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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 7d

Titlecard from the television program THE VICTORIAN KITCHEN GARDEN. Colour shot of an illustrated titlecard, pen and ink, perhaps.

Depicts a wooden signboard, surrounded on its right and bottom edges by garden plants and vines. Predominantly green leaves, with some green beans, some blackberries, perhaps a small gourd and maybe a garlic clove. A cruciferous veg in a nest of broad leaves. Maybe some rosemary sprigs to finish things off.

Written on what is likely representative of a scroll of white paper unrolled upon the boardnat the image's centre: "October," in a capitalised Victorian font with the graduated autumnal colouring of earthy tones.

Folks? It is October.

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 5h

Titlecard from the television program TALES OF TOMORROW. In muted and softly-focussed black and white, taken from a generational videotape recording of a kinescope. Against a black backdrop, in a slim, tall sans serif outline font with a thickness weighted down and to the right, "Plague from Space."

Is this image itself being transmitted from the same part of the universe that birthed the titular plague? Perhaps!

But I'm guessing [ghost voice] nooooobooodyyyy caaaaaaares.

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 1d

Titlecard from the television program CANNON. In colour, a simple patterned graphic consisting of a background of a darker cerulean or royal blue overlaid with points of black that suggest halftone dots. These increase in size and frequency in an alternating checkerboard-like grid pattern whose thirteen rows progress horizontally left to right across the frame in fourteen distinct columns.

"tonight's episode," we are told -- in a white text overlay with a blockletter font composed of upper- and lowercase letters standardised to cap height -- is called "Girl in the Electric Coffin."

( © copyright mcmlxxi QM productions all rights reserved)

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 2d

Titlecard from the television program HAWAII FIVE-O*. Colour shot taken from outside** of a chainlink fence, looking slightly down through the branches and foliage of several indigenous trees and past *another* fence or fenced-in area of indefinable purpose to a forking road or highway where a distant unremarkable dark coloured sedan approaches. In the distance, the shadows of low rising mountains against a partially cloudy sky.

Overlaid in yellow block letters with noticeable black drop shadow, "The Devil and Mr. Frog."

*(original Leonard Freeman Productions variant, 1960s-'80s)
** (or not -- dun dun DUNNNNN!)

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 3d

Titlecard from the television program THRILLER*. In colour, a fisheyed film-shot vignette at the centre of a circular crimson video overlay. Shows a higher angle from a building in the city of London, looking down from a window or arched opening on a city street with several cars travelling on both sides of its four lane divided roadway. We are adjacent to the Great Clock of Westminster, which in the near distance rises into a grey and cloudy sky above The Palace of Westminster.

Overlaid in video-generated white block letters, "The Next Scream You Hear."

*(UK ITV variant from the 1970s)

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 4d

Titlecard from the television program THE MUNSTERS. In black and white, the image of a large Victorian Gothic mansion behind the gates of a ten or twelve foot high wrought iron fence, a property overgrown with untended vegetation and the skeletons of trees. Smoke rises from a brick chimney. This is 1313 Mockingbird Lane, in Mockingbird Heights. The Munsters live here.

Overlaid in a stylised illustrated font that resembles dripping blood or sick or just plain gloop, "Autumn Crocus."

(Copyright © MCMLXIV by Kayro-Vue Productions. All Rights Reserved.)

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 5d

Titlecard from the television program SUSPENSE. In foggy black and white, likely from a generational video recording of a midcentury kinescope, an illustration of a barren nighttime plain. A grey sky with occasional wisps of white smoke or mist or fog looms over a base of dark, rocky ground. At the frame's left edge, a gnarled deadened tree stretches its barren leafless arms heavenward. It is the night of a full moon.

A night, as a white, block-lettered title informs us, is "A Night at an Inn."

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 6d

Titlecard from the television program OVER THE GARDEN WALL. Colour image, though entirely sepia-toned, of a pitch black background. In the frame's lower left quadrant, a small circular vignette features what appears to be a pencil or charcoal sketch of a 19th century steam locomotive with cowcatcher pulling at least one passenger car through an indistinguishable landscape.

In a golden coloured Victorian-styled script the title, weighted at the frame's left and travelling slightly upward, reads "Chapter 9," under which, in plain Times or adjacent font in the frame's lower right quadrant, "Into the Unknown."

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 7d

Titlecard from the television program THE VICTORIAN KITCHEN GARDEN. Colour shot of an illustrated titlecard, pen and ink, perhaps.

Depicts a wooden signboard, surrounded on its right and bottom edges by garden plants and vines. Predominantly green leaves, with some green beans, some blackberries, perhaps a small gourd and maybe a garlic clove. A cruciferous veg in a nest of broad leaves. Maybe some rosemary sprigs to finish things off.

Written on what is likely representative of a scroll of white paper unrolled upon the boardnat the image's centre: "October," in a capitalised Victorian font with the graduated autumnal colouring of earthy tones.

