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		<title>TV: ALL STAR REVUE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Peter Tatchell (copyright 2010)  U.S. television came of age in the latter part of 1950, when a significant amount of advertising dollar shifted from radio. As a result, top-line performers were enticed to the medium, but rarely to be seen every week. Eddie Cantor conceived the idea for a regular weekly variety hour, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=2150&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV: ARE YOU BEING SERVED?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Peter Tatchell (copyright 2009)  The setting is the staid, well-past-its-prime Grace Bros. department store run by a decrepit proprietor with a penchant for busty young secretaries. Take the lift to the clothing floor and you’ll encounter an officious military type gent, a camp-as-a-row-of-tents inside-leg measurer and a feline-fancier who regularly suffers bad-hair-days in technicolor. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=1597&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV: THE ARMY GAME</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Peter Tatchell (copyright 2010) It took twenty years for British viewers to be allowed advertisements on their television sets, and two more years before the new licensees had produced a successful sitcom … The Army Game. A decade after the end of World War II, Britain still had national service and programme planners at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=2271&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV: THE ARTHUR HAYNES SHOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 19 1914 to November 19 1966 by PETER TATCHELL (copyright 2010) For a brief ten years he was one of the top comedians on British television with scripts by Johnny Speight and a weekly programme seen by millions. In 1961 the Variety Club voted him the ITV Personality of the Year and he appeared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=2233&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV: AT LAST THE 1948 SHOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by PETER TATCHELL (copyright 2006) It was arguably the finest sketch comedy series ever produced, anywhere, combining the talents of Cambridge footlighters John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graham Chapman with Round The Horne scriptwriter Marty Feldman. For good measure it also featured the shapely and “lovely” Aimi MacDonald as the resident hostess, who was wont [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=620&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following has been compiled through reference to the TV listings in The New York Times. Further details may be obtained by consulting the bound editions of VARIETY television reviews. It should be noted that the timeslot was not always sponsored by Colgate, with Frigidaire initially taking over one week each month. In later seasons, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=426&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV: DAD&#8217;S ARMY</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by PETER TATCHELL (reprinted from LAUGH MAGAZINE #6, 1993)  In the late 1960s, scriptwriter Jimmy Perry found himself watching the Changing Guard at Buckingham Palace. Suddenly his mind’s eye took him back to an earlier parade . . . that of the Home Guard troop in which (as a boy) he’d served in World War [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=31&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV: DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by PETER TATCHELL (reprinted from LAUGH MAGAZINE #4, 1992) In mid-1968 British commercial television was in a state of upheaval. A review of the franchise holders had resulted in two new players being allocated the right to transmit programming in the London area. Thames Television (combining the expertise of the previous ABC and Associated Rediffusion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=296&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV: FATHER, DEAR FATHER</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Tatchell (from LAUGH MAGAZINE #23, 2002) In 1968, British commercial television was in a state of upheavel. Several franchises had been cancelled and the London area was to be served by two new providers. Thames Television (a merging of previous licensee Associated-Rediffusion with A.B.C.) would cover weekdays and the David Frost inspired London [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=316&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV: THE FROST REPORT</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by Peter Tatchell (copyright 2009) Many of David Frost’s achievements have been groundbreaking … the satirical That Was The Week That Was, an interviewing style on occasion described as ‘trial by television’, the creation of London Weekend Television and an in-depth examination of a disgraced U.S. President, to name but a few. In the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laughterlog.com&amp;blog=9645847&amp;post=1482&amp;subd=laughterlog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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