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It’s A Hedge

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Strange days call for a strange podcast. This week, GLoP explains the GameStop controversy, remember the great Cloris Leachman, the once great and then awful Phil Spector, why M*A*S*H was not the greatest TV show, and other assorted seemingly random observations and jokes.

Hosts:
John PodhoretzJonah GoldbergRob Long

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  • EJHill@EJHill

    Other films that were made into successful television shows:

    Alice (From Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), 9 seasons on CBS

    Dr. Kildare, a successful film series which starred Lew Ayers and Lionel Barrymore was recreated for the small screen with Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey, 5 seasons on NBC

    And the grandaddy of them all, Lassie, which MGM brought to the screen in 1943 with Lassie, Come Home and ran for 17 seasons on CBS.

  • Bishop Wash@BishopWash
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    EJHill (View Comment):

    Other films that were made into successful television shows:

    Alice (From Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore), 9 seasons on CBS

    Dr. Kildare, a successful film series which starred Lew Ayers and Lionel Barrymore was recreated for the small screen with Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey, 5 seasons on NBC

    And the grandaddy of them all, Lassie, which MGM brought to the screen in 1943 with Lassie, Come Home and ran for 17 seasons on CBS.

    I haven't listened yet, but saw your comment and thought I too was going to mention Alice. Then I thought are the guys covering this again, what episode was I going to comment on? Turns out, upon listening to the Sub(space)Beacon (the nerd in me really wants them to pronounce the punctuation) episode out today, it was Sonny and Vic talking about M*A*S*H last week where they were trying to think of movies that became TV shows instead of the other way around. At the end of today's episode, during the corrections and additions portion, a listener had brought up Westworld, Fargo, and Friday Night Lights.

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