Folks? It is October.

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 8d

Titlecard from the television program BRING 'EM BACK ALIVE! Colour shot from degraded videotape, mostly gray. Twin engine plane flies over some foothills or whatever. Title says "Thirty Hours."

Hurray we did it.

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 9d

Titlecard from the television program SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO. In colour, but solely monochromatic white text on a black background, it features what I think might be a mix of both Japanese Kanji and Katakana scripts, spread over two lines. It's my understanding that it translates into English as "Episode 3: Yamato Takes Off! The 296,000 Light Years Challenge."

The number "29" stands out.

(FTR, this was originally a second QUANTUM LEAP* titlecard, whose alt-text played into a broader referential 'joke' about the process of compiling and presenting a month of numerically sequential screengrabs, but it ended up being about 4000 characters and I didn't have the energy to edit it, especially considering no-one's reading to begin with and it was likely only amusing to me.)

*(for posterity: imgur.com/a/FaypeJ0 )

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 10d

Titlecard from the television program QUANTUM LEAP. In dim, night-time colour, the actor Scott Bakula appears concerned, eyes narrowing behind aviator style eyeglasses. He's framed head and shoulders, his collar-length feathered sandy hair parted on the left, and wears a grey wool blazer and a brown tie with clusters of four diagonal white pinstripes.

Behind him out of focus on the left, what appears to be a window in an office building, its vertical blinds angled wide open. On the right, a beige-painted wall where hangs horizontally a long rectangular picture or document frame with thick black edges and indeterminate contents.

Centred in the frame's bottom third in light blue block letters, "February 28, 1979."

(The episode's full title is, of course, "Dreams: February 28, 1979," and in the episode proper that text appears over two consecutive titlecards, a configuration which sort of defeats the weird specific conceit of this first month of daily posts, which is likely growing as stale for you the audience as it may be for me. There's an episode of ROOM 222 titled "Seventeen Going On Twenty-Eight," but that also contains the number "17" which may have proved confusing and which, perhaps more importantly for this specific account, has no onscreen title. Although I'm just now realising that '1979' could also easily be considered ADDITIONAL CONFUSING NUMBERS -- COME ON!!!

Eh, wait til the same thing happens tomorrow.

(please)

Anyway. Fret not; the month only has thirty days!

Now that I think about it, I prepared enough material for a month with 31 days, and the thirty first titlecard specifically references the month of August so maybe this whole thing's been cursed from the hop.

Nevertheless!

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 11d

Titlecard from the television program PHINEAS AND FERB. In colour, a cartoon establishing shot of the Flynn-Fletcher household in a suburban Danville neighbourhood.

From the perspective of the end of the property's grey slab driveway which horizontally crosses the frame's bottom third, the house itself sits mostly centred in frame, a pale yellow two storey cape-cod adjacent number with a shingled light brown roof. A brick chimney rises from the building's far left end. In its fenced back yard is an enormous deciduous tree with a heavy green canopy. Several smaller green shrubs are visible beneath one of its front windows. Thin black telephone lines stretch across the frame's middle third, trailing from a wooden telephone pole only barely discernible along the frame's left vertical edge.

The sky is bright blue and mostly cloudless, but for two or three white cottonpuff cloud formations. In the far distance, what at first seems as though it might be the distinctive tower of the headquarters of Doofenshmirtz Evil, Inc., climbing into the city sky appears upon closer inspection to be merely a pairing of high-rising pale green shrubs on a different nearby suburban property.

I'm guessing it's summer.*

Overlaid in white text (in... Graphite? font?) with a pronounced black drop shadow, "Boyfriend from 27,000 B.C."

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*(More specifically, somewhere in-between Memorial and Labour Days. Reasonably confident about this.)

Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 12d

Titlecard from the television program BEN CASEY. Black and white low resolution screengrab from a multigenerational television recording which renders too much detail muddy and obscured. However! It depicts what appears to be a sparse hospital OR. Front and centre is an operating table, upon which lies a dark-haired human person. Standing behind and leaning over the table facing us, two additional people; farthest left a dark haired woman in a nurse's uniform, while to her immediate left stands... why, I'll just bet that's dark haired eponymous hunk TV's Dr. Ben Casey.

There's a hospital bed I.V. infusion stand at the bed's foot along the left side frame's edge, holding an upturned glass infusion bottle. Or so it would seem.

Overlaid in bleary white text which understandably consumes almost the whole of the frame's real estate, "Twenty-six Ways to Spell Heartbreak: A, B, C, D..."

(© MCMLXVI Bing Crosby Productions, Inc., All Rights Reserved.)

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 13d

Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 14d

Titlecard from the television program DR. KILDARE. Black and white image of what appears to be a hospital corridor, with at least one doorway on each side. On the left-side wall, what might be a glass-paned firehose enclosure.

