Maybe he didn't know he was in love with her until recently. My take is it wasn't until he was in exile in Latin America that he started thinking about some kind of life…a life he had completely ignored during his years-long quest for revenge. How could he love another woman until his late wife had been safely laid to…

A MENTALIST/SUPERNATURAL crossover would be pretty sweet.

Oh, no way this episode or, for that matter, most '70s sitcom episodes would get on the air today. So many of those episodes were about something, and today's sitcoms are about nothing. For whatever the virtues of today's "Golden Age of TV" (which I think is horseshit), none of its sitcoms take place in the real world…

"National Anthem, Francis Scott Key." “The Contest Nobody Could Win” is great. Actually, all ten episodes picked are great…an easy chore, because so many WKRPs are great.

No THE MENTALIST?

I would say the QM shows had even higher production values than MANNIX/MISSION IMPOSSIBLE at Paramount. Martin didn't mind throwing money around on guest stars, scripts, and location shooting. The best QM shows are as good or better than MANNIX; that would include THE FUGITIVE and THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO.

People were worried about violence on television back in the 1950s, particularly on THE UNTOUCHABLES.

The first season should be seen as a novelty only. It has some good solid mysteries, but MANNIX didn't really become MANNIX until Joe went on his own in the second season.

Next to THE ROCKFORD FILES (and maybe HARRY O), MANNIX is the greatest private-eye show ever made. It was certainly gimmick-free (unlike the other series I mentioned), but with the solid, likable Mike Connors and high Paramount production values (thanks also to Bruce Geller's dedication to quality), MANNIX didn't need…

You gotta love that Dalton is just as enthusiastic about being on CHARLIE'S ANGELS (the Ice Cat!) as he is about LION IN WINTER. What a cool dude.

"A yellow costume won't be believable" is such a copout. More like "we're so ashamed of making a movie about comic books that we need to make it as un-comic-book-like as we can so our friends at the other studios won't think we're nerds."

It would probably be more entertaining if it were shitty. Some of the acting is very good, and the action sequences rank among the best in any of the Marvel films (certainly better than THE AVENGERS). But it's a lazy, unimaginative retread of plot points from the Raimi movies, and with the literally hundreds of…

It could be expensive, but with a 13-episode season, no reason for every cast member to be in every episode.

I always thought it would be smart of NBC to create a LAW & ORDER umbrella and rotate episodes of L&O, SVU, CI, and whatever other permutation (bring back TRIAL BY JURY?) in one time slot. If they did 13 episodes each of L&O, SVU, and CI, that would give them 39 weeks of original programming in that time slot without…

Geez, Caroline, that was just mean.

Hey, I own this album. I thought I was the only one.

I'm curious. Did you try to get in touch with Blake? While I can understand a reticence, I don't believe his recent notoriety disqualifies him from being a valuable source of knowledge.

Well, there's the potential for great drama. How can you not sell that? Throw in eleven famous/moderately famous stars appearing each week. If I were running the series, I would do some shows live—maybe every fourth episode. Another selling point.

Gosh, that's right. So depressing to realize that all but two stars of this series, which left the air just three years before I was born, have passed away.

I'm looking forward to checking this show out. Too bad it isn't readily available, but you can find it if you look hard enough. I still love the concept of THE RICHARD BOONE SHOW, and I'd love to see someone else try it today (though it's still likely too ambitious for today's alleged Golden Age).