Newsday TV Book, October 20-26, 1974.

Not many scans from this issue, due again to lack of visual interest or lots of repeated ads that I've already presented in the last few weeks. The cover features a show that lasted about as long as my look at this issue: Planet of the Apes. The following cover story examines Roddy MacDowell's career.

In the TV Line, we learn that Jack Elam was a number-crunching desk jockey before giving up accounting because of his eyes, plus more about Bonnie Bedelia, Robert Forster, and Humperdinck's prodigious progeny.

Monday morning brought Dinah! into our lives, and we see from this ad that she hosted many celebs who are now dead. You can peruse the daily episode roster to see if you know which ones are still with us, or perhaps to note just how many have double letters in their names. Doing this made me notice that Billy Dee Williams (yes, still kicking) has double letters in all three of his names (and yes, I typically noticed things like this even before the pandemic officially made me a shut-in).

Here are the listings for late Tuesday, with an illustration by Gary Viskupic depicting a faceless Fidel.

Late Saturday's sched came with a reminder that the clocks would require adjustment (by all good people, anyway), so that night you could stay up a little longer to catch the passionate Yvonne DeCarlo.

Finally, a page with yet another Hicks Nurseries ad for their Halloween display, which I may have reproduced on this blog before or not. Any ad with gravestones and anguished pumpkins is okay by me.

Next time: Rhoda!