Newsday TV Book, November 11-17, 1973.

I tolya I'd be right back! And here I am, with Valerie Harper to boot!

I've read that Harper was active in liberal politics, and this article by Carol Burton shows us that if you called her a snowflake, she'd have had no choice but to cop to it. It was her first role!

The TV Line has the lowdown about the whereabouts of the Three Stooges and how their slapstick was apparently too heavy for WPIX. Also the future not-Chastity Bono, the soon-to-be-unemployable Tex Antoine (yes, the drunken weatherman who joked about the attempted rape of a child on-air), and the bird-spirited (and possibly brained) Barbara Seagull, nee Hershey.

Sometimes I leave the ads until the end of the post, but today I feel like having a little cheesecake right up front! This tasty slice is courtesy, as usual, of Holiday Spas, still practicing their "body magic" in my hometown Plainview at this time...

Here's another ad, or a conglomeration of ads, for pre-winter renovating, and in a color setting.

Well, orange, anyway.

Airport took off as the ABC Sunday Night Movie, and Viskupic took that whole National Airlines "I'm Tammy, fly me" thing very literally.

I didn't show a weekday morning last time, so here's Monday, mostly because I love the entry for The Little Rascals. "Oh, look honey--Freckles Spear is in this one!"

If you got up at 5am to watch five hours of Princess Anne's wedding... I don't even know how to finish that sentence, I find it so unrelatable. (Of course, I was four, so I doubt I was making it through an entire episode of Courageous Cat yet.)

Now here are the listings for Wednesday afternoon, which includes the

FIRST HICKS NURSERIES CHRISTMAS AD OF THE SEASON!

WITH SANTA HIMSELF!!!

 

Sorry. I'll compose myself.

The ABC Afternoon Playbreak ("A Special Act of Love") sounds like a hoot, dudnit?

Since I've already shown you the early listings, here are the rest, with Brian's Song, James Brolin Trapped in a department store, and The Black Tourmet at 4:05am, with "things that go wobble, wobble on the wall." Huh? (Ask reviewer John Cashman, I guess.)

Friday's late-night listings offer little for 70's stoners besides Bowie at the Marquis Club. (Twilight Zone, Joe Franklin, and Reel Camp, however, might have made for suitable enhanced viewing, too.)

And now, all day Saturday. That's right--all damn day! I'm not playing around!

The next TV Book covers Thanksgiving week, but guess what? I already scanned it a few years ago! So you don't have to wait to see it--just click RIGHT HERE!

And if that's not enough to entice you, here's the cover of that issue, with Snoopy and Woodstock dressed as pilgrims to promote the debut of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving!