1) Labor Day weekend: I am confident saying that all of you reading this deserve a day off, and I hope you have at least one of them this weekend!
2) Summer: At the same time, we must say goodbye to Emotional Summer, and I'm not quite ready to let go.
3) The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon: One of the biggest annual traditions on TV in the BOTNS era!
4) Gunsmoke: Me-TV is celebrating the series' 70th anniversary (And I think it aired for half of those years) this month.
5) Hearts Island: 40 years ago tonight, NBC ran this unsold pilot from David Duclon starring Dorothy Lyman as a widowed mom of two making ends meet--barely--in Louisiana. Things take a turn when she meets an ex-con played by...Patrick Simmons!
No, wait, it's Gary Sandy!
6) Siskel and Ebert: Also 40 years ago this weekend, the duo devoted an episode to the worst films of the summer. The episode is available online, so I won't spoil anything, but one selection is from a certain long-long-long-running iconic franchise.
7) Buddy Hackett: The comedian would have been 100 today. I struggle with picturing a 100-year-old Buddy Hackett.
8) TV Guide's TV Teletype: I love the tidbits in the 8/20/55 issue we spotlighted the last couple weeks. Here are a few more:
"Horses come into their own this fall." Writer Bob Stahl notes Fury and My Friend Flicka start soon, and Gene Autry is developing a show about his horse Champion.
BBC starts its version of People Are Funny in September. CBS plans a series called Wanted profiling notable fugitives, and it took out an insurance policy protecting in case one of them is caught before the episode airs.
9) Major League Baseball: OK, I know everyone is about to be consumed by football. Let me just mark the deal MLB made with NBC/Peacock to bring games back to the network. It puts me in a nostalgic mood (Like I'm ever not in one) thinking about the old Game of the Week. Also, MLB's official Vault channel posted a cool episode of This Week in Baseball this week (Many more have been uploaded on less-official channels lately, too).
10) R.I.P. Jerry Adler: The veteran character actor didn't really get into TV until the nineties, but he was a stage manager on Santa Barbara!
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