Vineland TV Guide

Joe Allonby joeallonby at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 11:26:23 CST 2009


Bravo!

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:19 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Of little use but maybe of a little interest, here's my TV Guide to
> VL. Includes all programming real and fictional, though omitting the
> countless references to the genres of cop dramas, medical shows, news
> reports, Movies of the Week etc through which most characters frame
> their experiences.
>
> Some references are also not strictly TV (eg Tarzan, Superman). But I
> can't recall any film, for instance, that is related to a cinema -
> they're all reruns on the Tube. I think more broadly a reference to
> Tarzan is going to be Tubal rather than literary.
>
> Return of the Jedi (1983)
> Jeopardy
> Wheel of Fortune
> The Clara Bow Story
> Good Morning America
> Hot Shot News
> Friday the 13th (1980)
> Gidget (1959)
> Tweety and Sylvester (numerous refs)
> Gilligan's Island (numerous refs)
> The Flintstones
> The Brady Bunch (numerous refs)
> Star Trek (heaps of refs)
> Pat Sajak in the Frank Gershon Story
> The Jungle Book (well, that's what have a banana means to me)
> The Smurfs
> Back to the Future
> Mildred Pierce
> Hawaii 5.0 (lots of refs)
> Hawaii (1966)
> The Hawaiians (1970)
> Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)
> Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956)
> I Love Lucy (numerous refs)
> San Francisco (1936)
> CHiPS
> Transformers
> Newshour
> The Godfather Pt II
> Mondo Cane (1963)
> Flight of the Phoenix (1966
> Dumbo
> Donahue (several refs)
> Mommy Dearest (perhaps)
> Superman
> Tarzan
> The 3 Stooges (lots)
> Roadrunner
> The Bionic Woman (a few)
> The Love Boat
> 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (Several refs)
> Chip and Dale
> Alvin and the Chipmunks (probably fits into music, though)
> Psycho (1960)
> Ghostbusters (1984)
> Bewitched
> Daffy Duck
> Night of the Living Dead
> In Search Of (man I loved that show as a kid)
> Believe it or Not
> A Jerry Lewis Telethon
> The Invaders
> Daffy and Bugs
> Zorro
> Today
> The Lobster Trick Movie - I have no idea what that means
> 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1933)
> The Lone Ranger
> Lawrence of Arabia
> Woody Allen in Young Kissinger
> The Sound of Music
> Bambi
> Double Indemnity
> The Long Goodbye
> The Maltese Falcon
> The Lady and the Lug?
> Wonder Woman
> MTV
> The French Connection
> Sean Connery in the G. Gordon Liddy Story
> The Wolfman
> Care Bears
> This Is Your Life
> The Arrangement
> Hill Street Blues
> Ironside
> The Mod Squad
> Green Acres
> John Ritter in the Bryant Gumbell Story
> Say, Jim
> Peewee Herman in the Robert Musil Story
> Magnificent Disaster
> 60 Minutes
>
> I've got a Vineland Menu too, but it's not that interesting. Sure
> contains a lotta beer though.
>



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