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A Mummers Parade guide for couch strutters

Let's face it: No matter how good your intentions may be, it might be asking too much to drag your over-partied posterior out to Broad Street Thursday morning. But that doesn't mean you'll have to miss the Mummers Parade.

Doug Hoffman (center) always wondered what it would be like to be part of the Mummers Parade. As a resident of Bancroft Lakeside Campus, where he’s been treated for autism, he met a retired member of the Golden Sunrise Fancy Club and posed a question: “Can you make me a Mummer?” (CHARLES FOX / Staff Photographer)
Doug Hoffman (center) always wondered what it would be like to be part of the Mummers Parade. As a resident of Bancroft Lakeside Campus, where he’s been treated for autism, he met a retired member of the Golden Sunrise Fancy Club and posed a question: “Can you make me a Mummer?” (CHARLES FOX / Staff Photographer)Read more
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Let's face it: No matter how good your intentions may be, it might be asking too much to drag your over-partied posterior out to Broad Street Thursday morning. But that doesn't mean you'll have to miss the Mummers Parade.

As it has since the mid-1990s, PHL17 will broadcast the festivities in their entirety. Steve Highsmith will again anchor the telecast, joined by various experts and analysts - all of whom have doctorates (or something like that) in Mummerology.

Programming starts at 8 a.m. with a one-hour preview, "Breakfast With the Mummers." From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., watch the Broad Street strut live.

Channel 17 will then switch to its regular schedule of syndicated sitcom reruns until 8 p.m., when the Fancy Brigade extravaganza will air from the Pennsylvania Convention Center via tape delay.

Channel 17's digital sub-channel 17.4 will continue its all-Mummers programming (replaying all the parades the station has broadcast between 6 a.m. and midnight daily) through Thursday. The station is carried on Comcast 253 and FIOS 468.

- Chuck Darrow

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