New Year TV Resolutions Hint at 1978 Media Wins and Woes
A humor piece riffs on New Year resolutions for 1978 including keeping Soap on TV, boycotting bowl games, skipping NBC Tonight, pressuring ABC to revive Kolchak, watching news anchors, and chasing spoof battles over Love Boat and Laverne and Shirley. The spoof item list lampoons networks and TV culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NBC
Mobil Oil Corp
PBS
CBS
Shana Alexander
James Kilpatrick
Ed McMahon to Host Goin' Home Syndicated Show
Ed McMahon announces a new half hour syndicated program Goin Home where he accompanies stars to their hometowns. A pilot with Roy Clark filmed in Meherrin Virginia airs January in about 60 cities. if successful a series may follow.
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Ed McMahon
Los Angeles
Johnny Carson
Roy Clark
Clark
Meherrin
Tonight
McMahon
Lowell
Mass
Boston College
WLLH
Marine Artillery
Puzzle Puzzle Clues Span Out Of Yesterday’s Grid
A fragmented crossword list shows numbered clues from several categories with apparent OCR errors. Items include tropical America tree, comply, barrel stave, brother, mountain comb form, clean language, and river island, among others, alongside an apparently garbled solution section and mis-spaced entries.
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Neddies
ABC
Millard Fillmore
Gabe Kaplan
John Davidson
Cole Pleasant
Memphis, Tenn
Darren McGavin
Kolchak
ABC Evening News
Harry Reasoner
Barbara Walters
Anwar Sadat
Detroit
Joe Namath
Alice Cooper
Burt
Eae
Caligula
Claudius
Carol Channing
Eddie Bracken
Channing
Bracken
National Road Show
Racken
Robert Hegges
Suzanne Somers
Dick Clark
Times Square
Guy Lombardo
Paul Williams
Leslie Uggams
Mardi Gras
New Orleans
Associated Press
Imaret
Parker's Home
Topic Army Base
Cruce
Prmai
Balderdash
Edward Bradley
AP News
Sudden
Scotland
Beetle Bailey
Peanuts
Jons Z
Andy Capp
Blondie
Tomek
Darling
MR. LA Salle
Chuck
Snuffy Smith
Mailman Inn
Doonesbury
Carter
Warsaw
Poland
Nike and
Ghetto
Mevley, JR
REX_MORGAN, M.D
Ellen
Winchester Evening Star
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