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Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: The Jack Benny Program -...

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2025/11/28

Here is a"HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"alittle spark of madnessthat we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.The Jack Benny Program:Season 8, Episode 7Christmas Shopping Show(15 Dec. 1957)Happy ShoppingTony Figueroa

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Your Holiday Sor-Bay: Thanksgiving 2025

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2025/11/27

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!-Arthur CarlsonHere is a Thanksgiving"HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"tradition.This is a little brain candy to snack on while dinner is cooking.May we all be thankful for what we are about to view...Station manager Arthur Carlson comes up with a big idea for a unique holiday promotion involving live turkeys and a helicopter. First airedon 40 years ago on October 30th 1978 (Season 1, Episode 7)In 1997 TV Guide ranked this episode number 40 on its '100 Greatest

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Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Hallmark Channel Christmas...

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2025/11/26

Here is a"HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"alittle spark of madnessthat we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.Stay TunedTony Figueroa

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This Week in Television History: November 2025 PART III

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2025/11/24

November 25, 1920Noel Neillis born.She is best known as her portrayal ofLois Lanein the film serialsSuperman(1948) andAtom Man vs. Superman(1950), and on the 1950s television seriesAdventures of Superman.TheMacy's Thanksgiving Day Paradeis an annualparadepresented by theU.S.-baseddepartment storechainMacy's.The tradition started in 1924,tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States withAmerica's Thanksgiving ParadeinDetroit(with both parades being four years younger than

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Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Not...

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2025/11/21

Here isyour"HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"alittle spark of madnessthat we could use to momentarily forget about thosethings that leave a bad taste in our mouths.The Mary Tyler Moore Show S05E09 Not a Christmas StoryEveryone is getting on each others nerves when they are trapped in the newsroom by a snowstorm. Stay TunedTony Figueroa

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This Week in Television History: November 2025 PART III

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2025/11/17

November 17, 1925Roy Harold Scherer-later known as Rock Hudson-is bornin Winnetka, Illinois.As a child, Hudson auditioned for school plays but never landed a role. Later, he worked as a navy mechanic and a truck driver, then pursued an acting career after World War II. After extensive grooming, which included acting, dancing, and fencing lessons, Hudson became a leading actor with Universal. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he frequently starred in action films and melodramas, including The

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This Week in Television History: November 2025 PART II

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2025/11/10

November 11, 1980Too Close for Comfort debuted on ABC.ThisAmericansitcomwhich ran on theABCnetwork from November 11, 1980, to May 5, 1983, and in first-runsyndicationfrom April 7, 1984, to February 7, 1987. It was modeled after theBritishseriesKeep It in the Family,which premiered nine months beforeToo Close for Comfortdebuted in theUnited States. Its name was changed toThe Ted Knight Showwhen the show was retooled for what would turn out to be its final season.Ted KnightandNancy Dussaultstar as

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This Week in Television History: November 2025 PART I

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2025/11/03

November 3, 1975Good Morning America premieredon ABC-TV.GMA expanded to weekends with the debut of a Sunday edition on January 3, 1993. The Sunday edition was later canceled in 1999; weekend editions returned on both Saturdays and Sundays on September 4, 2004. The weekday program airs from 7:00 to 9:00a.m. in allU.S. time zones(live in theEastern Time Zoneand ontape delayelsewhere across the country); the Saturday and Sunday editions are one hour long and is transmitted to ABC's stations live at

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This Week in Television History: October 2025 PART IV

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2025/10/27

October 28, 1950Popular radio personality Jack Benny moves totelevision with The Jack Benny Program. The TV version of the show ran for the next 15 years.Jack Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky in 1894. His father, a Lithuanian immigrant, ran a saloon in Waukegan, Illinois, near Chicago. Benny began playing violin at age six and continued through high school. He began touring on the vaudeville circuit in 1917. In 1918, he joined the navy and was assigned to entertain the troops with his music but

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This Week in Television History: October 2025 PART III

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2025/10/20

October 20, 1985-The movie "I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later" aired.I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Lateris a 1985made-for-television filmproduced byColumbia Pictures Televisionwhich premiered onNBCon October 20, 1985. It is the first of two reunion films based on the 1965–70sitcomI Dream of Jeannie.Barbara Edenreprises her world-famous role as the magical Jeannie; also reprising their roles from the original series wereBill Dailyas Tony's fellow astronaut and best friend Roger Healy,

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This Week in Television History: October 2025 PART II

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2025/10/13

October 15th, 1955 Grand Ole Opry premiered on ABC-TV.Stay TunedTony Figueroa

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This Week in Television History: October 2025 PART I

