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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

"Tuesday September 5th. The Day the Running Stopped." Sublime! And just like that, so ended the plight of Dr. Richard Kimble, The Fugitive. My first favorite TV show ever


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDb7pligfRA

August 29, 1967 Final 5 minutes The Fugitive, ABC-TV


August 29, 1967 The Fugitive, ABC-TV
Final episode - Epilogue, 151 seconds

"Tuesday September 5th. The Day the Running Stopped." 

Sublime.
THAT is how you write for television and pack a punch!

"Tuesday September 5th. The Day the Running Stopped." 
With these final words, spoken in a voice-over by the inestimable William Conrad in the final seconds of the series finale of The Fugitive in 1967, fifty years ago, America got the satisfaction they needed, including where I lived, where it was watched religiously in the new-ish apartment complex when I was growing up in Memphis.
And became my very first favorite TV show.

(Some of you longtime readers of the blog may recall that was the same upscale complex my family lived at that was also home to then-Cardinals catcher and Memphis native Tim McCarver during the off-season with his wife and kids, one of whom I played with regularly.)

The final episode of The Fugitive gained an astounding 45.9/72 Nielsen rating - roughly 72% of all U.S. TV households were tuned in the episode, a TV ratings record that lasted for 13 years until the mystery of who shot J.R. was resolved on "Dallas" in 1980.




http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-et-st-fugitive-fiftieth-anniversary-20170828-story.html


Leonard Goldberg on "The Fugitive" series finale - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG

The day Bristol Myers saved the day.


Alan A. Armer on producing "The Fugitive" and its finale - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG


Sunday, October 2, 2011

Happy 60th Birthday, Color TV! We still love you, NOT computer games, Facebook, texting or micro-brewing


RCA video: The Story of Color Television.

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Intro to The Adventures of Superman TV series, starring George Reeves.
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Intro to ABC-TV's Disneyland - 1.18 - Davy Crockett at the Alamo - Part 1 of 4, starring Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen.

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Intro to ABC-TV's original "Zorro" series, starring Guy Williams.
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U.S. network TV color intros from the 1960's.

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Bonanza Season 1, Episode 1: A Rose for Lotta Part [1/4 - HD]
The reason that many families finally bought a color TV -NBC's Bonanza on Sunday nights was in color.

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Intro to ABC-TV's The Green Hornet, starring Van Williams and Bruce Lee

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RCA COLOR TELEVISION 1961 CLASSIC TV SHOWS & COMMECIALS on DVD at TVDAYS.com. My family's first color TV was an RCA model in 1969.
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ABC-TV's The Fugitive "The Judgement" (2nd part) FINAL EPISODE 1967 Act I of IV (In color HD), Aired August 29, 1967. Starring Richard Janssen and Barry Morse. Until 1980, the most-watched U.S. TV show episode of all-time.
The final season was the first in color.

"Tuesday, August 29th: The day the running stopped."

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ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE 1977-1981 (CLEAN).flv
And as everyone recalls, in the pre-cable 1970's and '80's, once a James Bond film had come and gone from the theaters, the first time you'd ever be able to see it again was on ABC's Sunday Movie.
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ABC's Monday Night Football intro (1973)

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ABC's Monday Night Football intro (1979); Frank Gifford pre-game of Houston Oilers at Miami Dolphins

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