Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: The Monkees Christmas Show

Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY" that we could use to artificially stimulate our Christmas spirit.

The song the Monkees sing Riu Chiu
 

The song translated:
River, roaring river, guard our homes in safety,
God has kept the black wolf from our lamb, our Lady.
God has kept the black wolf from our lamb, our Lady.
Raging mad to bite her, there the wolf did steal,
But our God Almighty defended her with zeal.
Pure He wished to keep Her so She could never sin,
That first sin of man never touched the Virgin sainted.
River, roaring river.

Here's the Monkees in 1986 doing a medley of Christmas songs along with some familiar faces from MTV.

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Tony Figueroa

Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Merry Christmas from Lucky Strike Cigarettes! ... It's Toasted!

Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY" that we could use to artificially stimulate our Christmas spirit.

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Tony Figueroa

Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: The Brady Bunch

Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY" that we could use to artificially stimulate our Christmas spirit.

 
The twelfth episode of the Brady Bunch 

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Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Home Is Where the Hurt Is

Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY" that we could use to artificially stimulate our Christmas spirit.

The Bob Newhart Show: Season 3 - Episode 15
Depressed about spending the holidays with her domineering parents, Carol passes Christmas Eve with Bob and Emily recounting all her childhood disasters.

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Harry Morgan (April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011)

Well, boys, it would be hard to call what we've been through fun, but I'm sure glad we went through it together. You boys always managed to give me a good laugh right when I needed it most. Never forget the time you dropped Winchester's drawers in the O.R. 'Course I had to pretend I was mad at ya, but inside I was laughing to beat all hell. 

-- Col. Sherman T. Potter

Harry Morgan died yesterday at the age of 96. On confirming his death, his son Charles said that he had been recently treated for pneumonia.

Born Harry Bratsberg, on April 10, 1915 in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Anna and Henry, who were of Swedish and Norwegian heritage. He was raised in Muskegon, Michigan, and graduated from Muskegon High School in 1933, where he achieved distinction as a statewide debating champion. He originally aspired to a law degree, but began acting while a junior at the University of Chicago in 1935.
Morgan began acting on stage under his birth name, joining the Group Theatre in New York City in 1937, and appearing in the original production of the Clifford Odets play Golden Boy, followed by a host of successful Broadway roles alongside such other Group members as Lee J. Cobb, Elia Kazan, Sanford Meisner, and Karl Malden.

Morgan did summer stock at the Pine Brook Country Club located in the countryside of Nichols, Connecticut, with the Group Theatre (New York) formed by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Morgan made his screen debut (originally using the name "Henry Morgan") in the 1942 movie To the Shores of Tripoli. His screen name later would become "Henry 'Harry' Morgan" and eventually Harry Morgan, to avoid confusion with the popular humorist of the same name.
In the same year, Morgan appeared in the movie Orchestra Wives as a young man pushing his way to the front of a ballroom crowd with his date to hear Glenn Miller's band play. A few years later, still credited as Henry Morgan, he was cast in the role of pianist Chummy MacGregor in the 1954 biopic The Glenn Miller Story.
Morgan continued to play a number of significant roles on the big screen in such films as The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), Wing and a Prayer (1944), Dragonwyck (1946), The Big Clock (1948), High Noon (1952), and several films in the 1950s for director Anthony Mann, including Bend of the River (1952), Thunder Bay (1953), The Glenn Miller Story (1954), The Far Country (1955) and Strategic Air Command (1955); in his later film career he appeared in Inherit the Wind (1960), How the West Was Won (1962), John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965), Frankie and Johnny (1966) with Elvis Presley, Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), Support Your Local Gunfighter! (1971), Snowball Express (1972), The Shootist (1976), The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979), and a cameo in the film version of Dragnet (1987) with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks. Besides all of the Anthony Mann films, Morgan was in a number of movies with James Stewart, including Strategic Air Command (1955), The Mountain Road (1960), How the West Was Won (1962), The Glenn Miller Story (1954) and The Shootist (1976), also with John Wayne, with whom Morgan also shared scenes in How the West Was Won, featuring Morgan portraying Ulysses S. Grant to Wayne's William Tecumseh Sherman in the John Ford-directed segment of the Cinerama film.

Morgan hosted the NBC radio series Mystery in the Air starring Peter Lorre in 1947. On CBS, he played Pete Porter in Pete and Gladys (1960–1962), with Cara Williams as wife Gladys. Pete and Gladys was a spinoff of December Bride (1954–1959), starring Spring Byington, Dean Miller, Frances Rafferty, and Verna Felton. When Miller and Rafferty died within three months of each other in 2004, Morgan became the last surviving member of the December Bride cast.
In the 1964–1965 season, Morgan co-starred as Seldom Jackson in the 26-week NBC comedy/drama Kentucky Jones, starring Dennis Weaver.


Morgan is even more widely recognized as Officer Bill Gannon, Joe Friday's partner in the revived version of Dragnet (1967–1970).




Morgan had also appeared with Dragnet star Jack Webb in two film noir movies, Dark City (1950) and Appointment with Danger (1951), and was an early regular member of Jack Webb's stock company of actors on the original Dragnet radio show. Morgan later worked on two other shows for Webb, 1971's The D.A. and the 1972–1974 western Hec Ramsey. Morgan also appeared in at least one episode of Gunsmoke.


Morgan's first appearance on M*A*S*H was in the show's third season (1974–1975), when he played spaced-out Major General Bartford Hamilton Steele ("That's three e's, not all in a row!") in "The General Flipped at Dawn", which originally aired on September 10, 1974. Steele is convinced that the 4077th needs to move closer to the front line, to be near the action. Morgan's memorable Emmy-nominated performance impressed the producers of the show.

