Love it, love it, love it!

Julie Newmar made a generation of American boys appreciate the glory of tall women. (And I've met and interviewed her several times — a terrific, intelligent and truly funny lady. Then again, what would you expect from a woman whose idols were Carole Lombard for comedy and Rita Hayworth for dance?)

"Out of This World": Essentially a live-action "Sabrina," made before MJH was even Clarissa. (Though, alas, "OOTW" had no equivalent for Beth Broderick as the sexy genius Aunt Zelda.)

You didn't miss much.

Some of the writers on "My Mother the Car" wound up on, of all things, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," and on a few eps, you can see the WJM-TV schedule, and "My Mother the Car" has a syndicated weekend time slot — nice in-joke. Guess the station didn't have a huge syndication budget (probably from all that money it paid…

"Out of This World" was a much better series, sort of a predecessor to the 1990s live-action "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch," about a teen girl (the name of the actress escapes me as I write this) who's actually half-alien (raised by her earthling mother, Donna Peswcow) and thus has magic powers. Burt Reynolds produced…

Oh, and don't forget that delectable Carole Lombard-Goldie Hawn mother-daughter teaming in thievery in "Heartbreakers," released right around the bicentennial in July of '76.

It's usually Drew Barrymore who gets blamed for these films' lack of success, though/

He had better emphasize his morose side quickly, lest he soon be viewed as a Harry Langdon (another man-child) with sound.

It makes one yearn for the Leoni of the ABC season of "The Naked Truth" (it then went to NBC and was stuffed into its '90s sitcom sausage machine, which only "Seinfeld" managed to avoid, and died), where Tea seemed to be somewhat worthy of the "this generation's Lucy" tag placed on her. Now, she's retreated to playing…

Joan Blondell's revenge? She was briefly cast on "The Lucy Show" in the mid-'60s, but left after an episode or two because Lucy was a tyrant on the set and regularly berated her. Lucy idolized Carole Lombard (the lady in my avatar) from their days at RKO and learned a lot from her, but people skills apparently wasn't…

No love at all for "Mom," nary a mention anywhere? Has everyone here forgotten what a splendid comedic actress Anna Faris is, or that Allison Janney excels in just about any genre? It's a quietly terrific sitcom about a blue-collar family made dysfunctional by substance abuse, and their attempt to recover in a society…

Dear Mr. Nolan: You can make good, sophisticated comedies without fart jokes. See Ernst Lubitsch.

"The Simpsons" rated higher than "Family Guy"? Good taste prevails after all!

Matt Groening is too intellectual for them.

Matt Groening is too intellectual for them.

I assume this includes only network series, because "Hot In Cleveland" (TV Land) isn't included. Neither is the only network series I currently watch, "Mom" (CBS), since it's a first-year show.

It nearly wasn't titled "To Be Or Not To Be." According to one Lubitsch biographer, at the start of 1942, United Artists — fearing the title too highbrow — sought to rename it, and Lubitsch halfheartedly suggested the title "The Censor Forbids." Lombard, traveling east by train to Chicago and ultimately to…