Television
After being contacted by an angry CBS network whose legal counsel had vowed to take “all action necessary” to protect the title of its reality-based fall series “Rescue 911,” the producer of a similar, locally produced show said Wednesday that he will change the name of his “911” series to “On Scene.”
June 29, 1989
Sitting in on the research meeting for “Rescue 911” allows one to really see the beginnings of what makes this program tick.
Nov. 14, 1993
California
On April 8, 1949, Kathy Fiscus, her older sister and two cousins were scampering through an open field in San Marino, not far from the Fiscus house.
April 8, 2019
“Rescue Mission in Space” is so understated in title and presentation that one might expect this “Nova” program on the 1993 repair of the Hubble Space Telescope to be as dull and routine as most space shuttle missions have become.
Jan. 17, 1995
Most new series won’t arrive for at least another two weeks.
Sept. 5, 1989
The century was not quite at the halfway mark in 1949 and television, the medium that would come to dominate the rest of it, scarcely registered as much more than a novelty--until an April day when a 3-year-old girl who had probably never even seen a television program suddenly became one, and so altered television forever.
Nov. 4, 1999
Archives
April 7, 2019
Movies
A TV movie on the rescued Pennsylvania miners shows a network’s dizzying pursuit of ‘reality.’
Nov. 24, 2002
Why is it, people wonder, that there’s often so little resemblance between the local news they read in the paper and what they see on the TV news--why a freeway chase that kept TV anchors rapt for an entire hour before it ended peaceably gets only a few paragraphs on a back page.
Jan. 31, 1999
World & Nation
Their faces were on the front page of every newspaper in the country, their words--one man’s regret that he hadn’t kissed his wife that morning, another’s request for a cold beer--led off every TV and radio news program.
July 30, 2002