Newsday TV Book, December 4-10, 1977.

I'm blazing a trail through these here '77 Newsday TV Books, and now here's a look at the second in the year-end series of five that began with the week after Thanksgiving.

National Geographic (not yet a whole global network, just a magazine and a television series on PBS) presented an episode featuring a bunch of young fellas looking to recreate the journey along the Yukon that feverish gold-diggers made some eighty years earlier.

All your teen heartthrob faves are in the TV Line this week: Leif Garrett, Greg Evigan, Nancy Marchand!

Among the Cable TV Highlights, the town meeting for Brookhaven gets top billing, which will give you an idea of what cable was like in the old days. (On tape delay, no less!)

Some "great" movies on Sunday afternoon, including a UFO "documentary" with the classic John Cashman line, "All questions and no answers, which is an easy game to play."

Sunday night's sched runs alongside a "Special Lady," aka the noseless preggo of Dan Howard's Maternity Factory Outlet. (Somewhere, Dan protests, "She's not my special lady, she's my lady friend!")

Monday morning to mid-afternoon now, including Unicorn Tales at 1, produced by the Chippendales guy who was murdered by that other Chippendales guy. Also, Viskupic comments mildly on Hollywood's "Red Scare."

The Year Without a Santa Claus is followed by a Christmas special with the Carpenters...

...and another with John Davidson, Tim Conway and Betty White! The streets must have been deserted that night!

The Saturday pages, with Christmas programming galore.

Finally, some ads I like: You could spend your holidays aboard the "rolling stock" of the Dining Car 1890," in a railroad car that was once, apparently, the campaign headquarters for Hoover and Truman.

New Year's Eve at the Blue Dolphin in East Farmingdale meant lobster tails, seven hours of booze, and the double-barreled entertainment of Tony Spataro and Jack Pasta (comic).

And last and almost certainly least, a page of ads centered on Hickory Hill Day School in my hometown of Plainview, featuring a squirrel in the logo that I find vaguely unpleasant although I can't explain why. Something about the haunches.

I have a "haunch" that I'll be back with another of these posts real soon!
And, like this one, it may not have an ending, just a lame joke!