2) Holiday season: And now, with some reluctance, I say farewell to the so-called holiday season. We hope everyone has a fantastic 2026! And though many of you are boxing up the decorations (I still have my tree up), remember it's never a bad time to watch A Family Circus Christmas:
3) Not Necessarily the News: If you kids think the political satire you see today is a recent thing, well, just remember, it wasn't invented in this century. It was invented by Steve Allen.
4) Dick Cavett: One of the things I miss most about HBO is that Dick Cavett is no longer "the face of the network," but it's cool that he still had high-profile documentaries with them as recently as 2020 (Ali and Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes).
5) Superman: The Motion Picture: This HBO staple aired on broadcast TV 40 years ago tonight on, of course...CBS? Hey, CBS showed it, too? I always remember watching it on ABC. This kind of shatters me, to be honest. Next you're gonna tell me The Wizard of Oz was on ABC one year.
6) The Neighbors: Boy, oh, boy, you gotta see this short-lived Regis Philbin game show in which a pair of neighbors compete to guess which of their other neighbors said the catty remarks about each other. It seems in good fun, but...really? They should have filmed the next day's mah jongg game so we could see the aftermath.
7) Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur: NBC premiered this event 50 years ago tonight. You decide! Was it:
A prestige TV movie from David Wolper dramatizing the conflict between the former president (E.G. Marshall) and the General of the Army (Henry Fonda).
A live event featuring actors portraying those two historical figures in a 10-round boxing match promoted by Bob Arum with commentary by Marv Albert, a young Sugar Ray Leonard, and Joe Garagiola.
A live event featuring actors portraying those two historical figures in a 10-round boxing match promoted by Bob Arum with commentary by Marv Albert, a young Sugar Ray Leonard, and Joe Garagiola.
8) Sony TV shows: If you like 1970s and 1980s Sony library shows, Roku has delivered. A lot of programs kind of rotate in and out on here, so if there's something you want to see, get to it! We're talking T.J. Hooker, What's Happenin'!!, The Rookies, and many more. One that I think may not have been there already: Silver Spoons.
9) Free Country: Gilmore Box posted an episode of this unsuccessful Rob Reiner sitcom. It's an interesting rarity (This recording was from the old HA! network).
10) R.I.P.: Melanie Watson, John Mulrooney:
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