http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/ TelevisionWeek Executive Editor Tom Gilbert joins our roster of bloggers with this forum all about classic television, where anything from "Leave It to Beaver" to "Malcolm in the Middle" is fair game for discussion. Reunion specials, DVD releases of classic shows, vintage commercials -- anything that's ever been telecast is the hot topic here. en Copyright 2008 Wed, 07 May 2008 11:33:43 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss TV Land will tape its sixth annual "TV Land Awards" event Sunday, June 8, at The Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. This year, for the first time, the ceremony will also honor favorites in motion pictures along with the http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2008/05/tv_land_awards_telecast_june_1.php http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2008/05/tv_land_awards_telecast_june_1.php Wed, 07 May 2008 11:33:43 -0800 Historical Curio Dept.: In 1959, NBC broadcast a 90-minute prime-time posthumous tribute to a man few outside of entertainment circles had ever heard of: Manie Sacks, a Columbia Records and later an RCA and NBC-TV executive who died of leukemia http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2008/04/manies_many_friends_1.php http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2008/04/manies_many_friends_1.php Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:47:46 -0800 The first season of “Father Knows Best” comes out on DVD April 1 from Shout Factory. And that’s just fine with Elinor Donahue, who played the oldest daughter Betty (or “Princess”) on the 1954-60 series, which, uniquely, appeared on all http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2008/03/catching_up_with_tvs_princess.php http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2008/03/catching_up_with_tvs_princess.php Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:17:05 -0800 David Groh's death Tuesday at a far-too-young 68 years old reminded me just how high the hopes once were for the "Rhoda" show in particular, and for Rhoda Morgenstern's relationship with Groh's bright and handsome Joe Gerard character in particular. http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2008/02/memories_of_joe_and_rhoda.php http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2008/02/memories_of_joe_and_rhoda.php Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:53:51 -0800 I recently came across the old “Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” show on KVCR-TV, the public broadcasting station in San Bernardino, Calif. It had been a long time since I’d seen that series, and I had a vague memory of http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2008/02/warm_and_ozzie.php http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2008/02/warm_and_ozzie.php Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:47:26 -0800 Who else is watching PBS’ “Pioneers of Television” series? I caught the Jan. 2 opener on sitcoms and last night’s installment on late-night shows: essentially Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson. I thought both were pretty well done, and http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2008/01/taking_stock_of_pioneers.php http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2008/01/taking_stock_of_pioneers.php Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:33:58 -0800 Half of the first season of “Love, American Style," the anthology series (if you can dignify it with that adjective) that ran on ABC from 1969-74, is due out on DVD Nov. 20. Nah, it wasn’t all that bad—basically three http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/11/love_and_the_unsold_pilot.php http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/11/love_and_the_unsold_pilot.php Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:52:49 -0800 The most-watched 89 hours and 54 minutes in television history is coming to a retailer near you—the whole thin, as Ricky Ricardo would say. CBS and Paramount Home Entertainment are releasing the entire "I Love Lucy" canon on DVD http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/10/getting_all_your_lucy_in_one_p.php http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/10/getting_all_your_lucy_in_one_p.php Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:39:20 -0800 “Leave It to Beaver” turns 50 years old this week, and to mark the occasion, TV Land is telecasting a 24-hour salute this weekend. I’m there. “Beaver” is one of the few ’50s sitcoms that can still elicit a LOL http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/10/fun_junk_leave_it_to_beaver.php http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/10/fun_junk_leave_it_to_beaver.php Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:54:09 -0800 Alice Ghostley, who died Friday at age 81, was one of the great character actors who made “Bewitched” such an extraordinary sitcom. She made a mastery of playing befuddled characters on long-running series, first as Esmeralda the diffident housekeeper http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/09/alice_doesnt_live_here_anymore.php http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/09/alice_doesnt_live_here_anymore.php Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:36:20 -0800 Worth reading: Drake Bennett has written an enlightening history of the television laugh track for Slate.com that comes complete with illustrative video clips from assorted shows. Here’s how he begins: “These are uncertain times for the laugh track. For the http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/09/tracking_the_laughter.php http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/09/tracking_the_laughter.php Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:08:22 -0800 The first 15 episodes of the 1960-64 Screen Gems-for-CBS series “Route 66” are coming out on DVD Oct. 23 from Infinity Entertainment Group. For those not familiar with the show’s premise, it’s basically two young guys driving around the country http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/08/get_your_kicks_with_route_66_o.php http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/08/get_your_kicks_with_route_66_o.php Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:19:56 -0800 It’s easy to forget the impact Glen Campbell had on popular music in the late ’60s and ’70s, but a good way to recall just what a prolific hitmaker he was is through Time Life’s new DVD compilation culled from http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/08/goodtime_glen.php http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/08/goodtime_glen.php Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:15:00 -0800 Some clever soul with plenty of time to kill has assembled the history of Paramount Television on YouTube—well, in program end tags, that is. Take a trip from its origins as Desilu Productions through its many years as Paramount Television http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/08/a_really_brief_history.php http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/08/a_really_brief_history.php Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:47:14 -0800 The greatest thing about “The Ed Sullivan Show," a Sunday night staple on CBS for 23 years, was that it was a common cultural reference point for just about everybody in the U.S., no matter how old they were or http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/08/a_really_missed_shew.php http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/timeless-tv/2007/08/a_really_missed_shew.php Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:55:11 -0800