Newsday TV Book, December 1-7, 1974

The first week of December, 1974, brought Long Island Newsday readers a 3D cover, with John-Boy Walton earning his Red Badge of Courage--by charging right atcha!

While there are interesting tidbits about Ol' Blue Eyes' heritage, Pa Ingalls fiddling around, and Darren McGavin's resume, I'm inclined toward titling this edition of TV Line "Someone in Wyandanch Gives a Shit about Laurel and Hardy."

The cover story is a real snore (unless you're jazzed to read about Richard Thomas' summer stock experiences) so here instead is the eggnog-flavored cheesecake of Holiday Spas.

In a previous installment, I gave shout-outs to the fellas trodding the sales floor at Eldee. Two years later, Irv and Ken are toast, replaced by Luke Chicco and Sal Paduano. They look like closers to me!

Another Hicks ad (see post from two weeks ago), plus, hey, here's an idea: let's look at some damn TV listings already!

The late listings for Tuesday include a Gary Viskupic illustration for the cover feature.

Let's skip the morose, gender-fluid clown Boris and learn a bisl about Hanukkah, then we'll watch that farchadat Santa Claus come to town.

Screw it, I'm going back to the ads, mostly because I want to sincerely wish all my readers a Waste King Christmas.

And finally, I'll forego the back cover pitch since it's the same as last week's (and will remain there for the rest of the year), and present in its place the ad that preceded it, for Bay Shore Farmers Market. This was the first appearance of Bay Shore Man, seen whipping his nemesis, The Inflation-pillar.

To my knowledge, this was also the last appearance of Bay Shore Man.
See you next time--it will get Christmasier, I swear!