Newsday TV Books, July 1974.

I promised more and, like a kid with a sackful of Grit, I'm delivering!

The cast of Ironside is strong-armed by Raymond Burr to go along with the various prevarications of his official bio, listed dutifully in the accompanying article. Dead wives, dead kid, etc. etc., no mention of a certain young fella Burr met on the set of Perry Mason...

As with June, I'm going bare bones for these dull summer months, sticking with the Gary Viskupic drawings and whatever else tickles me. This one looks pretty lame until you realize that G.V. was just being cheekily literal. The schedule is for late Sunday.

 Now it's late Monday, and Visk illustrates a horror classic made for TV.

Viskupic draws on the Amerasian blues for this Tuesday NBC News special.

Here's a page just for fans of Gilbert Gottfried's podcast: The premiere of pod guest Tony Orlando's variety show, and a John Cashman review of The Swimmer, a Gilbert favorite airing on the CBS Late Movie.

I love this meat company ad, which strangely references the JGE Appliances television commercials of the day which asked "Hey, Jerry! What's the story?" Throw in some equally puzzling cheesecake and you've got a classic, unearthed at last for the Internet Age!

 Speaking of puzzling, the inexplicably popular Mac Davis shows up on the next week's cover.

Fittingly enough, it's a ho-hum week, with just this Visk drawing of little people and an ad for the ancient Milleridge Inn capturing my interest.

John Amos and Esther Rolle roll out the Good Times.

Gary V. squeezes out a less-than-vintage piece for The Grapes of Wrath on Sunday afternoon.

His drawing for auteur Gordon Parks' The Learning Tree is more refined and elegant (and the reviews by John Cashman are, as usual, sublime).

Little Ronny Howard was bigger now, and starring on Happy Days. Forget Fonzie on water-skis--this show jumped the shark midway through season one.

Viskupic keeps the beat on (when else?) Sunday for this close-up on (what else?) a news special.

Another news special, another G.V. melding of technologies simple and complex, another case of everything-old-is-new-again...

Mary Tyler Moore graces the month's last cover, with Mare backed against a funhouse mirror for reasons only a photographer can make up.

Another busy week for Gary: An energy crisis cornucopia...

 ... a delicate portrait for A Streetcar Named Desire (unsigned, but I can't imagine what other Newsday artist it could be)...

 ...and finally, Garbo's unmistakable profile holds the key to Grand Hotel on Saturday.

More? I'm working on it, I'm working on it!