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1954: ABC'S ANTHOLOGY SERIES 'DISNEYLAND' PRESENTS 'DAVY CROCKETT' By David Bianculli

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1976: ABC DEBUTS THE FIRST 'BARBARA WALTERS SPECIAL' By TV WW

This day in 1976 marked the first broadcast of an occasional special ABC presentation, The Barbara Walters Special...

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THE VOICE By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: Part 1 of 2. Adjusting to the pandemic, and being one of the few broadcast TV series that has managed to keep producing episodes during this crisis, has been a hallmark of the 2020 cycles of NBC’s musical competition show. Tonight’s installment features the five surviving contestants of this latest cycle of The Voice – and in this new dangerously infectious environment, “surviving” has an entirely different and more somber subtext – wh

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LAUREL AND HARDY DOUBLE FEATURE By David Bianculli

Laurel and Hardy month continues on TCM tonight, and prime time this evening presents another solid-gold double feature. Starting things off at 8 p.m. ET is 1937’s Way Out West, in which Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (pictured) are ordered to deliver the deed of a gold mine to the daughter of a recently deceased prospector. Then, at 9:30 p.m. ET, comes 1938’s Block-Heads, in which Stan returns to the home front, and to best friend Ollie, after 20 years at war &ndas

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PBS' 'FRONTLINE' POSES TROUBLING QUESTIONS ABOUT TRUTH-TELLING AND RESPONSIBILITY IN 'RETURN FROM ISIS' By Alex Strachan

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This 1965 Peanuts holiday special, the first and still champion, used to be shown every year on network television, as befitting its status as a true TV Christmas cartoon classic. But times have changed. Through today, A Charlie Brown Christmas can be seen free on Apple TV+, if you have an Apple ID for another device. But also, today only, PBS and PBS Kids are showing this charming, perfect special, so you and your family can enjoy it the old-fashioned way. And while I may ha

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SHAMELESS By David Bianculli

I thought I was going crazy, watching the opening credits last week for the Season 11 premiere of Shameless – because the show had gone to great lengths to recreate the sequence shot for shot, but updating it to reflect the passage of time and the aging of the actors and characters. You can watch that sequence again tonight – then stay tuned as the Gallagher family gets behind patriarch William H. Macy’s plan to de-gentrify their Chicago neighborhood.

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