The Spiders and Attack of the Crab Monsters! I know I’ll be clearing my schedule for the double creature feature of Earth vs. What you would see if you were flipping channels on a Saturday afternoon in March of 1976. Well this is all rather unnerving journalism that feels uncomfortably relevant today.Īnd, uh…someone at TV Guide really really hated Grady. Are they dancing around the notion that your throat is heavily irritated after a few smokes? What does any of this mean? “If a guy likes one of the Pittsburgh Pirates, does that mean he’s after him sexually?OHHHH!Īs someone who’s never smoked before, I’m confused by why a cigarette fresh out of the pack would taste different at the end of the day. One put-upon husband has to put a roast in the oven himself! THE HORROR! I enjoy that she mentions several times the ridiculousness of women having to do things like sacrifice the integrity of their casseroles in order to watch something on television that they like. Grace Lichtenstein has been writing about feminism and women in sports since 1974. I can’t imagine the legions of people who thought they were going to buy weed-infused shampoo and were sorely disappointed. “Warm nostalgia” means that Tom Patchett is so couch-colored that I didn’t even see him until I had been looking at this picture for five whole minutes. “Gary, you’d better not be feeding that toucan your cigarette butts again!” These magazines were not made with long-term storage in mind. On the other hand, the cheapness of the paper and breakneck printing pace made it so that in over half of the pages the print gets cut off at the bottom. ![]() It also has little use for glossy pages, so there’s minimal glare. TV Guide was amazingly easy for me to photograph, because the text is so big and blocky that my phone focuses on it immediately and almost nothing came out blurry the first time. ![]() Hmm, I wonder what came of that Francis Ford Coppola “The Apocalypse” film…and the project between Coppola and Carl Sagan was a huge and ugly mess that eventually became Contact twenty years later. That’s a style choice for that feature, but not one followed through for the rest of the magazine. Typewriters didn’t have italics, so whereas nowadays the titles of films and TV shows are formatted in italics, films here are formatted in quotes and TV shows are formatted with underlines. If this top section formatting is making your eye twitch, you aren’t alone. ![]() While it isn’t as earth-shaking as “Rudolph Nureyev turns his back on Mother Russia for good to endorse Japanese Vodka”, I imagine a martini made with rum would be very, um, disruptive to the norm. If I accidentally insult or skim over your favorite show from this era, it wasn’t at all intentional. The extent of my personal experience with 70s TV is The Muppet Show and occasional reruns of Good Times. I’m going to level with you: I know almost nothing about 70s TV. ![]() This particular copy of the magazine is for the East Coast television market, where all channels and stations listed are specific to that area.īecause beer bellies and craggy jowls sold magazine covers in 1976. And if you were really on top of your life/the dregs of society who spent all of your time on the couch watching television, you read through TV Guide to plan out your TV-watching week. How you used to find stuff to watch on TV in a pre-cable world: you channel surfed through all eight channels on your TV (maybe you had a few more with a separate “rabbit ears” antenna on top of the TV) and you’d pay close attention to commercials that promoted upcoming stuff.
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