Robert Culp was my junior high gym teacher.

I'm impressed that THE GOOD WIFE is wise enough to know that pros who have been around Hollywood awhile still have something to say. James Whitmore, who directed "Hitting the Fan" (and should nail an Emmy), has been around for ages (he was on BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP, for Chrissake), and frequent director Michael Zinberg…

I'm not a fan of NCIS, but it's hardly "utterly worthless and banal." I am a fan of THE MENTALIST…same comment. Neither show is overly ambitious, true, but THE MENTALIST offers a nimble Emmy-worthy star turn by Simon Baker (there could be no show without him) who is equally at ease in the show's lighter moments and in…

I don't think many TREK fans in 1979 thought so. You kinda had to be there.

The only episodes I've seen were on TV Land back when TV Land was kicking ass every day (New Twip!). It seems like almost every western from that period is on DVD now (TATE! THE RESTLESS GUN! CIMARRON CITY! WHISPERING SMITH!), but not THE WESTERNER. Maybe it's because there are few episodes or maybe it's tied up in…

Are they cut and do they have their closing credits shrunk to unreadable size so the channel can run a loud promo over them? I turned away from TV Land when it started doing that.

Sure, no one can watch everything. One can be forgiven for not having seen obscure (FITZ & BONES, for instance) shows or shows just not available easily (like THE DEFENDERS, which is ridiculously never rerun nor available on DVD). But something like THE BOB NEWHART SHOW, which has literally been on the air every day…

Did you bone down later?

And Schaal (then Valerie Harper's husband) keeps complaining about his feet. Great stuff.

I just mentioned "Caged Fury," where Bob & Emily are locked in the basement the night of Howard's Bicentennial party. I'll second the one with Bob on the talk show (Jennifer Warren is wonderful as the host) and the one about Bob's IQ. Also the one with Warden Gordon Borden making a move on Howard's lady.

The fifth season's "Caged Fury" is the brilliant episode where Bob and Emily get locked in the cellar the night of Howard's Bicentennial party. It's a terrific look at their relationship, as they bicker and feel the stress, but their love is still obvious.

Since the AV Club writers managed to somehow complete this long (and justly laudatory) piece about this episode without ever mentioning who wrote it and who directed it, allow me to provide those names: writer Bruce Kane and director James Burrows.

Framing a character within a wine glass in the foreground. That would get a director laughed out of the editing room if he or she tried it today, but I love that stuff. I'm surprised how visually staid so many current "Golden Age" dramas are. It was rare to see characters just sitting and talking in older…

Quantity over quality? Maybe not many people will read it, but the *right* people will read it.

"This is just a little Peyton Place, and you're all Harper Valley hypocrites."

Ugh. "Page views." Like one article without the proper amount of page views is going to bring the mighty AV Club to its knees. What about the idea of doing an article because it is a good idea, rather than a popular idea? Is it proper journalism to give the people what they want or what they need?

My impression is he thought Kalinda (she didn't identify herself, and he could have thought she was a cop [a supersexy cop]) was there to bust him over his drug-dealing.

Coverage of "classic" TV series that are still on the air seems silly to me.

Maybe you're just picking the wrong shows. Seems to me that if you're picking "classic" shows that are ten or twelve years old, your readers already know them, have watched them, and have nothing more to learn about them. Time to really go "classic." Choose THE MONKEES or THE ROCKFORD FILES or GET SMART or MISSION:…

This is correct. They found a college kid who was scrawny enough to pass for a 13-year-old girl. What a blow to said kid's ego. I believe in one shot you can see the kid in the background drinking to prepare himself for the infamous Johnson shot.