Something Old, Nothing New

I wrote a post a couple of months back about my love for the song "An Occasional Man." Since then, I've found the movie it co...

As Variety's Cynthia Littleton noted yesterday in her great piece on WKRP , yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the show's most ...

This was one I was always hoping the original Grudge Match site would do, but no (though they did do Pinky and the Brain vs. Dogbert ). So I...

Based on an earlier post about the re-tooling of Newhart into a better show than it promised to be in its first season (in my opinion, anyw...

The Petty Girl (1950) is a musical I was interested in seeing, partly because I'm a Harold Arlen buff and he and Johnny Mercer wrote f...

This is one of my favorite episodes from the fourth season. Andy goes out with Mama Carlson to try and get her to pay for a new transmitter ...

In comments, John Panozzi asks if I have anything to say about the early '90s cartoon Taz-Mania . I've been meaning to get around to...

This blog points out something I hadn't noticed before about Valley of the Dolls -- the camp-classic scene between Helen (Susan Hayw...

I devoted a recent post to a '50s Chuck Jones cartoon I didn't like, so here's one I do like -- in fact, one of my favorites amo...

Apparently the special features have been recorded for season 2 of Freakazoid! , so we should get it next year, probably along with the rest...

Season 4; Johnny comes into money -- continuity alert, the money is a settlement from the station that fired him for saying "Booger...

Battle of the invisible TV wives: Vera Peterson ( Cheers ) vs. Maris Crane ( Frasier ). The referee of the fight, of course, is Lars Linds...

I really liked her. In everything. She never quite made it big in anything, but she did everything very well: funny, sexy, a fine singer an...

Teletoon Retro is rerunning The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby-Doo , one of the worst Scooby-Doo series ever (and that's saying something) bu...

A lot of '60s Batman talk going around today, what with Batman's debate with Penguin going viral and, sadly, the death of Neal Hef...

Update: In comments, Marty McKee writes: "This has been the case for more than a decade now. It's the result of negotiations betwe...

Over at mon autre blog I have an episode of Blansky's Beauties , the bomb Garry Marshall created for ABC in 1977 to get in on the ...

Another request, for a season 1 episode that is so heavily cut on Hulu as to be almost unwatchable in spots: the episode where Johnny mistak...

In a previous post, I noted that the opening of Touch of Evil in its original version -- before the 1998 version removed the credits and th...

It's welcome news that the second season of Night Court will finally arrive on DVD (please, let them at least get as far as bringing o...