Our kids knew TMBG's No! about as soon as it came out - they were 3 and 5 - and even as teenagers they could appreciate Here Comes Science; on their own they've gotten into the "non-kids" albums such as Flood and Apollo 18.

California Suite was written by Neil Simon, who also wrote The Heartbreak Kid (adapted from Bruce Jay Friedman's short story "A Change of Plan"). Perhaps there have been other May/Simon collaborations?

So? Can't it still be enjoyed as a period piece?

Gol'darnit, it's RED 2 not Red 2 - In the first movie it's made clear that RED is an acronym: Retired Extremely Dangerous (referring to Bruce's character).

I wanna see a version of Fame with old people.

It should be obligatory to mention when discussing Charles Napier's appearance in "Little Green Men" (especially given that military uniform) that he was just as credible some 25 years earlier as the singing space hippie Adam in the Star Trek episode "The Way to Eden."

Hill Street was no slouch in that department, either. Furillo and others were sometimes seen at AA meetings; in the last episode of the 1984-85 season just before Steven Bochco left the series, the last thing we see and hear is Furillo (who had recently turned up positive for alcohol in a screening) at a meeting: "I…

Season 1 through 6, actually. Pembleton was absent only for the final season.
Season 1: 9 episodes, early 1993
Season 2: 4 episodes, early 1994
Seasons 3-7: full-length seasons, fall 1994 to spring 1999
TV movie: February 2000

I'm a fan of both but would only buy a box set of Homicide.

Alan Sepinwall began online with weekly NYPD Blue reviews; the FAQ, still online (www.stwing.upenn.edu/~sepin…, attributes her absence to several different reasons including budget:

That's Blacque, man.

Thanks for that reminder about Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop; hadn't given it a thought even though I'd lived next door for 4 years (an immediately adjoining apartment one floor up) during my Midwest sojourn in the mid-1980s, and heard many shows through the walls.

The Inventory should have specified (as done here) that The New Show was prime-time. As a late-night show competing against SNL it might have worked, but perhaps Lorne Michaels was restrained from competing with NBC or was still under contract, given that The New Show aired on NBC. (I saw the first episode and did not…

This Inventory was most welcome, but The Frost Report in 1966-67 could not have "served as an early performance venue for Tom Lehrer" when he was nearly at the end of his performing career by then; indeed he'd already released his last album of original material, "That Was the Year that Was" (consisting mostly or…

"The Omega Glory" wasn't Roddenberry's sole contribution as a writer, but it was one of his first. After the first pilot "The Cage," with Jeffrey Hunter, was rejected by NBC, three scripts were under consideration for the second pilot: "Mudd's Women" (by Stephen Kandel, who later wrote "I, Mudd"), "The Omega Glory" by…

"The Omega Glory" wasn't Roddenberry's sole contribution as a writer, but it was one of his first. After the first pilot "The Cage," with Jeffrey Hunter, was rejected by NBC, three scripts were under consideration for the second pilot: "Mudd's Women" (by Stephen Kandel, who later wrote "I, Mudd"), "The Omega Glory" by…

Concerning the Bo Diddley scene in Not Fade Away: I found the scene online and I'm convinced that I want to see the whole movie, but surely "one of the most famous time signatures in rock ’n’ roll" isn't what you mean to say. The famous Bo Diddley beat or rhythmic pattern is one among many that could all be written…

Concerning the Bo Diddley scene in Not Fade Away: I found the scene online and I'm convinced that I want to see the whole movie, but surely "one of the most famous time signatures in rock ’n’ roll" isn't what you mean to say. The famous Bo Diddley beat or rhythmic pattern is one among many that could all be written…

Brooks and Lithgow never disappoint, no matter what they're in. If I ever see this, they'd be the chief reasons.

Brooks and Lithgow never disappoint, no matter what they're in. If I ever see this, they'd be the chief reasons.