Newsday TV Book, October 28-November 3, 1973.

For this installment, I'm looking at a mid-autumn TV Book from 1973, and right off the bat--a typo! A big one! I'll give you a hint: Sunday was indeed the 28th, so...

...November 1st was Thursday, not Saturday! Eastern Standard Time returned that Sunday morning, but then Newsday went and robbed you of two whole days! Which would probably be okay with Barbra Streisand, who, in the cover story, declared that she'd rather stay home anyway, so who the hell cares how many days are in a week?
(Click pics to enlarge, otherwise good luck reading them.)

The TV Line column was the closest thing we had to a search engine back then. How else could we have known Dick Clark's wife's name, what Susan Olsen's family was like, or how many times John Wayne died? (For the record, the last time would be about six years later.) The Susan Olsen query came from my hometown of Plainview (woot-woot!), and I really hope P.D. was no older than 13.

After the reminder to fall back, Davey and Goliath's "Halloween Who-Dun-It" aired on at least one channel, Abbott & Costello met the Mummy, and the Bowery Boys took the day off so WNEW 5 could bring you Wilde and Winters.

On Thursday, WLIW 21 (the local PBS station that would later transmit and then broadcast out of Plainview--woot-woot-woot!) began airing Seven Thirty: The Long Island Newsmagazine. It was hosted by John Miller, who would later go on to work at other NYC stations. In fact, his Wikipedia page doesn't even mention his decade at 21, claiming he started his career as a journalist at channel 5. He's also been spokesman for the NYPD, countered terrorism for the LAPD, and oversaw FBI communications. I can't seem to dig up when the show ended, but news is listed in that time slot in the last TV Book of my collection, Christmas week 1985.
(Ned Levine drew the close-up, plus the one for some CBS specials on Friday.)

Here are the listings for all of Friday and Saturday (despite Newsday's insistence that they don't exist), with lots of neat stuff to seek out, including the usual spate of mordant John Cashman reviews, and Gary Viskupic in his element, providing an illustration for a World War II flick that may or may not turn you on.

Same damn back cover they've had for weeks now, so instead, here's your Holiday Spas cheesecake for the week. (Please note that, although it would close down before long, at this point they still had a location in... that's right, Plainview! Wooty-woot-woot!

Not only was the back cover a dud, but most of the ads were pretty insipid this time out. However, I couldn't help but rescue part of an otherwise banal notice for Roberts Exterminators in North Babylon. I don't think this is clip art, so I hope that means some LI artist conjured up this cartoony-yet-nightmarish vision of a hissing Zanti Misfit chasing down an appropriately horrified woman.

Until next time, Happy Halloween! Unless you're older than 16, in which case you've hopefully grown out of it because an adult celebrating Halloween is embarrassing! Yes, I say so!