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Banacek – And the Art of the Locked-Room Mystery
An armored car carrying gold bullion vanishes in the middle of a deserted Texas highway. One million dollars in cash disappears from inside a sealed case on display in the middle of a busy Las Vegas...
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Terrible Shows I Like: Eisenhower and Lutz
Allan Burns died back in January of this year, something that should have been acknowledged in this blog. Burns was the co-creator of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and the writer of some of its most...
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The Classic TV Club Scene
One element of classic TV I find especially appealing is how it depicts aspects of everyday life in America that were familiar to viewers when the shows first aired, but no longer reflect how we...
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Rolling Stone’s Top 100 Sitcoms List – What it Got Right – And Wrong
Rolling Stone magazine recently put out a list of the 100 greatest sitcoms of all time. You can see the results here My gut reaction as a classic TV fan was to bemoan the selection of so many recent...
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Which Comfort TV Characters Did You Emulate?
Television had a much greater influence on its viewing audience back in the era where there were just three networks, and everyone was watching the same shows. One way this manifested itself is in...
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Ranking the Ranks of TV’s Top Cops
Police shows have been a television staple since the earliest days of the medium. And like many such shows they can educate the public about the profession they portray, even if that is not their...
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Oh, Captain, My Captain: Gavin MacLeod’s Top TV Moments
“Veteran supporting actor…” These were the first three words to the obituary for Gavin MacLeod that ran in most newspapers on the day of his passing. Intended or not there’s a dismissive quality to...
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Soap Operas: Daytime Comfort TV
This blog has been around for nine years (no, I don’t believe it either) and in all that time I’ve never devoted a single piece to soap operas – outside of Dark Shadows, which was awesome but hardly...
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The Almost Classic Wonder Woman Episode: The Feminum Mystique
Last week I finally popped open my Blu-ray set of the Wonder Womanseries, knowing the show would look better than it ever has, and hoping that improved picture quality might offset some of the...
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Thirty Minutes of Sanity
I had just about wrapped up a “Top TV Moments” piece on Eve Plumb, who had the most interesting and varied TV career of the Brady Bunch siblings outside of that iconic series. But before I could...
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Top TV Moments: Eve Plumb
As with all of its cast members, Eve Plumb will forever be associated with The Brady Bunch, though she also appeared in other popular shows before, during and after that five-year run. It’s a...
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How Has Classic TV Inspired You?
Recently I watched an episode of Lou Grant called “Marathon.” It was an outstanding show as most of them are, depicting how a big-city newspaper springs into action when a major story breaks – in...
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Television Should Always Have A Superman
While I don’t watch much current TV, as a former comic book kid I still check out the superhero shows. But this season I dropped The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow, as both have become muddled messes,...
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Brace Yourself: Maureen McCormick is 65
If you’re on Facebook, you know that the only posts more prominent than those about politics are those about birthdays. Every day I get notices about birthdays of friends, notices about birthdays of...
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Some Star Trek Fans are Never Happy
I like to keep the negativity to a minimum here, but the title of this piece seems to me an inescapable conclusion. It’s not an indictment of all Star Trek fans, of course – only the most vocal....
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Top TV Moments: Will Geer
Zebulon Walton was one of the last roles played by Will Geer in a career that spanned nearly 50 years, and its the reason he is mostly remembered by classic TV fans as a old country gentleman with a...
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Ten Forgotten Shows I’d Like to Watch: 1970s Edition
This will be my third deep dive into the strange, enchanted realms of short-lived and nearly forgotten series from the Comfort TV era. You can read the first two here and here. I was inspired to...
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Are Classic TV Fans Introverts?
On an average evening, MeTV attracts about 700,000 viewers. Add in a few hundred thousand more for each of the other nostalgia networks, plus viewers watching classic TV shows through streaming...
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Comfort TV Court – Three Memorable Cases
Any successful situation comedy will likely feature at least one episode set in a courtroom. The reasons are obvious: 1. It’s a familiar setting even for the non-felons in the viewing audience. 2....
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Classic Halloween TV Movies: Creepy Kids Edition
The pandemic made last year scary enough without all the standard ghosts and witches of Halloween, so we pretty much skipped the holiday here. But this year I feel more celebratory, especially as...
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