Breakfast with the Food Network
If life were like the Food Network.
“Twenty years is a long time”
Like a quarter of a century!
A Great American Dream Machine thought
1971 is a long time ago.
The Great American Dream Machine
A fortieth-anniversary special.
Lucille Ball
Born 100 years ago today.
Fred Astaire on What’s My Line?
From 1955 and 1959.
Ebert on Murdoch
“This man has done more to harm journalism in America and Britain than any other person.”
Lieutenant Columbo’s notebook
It’s an Ampad Citadel.
Romney Wordsworth, obsolete
Fifty years ago, a world without librarians and libraries was the stuff of a totalitarian nightmare. Now it seems that we’re closer to living in The Twilight Zone.
Fred Steiner (1923–2011)
He wrote the theme music for Perry Mason (and much else).
CBS Evening News: Attack of the Clones
Bob Schieffer meets Scott Pelley
Chris Matthews explains it all for you
“Sex is generally between two people in private, you know, in some room somewhere.”
Plus ça change
Scott Pelley and Bob Schieffer look awful lot alike.
Katie Couric and Exxon Mobil
Katie Couric, corporate spokesperson
Newton Minow, fifty years later
Fifty years after “a vast wasteland,” Newton Minow proposes six goals for the next fifty years of communications technology.
“Margaret Disowns Her Family”
Not your father’s Father Knows Best.
Thought for the day
Infinite Jest-inspired
Edward Kean (1924-2010)
"Chief writer, philosopher, and theoretician" of The Howdy Doody Show
Domestic comedy
Floyd who?
Infinite Jest, television
Television nostalgia
Perry Mason and John Keats
TV dialogue
Domestic comedy
Drawn from life
Betty White, "Live from New York"
As seen on The Golden Girls
Bill Moyers on public broadcasting
For citizens, not consumers
Duke Ellington, 1953
A hilarious appearance on What's My Line
As seen on TV
Funny YouTube video
Rachel Maddow makes cocktails
On television
Fred Rogers and Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh loves Fred Rogers
How to behave in the supermarket
A demonstration
The Office on Hulu
The BBC Office