The first half of Knots Landing Season 12 is a shot of pure adrenaline. The rest is what happens once the rush wears off. In my essay on S...

I first published My Top-Ten One-Season Wonders in the spring of 2016; they ranged from an '80s soap to a '90s sitcom, from a vampi...

For many of us who grew up in the '60s, Bewitched was a fascination bordering on an obsession. For years after it went off the air, if ...

This is a post I've been wanting to do for a while, as a fan of Murder, She Wrote for all twelve seasons. In my write-up of Cold Case ...

It's a little hard, when looking back at Knots Landing Season 10, to separate fact from fiction. It's famously the season when the ...

The sixth of seven neglected or maligned Classic Who serials that I consider worth revisiting, one for each Doctor. The series commences he...

Rhoda Season 3 is daring and wonderful and strange. It's arguably the most adult and uncompromising sitcom season of the '70s, and ...

My annual year in review, following overviews of 2013 , 2014 , 2015 and 2016 . I gave up on a whole lot of shows in 2017: Preacher , NCIS...

Previously , on Knots Landing : At its best, Knots Landing Season 1 encapsulates a sexual freedom emblematic of its time, and a middle-cla...

The TV landscape felt unusually barren this past summer, as opposed to just a few years ago, when it was bursting with good programming. Non...