Newsday TV Book, July 17-23, 1977.

I just scored a passel of late 70's TV Books--that's right, a whole damn passel! And here's one now!

For most of my life I've best known British actor Warren Clarke as Dim, Alex's dopey droogie in A Clockwork Orange, but in July of '77 he was starring as Quasimodo in a BBC production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, then presented as an NBC TV movie. The makeup looks pretty good, but for me, having a bell pattern on his costume seems a bit on-the-crooked-nose.

This month's TV Line has a reference to the recently-departed--at age 100!--Frank Field (and his banished Bulldog), the character name of the love interest addition to Eight is Enough (instead of naming actress Betty Buckley), plus we learn that "The Big Ragoo" was an Armenian (and btw, from Massachusetts, to boot!).

I offer these Sunday night listings mainly for the ad with the familiar Noseless Preggo of Dan Howard's Maternity Outlet (seen here getting really together with herself), but I'll note that acclaimed mime (boy, you don’t hear that a lot) Claude Kipnis is featured in a close-up for his work on an Evening at Pops installment. Kipnis died of cancer less than four years later, shortly before his 43rd birthday. (In fact, he was performing a piece about dying of cancer, and at the climax, he died of cancer. Sadly, there were six standing ovations before someone called 911. Totally in fact.)

I enjoy presenting advertisements of interest in these posts, but here's a Monday late-night sched to demonstrate the ads I typically skip--mundane subjects, boring copy, uninspired layouts. (So you're welcome.) I also see a Joan Rivers pilot in prime-time, and a new show premiering called Tabloid on MetroMedia's WNEW channel 5, up against Johnny Carson. No recollection of that one, as I was eight at the time and generally not staying up that late.

Here's a weekday morning, with an ad for Brute Hair Creations. I've posted an ad from them before, but this one has a better pic of the Brute himself, the Cousin Brucie-ish Mr. Dave, presumably also a client.

Newsday doodler Cootner puts Joe Garagiola in stitches, and I again present the intensely hawk-like gaze of vocal coach Perry Ames.

Feathers Disco Night Club (near the Nassau Mall in Levittown) invited all to enjoy free dance lessons on Wednesday nights and clams on Sunday afternoons. (I think I’d pass, unless "Clams" is the name of a band, in which case that would be awesome.)

Friday's late listings, just for fun. (Note to movie reviewer John Cashman: The actress in Boeing, Boeing was in fact Christiane Schmidtmer, and she was 5'6' and 125 lbs., reportedly. Maybe it was her proportions [36-27-37] you found so remarkably generous...)

Here's all of Saturday.

And finally, this page has an ad for Old Fields Inn, which is now Old Fields of Greenlawn but still at the same address!

The next "new" issue I have is from August of 1978, maybe you'll see it soon!