Adding a touch of weirdness to all this: Paula's sister, Ann Prentiss (the co-star of CAPTAIN NICE, which also aired in 1967), tried to hire a hitman to kill Richard Benjamin (among other felony offenses). She was found guilty and sentenced to prison, where she died in 2010. Sure would like to know more about that…

Benjamin stars in the classic THE PEPSI SYNDROME sketch.

I think Esparza may be a good actor just miscast, because his performance as Barba is one of the worst on television right now.

I have to say I'm surprised to see this article. Well, for one, it's shocking to see the AV Club acknowledge that the L&O shows exist. But mainly because the opposite of the article's conceit is true. While there was a period where SVU was the best of all the L&O series (more or less around the Farina/Thompson years),…

And no P&R character named Bob for him to say hi to.

"Talky, plainly directed?" You don't have to tell us you've never seen a MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE episode. Probably no television series ever has featured less dialogue, and it's easily the most visually stylish drama of the 1960s.

Looking forward to it. What a wonderful show and stupidly buried a timeslot behind GREEN ACRES. Can you imagine a worse lead-in for HE & SHE than GREEN ACRES (which is no criticism of GREEN ACRES' quality, but…)?

Well, he was good at it.

Curious how this will affect the brother/sister relationship that was so integral to the four-color stories.

Neither did the people who made BBTS, apparently. Among all the extras on the Shout Factory Blu-ray, the name "Murakami" comes up, I believe, once. As a caption on a behind-the-scenes photo, IIRC. But not in the commentaries or documentaries. Weird.

Not that it compares quite to NEWHART, but Norm Macdonald's extremely underrated A MINUTE WITH STAN HOOPER was basically a remake of NEWHART and a very funny one. Yes, it was created by Barry Kemp.

WKRP was on videotape. I suspect it was to save money, though Newhart never liked the idea.

I'm glad Phil mentioned Moranis' blistering SCTV parody. As Homer Simpson said, "It's funny because it's true."

"I got your cookies in a wringer!"

The end of "The Zombie" is still just about the most terrifying scene of horror I've seen on network television. The show didn't work, I think, because the network and the producers didn't want really to do horror (particularly the censors) or didn't know how. And I think the coincidence of all these monsters hitting…

And Conaway, but that was before TAXI.

My mistake. THE SUNSHINE BOYS. Thank you.

I never thought about a connection between BARNEY MILLER and 87th Precinct before (*huge* fan of both), but it makes sense. Good thinking.

Shatner had starring roles in TV series during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s.

Keith David as Paul Ford is great.