Week 3 Watching Television and more

See sidebar for Crew Rotations, The Solo.

Here is our “playlist” for the Wednesday session of Watching Television:

Week 3:
Walking In Music: Spike Jones and Colgate Comedy Hour, 1951.
Folgers and Marlboro Commercials
1950s
Percy Dovetonsils, The Ernie Kovacs Show,
c.1952
I Love Lucy Pilot
(not made for broadcast) 16mm, 1951
“Gracie’s Tax Return”, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, 1950
“Big Business” Your Show of Shows with Sid Caesar, May 29, 1954
Beat the Clock
with Bud Collyer, 1950-61
You Bet Your Life
with Groucho Marx, December 14, 1950.

tsol_aphorisms_posters13

Postage Stamps Honor TV’s Golden Age

pr08_136zYou’re traveling through another dimension, one where, for 44 cents, small items of correspondence can be dropped into blue boxes that will transport them around the country. Your next stop: the post office. The United States Postal Service started selling its new “Early TV Memories” stamps this week, honoring television shows from the 1950s and ’60s. Among the performers featured are Groucho Marx of “You Bet Your Life”; Jackie Gleason and Art Carney of “The Honeymooners”; Vivian Vance and Lucille Ball, above middle, of “I Love Lucy”; and Rod Serling, above, of “The Twilight Zone.” The series was introduced Tuesday to a group in Los Angeles that included June Lockhart, 84, of “Lassie,” whose collie, top, is on a stamp.

Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

from The New York Times, 15 August 2009

← Previous Page