Around the dial

I'm beginning to get the feeling that the obituaries for our classic stars are simply being continued from one week to the next. At Comfort TV, David thinks back on the life and times of Betty White and  why we loved her , 
At A Shroud of Thoughts, it's Terence's tribute to the one and only Dobie Gillis, Dwayne Hickman , who died at the start of the week. Let's not forget that he was also a regular on Love That Bob, as well as an executive for CBS, and director of numerous TV shows. He never stopped acting, either. Inner Toob has a tribute to him as well .
Terence also remembers the great Sidney Poitier , who died late last week, as does The Last Drive In. Poitier was a man and an actor of great dignity—not the kind that one finds often in the business any more.
On a lighter note, Silver Scenes brings back memories of the early '70s Saturday morning scene with this piece on  Josie and the Pussycats , Hanna-Barbera's version of the Archies; unlike that cartoon, Josie and the Pussycats was a real band as well, with one Cheryl Ladd as a member. How much more real can it get?
At Garroway at Large, Jodie shares images from the 1987 prime-time special Today at 35 . What a titanic list of talent—and television history—on that show (I hadn't realized how many of them outlived Dave Garroway.) To think it's been 35 years since then. 
Over at The Horn Section, Hal as a link to his recent appearance with Dan Schneider (whom I've appeared with a couple of times myself) on his " Why This TV Series Is Great " series. The show in question: F Troop, of course!
At bare-bones e-zine, Wiliam D. Gordon's " The Dark Pool " becomes Jack's latest entry in The Hitchcock Project. It's an unsettling, chilling story with Lois Nettleton, Anthony George, and Madlyn Rhue.
And finally, Cult TV Blog returns to American television and The X-Files with " Rm9sbG93ZXJz " (pronounced "Followers," of course), which itself is a sequel of sorts to the first season episode "Ghost in the Machine," and a prescient episode indeed. Is this our brave new world? TV