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‘A Very Brady Christmas’ (1988): A bizarre, weird, & miscalculated holiday treat

I read a piece the other day saying Gen X pop culture (mine) is totally worthless and is disappearing way faster than stuff produced during the Boomer years (translation: I needed an opening for this review, so I’m lying as usual). So…is the most repeated sitcom of my Gen X childhood, The Brady Bunch, still in syndication (I could look it up, but my hand is unsteady with drink)?

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‘Rich Man, Poor Man’ (1976): Racy event television from a lost era

Well…now that the seven angels have blasted their horns, rumbling them into a wild, dark winter, inventing entirely new, terrible beasts while we line up with our seven bowls to meekly beseech, “Please, sir, I’d like some more,” (Lionel Bart’s smash West End musical Oliver!, with book by John the Elder and Heinrich Heine), there doesn’t seem to be much more to do while we await our re-education camp assignments than to watch some vintage television, right?

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‘The Boy in the Plastic Bubble’ (1976): Impossibly hopeful teen romance scores big

Uh…they couldn’t just adopt?

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