Redartz: All aboard; time's a wastin'! Our Retro Metro is taking us back to Saturday, February 23, 1974. Which, actually, is a fairly portentous time for your humble host: the very month that a young Redartz discovered the wonderful world of comics! Actually, this was a great time to get hooked into pop culture. Let's head back and see why...
As we step off the bus, we pass a movie theatre, showing the film with the top song in the US this week: Barbara Streisand, singing "The Way We Were"
Rounding out the top five:
2. Terry Jacks- "Seasons in the Sun"
3. Aretha Franklin- "Until You Come Back to Me"
4. Jim Stafford- "Spiders and Snakes"
5. Love Unlimited Orchestra- "Love's Theme"
My good friend in Middle School, who was instrumental in my new comics addiction, also has got me started listening each week to Casey Kasem and "American Top 40" on the radio. I love it. I also love another song, further down the charts that we talked about in Spanish class: "Eres Tu", by Mocedades.
Tops in the UK: Mud- "Tiger Feet"
I'm not familiar with this one, Casey hasn't played it yet...
Oh, and hey, it's Saturday again! And there's enough good viewing on the networks this morning to require a couple extra bowls of cereal. I never miss Scooby Doo and his guest stars, but also must catch Emergency Plus 4 , Star Trek and the Addams Family. A very full Saturday schedule!
US Network Television Schedule:
Saturday Morning:ABC offered Bugs Bunny, Yogi's Gang, Super Friends, The Saturday Superstar Movie, and more
CBS had Flintstone comedy Show, New Scooby Doo Movies, Jeannie, Speed Buggy and more
NBC was showing The Addams Family, Emergency Plus 4,
Star Trek: The Animated Series and moreBut wait, what's on tonight? Fear not, let's pull the TV Guide out of my backpack and see...
Prime Time:
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| Carol Burnett Show Cast |
CBS: All in the Family, M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, The Carol Burnett Show
NBC: Emergency!, NBC Saturday Night at the Movies
BBC1: Cilla, The Saturday Thriller: Let's Kill Uncle, News, Election Broadcast
BBC2: Falstaff, Election Broadcast, The Pallisers
Mary Tyler Moore Show Intro
Although I'm a faithful viewer of "Emergency", that CBS schedule is absolute comedy perfection! I always catch M*A*S*H when "Emergency" is a rerun. And I never fail to tune in Mary, Bob and Carol. Best night on tv all week, in my opinion.
And of course, as we still have some time to kill before turning on the console tv in the living room, let's stop in the local drugstore and check out the spinner racks:
Boy, it's no wonder I've gotten hooked on these comics. How to choose from these, and all the others? Well, that Amazing Spider-Man is already sitting on my shelf at home; it's the very comic that has just returned me to the Marvel fold. Oh, and I had to grab that Giant Size Super-Stars with the Fantastic Four: what a cover! And they used the old logo, too!
Well, that's about all we have time for on this excursion back in the bronze age'. But don't worry, the Retro Metro will be back before we know it, ready to take us to another dynamite date...
