Something Old, Nothing New

Season 3 of "Moonlighting" arrives on DVD in February 2006. This is the season that made the show the stuff of '80s legend: ...

Welcome to anyone who stumbled upon this blog based on Terry Teachout's kind mention in the Wall Street Journal. And by the way, Sara...

I recently wrote, in full-on '80s nostalgia mode, a post about cartoons based on toys. Continuing that theme, I'd like to post an ...

Thrilling Days of Yesteryear has a good piece on the show "The White Shadow." And Man vs. Clown follows up my own post on the ep...

The "Which Peanuts Character Are You" test has been picked up on quite a few other blogs; it's shorter than most such tests, ...

I have nothing to say about the new movie version of Pride and Prejudice . No, I'm sorry, I just can't. I remember a time when the...

I am currently listening to a good new recording of Mozart's Mass in C minor, K. 427 . Known as the "Great" Mass because of i...

"Arrested Development" is out. (Also "Seventh Heaven," the show that everybody loves to hate but was always more popul...

In this corner: J.R.R. Tolkien , an eccentric, bookish Englishman who wrote an immensely long, multi-volume novel, The Lord of the Rings , i...

I love Ernst Lubitsch's Design For Living (available in The Gary Cooper Collection in a pretty good print) for many reasons. I love t...

Another in my bizarre favorite category, the depressing song lyric. This is another song from the great 1954 flop musical The Golden Apple ...

Am very slowly trying to work my way through some of the interviews from the Archive of American Television , now available on Google Video ...

I missed this news item, but it appears that "The Love Boat" is being prepared for DVD release. You don't need me to tell you...

Snoopy!!! The Musical , a follow-up to the hugely successful You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown , has never achieved anything like the suc...

Those of you considering buying the new Beavis and Butt-Head Collection should be warned that five of the cartoons are apparently cut (the ...

Also from Platypus Comix is an interesting interview with animator Jon McClenahan , founder of the Chicago animation studio StarToons, and...

Platypus Comix says it's "The Mork and Mindy-Laverne and Shirley-Fonz Super Hour" . Sounds about right to me. Though around ...

I've always liked the recordings of Eddie Cantor , and in some ways I think his taste in songs was better than that of his rival, Al Jol...

Apparently "Willo The Wisp" was a real show. I wasn't completely sure. When I was a kid, TV Ontario, Ontario's public TV...

I feel a little embarrassed bringing this up, but one of the least-known but longest-running sites devoted to old movies -- it's been ar...