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Comfort TV Delivers Its Elevator Pitch

Most of us don’t approach elevators with any sense of wonder. But in the Comfort TV era, these simple conveyances provided a plethora of plot lines and punch lines. The most recurrent option, used...

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My Three Favorite Commentary Tracks – and One That Should Have Been

As the DVD market continues to contract, it takes with it not just the pleasure many of us feel in owning the shows we love, but the bonus content packaged on many television season sets that adds to...

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The 100 Most Memorable Songs Introduced by Classic TV

It’s been a while since we’ve tried a multi-week feature, and anything related to music here usually draws an enthusiastic response. So over the next few weeks let’s take an in-depth look at some...

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The 100 Most Memorable Songs Introduced by Classic TV, Pt. 2

Welcome back, culture lovers, for the second installment of Comfort TV’s ranking of 100 memorable moments when music and television came together. You’ll notice that most of the entries on the list...

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The 100 Most Memorable Songs Introduced by Classic TV, Pt. 3

Once again, we move further up our top 100 moments when music and television came together. You already know the drill by this time so let’s dive right in.  #59: ThemeThe Addams FamilyThe delightfully...

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The 100 Most Memorable Songs Introduced by Classic TV, Pt. 4

We’re reached the top 40 – so let’s channel our inner Casey Kasem and count them down once more. #39“Inside, Outside, Upside Down”Josie and the PussycatsThis is bubblegum pop at its sweetest and most...

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The 100 Most Memorable Songs Introduced by Classic TV, Pt. 5

And we’ve reached the top 20 at last. Hope you’ve enjoyed taking this journey with me, even if your most memorable TV songs are different than mine. #19“Different Worlds”AngieThe jubilant “Different...

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You Didn’t Have to Be There – But I’m Glad I Was

While Comfort TV was wrapping up the top 100 TV-inspired songs ranking (just keep scrolling down if you missed it), three of the medium’s most beloved stars took their final bows: Tim Conway, Doris Day...

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Top TV Moments: Season Hubley

Not long ago I read Paul Mavis’s review of the 1985 TV movie The Key To Rebecca at the Drunk TV website. As always Mavis was insightful, acerbic, and unapologetically lascivious in his assessment, but...

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Once and For All: Are the 1980s “Comfort TV”?

When I started this blog, I defined Comfort TV as the television era that covers the 1950s through the 1980s. I even wrote a piece last year about evaluating 1989 as the final year of the classic TV...

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The Comfort TV Healthcare Plan

The other night I was watching a season 3 episode of The Donna Reed Show entitled “Never Marry a Doctor.” A couple of scenes caught my attention at a deeper level than they have in previous...

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The 10 Best Classic TV Mego Figures

About ten years ago I started collecting Megos again. The first step in this pursuit was getting past the sticker shock of discovering that the 8” figures my 10 year-old self bought for less than a...

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Five Classic TV Series That Should Have Had a Christmas Show

I love the whole idea of “Christmas in July.” Outside my home the temperature is in the triple digits, and now that Independence Day is over I’ll have no more days off from work until Labor Day. So...

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Looking Around the Frame

In The Electronic Mirror, the fine book written by my fellow classic TV blogger Mitchell Hadley, there’s a section in which Mitchell discusses program clichés, and uses this TV Guide listing for an...

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Top TV Moments: Denny Miller

If Denny Miller had a specialty, it was playing guys who were wound a little too tight. Blonde and blue-eyed, 6’4, with a chiseled, muscular frame, Miller looked like the bruiser that skinny bookworms...

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Purchase or Pass: The New Scooby-Doo Movies

What is it about Scooby-Doo?No, really, I’m curious – why exactly has this been such a popular, enduring franchise? I am as fond of Scooby and the gang as any baby boomer that grew up on Saturday...

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When Classic TV Saved the Planet

  If you think there’s never been more concern about the environment than there is now, you obviously weren’t watching television in the early 1970s. Ecology is not a word you hear much anymore but it...

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The Unshakeables: “They’re Tearing Down Tim Riley’s Bar”

I’ve always believed that if you are an adult of at least average intelligence, a great work of art will speak to you. Wherever you’re from, however you were raised, and whichever demographic box you...

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Why Rhoda Was Necessary

The precept of casting today decrees that roles should be filled by actors who share the ethnic and cultural experiences of their characters. We are told it is more appropriate and more inclusive. But...

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What’s Wrong With “Fan-Friendly” Television?

One of my favorite post-Comfort TV era shows is Veronica Mars. So I was elated when I heard fresh episodes were coming this year. Then I read a spoiler about how the new story arc ended, and it...

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