Sometimes a television show will sneak up on you … and as you watch it, you immediately get hooked into the program and all its intricacies. And that happened to me in 1978, when The Paper Chase debuted on CBS. The series was set on the 1973 motion picture of the same name, and John…
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Whew! – the game show I’m still trying to figure out
There once was a time when you could stay home from school and the three major television networks would bless your “sick day” or “hooky day” with a plethora of game shows and quiz shows. NBC gave your Hollywood Squares and Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, while CBS offered The Joker’s Wild and The Price…
Read MoreThe All In The Family episode that still stings today
All In The Family is one of the greatest sitcoms of all time – heck, I’d even argue it’s one of the greatest scripted television shows of all time. The show broke so many taboos and boundaries and sitcom norms that, even today, you can watch episodes of this classic series and go, “How in…
Read MoreIf South Park was shot as a super-wide-screen live-action Technicolor classic in Super Panavision 70…
The TV show South Park has its own distinct animation style. The whole show looks like it was animated with paper cutouts. Okay, back in the early years it WAS animated that way, even though the show today is totally computer-generated, but still … What if the show went in the OTHER direction, and we…
Read MoreBob Newhart knows Billy Joel’s pain – at least in Albany.
Last Sunday, CBS aired a pre-taped Billy Joel concert as a television special. Well, because the previous program on the schedule – some golf tournament of note – ran a little long, the Billy Joel concert started a few minutes late. That “few minutes late” meant that when Billy Joel took to the keyboard and…
Read MoreWe’re finally getting the final season of Snowpiercer … in 2025.
Way back in 2023, I blogged about the fourth and final season of the dystopian drama Snowpiercer, which would have wrapped up the post-apocalyptic fantasy series. Then TNT, the network that aired the first three seasons of Snowpiercer, culled the show from its lineup and refused to air the fourth season – even though the…
Read MoreHistory in a minute or less
In the 1970’s, CBS used to run a series of “Bicentennial Minutes,” which aired in prime time.โActors and historians would explain tales of historic significance that led up to our country’s 200th birthday. And sure enough … some of these “Bicentennial Minutes” exist on YouTube.โI was actually surprised that they survived in the first place.โBut…
Read MoreMel-O-Toons: Cheap cartoons for weekday enjoyment
Follow along with me on this. In my childhood years, there was a simple plan on who would take care of me.โDuring the school year, I would stay with my mother and stepfather in whatever double-deep, double-wide trailer park they were located.โAnd as soon as the school year ended, my Grandma Betty and my great-grandmother…
Read MoreDamn it, Toyota, you ALMOST got that holiday commercial right.
Yeah, I can be an annoying little wiseacre when it comes to historic dramas.โI really can.โIf you can’t get the historic facts accurate on your TV drama, it’s going to take me completely out of the “suspension of disbelief” to the point where I’m not watching a TV show, but I’m instead watching actors in…
Read MoreRight about now, dem’ Duke boys done got themselves in a mess that even Uncle Jesse can’t get them out of.
I will admit to watching The Dukes of Hazzard on Friday nights a long, long time ago.โMaybe it was the formulaic routine of the show – Duke boys get mixed up in something, Duke boys try to outfox Sheriff Roscoe and Boss Hogg, Duke boys jump their orange ’69 Dodge Charger over some riverbed, and…
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