This entry began as The Mary Tyler Moore Show Season 3, but honestly, I’ve written so many long essays lately, I needed a change of pace, a...

In an essay in the summer of 2018 , I looked at the actors who've played the title role in Doctor Who , and judged their best and worst ...

I’d never seen an episode of Star Trek — in any of its incarnations — before last spring. At that time, BBC America typically ran eight-hou...

When I did my Classic Who countdown in the summer of 2017, I noted that many of my favorite stories remain missing. And I quoted a Whovian...

My annual TV year-in-review, the key difference this year being that the essay is ten months late. But truth be told, when I finished my fin...

The final installment of a four-part series , this latest set constitutes #15-20 of my “top-10” one-season wonders: a numerical oxymoron tha...

A set of seven underrated Classic Who serials that I consider worth revisiting, one for each Doctor. The series commences with " Termi...

Knots Landing Season 4 was a transitional year, in which the tone was heightened and the format broadened, but the story-lines themselves -...

When I published my Classic Who countdown last summer, serving up capsule reviews of all 158 classic serials (from my least-liked to my mos...

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...