Excellent episode and a great write-up; you made me think of tangents in the show and this ep that I hadn’t thought of. I really had to work to follow the timeline; they didn’t drop enough hints that the first half of the show was a year in the past (I missed the scarface reference), and even thought, “Dan? Back on…

Duke is what got me started on Genesis, and I happily worked my way backwards through their catalog and the solo albums (shout-out to Tony Banks’ A Curious Feeling, a vastly underappreciated album). Both their self-titled album and Invisible Touch contain half “okay” tracks and half classic-quality material.

Someone may not like Golden Earring, but you can’t say they haven’t put out masses of music. A concert of theirs probably lasts three hours just to play the European hits; they had 30 top 10 singles in Holland since 1961 (39 if you go to top 20).

Perhaps I’m biased, but this is one of the best acted of the fantasy shows that I watch. The DC/CW-verse has a dependable core, and Doctor Who can range from great to okay, but Lucifer has a solid ensemble that never fails to hit their marks, even in the small moments. Ellis and Helfer did such an amazing job playing…

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“Justice”, a first-season episode. I don’t know why I remember that.

“All Good Things”, the TNG finale, was a two-parter, and very well done - probably the best sci-fi ending next to Babylon 5's “Sleeping in Light”.

Um, Mick did get to shoot people towards the end of the episode; we didn’t see the flame come out and set his targets on fire, but he did, indeed, shoot.

Well, it’s a low pole to clear.

Paired up with the story about the two of them going out on a date - or “date”, I guess - this becomes even more extra special creepy.

The Smothers Brothers’ show was cool since they didn’t care whose chain got yanked; they pretty much went after the network, the military, bigots, politics - anyone who was a deserving target.

Look up John Henry Faulk, a bit player on Hee Haw. One of my few heroes.

And I thought I was the only one who remembered that movie. I still remember the running gag about Avalon being “a SIC man”, SIC being the government agency he worked for.

I am stunned to this day that Les Poupées de Paris - the puppet show in question - actually got to be part of the World’s Fairs in New York 1964 and San Antonio 1968, and even after that the Kroffts did kid shows.

They weren’t, but the writers obviously were.

1964 here, and since there was not much else to watch back then, a bunch of these variety shows took up valuable gobs of our time. Sadly, I still recall them, these scars on the brain, these boils of memory.

This is one of the better finales up there, and I’ll put it with The Shield, Mad Men, Parks and Recreation, and TNG.

So, half of Babylon 5?

All I wanted to learn about life in the Milne household, I got from Alan Coren’s excellent column “The Hell at Pooh Corner”, from his collection Golfing for Cats (you know, the one with the swastika on the cover, since the biggest selling books at the time were on golfing, cats, and the Third Reich).

Great write-up. Now that you’ve finally succumbed to pressure and done Threads, my next vote is for Ladybug, Ladybug, which scared me as a kid so much I’m on the fence about ever seeing it.