Saturday: This was the first TV broadcast of “The Wizard of Oz.” It was also one of very few pre-1966 “compatible color” broadcasts on CBS, still smarting over the adoption of RCA’s electronic color system as the American standard rather than their mechanical system. This is TV Guide’s Close-Up listing (before the magazine started using [...]
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MacGruder!!!
CBS has uploaded the first 5 episodes of the 80s mullet-tastic MacGyver to their YouTube “channel.”
Watch and enjoy…if you’re a resident of the US of A. The other 6.3 Billion of us are SOL unless you have a program (or some such thing) that let’s you get around IP blocking.
WATCH
September 21, 1968, Colorado edition
Tuesday: At the top is an ad for the premiere of “60 Minutes,” paid for not by CBS, but by the sponsor. This was years before Andy Rooney, so it’s a little unclear on who was doing the chuckling. (Channels 3, Gray 5, and Black 5 were affiliates of multiple networks, hence the bump to late [...]
