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IMO, so did Dragnet, especially the 60s ones that were all about the "message" (I don't recall "messages" preached in the old B/W 50s ones).

Why don't you like Adam-12?

And a long time ago, Thom McKee on Tic Tac Dough won $312,700 in cash and prizes in 1980, and among what he won was 8 cars (he got one for winning every 5 games; he won 43 games, so he got 8 cars), and he had a good line about how bad game show taxes are and have been in the 1988 book Come on Down! by Jefferson Graham (it's on page 104). He stated, "I pity the people who win on [the daytime] Wheel of Fortune. They only get merchandise--no cash to pay off the taxes. We had to pay the government $70,000. I kept saying, 'What did the government ever do to help me win this?'" Also among Thom's winnings were quite a few trips (far as I recall, he couldn't take any of them owing to his military obligations [he was in the Navy]).

When it comes to game shows, that (IMO) it's actually a good thing if you lose out on a certain prize, like cars on TPIR. Why do I think this? Taxes. What I mean is that, because taxes on big-ticket prizes like cars, motorhomes, boats and the like are unreasonably onerous (they must be paid to California and your home state, and to Washington as federal income tax), a loss of a pricing game that has a car or similar prize in it may be a financial lifesaver (of course, you'll probably still have to pay taxes on what you won in the bidding before you went on to play that game for that car/similar prize, but those, because they are smaller than cars or motorhomes, would probably have less expensive taxes than would be for a car or motorhome; prize values fluctuate on those things, too, so you never know at any one time how much you're out if you win one). Of course, you could always go on Jeopardy!, which only has cash, and then you'd know how much you're out, because cash hardly fluctuates in value, and your taxes are cut out (withheld) from what you get.

The only consolation really for Purdue in that shellacking they suffered at the hands of Notre Dame is that at least Purdue is not winless (far as I recall, Purdue was 1-0 prior to this); had this shellacking dropped Purdue to 0-2 (meaning that Purdue had lost their first game), things would have been far, far worse.

I don't think I said this, but I think that, on Emergency!, when the doctors (Brackett, Early and Morton) or the nurse (McCall) have paramedics Gage and DeSoto do whatever it is they do for any patient/victim they're dealing with, it's more in the form of directions than orders (because I don't think of the paramedics as working under the doctors and nurse, but rather working with and alongside them [albeit the doctors and nurse were rarely at any scenes that the paramedics were at]).

How does it feel like you're watching cartoons?

TV-related peeve-- apparently, I am of a short-enough attention span that I find it difficult to take a deep dive into old-timey television newscasts on YouTube (both local and national); I want to somehow find a way to do that, however, because lots of them were very well-crafted then in quite a few aspects (ratings aside). To that end, I often find myself skipping to what I think are the best parts (sports, weather, etc. on the local ones), and not really taking in the breadth of all the well-done reporting that was done on those newscasts then (let alone all the commercials of then either). Here's a great example of one that I think was well-done: this July 1984 late edition of the original WNBC News 4 New York of the Big Apple (John Hambrick sitting in for Chuck Scarborough, alongside Sue Simmons), wherein the top story was about the Presidential election of '84 between Reagan and Mondale (almost 40 years ago)...

Here lately, I have been getting notifications for replies in topics I don't follow, and shows I don't follow; why is that? I've never made a post in those topics about those shows.

And so do I, to an extent, having three of my favorites (all half-hour ones) in full on DVD: --Have Gun Will Travel --Wanted Dead or Alive --The Rebel The first two were originally on CBS (the first one being from CBS Home Entertainment, and the second one being from Mill Creek Entertainment), and the last one was originally on ABC (on DVD from Timeless Media Group).

And even then, they may not be there for some nebulous reasons like "music rights," or some other bull they come up with.

This is exactly why I strongly dislike walking through wet grass with tennis shoes-- the same thing happens to me.

Forum-related: that I get several notifications that there are new replies in topics that I never participated in or subscribed to; why is that?

This is why Joe Montana's Niners are my true definition of a dynasty-- they may have totally creamed a couple of the teams they played, but at least it wasn't by deflating any footballs.

Much appreciated-- the good news about it is that he did it right here at home, as he wanted; he didn't want to do it in a hospital, and he got his wish.