Which leads to another question, if you're right. Does AV Club want readers who are actively engaged in their articles or those who click a link and maybe stay on the page for five seconds?

Without heavy doses of CADDYSHACK, INSIDE THE NFL, NOT NECESSARILY THE NEWS, THE BEASTMASTER, SILENT RAGE, PORKY'S, and BREAKING AWAY, I cannot agree.

They always say no one reads them, yet every time they publish an article like this one about old TV shows, it gets 500 comments. So I don't know what the hell they're complaining about.

All television series, by their very nature, are formulaic. It would be impossible to do 22-39 episodes of any series per season without falling into a sort of formula. Think about your favorite series. Can you spot a certain formula?

Thank you!

It is insane that THE DEFENDERS is not available to see anywhere. I have a handful of episodes, and they're pretty great drama. And actually drama, as opposed to melodrama, which is what all today's "dramas" are (yes, even BREAKING BAD).

DANGER MAN is pretty great. You should give it a try. Every episode is on R1 DVD.

You will probably have to define "dated."

Nice piece. What I find interesting is that Brandon is saying the same things about Me-TV that we said about TV Land 20 years ago. If you weren't there, it's hard to explain how incredible TV Land was when it came on the air (and commercial-free too!).

I'm guessing not even one reader skipped ahead in the above article to avoid spoilers.

I love "The Naked Time," but it has always bothered me that an Enterprise crewman could be that stupid.

"Charlie X" used to be not a favorite of mine, but watching it again last night, I was really touched by the performances by Shatner and Walker. The scene where Kirk talks to Charlie about the birds and the bees is terrifically acted, and I love Kirk's defense of Charlie to the Thasian at the end ("The boy belongs…

She was right—this stuff is useful. Too much television has been mindlessly destroyed by producers/networks/stations that didn't give a damn about it. All films, all television are part of our history. It deserves to be preserved and studied. I'm so happy these tapes exist.

When New World submitted SHOGUN ASSASSIN to the MPAA, it got an X rating. So Roger Corman cut out some footage, resubmitted it, got an R. Put the X footage back into the film and released it to theaters with the R rating.

I gotta say—I never expected Eric Carmen to get an article at the AV Club. Kudos, guys.

And THE MANHUNTER, MAN FROM ATLANTIS, and DAVID CASSIDY—MAN UNDERCOVER.

Still ready to organize the MANNIX petition. Who's with me?

"- Privately-owned broadcast networks and the content providers are in business to make lots of money, which prestige anthologies and miniseries can't reliably give them. What they can give are critical acclaim and awards, but first the networks and content producers have to feel they want acclaim more than money. "

How could network ratings be any worse than they already are? They have virtually nothing to lose and everything to gain by attempting more adventurous programming, and by "more adventurous," I mean programming that was hugely popular and mainstream once upon a time. Why would THE WINDS OF WAR attract huge ratings in…

But that's cable, not network, with cable budgets and cable-level performers and—most importantly—cable-level marketing and promotion.