TV Tonight and Movie Highlights Middletown Journal Oct 10 1978
TV listings for October 10 1978 show JP Zoom PTL Club Talk and varied talk shows. Evening schedule includes The Tonight Show Best Of Carson with guests Tony Randall Tom Dreesen Buddy Rich Merie Earle. Movie of the Week Play Misty For Me stars Clint Eastwood and Jessica Walter. Also Barnaby Jones The Murdering Class and Madigan The Manhattan Beat. Later Ironside The Big Carnival Jaws of Death air. News and late programs follow with Merv Griffin Rookies.
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Starsky and Hutch
Dick Cavett
Ike Douglas
Carson
Tony Randall
Tom Dreesen
Buddy Rich
Merie Earle
Susan Hayward
Theodore Bike
Misty
Clint Eastwood
Jessica Walter
Asc
Barnaby Jones
Madigan
Richard Widmark
Ronny Fox
Kirk Douglas
Jan Sterling
Tom Snyder
Gil Fates
Levi Fever in Russia Blue jeans as secret weapon
Soviet authorities push Orbita fabric as a cure for Levi Fever among teens. Reports detail denim thefts and knife incidents in Georgia, praise for Orbita’s potential, and limits due to secret production and Western demand. Orbita output grows but cannot meet massive need.
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Moscow
Communist Youth League
Tbilisi
Soviet
Georgia
Orbita
Zinaida Nesova
Nyet
Ministry of Light Industry
Nts
Hungary
Levi Strauss Co
Levi
Lee
U.S
West
TV Director Coyle recalls crude 1947 World Series coverage
NBC’s World Series chief Harry Coyle, 55, recalls directing from a smoke filled truck with 36 monitors, watching the action at home on TV. He notes the 75th Series uses nine fixed cameras and $5 million in gear to reach 200 stations. The shift from black and white to color in 1955 brought major shading problems in sun and shade.
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Los Angeles
Harry Coyle
NBC
America
Coyle
Jack Murphy
New York
Washington
Philadelphia
Schenectady
N.Y
New York Ankees
Brooklyn Dodgers
Ridgewood
N.J
ABC
Pain drives 88-year-old man to self immolation
In St Peteresburg Florida an 88 year old man Frank Lentner poured gasoline over his head and set himself afire after suffering from phlebitis angina and a stroke. He died at a hospital hours later despite bystander intervention. His wife Millicent had left for church that morning.
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ST. Petersburg
Fila
Frank Lentner
Lentner
Millicent
Two Candidates to be Inducted at Middletown Shrine Meeting
Two candidates, Dottie Smith and her committee, will be inducted at Thursday’s Middletown Shrine meeting at 7 30 p.m. in the Masonic Temple 1301 S Marshall Road Mrs William Price the worthy high priestess will preside all officers are asked to attend refreshments will be served after.
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Middletown
Masonic Temple
S. Marshall Road
William Price
Dottie Smith
Actor Karl Swenson Dies at 70 in Connecticut Hospital
Actor Karl Swenson died Sunday at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Connecticut. Best known for playing Mr. Hansen on Little House On The Prairie, he was 70. AP credits report on his passing.
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Karl Swenson
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital
Connecticut
Swenson
Mr. Hansen
Doberman Wins at AKC Obedience Trial in Columbus
Bonnie Osborne of 830 N University Blvd exhibited My-O-Sugar a Doberman pinscher at the Columbus All Breed Training Club AKC obedience trial. Sugar topped Novice A and was highest scoring Doberman in Novice A and B with a qualifying 19112 of 200 points.
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