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Scheduling guy, full-time viewer. Been watching Seinfeld episodes since July 5 1989

Los Angeles, CA
Joined November 2018
CUPERTINO. This next episode is on Sunday. It’s a ticking clock story. I love these. They’re Aristotle’s “unity of time” on steroids.
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This generation will never understand what the Sears Christmas catalog meant to us 30 years ago.
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25 years ago today: Kiefer Sutherland-starrer '24' bows on Fox in the 9 p.m. hour, kickstarting a franchise that aired for more than a decade.
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Coworker: "do you want to hang out after work?" Bro I don't even wanna work with you.
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As close as there was to a Marvel crossover back then
When you’re finally serious about fighting crime, you’re gonna want to take the oldest motherfucker you can find and team him up with the fattest motherfucker you can find.
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So weird that Pluto has seasons of Mission: Impossible that Par Plus doesn’t.
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Get All in the Family off Wednesday ASAP!! What a Saturday night. But then, ABC had Wonder Woman and Starsky & Hutch…
📺CBS Primetime, November 6, 1976: — ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ — ‘The Bob Newhart Show’ — ‘All In The Family’ — ‘Alice’
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A new $22B billboard going up on the Fox lot in LA (Nakatomi Plaza in background) …
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At The WB, many of us were rooting for it. Thankfully it got picked up after the first 13 episodes.
📺DEBUT: '24' premiered 25 years ago, November 6, 2001, on Fox
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I don't know why they didn't let Zapruder make any other movies, cause the one he did was a real banger.
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The wandering party boy, Bill Murray, showed up at a bar in Yonkers, NY on Halloween, joint called Rory Dolan's, and just started pouring drinks. Still crazy after all these years...
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📺CBS Primetime, November 5, 1979: — 'The White Shadow' guest-starring the Harlem Globetrotters
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I still don’t know how Russell Brand wasn’t first convicted for the Arthur remake.
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Burt Reynolds’ Hooper was the first film to run outtakes during the closing credits. Director Hal Needham wanted a way to spotlight the insane stunt work, so he rolled the credits over a montage of outtakes, alternate takes, and big stunts. A format still used 48 years later.
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Perhaps the greatest Olympic champion ever produced by the United States. How did he do it? Donuts.
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one company sells drugs and sundries; the other company puts things in glass display cases
CVS is splitting into two companies in a major reversal of the mergers that created its $117 billion healthcare empire cnn.it/4z45oWd
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VCR was set Strangely, CBS president Jeff Sagansky appeared on the sitcom Doctor, Doctor and he aired it opposite this ratings juggernaut.
TV Guide Cover, November 3-9, 1990: Cast of ‘Cheers’ Celebrates 200th Episode
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Former #CBS executive Kelly Kahl (@calibadger) has made a lot of clever programming decisions. His boldest: scheduling #Survivor in the same time slot as #Friends. Full video on YouTube (41:37 mark). #PathwayToThePodium Sports / SportsBiz / MediaBiz / Entertainment / All Else We’re all striving for some kind of podium. What’s yours? Follow on Twitter / X: @JakeAKline, @PathwayToThePod Follow on YouTube: PathwayToThePodiumPod Follow on Instagram: pathwaytothepodium Follow on TikTok: pathwaytothepodium youtu.be/2dHgcTtnO5M?si=EIWs…
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