Route 66 mystery guest
If you are a television viewer of a certain age, you have most likely seen this actress, many times. But do you recognize her here?
Route 66 wisdom
“Whenever you reach an impasse, look at the third side of the coin.”
Who’s who on Route 66
Buz, Not Buz.
Naked City Mongol
The pencil’s identity is obvious. But do you recognize the actress?
Kingsfield’s cup of tea
“My Dinner with Kingsfield,” an especially good episode of The Paper Chase.
Colbert, Kennedy, poetry
“It occurs to me that The Colbert Report must be the most genuinely arts-oriented half-hour on television.”
Bob Wolff’s archive
Seventy-four years in sports broadcasting
Local weather
To borrow from Tip O’Neill: all weather is local.
Higher Education PSA
The exhortation to “Give to the college of your choice” has been superseded, I’d say, by the bumper-sticker proclamation “My daughter/son and my money go to .”
Positively Naked City
West Fourth Street, Greenwich Village, as seen in an episode of Naked City.
No diagram needed
“You know what I love about you? I never have to draw you a diagram.”
Naked Bronx
Fordham Road, Webster Avenue, and the Fordham campus, in an episode of Naked City and today.
Nearly plotzing
My partner in Naked City-viewing nearly plotzed the other night.
“WE DELIVER”
A clock and and a telephone exchange name, from Naked City.
How to improve writing (no. 42)
“The study of law is something new and unfamiliar to most of you — unlike any other schooling that you have ever known before.”
On PBS tonight
Frontline: Raising Adam Lanza.
“Love Is All Around”
Have you ever heard the theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show in its entirety? Sheesh.
From Naked City
“All he does when he gets home is drink beer and look at Old Rabbit Ears — that’s what I call his portable TV.”
“Minds, not memories”
Professor Kingsfield: “I intend to test minds, not memories.”
Free Mr. Bates
Let him go.
From a dream
Whence such dialogue? I must have had Downton Abbey in my sleeping head.
Dear Downton Abby
Bill Madison gives advice.
You know you’re really a prisoner of television when . . .
Levi. Levi. Levi.
Local listings
On C-SPAN: The House debate on the bill to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. On Syfy: The Twilight Zone marathon.
Live-blogging Magoo
A disaster, as it happened.
Magoo on NBC
“Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol, fifty this year, airs on NBC tonight, 7:00 Central Time. A very big deal.”
Overheard
From the television.
Why save PBS?
A poster from PBS.
Edgewise
Silent Jim Lehrer.
Newton Minow’s advice
“Let me suggest that after you watch the debate on Wednesday night, you turn off your television set and do your best to avoid the spin that will follow.”