LIST OF SCREENINGS

(page last modified: 2/21/08)

Monday, February 11

1. The Goldbergs.  (8/7/53) A visiting uncle causes tension in the family.

2. Texaco Star Theater/The Milton Berle Show. (1/27/53)   Molly Goldberg tries to trick Milton into marrying Max. w/ The Andrews Sisters.

3. Amos 'n' Andy, "Kingfish at the Ballgame."   (circa 1953)  The Kingfish mistakes a valuable ring for fake, sells it to Andy, finds out the truth, and tries to get it back.

4. Marty (as an installment of The Goodyear TV Playhouse anthology series). (5/24/53) An ordinary man thinks he'll never get married.

5. Medic, "When I Was Young." (10/24/55) A menopausal woman thinks her life is over.

6. Dragnet, "The Big Seventeen." (11/6/52) Teenagers go wild on drugs. Adapted from a 9/6/51 Dragnet radio play by James E. Moser (of Medic and Ben Casey fame).

Tuesday, February 19

1. I Love Lucy, "Lucy Does a Commercial." (5/5/52) Lucy does a TV commercial for Vitameatavegamin.

2. The Honeymooners, "Better Living Through TV." (11/12/55) Ralph, the Chef of the Future, and Norton, the Chef of the Past, do a TV commercial.

3. The Twilight Zone, "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." (3/4/60) Neighbor suspects neighbor of being a monster.

4. Route 66, "The Strengthening Angels." (11/4/60) Buz and Tod help a reluctant young mother who's being railroaded into a murder charge by the local townspeople.


Monday, February 25

1.  House, episode TBA

2.  Marcus Welby, M.D., episode, TBA

Monday, March 3

1. Hill Street Blues, "Trial by Fury." (9/30/82) When two men are accused of raping and murdering a nun, the only option Capt. Furillo gives them besides confessing is facing a vigilante mob. Hill & Renko answer a domestic dispute call. Coffey & Bates and Washington & LaRue answer a robbery/murder call. Belker tries to convince a gay prostitute to give up the street. Calletano's tax audit is scheduled when there's a crisis on the Hill.

2. Judging Amy, episode TBA

Monday, March 10

1.  Star Trek, two episodes TBA

2.  Reality show, “Cops”, episode TBA


Monday, March 17

1. The Fugitive, "Ill Wind." (3/8/66) Lt. Gerard runs Kimble to ground on the Gulf coast, but a hurricane forces them to take shelter.

2. I Spy, "Happy Birthday Everybody." (2/26/68) Kelly and Scott have to protect a retired agent and his family from the revenge of a man he once helped capture.


Monday, March 31

1. That Girl, "Call of the Wild." (1/25/68) Ann worries that she has no sex appeal because a producer says she's too wholesome to make other women jealous.

2. The Bill Cosby Show. (late '69) Chet has to figure out a way to pick up his date for a school dance that he's supposed to chaperon.

3. The Name of the Game, "LA 2017." (1/15/71) Glenn Howard finds himself in an ecologically dystopian future version of Los Angeles. W: Philip Wylie; D: Steven Spielberg.


Monday, April 7

1. To All My Friends on Shore (made-for-TV movie, 1971 or '72). Bill Cosby as a working-class father who scrimps for the future has to confront the fact that his son won't have a future.   Recommended not required.  To be shown last in order.

2. The Mary Tyler Moore Show, "Love Is All Around." (9/19/70) Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis and copes with a new apartment, a new job, and the old boyfriend she left behind.

3. M*A*S*H, pilot. (9/17/72) Hawkeye and Trapper hold a raffle to send their houseboy to college, but the Army brass object to the prizes.

4. All in the Family, "Cousin Liz." (10/9/77) Edith and Archie attend the funeral of Edith's cousin.

Monday, April 14

1. Roots, ep.2. (1/24?/77) Kunta Kinte is brought on a slave ship to America, where John Reynolds buys him and gives him to Fiddler to break.

2. The Rockford Files, "So Help Me God." (11/19/76) Jim is called before a grand jury and thrown in jail by a zealous prosecutor.

Monday, April 21

1. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, ep.1. (1/76) Mary has to worry about waxy yellow buildup, a husband with a gun fixation, a mass murder, and a flasher in Fernwood.

2. Cheers, "The Heart Is a Lonely Snipe Hunter." (1/10/85) Diane urges the guys to take Frasier along on their fishing trip, but they take him on a snipe hunt instead.

3. The Cosby Show, "Full House." (2/27/86) Cliff tries to find a quiet corner of the house in which to read his newspaper on his day off.

4. Roseanne, "Bird Is the Word." (11/13/90) Roseanne and Dan are ambivalent when it appears that Becky made an obscene gesture in her class photo.

Monday,   April 28

1. Homicide: Life on the Street, "Gone for Goode." (1/31/93) Lewis and Crosetti suspect a woman of murdering several husbands for the insurance money. Bolander needles Munch into pursuing the cold case of apparent hit-&-run victim Jenny Goode. Pembleton grills a rent boy in the death of his elderly lover. Felton gets Howard to take their next call, but she manages to keep her perfect case record intact. Lt. Giardello explains how the homicide shift works to rookie detective Bayliss, whose first case as primary investigator is the murder of an 11-year-old girl.

2. Ellen, "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah." (5/7/97) Ellen comes out to her parents.

3. The West Wing, "The Lame Duck Congress." (11/8/00) President Bartlet okays an exploration into the feasibility of calling a lame duck session of Congress in order to get a nuclear test-ban treaty ratified and Toby tries to find out where they may have lost votes. Josh tries to keep a drunken member of the Ukrainian Parliament out of sight. Donna organizes the clerical staff to protest the lack of White House support for reducing repetitive stress injuries. C.J. tries to protect the president from a newspaper whose editorials have been unfavorable. Sam takes Ainsley to Capitol Hill, and Ainsley tests Sam's knowledge of employee fraud.

Monday, May 5

1.  Daria, "Arts 'n' Crass." (2/16/98) Jane and Daria create a negative poster about student life, but Principal Li wants them to change it and enter it in a contest.

2. The Sopranos, "Down Neck." (2/21/99) Anthony Jr. gets in trouble at school, which makes Tony worry that the apple may not fall far from the tree. Tony tells Dr. Melfi about how he came to realize his own father was a gangster.

3. Recommended, not required: The Shield, "Pilot." (3/12/02) Detective Mackey works both sides of the law. Captain Aceveda suspects that Mackey is corrupt and plants a spy on Mackey's elite hard-nosed Strike Team. The murder case that Detectives Wyms and Wagenbach are called to leads them to look for the victim's missing child. Officer Sofer and rookie Officer Lowe try to sort out a romantic triangle involving slashed tires. Detective Wagenbach gets hazed for his superior, bookish manner.

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