Newsday TV Book, September 1-7, 1974.

Hey, how are ya? Been a while! What's new?

Oh right--the plague, the unemployment, the wildfires, businesses dying, schools all fucked up, systemic racism worsening, wanna-be Hitler Youth gaining confidence, conspiracy theorist fruit-loopiness entrenching further into the common vernacular... and looming above it all, like a chubby Chernabog summoning horrors from Balding Mountain, that corrupt, bullying, white-privilege-poster-boy smirking sack of shit in the White House doing everything he can to turn this country into his repugnant family's oligarchy by manipulating the election...

But other than that, how's by you?

Well, let me do my part to inconsequentially allay our collective woe by offering some nostalgia for a time that was unquestionably better in most ways, to make us ache for an America that is never coming back. Let's look at the first week of September, 1974, as seen through the culture of television. Watergate was in the rear-view mirror and Nixon had just resigned. Pfffffft! You call that a presidential scandal? Don't get me started!

It's the Fall Preview issue, with the Gary Viskupic cover denoting a number of lady cops in the schedule. (Click pics to enlarge.)

Before I get to the preview pages, here's that info on Rodney Allen Rippy you were wondering about.

Okay, these uploads are taking forever so I'll keep the chit-chat to a minimum. It was a big week for That's My Mama fans, Friday evening featured the Saturday morning preview shows, and as always, the John Cashman movie reviews are worth a look...

The eye-popping ads for Colonial Shoppes were typically on the back cover. This one wasn't, but since the back was a boring bank ad, here it is.

I'm hoping to do every week for this month (if my connection cooperates), so check back!