Alan Ball’s True Blood series works well for television, as it has enough sensationalism to tantalize and enough story girth to make the viewer care about the characters. That one can finally invest emotion into monsters, including an undead Civil War victim, a transformer who can shapeshift into various animals, and a female mind reader, […]
The Outer Limits: The Series
From the moment Vic Perrin’s omniscient “Control Misused inventions, interplanetary communication, and warped time peculiarities permeate the 1960s science fiction anthology program The Outer Limits. Created by Leslie Stevens, the program gained a rabid cult following and influenced a myriad of sci-fi that would follow, including a second Outer Limits series in the 1990s. This […]
My Three Sons: The Series
When one thinks of cutting edge television, My Three Sons does not immediately leap to mind, but this beloved Boomer-era staple. It ran for 12 seasons, which, for a family sitcom, is second in longevity only to The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet and broke the nuclear family mold. Fred MacMurray’s Steve Douglas was a […]
Welcome Back, Kotter: The Series
Travel back to a time when sitcoms were recorded live on tape before a studio audience and dialogue was dominated by nonsensical catch phrases, like “Up your nose with a rubber hose!” and “Off my case, potato face!” The year was 1975. Saturday Night Fever had yet to make John Travolta a star, and stand-up […]
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