Major league teams playing in minor league parks. #MLB #Rays

Stumbled upon this JFK soundbite in a Will Schoder video that suddenly feels apropos for what's happening in Washington right now.

"Congress would rightly wonder whether the desire for speed had replaced the duty of responsibility."

Season Finale!

Andrew Salvati @asalvati.bsky.social returns as we wrap up our 10th year of Inside the Box: The TV History Podcast. Thank you to everyone who joined us this season, particularly our listeners!

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Surrounded by a cast of male actors, Linda Lavin commanded attention as Det. Wentworth on Barney Miller. She would carry that over to Alice and other projects. Such a strong stage presence. She was 87. #RIP

January 25, 1998: On the heels of the Broncos’ first Super Bowl win, NBC makes the live transition into 3rd Rock from the Sun with Dick Solomon stealing the microphone from Greg Gumbel.

Rick Hunter’s 80s catchphrase “Works for me” was designed to capture the TV cop’s laid-back confident style. But as we discuss on the pod this week, this type of police representation was likely a source of concern for anyone who wasn’t a straight white male.

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New episode! We are revisiting the renegade 80s cop series Hunter.

The TV incarnation of Dirty Harry provides an interesting (and often zany) glimpse into the country's conservative stance on crime at the height of the Reagan era. #tvhistory #podcast
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Tomorrow on the podcast: Hunter as the quintessential 1980s television program reflective of Reagan era policies.

New episode! In part II of our conversation with Joe Gannon @jmgannon.bsky.social we cover a wide range of topics including his work on In the Heat of the Night, status of TV residuals with streaming, and the impact of AI on the industry. www.tvhistorypod.com?p=2218

Mann wanted Vega$ to be a dark detective series in the style of Ralph Steadman’s drawings for Hunter S. Thompson’s "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," but producer Aaron Spelling took it in the opposite direction. ew.com/article/2012...

By hammer, you must mean the carbon monoxide that fills his home every time Tanna parks his car in his living room.

I don't know if I should be happy or concerned that the images of cherry coke can designs are etched into my memory. But my younger self remembers these fondly.

Caught Jo Swerling's name in The Pride of the Yankees (1942) and wondered why it looked so familiar to me. Then I realized that his son, Jo Swerling, Jr., worked on The Rockford Files and A-Team, among other TV shows.

New episode of Inside the Box: The TV History Podcast!

Joe Gannon @jmgannon.bsky.social takes us behind the scenes of Archie Bunker's Place, his close friendship with Carroll O'Connor, and being a TV writer/producer/director

Available on Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, & Apple
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The final frame had me anticipating an announcer to say, “Jackie Gleason…. The Honeymooners!”

Inside the Box is back next week with a new episode featuring TV writer/producer/director Joe Gannon. We will be discussing his work on a variety of hit series.
@jmgannon.bsky.social #tvhistory #podcast
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