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Science fiction shows can build a devotional following in nothing flat.  If a science fiction or genre show hooks you, you don’t want to let it go.  You want it to last for years and years and years, even if the actors playing the main characters leave the show and are replaced by other actors.…

Wow… the show lasted a blistering three weeks. I’m talking about “The Playboy Club,” a television drama that purported to use the backdrop of Hugh Hefner’s successful gentleman’s clubs as a jumping-off point for period drama.  The show was designed to titillate – showing Playboy bunnies and talking about the cocktail-and-martini 1960’s, with cameo narration…

This just in.  If you’re  going to throw a Star Wars reference into an interview with a college football coach, you just MIGHT want to make sure that they actually have seen some of the films. Case in point – Will Muschamp, the University of Florida head football coach. Muschamp was an assistant coach under…

I used to love watching the Jonny Quest action cartoon.  Okay, now I watch The Venture Brothers and it’s almost the same thing – yeah, The Venture Brothers is a satire on the whole “boy adventurer” cartoon genre, I know – but when you see the fantastically detailed (for a 1960’s TV cartoon) animation and…

Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, I visited a science fiction convention at the old Thruway Inn on Washington Avenue Extension.  Yes, there actually used to be a hotel and banquet house on Washington Avenue Extension.  There also used to be a widescreen movie theater, but I’ll save that for another blog post.…

I blogged about this on my old blogspot.com website, and since today is the second anniversary of the tragedy, I thought I’d share an updated version of this post. Without having to defend my appreciation of trainwreck reality television (yeah, if there’s a hottie being pursued by 20 guys, or a rock star getting pursued…

I commented on Kevin Marshall’s blog about this already, but I’d like to expand on the concept in my personal blog. There are two period dramas that will appear on network television in the new fall season.  One show, “Pan Am,” will air on ABC and will chronicle the lives of four flight attendants –…

You don’t see these very often any more. They were called network identifiers, and they would appear at the start of a prime time broadcast schedule, or after a TV show’s closing credits. What I’m going to show you now is a collection of network identifiers from the National Broadcasting Company – what we know…