This Week in TV History with Tony Figueroa

Tony attends a Special Solidarity march and rally from Netflix to Paramount. Attendees included SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher, secretary-treasurer Joely Fisher, national executive director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, Los Angeles Local first vice-president Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Jon Cryer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week: Tony walks us through the various issues that are at stake in the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tony Figueroa remembers the night in July 1957 when Jack Paar took over as host of The Tonight Show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony salutes Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Norman Lear, the man who changed television in the 1970s. Norman Lear turned 100 this past Wednesday, July 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Figueroa remembers Sanford and Son (NBC, 1972-1977), the long-running sitcom starring Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson that premiered fifty years ago This Week in TV History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony remembers Emergency! (NBC, 1972-1977), the long-running medical drama/action-adventure series about emergency room doctors and paramedics in Los Angeles. Co-created and produced by Jack Webb, Emergency! starred Robert Fuller, Julie London, Bobby Troup, Randolph Mantooth, and Kevin Tighe and premiered on Jan. 15, 1972. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna Allen joins Tony Figueroa for a look back at the history of The TODAY Show, which premiered 70 years ago This Week in TV History Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen discuss some of the many historic events that have been covered by The TODAY Show. TODAY premiered seventy years ago This Week in TV History Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Figueroa remembers the network TV premiere of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas (CBS, 1966). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna Allen joins Tony Figueroa for a look at the fiftieth anniversary of The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (CBS, 1971), the made-for-TV holiday classic starring Patricia Neal, Richard Thomas, and Andrew Duggan and written by Earl Hamner that also led to the development of The Waltons (CBS, 1972-1981). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony and Donna discuss some of the many moments in The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (CBS, 1971) that slowly draw viewers in. The two-hour pilot for The Waltons, The Homecoming first aired fifty years ago This Week in TV History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna Allen joins Tony Figueroa to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the original broadcast of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Diane Vincent joins Tony Figueroa via Zoom for a look at the 75th anniversary of the premiere of I Love Lucy on television. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Diane Vincent joins Tony Figueroa via Zoom for a look at the 75th anniversary of the premiere of I Love Lucy on television.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Diane Vincent joins Tony Figueroa via Zoom for a look at the 75th anniversary of the premiere of I Love Lucy on television.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna Allen joins Tony Figueroa for a look back at The Dick Van Dyke Show, which premiered sixty years ago This Week in TV History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony and Donna discuss some of their favorite episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show, including "Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra," "That's My Boy," and "It May Look Like a Walnut." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna Allen joins Tony Figueroa for a special two-part edition of This Week in TV History that commemorates the 55th anniversary of the premiere of That Girl (ABC, 1966-1971). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen discuss the various ways in which That Girl changed as a series during its fifth season, as well as how the show ended in 1971. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Tony Figueroa remembers the 45th anniversary of the premiere of The Muppet Show and the legacy of Jim Henson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony remembers the fiftieth anniversary of Columbo on television. "Murder by the Book," the first episode of the Columbo series, aired on this date in TV history in 1971. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony marks the 55th anniversary of the premiere of the original Star Trek. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Tony Figueroa remembers "Clean Up Radio Everywhere," the famous episode of WKRP in Cincinnati that addressed censorship. Also in this segment: A tribute to Frank Bonner, the actor who played sales director Herb Tarlek on WKRP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony looks back at the final broadcast of Soap (ABC, 1977-1981) on Apr. 20, 1981, forty years ago This Week in TV History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Tony marks the milestone 90th birthdays of two actors who are known for playing captains on television: William Shatner (Star Trek) and Hal Linden (Barney Miller). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony remembers The Greatest American Hero, which premiered 40 years ago (Mar. 18, 1981) this week in TV history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Tony commemorates the 90th birthday of actor Gavin MacLeod (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Love Boat, McHale's Navy). MacLeod was born on Feb. 28, 1931. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Figueroa remembers the premiere of Laverne & Shirley in January 1976. Topics include why both Laverne & Shirley and Happy Days are still master classes in physical comedy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Figueroa discusses some of the many ways in which All in the Family changed network television after it premiered on CBS on Jan. 12, 1971. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna Allen-Figueroa joins Tony this week to share some of their favorite Christmas-themed TV episodes. Among the shows discussed in this segment are "The Draft Dodger" episode of All in the Family (which originally aired in December 1976) and "Sisters at Heart," an episode of Bewitched that originally aired in December 1970. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna Allen-Figueroa joins Tony this week to discuss some of their favorite Christmas-themed TV episodes or Christmas specials, including the episode of WKRP in Cincinnati in which everyone is trying to get home for the holidays, and Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol from 1961 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna and Tony share some more of their favorite Christmas-themed TV episodes or holiday specials, including The House Without a Christmas Tree (CBS, 1972)..  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Tony takes us back to Dec. 14, 1970, the night when Santa Claus is Comin' to Town aired for the first time on ABC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna Allen-Figueroa joins Tony Figueroa this week as they go back to Dec. 9, 1965, when A Charlie Brown Christmas aired for the first time on CBS-TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Figueroa remembers "Turkeys Away," the famous Thanksgiving episode of WKRP in Cincinnati (original airdate: Oct. 30, 1978) that remains the most discussed episode of the show's history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Figueroa remembers the 40th anniversary of "Who Done It," the episode of Dallas that not only resolved the Who Shot J.R. cliffhanger, but remains one of the most watched episodes in TV history. Other topics this segment include the milestone episodes of Sesame Street that discussed the death of the Mr. Hooper character, as well as the one that marked the debut of Mr. Snuffleupagas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices