Here’s to all that gorgeous Ice Capades snatch at the Bakersfield Civic Auditorium!
Continue reading ‘Hanna-Barbera’s All-Star Comedy Ice Revue’ (1978): A glorious, forgotten TV special
Here’s to all that gorgeous Ice Capades snatch at the Bakersfield Civic Auditorium!
Continue reading ‘Hanna-Barbera’s All-Star Comedy Ice Revue’ (1978): A glorious, forgotten TV specialYou think the Stone family would make you wear a mask? Please.
Continue reading ‘The Donna Reed Show’ (Season 1): A charming, misunderstood gem“Falcon Crest is a cancer; it contaminates everybody it touches! Get away, if you can!”
Continue reading ‘Falcon Crest’ (Season 2): Melodrama & glamour ramp up in 2nd season“Better cock your pistols.”
Continue reading ‘Matt Houston’ (Season 1): Fun, breezy entry in the 80s P.I. crazeAttention! Attention fellow American lockdown inmates!
Continue reading ‘Mayflower: The Pilgrims’ Adventure’ (1979): Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Mayflower’s landingWell, I’m not the kind to kiss and tell,
But I’ve been seen with Farrah.
Continue reading ‘The Fall Guy’ (Season 1): Perfectly executed high-concept TV“Why did you talk to me?” “The whole thing is fantastic! I just don’t understand it!”
“Don’t try…it’s bigger than both of us.”
Uh…they couldn’t just adopt?
Continue reading ‘The Boy in the Plastic Bubble’ (1976): Impossibly hopeful teen romance scores bigNice memories of a fun tween show that would never get on Nickelodeon’s schedule today.
Continue reading ‘Hey Dude’ (Season 1): Pleasant nostalgia from Nickelodeon’s transition periodIt’ll make you feel like a kid again.
Continue reading ‘The Toys That Made Us’ (Season 1): Streaming series conjures Gen X nostalgiaPlease. If the question is: “What’s the best TV spy series ever produced?” I don’t want to hear something like Mission: Impossible or The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (even though I love those two), Continue reading ‘Secret Agent’: England’s Danger Man thrills viewers the world over
Looking out the window (and ducking), it’s probably a good time to revisit the first season of The Rookies, one of the best-remembered cop shows from the “golden age” of network TV police series (Sony put out a DVD set for this a few years ago…and it’s worth some bucks now).
Continue reading ‘The Rookies’ (Season 1): ’70s police actioner holds up well today“When you were a little boy, did you want to be what you are now?”
“No.”
“How come, Dad?”
“Well, because I guess when I was a little boy, I didn’t know that one day there would be a little boy like you that I would be the father of.”
“Is that the most important thing you are? A father?”
“That is the most important thing I am.”
“Females are strong as hell!”
And they’d have to be to survive an underground doomsday bunker for 15 years. But does it suck as much as viral social media attention and learning to use a smartphone?
Continue reading ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ (Season 1): Fish-out-of-water comedy laughs at everyoneNow, what’s a Drunk TV virtual Fall TV season..without some special event television (“We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming tonight because of the f*cking actor’s strike to bring you an NBC Movie Event!”)?
Continue reading ‘Shogun’ (1980): NBC’s blockbuster miniseries premiered 40 years agoWelcome back,
Your dreams were your ticket out.
Welcome back,
To that same old place that you laughed about.
Well, the names have all changed since you hung around,
But those dreams have remained and they’ve turned around.
Who’d have thought they’d lead ya,
Who’d have thought they’d lead ya,
Back here where we need ya?
Back here where we need ya?
Yeah, we tease him a lot,
‘Cause we got him on the spot,
Welcome back.
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.
Did you know there used to be a cult following for this show? Yes, seriously. That surely can’t be the case now, can it?
Continue reading ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Season 1): Laughably straight-faced ’80s fantasyQuite simply one of the most satisfying TV Westerns ever created.
Continue reading ‘Maverick’ (Season 1): 50s Western was a genre game changerA few years ago, Warner Bros. released Scarecrow and Mrs. King: The Complete First Season, a 5-disc, 21-episode collection of the 1983-1984 premier season of the light, charming action/adventure comedy/romance series starring Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner.
Continue reading ‘Scarecrow and Mrs. King’ (Season 1): Fun, Romantic, Reagan-era spy adventure