Tag: CBS
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Vintage TV: The CBS Late Movie
I mentioned this post recently here and decided it’s high time to rerun it. It’s an oldie, originally published in August, 2008. Starting in the late ’70s, my brother and I got sent to Camp Grandma in southwestern Michigan for a couple weeks every summer. The rules were extremely relaxed at Camp Grandma. Pepsi and…
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Vintage TV: Brought to you in living color
NBC aired the first color television program* in 1953, and you’d better believe they made a big deal of it. The network consistently had more color programming than CBS or ABC for some time. Starting in 1957, they preceded every color show with the famous NBC Peacock. That peacock lasted until 1962, when the one…
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Vintage TV: The CBS Late Movie
Starting in the late ’70s, my brother and I got sent to Camp Grandma in southwestern Michigan for a couple weeks every summer. The rules were extremely relaxed at Camp Grandma. Pepsi and Vernors and my brother’s beloved root beer flowed freely, and Grandma always bought Pringles and Lucky Charms and Slim Jims and all…