Newsday TV Book, February 19-25, 1978.

We're two-thirds of the way into a brutally cold February, so I bet the music of Barry Manilow will shine, shine, shine on you like a warm daybreak. (Or, you can't stand him, like several people I know, so just resume freezing your hinder off and skip the cover story by the great Bill Kaufman...)

I'm still working with the same keyboard that can't seem to recall certain letters, so for now I'm just gonna put up all the pics and then come back later to fill in some pithy, borderline-humorous commentary using my phone. Enjoy the silence while it lasts.

(Click or tap the pictures to see them better. I'm not sure I need to say that anymore, it seems so obvious and dumb. But, to paraphrase Mary Tyler Moore, "Dumb is all around.")

I thought the mention of Barry’s beagle, Bagel, was a funny little detail, turns out this was a very well-known fact.

In the TV Line: the whereabouts of the fifth Kong, an explanation for Mrs. Roper’s fashion sense, and why Soap is Soap.

Oh, and that thing around Paul Michael Glaser’s neck? None of your fucking business.

In this week’s ad for Dan Howard’s Maternity Outlet, the Noseless Preggo wears high boots and an overall-ish romper, I guess. So, the baby just lifts that flap when it’s hungry?

Here’s a full weekday, Monday the 20th. There’s a close-up on that night’s TV movie premiere of Wild and Wooly, featuring hottie trio Elyssa Davalos, Chris De Lisle, and my favorite, Susan Bigelow. She was in tons of commercials, and I always thought she was cute. (Coincidentally, I acquired a recording of WaW, from WNEW, aired July of ‘85.)

TV celebs were regularly given specials with stupid titles, and the aforementioned MTM got a few of them, including this doozy with Harvey Korman.