tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post9115631674698398295..comments2024-03-28T11:02:55.801-04:00Comments on The Heath Post: What's On TV Tonight (1973)?GoHeathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122010542579322600noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-90569569739624434712019-02-13T20:57:03.742-05:002019-02-13T20:57:03.742-05:00It's an even more grisly and terrifying story ...<a href="https://www.si.com/vault/1973/02/19/576484/center-in-a-storm" rel="nofollow">It's an even more grisly and terrifying story than I initially realized, per <i>Sports Illustrated</i>.</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-22822187735472235912019-02-06T22:37:23.776-05:002019-02-06T22:37:23.776-05:00And Warren Jabali.<a href="https://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/article1095521.html" rel="nofollow">And Warren Jabali.</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-10109815292787313712019-02-06T22:33:03.421-05:002019-02-06T22:33:03.421-05:00And Bea Arthur.
And now here's Maude--from Fe...<a href="http://www.legacy.com/ns/bea-arthur-obituary/126583065" rel="nofollow">And Bea Arthur.</a><br /><br />And now <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmt30JV80Sk&t=5s" rel="nofollow">here's <i>Maude</i>--from Feb. 6, 1973</a>.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-22103503411210674002019-02-06T22:26:56.976-05:002019-02-06T22:26:56.976-05:00And Andy Musser.<a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pottsmerc/obituary.aspx?n=andy-musser&pid=155624359" rel="nofollow">And Andy Musser.</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-28748967250717412372019-02-06T22:25:44.894-05:002019-02-06T22:25:44.894-05:00Rest in peace, Robert Halsband.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/29/obituaries/robert-halsband-75-english-scholar-dies.html" rel="nofollow">Rest in peace, Robert Halsband.</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-87216686011959342222019-02-06T22:24:05.382-05:002019-02-06T22:24:05.382-05:00"Rigorous, demanding, non-stop effort and ded...<a href="https://youtu.be/07--z2QEEp4?t=744" rel="nofollow">"Rigorous, demanding, non-stop effort and dedication to the game--that is the hallmark of the ABA player. For Warren Jabali and his brothers in the ABA, to be at the summit of the pro-basketball appearance is to be called ALL-STAR!"</a><br /><br />YES! YES! YES!<br /><br />Well done, Robert Halsband, writer and editor for this 13-minute "Low Spark Production" narrated by Andy Musser and paid for by adidas.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-88351110206742030912019-02-06T22:18:16.533-05:002019-02-06T22:18:16.533-05:00"Basketball is a burgeoning professional spor...<a href="https://youtu.be/07--z2QEEp4?t=456" rel="nofollow">"Basketball is a burgeoning professional sport, and the ABA has sought to bring it where the fans are. From the Carolinas to New York, from the Rocky Mountain West to southern California, the ABA has found a growing audience excited by the kind of team play that the league has fostered."</a><br /><br />Man, I <i>love</i> those two sentences of this script.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-2815791455184199952019-02-06T15:34:47.211-05:002019-02-06T15:34:47.211-05:00What's (Not) On TV Tonight (Feb. 6, 1973)? The...<a href="https://youtu.be/07--z2QEEp4" rel="nofollow">What's (Not) On TV Tonight (Feb. 6, 1973)? The ABA All-Star Game.</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-74534649050004866342019-01-31T17:42:05.555-05:002019-01-31T17:42:05.555-05:00Would be interesting to see how the Jan. 30, 1973,...Would be interesting to see how the Jan. 30, 1973, episode turns out to be funny, based on this Wikipedia description of the episode: "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Maude_episodes#Season_1_(1972%E2%80%9373)" rel="nofollow">Maude and Walter are all ready to take their second honeymoon to Rome. A tetanus shot Maude received as a prerequisite for travel gives her a rash, and when she encounters a busy doctor (Tom Bosley) who gives her medication without telling her correct dosage, her equilibrium becomes completely off balance, forcing both of them to cancel their trip. Out $800 for their deposit, they are enraged enough to sue the doctor for malpractice.</a>"Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-62748881202930212362019-01-27T10:12:07.699-05:002019-01-27T10:12:07.699-05:00The Jan. 26, 1973, Partridge Family, meanwhile, is...<a href="https://dai.ly/x6anb6z" rel="nofollow">The Jan. 26, 1973, <i>Partridge Family</i>, meanwhile, is the famous one where Johnny Bench portrays an unnamed server for Kings Island poolside dining.</a> This makes me excited to start digging in to my baseball cards for MLB73.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-18853803336587954852019-01-25T06:59:37.054-05:002019-01-25T06:59:37.054-05:00Nor in ours.Nor in ours.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-74205793034656486702019-01-24T19:27:07.177-05:002019-01-24T19:27:07.177-05:00Watching this game seems like it would be a bit of...Watching this game seems like it would be a bit of heaven for you.Matthew Vaughnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10349035708120354682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-57203565709589279682019-01-24T19:25:47.082-05:002019-01-24T19:25:47.082-05:00Maude was not a big hit in our house.Maude was not a big hit in our house.Matthew Vaughnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10349035708120354682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-57549261385925503922019-01-24T17:52:06.774-05:002019-01-24T17:52:06.774-05:00Speaking of The Partridge Family, this episode I h...Speaking of <i>The Partridge Family</i>, this episode I had on the ol' VCR was also one where I specifically remembered one of the gags--Keith asks a girl for a quarter so he can buy a taco. (It's funnier than I make it sound here.) This and my <i>Maude</i> experience make me wonder if I'm remembering back to watching TV with my family this actual week in 1973 when I was 4. <a href="https://www.heathpost.com/2018/12/nfl72-update_31.html" rel="nofollow">As previously reported, the Dec. 31, 1972, AFC championship is the first football game I remember watching on TV.