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Top TV Moments: Cheryl Ladd
One of the customary career trajectories in the Comfort TV era was to break into television doing guest spots on established series. Even if the roles were small, doing enough of them could put an...
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Comfort TV Goes Grocery Shopping
A few years ago I scribbled a note to myself to write a piece about grocery stores in classic TV episodes. It never seemed the right time, and it felt like a pretty strange idea anyway.But if there was...
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Retro TV Nights (Minus One)
Every so often I like to take a look at network viewing nights from the classic TV era that can be recreated through DVDs and streaming services. The criterion was always that every show had to be...
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Classic TV: No One Can Take It Away
One of the most appealing qualities about classic television is that it’s always there when I want to enjoy it. It’s reassuring to have some constants in a world where change is inevitable. Especially...
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Classic TV’s Coolest Character Team-ups
Back in my Marvel Comics collecting days one of my favorite titles was Marvel Team-Up, which ran stories featuring Spider-Man working with (or fighting against) another prominent character in the...
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Comfort TV To Five Annoying Sitcom Kids: Get Off My Lawn
I’m in the midst of watching a new DVD release of an old TV show I’ve never seen before – a “Purchase or Pass” review about that series will appear in the blog next week. I mention it here because, as...
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Purchase or Pass: The Smith Family
In December of 2017 I wrote a piece about ten forgotten television shows I’d like to watch. One was The Smith Family, a 1971 series starring Henry Fonda as a police detective. What I said then:“The...
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Top TV Moments: Don Ho
As soon as a series from the Comfort TV era decided to shoot an episode in Hawaii, only one question remained – how could we fit Don Ho into the story?At least that’s the way it seemed in the 1960s and...
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The Most Important Lesson Taught By The Brady Bunch
I believe we can learn a lot from the classic shows of the past. Granted, many of the lessons they teach are pretty basic – honesty, courtesy, good citizenship; perhaps back then viewers wondered why...
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Purchase or Pass: Head of the Class
Just two months ago, in a piece about retro TV program lineups, I mentioned how Head of the Class was the lone holdout for those wishing to recreate a Wednesday in 1986 on ABC. And now it’s here....
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Classic TV Statues: Leave Them Alone
We are either in the midst of a cultural revolution or a crime wave, depending on your perspective. And while the damage to real people and property embodies the most regrettable aspect of these...
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Ten More Forgotten Shows I’d Like to Watch
Three years ago in this space I listed ten shows long out of circulation that I’d like to watch. In the time since that blog only one of those shows – The Smith Family– has become available. Not one to...
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Playing Classic TV Board Games
I have a friend who has collected several board games based on classic TV shows. As with most collectors, he bought them for the aesthetic quality of the boxes and game board designs, and because they...
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No Fall TV Season This Year? Rerun the 1970 Fall Season Instead
In the Comfort TV era, this was the time of year when television networks began to ramp up the promotion of their September fall schedules. For television lovers it was always a late summer full of...
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When Classic TV Meets Shakespeare
“We have seen better days,” is a quote from Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens that seems appropriate at the moment. Comfort TV provides a welcome diversion from our everyday struggles, and sometimes...
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Comfort TV Quiz: Which Shows Featured These Characters?
Back in 2014, I created a trivia challenge that most readers seemed to enjoy, so I figured it was long past time to test your classic TV knowledge again. The first time around the quiz mixed character...
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Comfort TV Quiz: The Answers
Well, how did everyone do? Here are the answers to last week's character quiz. 1. Margaret Lanterman Also known as the Log Lady on Twin Peaks 2. Letitia Lawrence The role that brought Kristy...
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Purchase or Pass: The Immortal
Before we get started, one quick note: If you recently left a comment on one of my posts and it was not published, my apologies. Over the past few weeks this blog has been inundated with hundreds of...
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The Divine Diana Rigg
In 1987 I visited England for the first time. The weeks leading up to the trip were filled with difficult choices on what to do in those ten days, amidst a seemingly endless selection of historical...
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Reflections on The Twilight Zone's "A Nice Place to Visit"
During this seemingly endless pandemic I’ve taken to watching the sermons of Bishop Robert Barron on YouTube. A few weeks ago, he spoke at length about a painting in Paris’s Musee d’Orsay by Thomas...
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