Card-file steals scene in TV debut
Card-file, from Father Knows Best
Bill Madison on 3-D TV
Skeptical and funny
Father Knows Best Christmas episode
Strange, stranger
“A Woman in the House”
A very strange episode of Father Knows Best
Soupy Sales (1926–2009)
How lucky to have been a kid in New York in the days of The Soupy Sales Show . Here’s a sample , with White Fang and Fess Parker, television...
Mad Men search results
What Google thinks of Mad Men
"Betty's Graduation"
Suprisingly poignant dialogue from Father Knows Best
I Love Lucy
A television marathon
Reading Rainbow ends
After 26 years
You know you’re really an English major of a certain age when . . .
you immediately recognize T.S. Eliot’s Complete Poems and Plays: 1909–1950 (1971) on the bookshelf behind the interviewees on MSNBC’s Hardball.
Mad Men yourself
Turn yourself into a Mad Men person
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite commenting on Richard Nixon's resignation speech, as seen on a Washington, D.C. television set, August 1974. A photograph by Gjon Mili.
Lady Elaine's can
A double-entendre in a Mister Rogers opera: mild, charming, deliberate
Real housewives fifth-graders
The Real Housewives of New York makes better sense if you think of the cast as fifth-graders.
Ah, dialogue
A loopy bit of Bonanza dialogue
Going backward
The Graduate and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Erica, Erika
A funny New York Times correction re: soap operas and dissociative identity disorder
Lear cover-up
No nudity in PBS Lear
Involuntary memory in Mayberry
Liver as a madeleine
Channel flipping
"A man has a chance to make positive changes by reliving Christmas Day over and over again."
Frank O'Hara and Mad Men again
Meditations in an Emergency reappears
Rachel Maddow and sneakers
Necessary for television
Thursday Night Live
Why C-SPAN is the best choice for watching presidential and vice-presidential debates
Google that
"Thank you, Eric Google."
Classic Arts Showcase
Great free cable service
ABC's Fight Night
A travesty of a debate
Jack Paar and Oscar Levant
As seen and heard on PBS's Pioneers of Television : "What do you do for exercise?" "I stumble, and then I fall into a coma." Oscar Levant...
Christmas Eve reprise
Ralph Kramden on Christmas (from The Honeymooners)
Watching GUIDE
An odd juxtaposition
The Sound of Jazz, fifty years ago today
From CBS Television