Leave It To Beaver premiered on CBS-TV on Friday, October 4, 1957, and continued on network TV for a total of six seasons, finishing its 234-episode run in 1963. Each of the six seasons consisted of exactly 39 episodes, a hefty number by today’s seasonal standards. CBS carried the show for the first season only. […]
The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Series
Before The Dick Van Dyke Show, suburbia was never portrayed on television as a haven of sophistication. We never followed Ozzie Nelson to work. And we never, ever fantasized what Ward and June Cleaver did behind closed doors. But Your Show of Shows veteran Carl Reiner’s groundbreaking series broke the staid, sitcom mold.Just consider Mary […]
Green Acres: The Series
Eddie Albert spent six seasons appealing to the whacked out citizens of Hooterville to behave in a rational and orderly manner. Naturally, he got just what he deserved–the gradual erosion of his own mental stability. Aficionados of this show like to call it surreal. All one can add to that, to paraphrase the classic title […]
The Larry Sanders Show: The Series
The Larry Sanders Show is perhaps the most realistic and funniest television series ever written about show business. In this case, the “business” is producing a late night talk show hosted by the amiable, humorous Larry Sanders, a Johnny Carson-like character deftly portrayed by Garry Shandling. Shandling is also the creator and frequent writer of […]