Vern Scott
1 min readAug 6, 2023

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Yes of course, the assassination was all over the 3 somewhat faint B&W TV channels we could get with our antennae in our rural town. There was a show called "That Was the Week That Was" the adults watched that was the SNL of its day (it was after our bedtime). It aired the day after the assassination, and Millicent Martin's "In the Summer of His Years" was somehow written and performed, re-aired the next day and never again until Youtube (you may remember her as Daphne's Mom in "Frasier"). I was a little sponge, and what strikes me now is I remember all the notes and words from hearing it exactly once, such an impression it made. Even now I shudder and tear up when I hear it...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h56_IbHqTIo&t=302s

Dobie Gillis was a great show, and we WORSHIPPED Soupy Sales! Warren Beatty actually got his start as Dobie's rival, and of course there was Tuesday Weld (also in one of my favorite movies "Serial"). There are some very early 60s shows I remember that no one else remembers (ie Pip the Piper, the Webster Webfoot Show...maybe its better that way?).

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Vern Scott
Vern Scott

Written by Vern Scott

Scott lives in the SF Bay Area and writes confidently about Engineering, History, Politics, and Health

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