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From Hooterville: A Classic TV Dog Story
Sometimes you hear a story that makes you smile, and it continues to do so every time you think about it. This story does that for me. My guess is that many of my fellow classic TV lovers have heard...
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The Museum of Comfort TV Salutes: Freddy the Flute
Imagine a place where all of the instantly recognizable objects associated with classic television are on display. It doesn’t exist, so we’ll create it here, and pay tribute to many of our favorite...
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Is There Still a Place in Comfort TV for Bill Cosby?
This blog has always been a haven to focus on positive subjects. If you want grim headlines and sad stories you have plenty of other places to find them. But in the wake of the most recent revelations...
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The 20 Best Monkees Songs – and the 5 Worst
I love the music of The Monkees. Always have. I was too young for the series’ 1966-1968 prime time run, but when that ended The Monkees was moved to syndication on Saturday mornings, an unusual but...
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Two-Part Episodes Revisited
In the Comfort TV era a “special two-part episode” was promoted as a big deal. Sometimes it actually turned out that way. Sometimes it didn’t. As we explored back in March, there are good reasons to...
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Despair is No Match for Champagne Music
I had a revelation while watching a 40 year-old episode of The Lawrence Welk Show. Which, to be clear, is not something I do very often. I grew up with the series, but like many in my generation it...
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The Magical Magnetism of Yvonne Craig
About 15 years ago I went to a Hollywood Collector Show, which was not held in Hollywood but at the Beverly Garland Hotel in Burbank. Yvonne Craig was there and she was the celebrity I was most...
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The Museum of Comfort TV Salutes: Jeannie’s Bottle
Imagine a place where all of the instantly recognizable objects associated with classic television are on display. It doesn’t exist, so we’ll create it here, and pay tribute to many of our favorite...
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Bowling for Bradys
How do you separate the hardcore Brady Bunch fans from the casual observers? They are the ones that, like me, actually purchased a DVD called The Bradys Go Bowling.The DVD features two episodes of...
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Time Passages
Here’s a question I present for discussion among my fellow comfort TV fans: Does watching an inordinate amount of television from 30 or 40 years ago alter your perception of how time passes?I don’t...
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Here They Are, America’s Favorite Family: The Nelsons
You may have noticed I like to jump around in my topic choices. Comfort TV covers a wide range of television programming from the 1950s to the early 1980s, and it’s fun to have that big a sandbox to...
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Bigfoot: Big in the 1970s
Monsters and strange creatures are intrinsic to Halloween, so this seems a fitting time to blog about Bigfoot. The legends date back centuries though few believers remain in our skeptical times. But...
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The Comfort TV Covers of Dynamite Magazine
I was recently surprised, and very pleasantly so, to find that the Scholastic Reading Club was still in existence. I was certain that by now it had become a relic of the past, like many good ideas we...
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Paris, Thanksgiving and Father Knows Best
So I was all set to write another Museum of Comfort TV piece and then Paris happened. Of course, this isn’t the forum to discuss such atrocities, but the impact was such that it didn’t feel right to...
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Christmas With the Hartleys: Celebrating the Season on The Bob Newhart Show
NOTE: This post is part of A Very Merry MeTV Blogathon hosted by the Classic TV Blog Association. Click hereto view the entire blogathon schedule.The Bob Newhart Show is one of the few television...
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Classic TV Christmas Songs: My 10 Favorites
Music is an integral part of Christmas. And for many of us the classic TV specials from an earlier era are part of that celebration as well. The best of them introduced even more wonderful music to...
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Five Things TV Used to Do That it Doesn’t Do Anymore
We’ve arrived at the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. If you’re a kid you’re off from school and if you’re a lucky adult like me you are enjoying a few days off from work. It’s a chance to...
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A Book From Batman’s Butler
For Comfort TV fans, the casts of favorite shows are as familiar as close friends. But in so many instances, particularly among the supporting players, we know actors almost exclusively from a single...
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Comfort TV Tribute: Gary Owens
From 1997 through about 2001, if you called my home and I wasn’t in, you would have heard the following answering machine message:Hello, this is Gary Owens, reminding you that David Hofstede is not in...
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Do Not Leave This World Without Tracking Down The Fugitive
Taking my TV viewing preferences as a whole, there didn’t seem much hope that I would enjoy The Fugitive.It’s a somber show that is not fast-paced or action-packed, there is almost no humor, and the...
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