Yeah, it's a shame Eccleston often gets overlooked (his season's never rerun on BBC America), especially given how much of his tenure seeded what came afterward storywise. I'd say he's my second-favorite revival-era Doctor after Peter Capaldi.

I'll gladly admit to becoming interested in "Doctor Who" via this film way back in '96. I'd known of its existence before then of course (I was another PBS kid), but reading the "TV Guide" feature on the film in the runup to the airing finally made me aware of the actual premise and character, and I was intrigued. …

Any hopes for discussion of Michael Jackson's HIStory Tour (and the 1996 BRIT Awards performance that Jarvis Cocker crashed) or Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", which is half of a great movie and half a sad, thoughtless merchandising vehicle?

Will Vinton actually did a half-hour adaptation of the book in Claymation in the late 1970s, which can be tracked down on DVD. Highly condensed, but faithful and not bad.

Yeah, I was just thinking of the early, early years of the channel. Another fun fact: "China Girl" was the first winner of the Best Male Video VMA…managing to beat "Thriller"!

Would it be too much to ask for some of the vintage "AL TV" specials Weird Al Yankovic did in the mid-'80s through the '90s? "AL TV: Another one of those music video kind of shows you watch on TV (sometimes)."

Also, awesome early David Bowie videos, i.e. the ones from "Lodger" and "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)".

Yeah, the renaming of the award didn't even come until 1991 — which, not coincidentally, was the year "Dangerous" came out and MTV became obligated to call him "The King of Pop". He just had that much sway over the network in those days. (Fun fact — the first winners of that award in 1984 were The Beatles and…

Well, it's still on so somebody has to be watching. It's not like it's the cheapest show for Fox to produce after so long; they've had to figure out where to trim the budgets at this point.

Yep; the episode in question is "The PTA Disbands". "Diz-nee Historical Park — Sorry, but there's profit to be had."

She was in a lame Cirque du Soleil parody that appeared near the tail end of the Damon Wayans episode and clearly was one of those spoofs where the writer(s) looked at a few photos and said "That's enough research."

Yeah, and besides the articles about it — I remember Time Magazine raked it over the coals — it was even getting parodied by other shows by that point. "The Critic" has a spot-on spoof of it in the opening stretch of "Lady Hawke", which aired in the spring of 1995. "Featuring the Not Ready for Feature Film Players!"

Yeah, Season 21 is a standard hits-and-misses season, and the better for it when it hits. Stuff like "Wake Up and Smile" and "Jimmy Tango's Fat Busters" (Ride the Snake!) come to mind. Weekend Update finds its footing, the Spade in America segment was a good way for David Spade to be sent off, and again, the O.J.…

Yep, that's the one!

Yep. Really, it was the aftermath of the O.J. Simpson trial that provided real comedy fodder for the show — not just Weekend Update jokes, but skits about his return to color commentary, a telethon to raise money post-civil suit (featuring, among other guests, The Banana Splits "and from Peaches and Herb, Herb!")…

Yeah, in fact by leaving he wound up appearing in a few episodes of the last year of "In Living Color" (1993-94). I always liked his "Cheap Pete" character ("Don't you like RICE?") there.

Not impossible, given that Who is now Emmy-eligible, though the episode they chose to push for nominations (in vain) was "Heaven Sent", the near-solo turn for Peter Capaldi.

Also, "Doctor Who" is now Emmy-eligible (as BBC America now co-finances it) and submitted Peter Capaldi and arguably the best episode of last season ("Heaven Sent") for nominations, but nope.

Yep. Several other musicals this coming season qualify as that — "Holiday Inn" (the Bing Crosby movie, not the hotel chain!), "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (a direct adaptation of the novel, not the movies, but there are some nods to, and one song from, the 1971 film in it), and — though they might be delayed…

IIRC reviews of the stage show, the antagonist in this version is a Russian man who participated in the revolution. He still harbors a grudge against the old order, and when he learns that there may indeed have been a survivor among the Romanov daughters, he tails the heroes to Paris intending to kill her. …