The following season, Morgan joined the cast of M*A*S*H as Colonel Sherman T. Potter. Morgan replaced McLean Stevenson, who had left the show at the end of the previous season. 

Col. Potter is a career army officer who is tough, yet good-humored and caring—a father figure to the people under his command. The picture of Potter's wife, on the right side of his desk, is actually that of Eileen Detchon, Morgan's real-life wife at the time. He asked if he could use her picture, and the producers had no objections.
In 1980, Morgan won an Emmy award for his performance on M*A*S*H. After the end of the series, Morgan reprised the Potter role in a short-lived spinoff series, AfterMASH.

In 1986, he costarred with Hal Linden in Blacke's Magic, a show about a magician who doubled as a detective solving unusual crimes. The series lasted only one season.
In 1987, Morgan played Mr. DePinna on a TV version of Kaufman and Hart's Pulitzer prize-winning play You Can't Take It With You. He also played the lead role of Martin Vanderhodff in a short lived series based on the same play
In 1987, Morgan reprised his Bill Gannon character, now a captain, for a supporting role in another film version of Dragnet, a parody of the original series written by and starring Dan Aykroyd and co-starring Tom Hanks and Christopher Plummer.
In the 1990s, Morgan played the role of Judge Stoddard Bell in a series of The Incident; Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (TV 1992) and Incident in a Small Town (1994 TV) TV movies starring Walter Matthau. He was on an episode of The Simpsons as Officer Bill Gannon from Dragnet in the 7th season ("Mother Simpson") and had a recurring role on 3rd Rock from the Sun as Professor Suter. Morgan directed episodes for several TV series, including two episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and eight episodes of M*A*S*H. Morgan had a guest role on The Jeff Foxworthy Show as Raymond and a guest role on Grace Under Fire as Jean's pot-smoking boyfriend.
In 2006, Morgan was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

Good Night Mr. Morgan


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TV Confidential Archives: Dec. 2, 2011

Show No. 115
Dec. 2, 2011

First hour: Actress, author, singer and comedienne Sandra Bernhard (Roseanne, The L Word) joins Ed for a conversation about her early influences as a performer, her work with Martin Scorsese and Richard Pryor, and some of her other roles in film and television, including her upcoming appearance on TV Land's Hot in Cleveland. Sandra will also be performing in Columbus, OH and New York City in December, while her one-woman stage show I Love Being Me, Don’t You will be coming to Philadelphia, Seattle and La Jolla in early 2012. Also in this hour: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen remember the birthday of Ozzy Osbourne, the network premiere of A Charlie Brown Christmas and other events that originally happened This Week in TV History.

Second hour: Ed welcomes singers Maria Lauren and Linda Eichberg, who performed with Dean Martin for nearly twenty years as members of the world-renowned Dean Martin Golddiggers. Maria and Linda’s book, Beyond Our Wildest Dreams, provides a backstage pass at the world of nightclub entertainment between the years 1973 through 1978 — one of the last great eras in show business, and a time that saw Maria and Linda work alongside such legends as Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Jerry Vale, Louis Prima, Donald O’Connor and, of course, Dean Martin.

Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Frasier The Fight Before Christmas Season

Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY" that we could use to artificially stimulate our Christmas spirit.

Season 7 Episode 11
Frasier plans an extravagant Christmas party. Daphne feels awkward around Niles after learning of his feelings for her.

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Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Peace On Earth

Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY" that we could use to artificially stimulate our Christmas spirit.


Peace on Earth is a 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short subject directed by Hugh Harman, about a post-apocalyptic world populated by animals.



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Tony Figueroa

Sid Veda and Phil Cooke: Next on TV CONFIDENTIAL

Actor/comedian Sid Veda and author, filmmaker and media guru Phil Cooke will join us on the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Dec. 7-13 at the following times and venues:
Share-a-Vision Radio
KSAV.org
Friday 12/9
7pm ET, 4pm PT
10pm ET, 7pm PT

The Coyote KWTY-FM
Ridgecrest, Calif.
Sunday 12/11
10pm PT
Monday 12/12
1am ET

InternetVoicesRadio.com
Tuesday 12/13
11:05pm ET, 8:05pm PT
and at various times throughout the week on WROM Radio.
Known nationally to TV audiences as Chad, the Brillo-haired, thickly mustachioed half of Ranjit and Chad, the "hosts” of Tech Talk on the popular series of commercials for mobile phone service provider MetroPCS, Sid Veda has performed with or opened for such comics as Jack Black, Chris Rock, Russell Peters and The Upright Citizens Brigade.

We’ll ask Sid about some of his influences as a comedian, as well as his work on the NBC comedy series Outsourced, when he joins us in our first hour.





Also joining us this week will be author, speaker, filmmaker and media consultant Phil Cooke, a man who helps clients create platforms that influence culture and get their voices heard. The key message of Phil’s latest book, JOLT: Get the Jump on a World That’s Constantly Changing, is that life today is not so much about knowing the future, but actually getting ready for it. Among other things, that means letting go of ideas that are no longer effective, no matter how hard that can be. We’ll ask Phil about that, and particularly how that idea applies in the world of television, when he joins us in our second hour.

Plus: Phil Gries with Part 2 of our tribute to TV talk show pioneer Joe Franklin; and Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen with a brand new This Week in TV History.

TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television
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Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Birthday Jesus

Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY" that we could use to artificially stimulate our Christmas spirit.

What happens when you throw Jesus a birthday party and think you know exactly what He wants for a gift?

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