The TV Room
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Life during television. Where the 8-track meets the laugh track. Insights and flashbacks into the culture of the late 20th Century, and beyond.
- Website
- http://soref.tv
- Description
- Life during television. Where the 8-track meets the laugh track. Insights and flashbacks into the culture of the late 20th Century, and beyond.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2023-03-24 20:06
- last episode published
- 2022-03-07 07:04
- publication frequency
- 55.09 days
- Contributors
- Minh Phan& Castle Williams
- Owner
- David Soref - 1960s, 1970s, 1980s Pop Culture
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 37
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture TV & Film History Arts
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2022-03-07 | Special guest Ian Rosen joins the podcast for a review of the 70s cult classic film Cisco Pike (1971). Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Gene Hackman, Karen Black. |
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| 2019-01-08 | The early 1970s were angry times. From Kent State to Watergate, from Vietnam to Patty Hearst, society was polarized, and arguably no figure was more polarizing than mild-mannered, bespectacled singer-songwriter John Denver. By the late '70s Denver had ... |
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| 2018-10-04 |
Goliath Starring Billy Bob Thornton: An Impressionistic Review We discuss Goliath Season 1, the character of Billy McBride, the genre of Beach Bum Detective Noir (inspired equally by Raymond Chandler and Gidget, and which includes the Rockford Files and Fletch), and Santa Monica Bay's evolution from gritty to pret... |
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| 2018-10-04 |
Goliath Starring Billy Bob Thornton: An Impressionistic Review Venice beatniks, gambling ships off the Santa Monica Pier, Raymond Chandler stories, the Gidget phenomenon, Jim Rockford's trailer, Jack, Janet, Chrissy, the Ropers, and Fletch too, have all shaped the cultural geography that defines the character of B... |
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| 2018-06-04 | A quick update on the upcoming TV Room season (it's about Patty Hearst and the SLA!). Remembering Tom Wolfe and Philip Roth, by comparing them to Hunter S. Thompson and John Updike, and revisiting the New Journalism of the 1960s. |
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| 2018-06-04 | A quick update on the upcoming TV Room season (it's about Patty Hearst and the SLA!). Remembering Tom Wolfe and Philip Roth, by comparing them to Hunter S. Thompson and John Updike, and revisiting the New Journalism of the 1960s. |
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| 2018-05-01 | TV Room Status Update |
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| 2018-03-07 | From their founding in Berkeley to their doomed LA run, the strange but true saga of the Symbionese Liberation Army and their rendezvous with America's heiress. |
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| 2018-03-07 | Could there be a stranger time and place than the Bay Area in the 1970s? The saga of Patty Hearst and the SLA would seem to say no. In this two-part episode of the TV Room, we revisit those events and review some of the tapes Patty and the SLA releas... |
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