As someone who's always looking for ways to bring up the '80s Wilford Brimley/Shannen Doherty family-time series, Our House, Max Baer was mentioned there, too.

While the claims have some similarities, Bela Lugosi, Jr. is a successful attorney who put in a tremendous amount of creative legal work to establish licensed image rights.

As a child, Spector's father committed suicide. The title of Spector's first hit, "To Know Him is to Love Him" is taken from the epitaph of his father's tombstone.

Along with Cosby Show residuals, I wonder if royalties for that song plummet this winter.

That was my favorite episode of the PBS anthology series Trying Times. Garr's character was learning to drive in part because she felt threatened that her husband would leave her for Catherine Bach.

The gift that accompanied my first CD player was the In My Tribe disc from 10,000 Maniacs. Surely my parents asked my brother for a recommendation, and I'm not sure how he came up with that rather than the typical Bruce-type rock that I favored.

In the '70s, ABC rode the Olympics and prime-time NFL to broader network success (at least ratings-wise), but that model might not exist anymore. Rights fees and production costs are so astronomical now that there might not be the budget to do everything. Moreover, creative energy is distributed across 100 channels,…

There's no room to recount even a small fraction of Engelberg's shady dealings, but here's one small example.

"Joe was the best hitter. Dom was the best fielder. Vince was the best….singer."

Trinny and Susannah! They were my introduction to BBC America as they were so funny and biting.

That story seemed to get inordinate attention from the New York Post considering that it was a charity event that never would have registered with the show's audience. And, as you said, others went much further than Paige.

If you figure Archie was about 50 when the show debuted in 1970, his character was born in 1920. At that point, Native Americans and those born in Asia weren't even allowed to become citizens. He fought WW2 in a segregated army. Brown would have been decided in his mid-thirties. The Civil Rights Act would have been…

I think Sal Viscuso and Todd Susman did those announcements, in addition to playing on-camera guest roles as patients. Viscuso had the younger-sounding voice and is probably most famous as the priest on Soap. Susman has a scratchy voice and is probably best known for playing Officer Shiflett on Newhart..

She was very funny in that small role, even though it gets overlooked in the Hernandez/J.F.Kramer stuff.

Ha! Kind of like reading The Gulag Archipelago with a foreword by McLean Stevenson.

Here's the clip of Luis and Maria's wedding with David's part at 11:00. It's just 20 seconds, but knowing the backstory and how talented and vibrant he was when the show started, the look on his face is heartbreaking.

According to Wikipedia, The Day After got a 46 rating and a 62 share—Super Bowl numbers.

I was delivering papers as a 12-year-old and the furor was so great that the Sunday front page was devoted to a long explanation of what would happen if our county courthouse, rather than Lawrence, Kansas, were Ground Zero.

When discussing how things would go on after Mr. Hooper's death, David said that Mr. Hooper had left the store to him.

Warren Harding was a president who died in office and was probably best-remembered for his affair with Nan Britton.