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Last week’s TV nostalgia schedule continues, with home videos that make it possible for you to relive the golden days of television past: WEDNESDAY

8-8:30 p.m. “I Married Joan” (Shokus, four representative episodes on one tape) Joan Davis was an underratee, often forgotten comedian who shined on this weekly series. Each episode started with her husband, Judge Bradley Stevens (Jim Backus), in court explaining how he resolved a similar problem with his wife. The courtroom scene would fade into his home and the story was under way.

8:30-9 p.m. “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” (nine volumes, Shokus) Audiences watched the Nelson children (Ricky and David) grow up week after week in one of TV’s longest-running family comedies.

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9-10:30 p.m. “Playhouse 90” (MGM/UA) It was one of the best live TV dramatic-anthology series to air in the 1950s, the pinnacle of what critics called “The Golden Age of Television.” Two classics to choose from: one from the first season in 1956, “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” Rod Serling’s story about a washed-up boxer, starring Jack Palance, and one from 1958, “The Days of Wine and Roses” directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Cliff Robertson and Piper Laurie as an alcoholic couple. THURSDAY

8-8:30 p.m.”Death Valley Days” (Rhino, nine volumes) This syndicated series was one of the longest running in television history. These early TV docudramas were based on fact and featured such actors as Robert Taylor (Vol. 1), Clint Eastwood (Vol. 3), Dabney Coleman (Vol. 5), Carroll O’Connor (Vol. 6) and a wooden actor named Ronald Reagan (Vols. 1 and 4).

8:30-9 p.m. “Amos Un’ Andy” (Video City Productions, 18 volumes, two episodes a tape) Forget what you’ve heard about this program-it is very funny, and it is about as racist as an episode of “Amen.” The most popular show in radio history (conceived and, sadly, played by whites) was brought to television with black actors and featured the unforgettable Tim Moore as George “The Kingfish” Stevens.

9-9:30 p.m. “You Bet Your Life” (Shokus) This quiz show was incidental to the main reason for its existence: Groucho Marx’s ad-libbing comedy. Still funny today.

9:30-10 p.m. “Make Room for Daddy” The Danny Thomas Show” (Shokus) One of the longest-running family comedies features Thomas as a father who also happens to be a nightclub entertainer. Besides this TV family (Jean Hagen, then Marjorie Lord, Rusty Hamer, Sherry Jackson and Angela Cartwright), Thomas populated the program with stars playing themselves as well as Bill Dana as Jose Jiminez and Hann Conried as Uncle Tonoose. FRIDAY

7:30-8:30 p.m.”Walt Disney” (Disney) The longest-running prime-time series in network history debuted in 1954 and went off the air in 1983, appearing at various times on all three television networks. Everything from Mickey and Donald to Davy Crockett and Disneyland.

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8:30-9:30 p.m. “Star Trek” (Paramount, all 79 episodes on tape and disc) Capt. James Kirk and the Enterprise crew star in this pop-culture phenomenon. Best episodes: “The Menagerie” in two parts, “Space Seed,, “Journey to Babel” and “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.”

9:30-10 p.m. “Tales of Tomorrow” (Fox Hills, two volumes, each two hours offering four episodes apiece) This was one of TV’s first adult sci-fi series, telecast live in 1953. Vol. 2 features Paul Newman’s TV debut as well as episodes with Boris Karloff and Rod Steiger. SATURDAY

7:30-8:30 p.m. “Bonanza” It premiered on a Saturday night in the fall of 1959, the first Western to be televised in color. It stayed on the air until 1973. Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker and Pernell Roberts star in the story of a family of ranchers. This episode includes the words to the famous theme song written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.

8:30-9 p.m. “The Honeymooners” (MPI, nearly two dozen volumes of the “hidden episodes”) Jackie Gleason and Art Carney live forever as Ralph and Ed, characters indelibly imprinted on the American psyche.

9-10:30 p.m. “Your Show of Shows” (Unicorn, eight volumes) The classic comedy of live TV features Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris, with comedy writers Mel Brooks and Woody Allen. One minor gripe: These shows are not really complete. The best is included (the comedy sketches), but the 90-minute television experience is missing-the fascinating singing and dancing production numbers brought to live TV by producer Max Liebman.

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