What Do Green Acres and Xena: Warrior Princess Have in Common?
Original Airdates: Sept. 12-15, 2025
TVC 706.1: From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed commemorate the milestone broadcast anniversaries for Green Acres (CBS, 1965-1970) and Xena: Warrior Princess (Synd., 1995-2001), both of which originally premiered during This Week in TV History.
60 Years of The Dean Martin Show
Original Airdates: Sept. 12-15, 2025
TVC 706.2: From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember The Dean Martin Show (NBC, 1965-1974), which originally premiered during This Week in TV History. Topics this segment include Martin’s initial reluctance to do a weekly series, and how the format morphed in later years into The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts.
Would You Believe?!? Get Smart is 60
Original Airdates: Sept. 19-22, 2025
TVC 707.1: From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the legacy of Get Smart (NBC/CBS, 1965-1970), which premiered on NBC on Sept. 18, 1965.
60 Years of Hogan’s Heroes
Original Airdates: Sept. 19-22, 2025
TVC 707.2: From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Hogan’s Heroes (CBS, 1965-1971) on Sept. 17, 1965.
75 Years of Truth or Consequences
Original Airdates: Sept. 19-22, 2025
TVC 707.3: From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Truth or Consequences on television on Sept. 7, 1950, ten years after it had premiered on in 1940.
60 Years of The Wild, Wild West
Original Airdates: Sept. 26-29, 2025
From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the broadcast history of The Wild, Wild West (CBS, 1965-1969), which originally premiered on CBS in September 1965.
The Other Smothers Brothers Show
Original Airdates: Sept. 26-29, 2025
From September 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of The Smothers Brothers Show (CBS, 1965-1966), a short-lived sitcom starring Tom and Dick Smothers that is mostly remembered today for being part of Nick at Nite’s weekend lineup in the late 1980s. The failure of The Smothers Brothers Show spurred the Smothers (and Tom in particular) to take more creative control when CBS gave them a second chance in January 1967, with the premiere of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (CBS, 1967-1969).
65 Years of The Flintstones
Original Airdates: Oct. 3-6, 2025
TVC 708.1: From October 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of The Flintstones (ABC, 1960-1966), the first animated series development for prime time, along with the various spinoffs and reimaginings of The Flintstones over the ensuing decades.
30 Years of Baywatch Nights
Original Airdates: Oct. 3-6, 2025
TVC 708.3: From October 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Baywatch Nights (Synd., 1995-1997), the spinoff of Baywatch starring David Hasselhoff, Gregory Alan Williams, Angie Harmon, and Donna D’Errico, the premise of which was more or less “Mitch Buchannon, private detective.”
Bob Keeshan as Captain Kangaroo
70 Years of Captain Kangaroo
Original Airdates: Oct. 10-13, 2025
TVC 709.1: From October 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Captain Kangaroo (CBS, 1955-1984) and its impact on other children’s television programs, including Romper Room and Bozo the Clown.
The Legacy of Captain Kangaroo
Original Airdates: Oct. 10-13, 2025
TVC 709.2: From October 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed continue their look at the broadcast history of Captain Kangaroo (CBS, 1955-1984), including a few words about The New Captain Kangaroo, the reboot starring John McDonough, which ran on the Fox Family Channel from 1997-2000.
70 Years of Sergeant Bilko
Original Airdates: Oct. 17-20, 2025
TVC 710.3: From October 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of The Phil Silvers Show (CBS, 1955-1959), aka You’ll Never Get Rich (the original title of the series), aka Sergeant Bilko and Bilko (as the show was both known once it went into reruns). The series not only made a star of Phil Silvers, but established Nat Hiken as a creative force in television.
My Three Sons Turns 65
Original Airdates: Oct. 24-27, 2025
TVC 711.1: From October 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of My Three Sons (CBS/ABC, 1960-1972), one of the few series that enjoyed long runs on two different networks, back in the three-network universe. Topics this segment include why the ABC episodes, which were filmed in black and white, were rarely seen in syndication until Nick at Nite acquired the rights to them in the 1980s; the various Walt Disney connections among My Three Sons cast members; and how certain stipulations in Fred MacMurray’s contract allowed him to continue his motion picture career, even while the show was in production.
F Troop Turns 60 with a Bang and a Boom
Original Airdates: Nov. 7-10, 2025
TVC 713.2a: From November 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of F Troop (ABC, 1965-1967) in September 1965. Topics this segment include how the influence of Buster Keaton can be seen in many of the pratfalls that Ken Berry performed when he played Captain Parmenter on F Troop; the on-screen chemistry between Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch, and how they recaptured that ten years later, when they starred in the Saturday morning series The Ghost Busters (CBS, 1975-1976); and how the switch to color in F Troop’s second season may have hurt the series.
55 Years of The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Original Airdates: Dec. 12-15, 2025
TVC 718.1: From November 2015: Ed, Tony, and Donna discuss the legacy of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS, 1970-1977), including a look at its spinoff series Rhoda (CBS, 1974-1978), Phyllis (CBS, 1975-1977), and Lou Grant (CBS, 1977-1982).
Why “Rhoda’s Wedding” is still a great episode
Original Airdates: Dec. 12-15, 2025
TVC 718.2: From November 2015: Ed, Tony, and Donna discuss “Rhoda’s Wedding” (CBS, Oct. 28, 1974), the famous first-season episode of Rhoda in which Rhoda Morgenstein (Valerie Harper) marries Joe Gerard (David Groh), and why the episode remains a television classic more than fifty years later, even though the decision to marry the two characters ultimately hurt the series.
How Batman Ushered in the Second Season
Original Airdates: Jan. 9-12, 2026
TVC 720.1: Monday, Jan. 12, 2026 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of Batman (ABC, 1966-1968). With that in mind, we thought we’d bring you an encore presentation of a conversation that Tony, Donna, and I had in January 2016 about the legacy of the Batman television series, including how the premiere of Batman as a midseason replacement ushered in the era of the “second season,” a staple of network TV that continues to this day.
How Masterpiece Theatre was a forerunner of TV miniseries
Original Airdates: Jan. 9-12, 2026
TVC 720.2: From January 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember of the premiere of Masterpiece Theater (PBS, 1971-…) and the first NBC broadcast of Kukla, Fran and Ollie as part of This Week in TV History.
45 Years of Magnum, p.i.
Original Airdates: Jan. 16-19, 2026
TVC 721.1: From December 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed commemorate the premiere of Magnum, p.i. (CBS, 1980-1988) and the birthday of TV talk show legend Phil Donahue as part of This Week in TV History.
