I would read that. I would especially read a 90 BRISTOL COURT TV Club 10.

Um, yes. If FIBBER MCGEE ran four seasons and was constantly in syndication and DVD and frequently talked about as one of the era's elite sitcoms.

I agree. I have been critical of the writers in this thread and in the past, but making it personal like that is uncalled for and uncool.

Because (supposedly) nobody reads the articles about classic TV shows. You missed that part.

VanDerWerff about TV Club Classic coverage of pre-'90s shows:

TAXI
BARNEY MILLER
BOB NEWHART SHOW
MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW
ALL IN THE FAMILY
M*A*S*H
WKRP IN CINCINNATI
THE ODD COUPLE
CHICO AND THE MAN
SOAP

Comparing CORONET BLUE, a series that had only about 17 episodes and was never rerun (aside from an occasional TV Land one-off), and WKRP, a four-season show that has been stripped in syndication for thirty years, is kind of absurd.

262 comments and counting, yet VanDerWerff told me that nobody reads the articles about old TV shows.

Maybe it's like Dennis Miller's line about jury duty. You qualify by proving that you don't know shit about the subject being covered.

Rarely been in syndication? I don't think it has ever been out of syndication. Antenna TV is airing it now. TNN used to run it. So did TV Land. WGN. Not to mention the many local stations that stripped it.

Yeah, it's a really good theme song that gives you the premise of the series and Andy Travis' backstory in a minute. And it's catchy.

And of course it made the comedy funnier because it was about something. That's one thing that bothers me about today's sitcoms—even the ones I like. None of them are about anything. There's no weight to the stories or the humor. One exception was THE OFFICE's occasional bittersweetness, though the show still didn't…

GOOD MORNING WORLD is (somehow) available on DVD. I've seen three or four episodes, and they're pretty good. Not FRASIER or NEWSRADIO or WKRP good, but pretty good.

No, but they can be expected to see the great and/or popular ones. WKRP isn't exactly an obscurity.

"Hard to track down?" Not only is the first season on DVD, but I don't think WKRP has been off the air in the U.S. a single day since its 1978 premiere. You would have to work very hard to avoid seeing a WKRP rerun somewhere.

Jesus, Sims: "NewsRadio is basically my favorite show, so why would I watch another sitcom about radio production?"

I've complained about this before, but if you're a person who is paid money to write about television shows, and you "only vaguely heard of" WKRP IN CINCINNATI and you believe classic sitcoms like HONEYMOONERS, LUCY, DICK VAN DYKE, BILKO, etc. are "so dated," "slow," "mushy," and "hard for me," you need to quit that…

Agreed.

I don't think Kluger was asking Alicia for a date, though Tambor played it coyly as a cliffhanger.

Yes, the Danza arc was good and he was terrific. Isn't that where "Plan B" was invented?