Re: [ARSCLIST] Half-vast wasteland--was: Slides and inconvenient media (was spin it again)

[Robert Hodge <rjhodge@xxxxxxx>]

Dave Garroway and "Wide Wide World" ?  I truly appreciated his relaxed
and informative style. 

BH
  

>>> steveabrams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 4/9/2007 4:53 PM >>>
It is surprising  Steven Barr has forgotten that there was a much
admired 
"Chicago School" of television in the late 'forties and early 'fifties.
 The 
leading representatives included Studs Terkel, whose show was called
"Stud's 
Place", Dave Garroway and, of course, Burr Tilstrom.  (There is an
excellent 
and comprehensive website for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie.")l

Steve Abrams (aged 68)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Hodge" <rjhodge@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Half-vast wasteland--was: Slides and
inconvenient 
media (was spin it again)


> Omnibus , NBC Playhouse , Project 54, CBS and NBC news documentaries
by
> the score, Hallmark Playhouse, to nane a few !
> Show me anything that's on the commercial networks that can compare
> today !
>
> BH
>>>> stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 4/7/2007 10:00 PM >>>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Hodge" <rjhodge@xxxxxxx>
>> Obviously you never saw American television when at its' prime !
>>
> When was THAT?! I started watching television on a limited basis,
> at a neighbour's home, in 1951...Howdy Doody and Captain Video,
> usually. Our family finally acquired a set in the fall of 1954...
> and I watched a LOT of TV until c.1960. After that, my viewing
> became more sporadic (although I was lucky enough to see early
> Monty Python, with Flemish subtitles, in a bar/cafe in Belgium
> in 1973...!).
>
> Don't recall seeing anything I would have thought of as "prime,"
> though (maybe "Senor Wences" on Ed Sullivan...?)
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
>
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