Monday, December 15, 2025

Outside the timeline: Retro retro news

This may become a semi-regular feature: A roundup of items related to classic TV outside our standard 1970s/1980s timeline!

ITEM: Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday this weekend, and PBS premiered a new American Masters devoted to him. Check your local listings or the PBS app.

We mentioned this in yesterday's Top Ten post, but Tubi now has The New Dick Van Dyke Show.




ITEM: Some relatively rarer Westerns are making their way to streaming platforms. Here are a pair that have been on diginets and are now on SVOD:

Stoney Burke: The 1962 series with Jack Lord as a rodeo star is now on Plex.




Whispering Smith: This 1961 series with Audie Murphy as the titular detective appears to be coming to Tubi. I say that because as of now there is only one single episode!

ITEM: ClassicFlix announced the latest in its Rare Television line of DVD releases, and, boy, is it a rare one: 1951's The Ad-Libbers!

Here is the complete story. I pre-ordered this one right away to show support for the line and to ClassicFlix for working on stuff like this--Oh, and also because it sounds fascinating!





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