Director Ralph Senensky's memoirs on filming the DYNASTY pilot (then called OIL) are fascinating. The series was considered a serious drama at that point.

Yeah, Whitney's departure had nothing to do with her. It was mainly her character being uninteresting and extraneous to the stories the show wanted to tell.

What I appreciate about Aaron Spelling is that he didn't have a cynical bone in his body, I don't think. He genuinely liked shows like THE LOVE BOAT. Whereas I don't believe Chuck Lorre would ever watch 20 seconds of TWO AND A HALF MEN.

In the first video, the acting by the amateur actress is actually better than Carpenter's. I could watch Charisma's fake gulping and stammering all day.

Right. The movie has already established before this scene that she's familiar with the book.

Right, but Lucy had Desi beside her to rein her in. Desi was the Rieger.

I don't see any CHEERS (which had Sam Malone at its center) in PARKS at all. Obviously, PARKS has a lot of THE OFFICE (which had Jim Halpert at its center) in it. And even though they may draw from different sources (what sitcom doesn't?), they're still ensemble shows in which everybody is the wacky neighbor. To be…

"The Bob Newhart Show is the best kind of star vehicle: an ensemble piece whose tone and style are set by the man at its center."

The joke answers are definitely written for them. For the real answers, I believe — I'm trying to remember from Peter Marshall's autobiography — that the celebs were given several answers, one of them correct, to choose from. Or maybe just two. Or maybe I'm completely misremembering. So there was a little bit of skill…

DC— WASH D.C —AMC TYSONS CORNER 16

It was Bill Irwin.

I hope he and Marcia Wallace are together and talking about his feet.

I was also thinking of NICHOLS when I read about the possible Majors revamp.

The pilot was sold as a feature overseas, so some shots of Bonnie Bedelia nude were also filmed. These show up in the recent DVD release of the pilot.

Can you imagine the networks putting this show on today? One star, rather than an ensemble of 13 people, all fighting for airtime and none getting meaty stories. Shooting on location, far from the meddling of network suits. Stories based on character instead of plot. A one-hour drama with little to no crime elements.…

I could have watched two hours of Bosworth (not The Boz…that character is long dead) and his son in that storage locker. As Noel notes, it's so interesting to see the teenage Bosworth get so ampped up over The Boz's more clownish exploits and his dad respond with a "Well, actually…" I can't believe Bosworth still owns…

Shakma really really hates doors.

What? No mention of Starsky and Hutch fighting vampire John Saxon?

It ran on the Sci-Fi Channel (sigh…back when the Sci-Fi Channel was cool) in the 1990s.

Richard Lynch IS…Vampire! In Steven Bochco's VAMPIRE!