I am Lothar of the Hill People!

The original plan was for Esquire to replace G4, but I think they actually ended up launching it in place of Style. G4 is still operating, as far as I can tell (although I don't get it on DirecTV.)

I'm old enough to remember when Richard Anderson played Oscar Goldman on both "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman," even when the latter was cancelled by ABC and picked up by NBC. I think he's still the only person to play the same character on two networks simultaneously.

I always thought it was weird that — I suppose for contractual reasons — Barbara Barrie continued to appear in the opening credits of "Barney Miller" for numerous episodes after the home-life thing had been dropped and she was nowhere to be seen on the actual show.

The peanut bullet point was posted twice for extra hilarity.

Cybill Shepherd, not Sybil.

The fine actress Genevieve Bujold was originally cast as Capt. Janeway in "Star Trek: Voyager," and quit after a few days of shooting because the schedule and workload as the star of a single-camera drama was so dramatically different from the films she'd made previously.

It Happened One Reich

No mention of James Arness and Peter Graves of "Mission: Impossible" being brothers?

As I recall, the Lee Harvey Oswald episode was led special interest by the fact that Bellisario had actually met Oswald when both were in the military.

Well, I admit that Carl does have the panache of Patrick Macnee as John Steed. But Edna Krabappel is nothing like Emma Peel.

If I recall correctly, Oliver was the only correspondent who worked when Stewart came back on the air during the last writer's strike — because otherwise, his work visa would have expired and he'd have had to leave the country. (The union gave its permission, given the circumstances.)

Didn't Garth Marenghi's Darkplace air on Adult Swim?

One piece of casting you didn't mention: one of the two men whom B&B meet in the desert is voiced by, according to the credits, "Earl Hofert" — actually B&B fan David Letterman.

Much more appropriate would have been Sam Waterston for Old Glory Insurance.

Every story I've ever read about Fred Rogers — including one from people I knew personally — remarked on how much more interested he was in listening to the interviewer than in answering questions. The conversation would eventually get turned around and it would be Fred Rogers who was asking the journalist about his…

So I guess I *won't* be back next week for another episode of "Discover … The World of Science."

I recall seeing a documentary once about Lucille Ball, who greenlit both "Mission: Impossible" and "Star Trek" in the last year or two before she sold Desilu to Paramount. The documentary noted the amount of money Paramount has made from various iterations of "Trek," "M:I" and "The Untouchables" versus what they paid…

Perry Mason.

If I recall correctly, the revival was launched around the time of a writer's strike (or the threat of same), and the network and producers thought that, if necessary, old scripts could be re-shot if need be (I don't know if they ever actually went this route), keeping the show in production. And it had Greg Morris's…