Also on the left several yards ahead, what is perhaps a small nurse's station. At the hallway's end, swinging hospital doors, the left-sided one slightly ajar.

Two men, one each on either side of the space, each apparently clothed in hospital gowns, appear to be emerging from room doorways. A third, clearly more urgently handsome man, centred in frame, could very well be Dr. Kildare himself (Richard Chamberlain, R.I.P.), a slim young man in hospital scrubs and blinding white tennis shoes who seems to be running past the other two men toward us, an open overcoat flapping behind him.

Overlaid in white text block letters with a prominent black drop shadow, "Twenty-Four Hours"

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 15d

Titlecard from the television program MURDER ONE. Pitch-black background, smooth as a cueball.

Overlaid in white text, "Chapter Twenty-Three."

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(yes, yes -- far more like an eight ball, I'm aware. But... you know. That's not the idiom! Doing my best to metatextually joke around here, folks. Ha ha ha.)

Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 16d

Titlecard from the television program THE TWILIGHT ZONE. Black and white image of what appears to be a hospital corridor. Shot from a lower angle, the hallway stretches to termination at an elevator, its doors cast in diagonal shadows, directly over which a dial indicator is unreadable. A vacant medical gurney appears against the wall on each side of the pathway close to us. Dim circular light standards hanging overhead provide insufficient illumination. While the ceiling itself appears too high to remain in sight, there are assorted electrical conduits and ductwork cluttering the airspace.

Overlaid in white text: "Twenty Two."

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 17d

Titlecard from the television program T.H.E. CAT. In noticeably faded colour with a dull greenish tint, a Los Angeles city street in the mid to late 1960s. The roadway cuts diagonally through the lower right half of the image, showing grey pavement painted with white lane dividers. Both lanes have traffic approaching us; the right lane occupied by a nondescript midcentury coupe, the left by what appears to be the image's focal point: a large white delivery van with an oversized front windshield. (It could very well be a 50s-vintage Dodge Route Van.) Low rise bulidings populate the left side of the street, where, in the distance, a white-painted apartment tower stretches at least seven storeys up and out of frame.

The road and vehicles are in shade, though it appears to be a sunny day.

Overlaid in white(?) text: "Twenty One and Out".

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 18d

Titlecard from the television program BARNABY JONES. Colour shot of a pitch-black background, atop of which are arranged 16 rectiinear red shapes in a 4x4 grid. They are unevenly aligned, suggesting the pieces of a puzzle in the midst of being arranged, or index cards being shuffled on a pitch coloured corkboard.

Overlaid in white text with a Cooper Back (or similar) font: "Tonight's Episode Twenty Million Alibis"

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 19d

Titlecard from the television program BLACK TIE NIGHTS. In colour, a nondescript nighttime cityscape punctuated by pinpricks of mostly amber and white lights. In the distance, low rising foothills cast in shadowy black.

Overlaid white text so thin and unconsidered that it seems like an afterthought, "Girl on Page 19."

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 20d

Titlecard from the television program KOJAK. In colour, a sky-angle shot looking down on a wide New York City thoroughfare at night. The left side seems obscured by a high-rising building, while the right is dotted with pinpricks of white automobile headlights and red taillights. Some lights are on in the windows of some of the distant buildings, an occasional red or blue electric sign punctuating their sides or faces.

Overlaid in yellow text, "Eighteen Hours of Fear."

(Copyright © MCMLXXIV by Universal City Studios, Inc., All Rights Reserved)

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 21d

Titlecard from the television program THE ROCKFORD FILES. Colour shot of a Southern California roadway, a ribbon of two-lane blacktop edged by shrubbery and lined with deciduous trees. Driving away from us on the right is a smallish green coupe, but driving toward us on the left is our man Jim Rockford, the coolest motherfucker to ever slide behind the wheel of a copper coloured Firebird. At least I think it's him; the resolution of this image isn't precisely pristine, so I'm making an educated guess. I mean, who else would it be, Angel? Not on your life!

Overlaid in white text block letters with a slim black drop shadow, "Trouble in Chapter 17."

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 22d

Titlecard from the television program TENSPEED AND BROWN SHOE. In colour, but desaturated to appear sepia, a grainy still photograph of the Los Angeles skyline, circa 1981.

Overlaid in white text using an Art Deco-adjacent font, "The Sixteen Byte Data Chip and the Brown-Eyed Fox."

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Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 22d

Returning, now, to our regularly scheduled programming.

Tonight's Episode: @tonightsepisode.bsky.social · 22d

Titlecard from the television program THE TWILIGHT ZONE. In black and white, an image of two arms reaching diagonally across the frame to clasp hands. On the right, an elderly woman's hand from herringbone patterned or checkered blouse, held by the hand of a younger man in a dark sleeve emerging from the left.

Overlaid in simple white text with a black dropshadow, "Nothing in the Dark."

R.I.P. Robert Redford.

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