YouTube Spotlight: The pinnacle of this feature

This is a wonderful week because the current podcast topic and one of our running jokes align this week right here in this very post. Well, actually, it already happened in this week's video playlist for Rhoda when we had a legitimate reason to post a clip from that fabled BOTNS fave...

OVER EASY!

Yes, in this clip of the daytime public broadcasting program aimed at seniors, Hugh Downs interviews Rhoda's Nancy Walker. There is no egg talk, sadly, but I am overjoyed at the opportunity to work Over Easy into the BONTS universe again, and I hope longtime listeners appreciate it as well!

(Over Easy aired 1977-1982 on PBS stations. Downs hosted the magazine-style show that aired primarily in afternoon timeslots.)

Over Easy: It wasn't ALL about eggs

In our deep dive into the 1980-1981 TV season, we discussed the phenomenon of Over Easy on PBS, a daily magazine show aimed at seniors. Well, believe it or not, folks, the show wasn't ALL about eggs, despite what our speculation might have indicated.  Here is proof in the form of two descriptions from the Tuesday, September 16, 1980 listings of a TV Guide:

The next page has an example of something that has always confounded me: The listing for a particular program referring to another entry of the same program/episode at a different time (sometimes a different day).  This was 1986.  Were people figuring out by hand all this stuff fit on the pages? What went into that?

"See 12 noon Ch. 28 for details."  No! Why should I have to look all the way back on the preceding page? Just give me the info here at 3:30!