Network began 45 years ago today.
4) NBA and NHL Playoffs: The second season of each league is heading to the final rounds.
5) My Father's House: Wait, my father's house was...my house. I guess not everyone was so lucky. Anyway, a TV movie by this name debuted 50 years ago tonight on ABC. Cliff Robertson is a workaholic exec who reflects on his life while recovering from a heart attack.
Hey, let's get back to celebrating Summer, eh!
6) Harry Castleman and Wally Podrazik: The authors of a couple of my favorite TV books made several appearances in recent weeks on Ed Robertson's TV Confidential radio show. The good news: Their Watching TV has a new edition. The bad news: It costs more than the budget of some of the episodes we've covered on the podcast.
7) The Young Ones: The Britcom debuted on MTV 40 years ago last week, and it went on to play about 500 times a week on the channel.
8) Gidget's Summer Reunion: This syndicated TV movie aired 40 years ago this weekend. Cliff Robertson is a workaholic--Sorry, that was the other movie.
9) NBC: Also 40 years ago, it was announced that NBC had climbed to number one for the just-concluded season. We can of course give full credit to the show that carried the whole network:
10) R.I.P. Loretta Swit, Jeff Margolis, James McEachin:
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