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\"\"<\/a>If you grew up in St. Louis, you probably shuttled relatives downtown to take them up into The Gateway Arch (gateway to the West) about a dozen or so times in your life.<\/p>\n

And if you were my Dad, you’d have those relatives sit through the making-of-the-arch documentary, a 60s-era movie that ended with the last steel section being placed at the top of the arch, all to great fanfare and a building engineer’s educational-film voice pronouncing, “And then the thing was done!”<\/p>\n

So I now feel compelled to say this phrase every time we hit a milestone with any of Cher Scholar’s enterprises.<\/p>\n

I have finished synopsizing the variety shows of Cher and Sonny & Cher: https:\/\/www.cherscholar.com\/the-tv-variety-shows-and-specials\/<\/a>. The first episode synopsis was posted way back on January 15, 2019! It’s taken me\u00a04 years , 6 months and 3 days!<\/p>\n

Huuuuge thank you goes to Jay Pickering, who contacted me early on in the process and has been helping me fill in the gaps with his personal knowledge and a collection of TV Guides<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You know Cher fans are special. I’ve met good fans everywhere for many artists of all kinds in many cities. I love to talk to fans. But Cher fans are another thing. Cher fans don’t posture. They’re not possessive. At least the ones I know. They help each other find stuff. They know what it means to be an outsider. That’s probably why they like Cher in the first place.<\/p>\n

Another thing I love about Cher’s fans, they have specialties. There are Cher doll specialists, movie specialists, TV show specialists. In music there are even subcategory specialists: singles specialists, album specialists, compilation specialists. We are truly an enterprise of an enterprise.<\/p>\n

And I love you guys! It makes being a fan so much more fun.<\/p>\n

I feel both happy and sad to be at the end of this project. Doing this every week has gotten me through some hard moments over the last few years: Covid lockdowns, my parents both getting Covid at the same time and other personal challenges I’ve been experiencing. I’ve been able to come to this project when I needed a pick-me-up and I will miss it. I’ll miss watching Sonny & Cher again every week.<\/p>\n

But I’m also pretty amazed I finished. Here’s an animated gif that shows how I feel right about now:<\/p>\n

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I still have a lot of cleanup to do on the episode pages, replacing broken links to videos with the show videos Cher has been publishing on her own YouTube and I have some episodes to revisit and refine.<\/p>\n

It’s been amazing watching the evolution of these shows. Sonny & Cher came a long way from Jimmy Durante to Tina Turner, from “The Beat Goes On” to “Teach Me Tonight,” from “You Made Me Love You” to “Danny’s Song.”<\/p>\n

I hope this catalogue will be useful to fans and future Cher scholars.<\/p>\n

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