</a> And now we might be bumping into the first days of TV sitcom watching I can remember, Jan. 19-23, 1973. I think I am now ready to declare, <i>THIS IS THE DAWNING OF THE AGE OF ERIC!</i>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-20983268390407326342019-01-24T07:35:06.224-05:002019-01-24T07:35:06.224-05:00The forthcoming Jan. 29 Newsweek asks on its cover...<a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/183649419744?ul_noapp=true" rel="nofollow">The forthcoming Jan. 29 <i>Newsweek</i> asks on its cover, "How Solid A Peace?"</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-56780561183847373542019-01-24T07:34:23.494-05:002019-01-24T07:34:23.494-05:00Everything you imagine someone saying about the Vi...Everything you imagine someone saying about the Vietnam War in January 1973 is said by one of the local people: hopes and doubts for lasting peace in the region, gladness that some soldiers are coming home, sadness that many are not, concerns for the entire region and "who won the war?"Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-54091916464309402932019-01-24T06:59:01.881-05:002019-01-24T06:59:01.881-05:00“Area people are cautiously happy today following ...“Area people are cautiously happy today following the peace announcement by President Nixon last night,” she writes. “Mixed emotions were sorted out by some in an attempt to relate their feelings about the agreement, the return of the fighting men and prisoners and the hope of lasting peace in Vietnam and elsewhere.” Then there are a bunch of quotes from local people.<br /><br />Stories like this where you get person-on-the-street reactions to some event are pretty easy and fun to gather, but I think getting the bracketing right—figuring out the first paragraph or two, telling enough of the story but not too much, sufficiently throwing a tarp over the topics and emotions covered in all of the quotes (that are probably still being gathered, by the way)—is really, really hard. Joan Bryant has done a perfect job here.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-34674725096956874592019-01-24T06:53:42.660-05:002019-01-24T06:53:42.660-05:00The Wednesday morning, Jan. 24, 1973 issue of The ...The Wednesday morning, Jan. 24, 1973 issue of <i>The Messenger</i> (“Serving Madisonville And Hopkins County In The Heart Of The Western Kentucky Coal Field;” “Madisonville Hopkins County ON THE MOVE!”) banners a headline, “Peace With Honor In Vietnam” and accentuates it with lines of star border tape along the top and bottom of the words. Under the banner, then, <i>The Messenger</i> has the AP report headlined, “‘The Longest War’ Will End Saturday,” plus a localized report by Joan Bryant.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-39950113791534322062019-01-24T06:30:25.284-05:002019-01-24T06:30:25.284-05:00After the game, ABC will be broadcasting a one-on-...After the game, ABC will be broadcasting a one-on-one competition between Jim Barnett and Elvin Hayes! Chris Schenkel hints that it was quite a closely contested affair, so I'm hopeful that's here on this YouTube video, too.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-77025281574143680502019-01-24T06:21:00.334-05:002019-01-24T06:21:00.334-05:00Now the ABC sideline reporter has an interview fro...Now the ABC sideline reporter has an interview from the sideline with Spencer Haywood of the West. Haywood says playing in the All-Star Game is "about the biggest thrill of the year for players like me whose team is in second-to-last place and some of the younger players who are in their first All-Star Game."<br /><br />I'll tell you what, Sidney Wicks is a heck of a passer, too. This broadcast is really challenging my 45-years-honed, unfounded opinions of Sidney Wicks.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-84754088930779892612019-01-24T06:14:40.650-05:002019-01-24T06:14:40.650-05:00Sunday on ABC: Knicks at Celtics.Sunday on ABC: Knicks at Celtics.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-26060577477189456922019-01-24T06:13:58.531-05:002019-01-24T06:13:58.531-05:00Saturday on ABC: bowling from Denver and then ABC&...Saturday on ABC: bowling from Denver and then <i>ABC's Wide World of Sports</i>, including last night's George Foreman-Joe Frazier fight from Kingston, Jamaica (Foreman won) and a ski tournament from Vermont. The on-screen graphics and the way that Schenkel talked about it, it sounds like the bowling was a standalone broadcast not under the <i>Wide World</i> umbrella. I wonder how ABC figured out how to sort all of that.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-76630005265600030902019-01-23T22:28:41.099-05:002019-01-23T22:28:41.099-05:00"That's the best news that any of us coul..."That's the best news that any of us could hope for," Russell says, "that this horrible war is over."Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-42126762517684602142019-01-23T22:24:24.291-05:002019-01-23T22:24:24.291-05:00Schenkel revels in the wonderful news with his col...Schenkel revels in the wonderful news with his color commentator, Bill Russell, and notes how much more lively the Chicago Stadium crowd seems since Nixon's cease-fire announcement was broadcast over inside.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-79847035334834245122019-01-23T22:04:16.101-05:002019-01-23T22:04:16.101-05:00In happier news, Chris Schenkel throws to Washingt...In happier news, Chris Schenkel throws to Washington for a special address from President Nixon: An internationally supervised cease-fire will begin in Vietnam at 7 p.m. Eastern Saturday. American POWs throughout Indochina will be released and all U.S. forces will be withdrawn from South Vietnam within 60 days, he says. All conditions for "peace with honor" have been met.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.com