March 3, 2018

This week in TV Guide: March 5, 1966

On this week's cover is Agent 99, Barbara Feldon, done in the iconic style of Andy Warhol - which is natural considering Andy Warhol himself is responsible for the artwork. Does TV Guide do anything other than pictures for the cover nowadays? Probably not, since it's really nothing but a fanzine anymore, but there was a time when the work of a fairly distinguished group of artists appeared on the cover.

There have been many striking photos on the cover of TV Guide as well; one of my favorites was this festive Patty Duke picture in 1963 that looks much more colorful in real life than the picture. But there are times, such as this reflective 1970 portrait of thewith development of its own atomic program. Led by the headstrong DeGaulle, this was a source of major contention back in the day, with the French ability to make mischief on an international stage causing more than one country to have more than one outbreak of heartburn. Tune back in after Vietnam heats up to see what effect this has.

Speaking of Vietnam, ABC preempts Cleveland Amory's favorite, The Baron, on Friday night at 9:00 p.m. to present "Operation Sea War," a look at the Navy's role in the conflict, narrated by Glenn Ford, who is also a commander in the Navy Reserve. This is just a guess on my part, but I don't think the program probably mentions the Gulf of Tonkin; it did, however, come up* in