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Yesterday’s Zippy takes us through 15 television series, of an extraordinary variety:

The strip ends with a cute POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau), Playboy After Dark + Dark Shadows.

Two of these shows had short runs and might not be familiar to many readers:

Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series starring John Cassavetes which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from September 10, 1959 through March 24, 1960. (Wikipedia link)

Playboy After Dark is an American television show hosted by Hugh Hefner. It aired in syndication through Screen Gems from 1969 to 1970 (Wikiedia link)

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