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2025/10/06

October 6,2000The first episode of CBS'sCSI: Crime SceneInvestigationaired.CSI: Crime Scene Investigation(also referred to as bothCSIandCSI: Las Vegas) is an Americancrime dramatelevision seriescreated byAnthony E. Zuikerand executive produced byJerry Bruckheimer. It premiered on October 6, 2000 onCBS, and was filmed primarily atUniversal StudiosinUniversal City, California.CSIspawned three spin-off series:CSI: Miami,CSI: NY, andCSI: Cyber; a book series; several video games; and an exhibit

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This Week in Television History: September 2025 PART V

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2025/09/29

September 29th, 1960My Three Sonsfirst aired.The series ran from 1960 to 1965 onABC, and moved toCBSuntil its end on August 24, 1972.My Three Sons chronicles the life of a widower andaeronautical engineernamed Steven Douglas (Fred MacMurray), raising his three sons. The series also starredWilliam Frawleyas the boy’s live-in maternal grandfather, Bub. Frawley, was replaced in 1965 byWilliam Demarestdue to Frawley’s health issues.September 29,1985The pilot episode of "MacGyver" aired on

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This Week in Television History: September 2025 PART IV

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2025/09/22

September 22, 1985NBC began airing the series Amazing Stories.Amazing Storiesis afantasy,horror, andscience fictiontelevisionanthology seriescreated bySteven Spielberg. It originally ran onNBCin the United States from 1985 to 1987.The series was nominated for 12Emmy Awardsand won five. The first season episode "The Amazing Falsworth" earned writerMick GarrisanEdgar Awardfor Best Episode in a TV Series. It was not a ratings hit (ranking 40th in Season 1 and 46th in Season 2), however, and the

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This Week in Television History: September 2025 PART...

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2025/09/15

September 15, 1965Lost in Space premiered on CBS TV.Lost in Spaceis an Americanscience fiction televisionseries created and produced byIrwin Allen, filmed by20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast onCBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing betweenSeptember 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968. The first television season was filmed in black and white, with the second and third seasons filmed in color. In 1972 a pilot for a cartoon version was made. Two documentaries were released

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Polly Holliday

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2025/09/09

Polly Dean HollidayJuly 2, 1937 – September 9, 2025In 1976,Polly Hollidaywas cast—in what would be her major break—as sassy, man-hungry waitress Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry on the U.S.CBSsitcomAlice.Her character coined the popularcatchphrase"Kiss my grits!" The phrase became part of the Americanvernacular. Holliday starred inAlicefrom 1976 to 1980, and then moved to her own short-livedspin-offshow, titledFlo, in which Flo leftArizonaand moved back home toTexas.The show was successful during its

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This Week in Television History: September 2025 PART II

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2025/09/08

September 9, 1975The first episode of "Welcome Back, Kotter"aired on ABC.The show starred stand-up comic/actor Gabriel 'Gabe' W. Kaplan as the title character, Gabe Kotter, a wisecracking teacher who returns to his alma mater high school, the fictionalJames BuchananHigh inBrooklyn, New York, to teach an often unruly group of remedial loafers self-labeled as the "Sweathogs." (The nickname reflected the fact that the remedial classes were held on the very top floor of the high school.) The school

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This Week in Television History: September 2025 PART I

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2025/09/01

September 1, 1970 The last episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" aired on NBC-TV.Jeannie and Tony's cousin want to make Tony the chili king even though NASA forbids its astronauts to make commercial endorsements.The show premiered was on September 18, 1965.September 7, 1950Radio game show Truth or Consequences comes to television.The show required erring quiz show contestants to perform outrageous stunts as the consequence for wrong answers. As we mentioned in an earlier episode (This week in

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This Week in Television History: August 2025 PART IV

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2025/08/25

August 31, 1957Children's show Kukla, Fran and Ollie airs its last episode on prime-time network TV.The show featured beloved puppets Kukla, Ollie (a dragon), and others, with live actress Fran Allison as host. The show began as a local Chicago program and moved to NBC in 1948. It was one of the two most important series made in Chicago, along with Garroway at Large, during the city's brief period as an important production center for network programs in the late 1940s. After its network

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This Week in Television History: August 2025 PART III

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2025/08/18

August 23, 2000First Survivorfinale airs.On this day in 2000, Richard Hatch, a 39-year-old corporate trainer from Rhode Island, wins the season-one finale of the reality television show Survivor and takes home the promised $1 million prize. In a four-to-three vote by his fellow contestants, Hatch, who was known for walking around naked on the island in Borneo where the show was shot, was named Sole Survivor over the river raft guide Kelly Wiglesworth. Survivor, whose slogan is “Outwit,

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