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If you’ve turned on a TV anytime in the last 45 years or so, there’s a good chance you’ve seen Bruce Boxleitner.

It’s not every day that a living legend turns 90. So, when we heard that seven-time Emmy winner Ed Asner was celebrating his 90^th birthday with a gala benefit at a historic Hollywood landmark, getTV just had to be there!

In 1975, the unthinkable happened: Gunsmoke was canceled after twenty seasons and more than 600 episodes. It was a shock to viewers, but far more so to cast and crew. “The network never told anyone they were thinking of canceling,” star James Arness said. ”We all expected to go on for another season, or two, or three.”

What’s your favorite Christmas memory? For many of us, it’s gathering with loved ones to watch holiday-themed specials on television. It wasn’t truly Christmastime until classic stars like Bing Crosby graced our living rooms singing songs of the season with famous friends. The TVs may have been smaller back then, but the performers were larger than life.

If you miss those days, getTV is the place to be this Black Friday!

“You need to stop thinking of yourself as a gunfighter and decide that you’re a man with a family,” Amelia Lawson (Sigrid Thornton) tells her sometimes boyfriend Ethan Cord (Lee Horsley) in an episode of Paradise (a.k.a. Guns of Paradise).  

Movies have been adapted for TV for as long as the medium has existed. But, for every enduring success, there are hundreds of short-lived failures. M*A*S*H may be a timeless classic, but when was the last time you watched the TV version of Casablanca? Dirty Dancing? Ferris Bueller? Did you even know they existed?