Michael Richards would have been better off as Kramer getting a gumshoe job… Funny or not by intention, the 30 minute format is too short for detective stories. As noir drama, "Johnny Staccato" was style over substance from being trapped in the half-hour cage. Could have been great!

Time will always tell. Despite the stories about Bob Crane and the controversies about a sitcom in a Nazi prison camp, "Hogan’s Heroes" remains a more aired and watched show than "All in the Family", and not from a lack of effort by networks to air the latter. "All in the Family" plays more like a 1970's program than…