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September 27, 2026
E59: Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Message | Countdown #49
In 1964, Marshall McLuhan published Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man and gave the television age a way to understand itself. McLuhan argued that...
00:14:43
September 20, 2026
E58: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! The Night Beatlemania Came To America | Countdown to the Centennial #50
On February 9, 1964, more than 70 million Americans tuned in to The Ed Sullivan Show to see four young musicians from Liverpool who...
00:13:57
September 13, 2026
E57: Play It Again: The Day Television Learned to Rewind Time | 100 Years of TV #51
On December 7, 1963, the Army and Navy football teams met in Philadelphia for a game already heavy with national emotion. Postponed after the...
00:10:49
September 05, 2026
E56: Christopher Nolan Made the Wrong Damn Movie | 99th Anniversary Edition
On September 7, 1927, in a San Francisco loft, Philo T. Farnsworth transmitted the first electronic television image—and set in motion the screen-based world...
00:11:21
September 05, 2026
E55: We Interrupt This Program for a Special Bulletin: Countdown #52
On Friday afternoon, November 22, 1963, millions of Americans were following the everyday lives of the Hughes family in the fictional town of Oakdale...
00:13:46
August 30, 2026
E54: That Was the Week That Was: Facing Doom with Satire
Podcast Description The Cuban Missile Crisis demonstrated television's extraordinary ability to place viewers in the middle of history. But once the danger had passed,...
00:12:23