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I'm approaching the end of the seventh season (1963-64) of Perry Mason, and I'm considering stopping with that one. I don't know if the eighth and ninth seasons (1964-66) will have enough good episodes to make those worth the money that I've spent for the volumes of the first seven.

Can this also be about shows for which you ceased getting the DVD releases because you didn't feel that they would be worth the money anymore? If so, then original-recipe Hawaii Five-O is the prime example. I had been regularly getting the releases of the same through the seventh or eighth season, and then stopped because I had heard that the last four seasons had dropped in quality (although I did get that last one [the final season, 1979-80] as a sort of curiosity piece just to see how bad it really was).

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Just recently purchased two seasons' worth of Simon & Simon (1981-89 CBS detective series with Jameson Parker and Gerald McRaney), and I'm already up to the third episode of the first season (in the middle of that third episode), and so far, it looks like it might be another of my favorites. I think it's because of how the Simon brothers (A.J. and Rick) don't always see eye to eye, but somehow find a way to get the job done.

Why would they give you the Look?! You asked politely, so that shouldn't be happening. If you had demanded it, then I could probably see them doing that.

That's a great point! Speaking of needing to be a kid to enjoy it, I fortunately have someone who likes it more than I do-- my nephew Eli in Alabama. I'm seriously considering giving that full-series DVD release to him. Like I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners, it has become very much deadwood to me.

Gilligan's Island-- I had purchased the full-series release of this 1964-67 CBS comedy lately at the Wal-Mart in Simpsonville, because I thought that the critics who incessantly trashed it might have been wrong, and perhaps I might find it funny. Well, it seems that the critics might actually have been right all along-- I'm 11 episodes in on the first season, and I'm just not into it. The lack of chapter stops (each episode being one full chapter) has very much contributed to the boredom, in that you can't just skip the title track and get right into the episode-- if you press skip, you're out of the episode entirely.

I had a similar experience making a bowl of that Orville Redenbacher Zesty Pepper Butter popcorn. The stench of it as it was popping in the microwave permeated the house, and from henceforth, I didn't want any more of it (not to leave out that it didn't taste that great either).

My mother really goes for The Waltons-- she has all of it on DVD, and she has seen through the whole series twice. She doesn't have the movies, though.

Who would be behind this Fantasy Island remake if it came to fruition? The reason I ask is that the original 1978-84 one with Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize (and in 1983, Christopher Hewett, replacing Villechaize) was from Spelling/Goldberg IAW Columbia Pictures Television, as was T.J. Hooker and the remaining two seasons (1982-84) of Hart to Hart (Hart had Rona II in the mix as well).

Something that irritates me about some television DVDs: why they were designed such that each episode was one full chapter without chapter stops (which means that if you press the Skip button, it takes you out of the episode entirely).

That's what irks me, too, about Friends: a lot of its marketing (as with many other shows [comedies, mostly] that have been judged in popular opinion to be the greatest of all time, and have received accolades accordingly) is that if you don't think that this is one of the funniest shows you've ever seen, you don't have a good-enough sense of humor. The people who market it and similar shows have a right to believe that if they so desire, but as I said before, shows like that, Seinfeld, and Everybody Loves Raymond have never been high up on my list of favorites, let alone been there at all (just my opinion).

That's one of the major reasons why I preferred Bob's psychologist character of Dr. Bob Hartley from Chicago over his innkeeper character of Dick Loudon from Vermont (what I'm saying is that, at least to me, Joanne Loudon in the 80s seemed somewhat frigid as compared to Emily Hartley in the 70s). Newhart, from the three seasons' worth I've seen of it, was an okay show (and did have some funny episodes), but The Bob Newhart Show was far better and funnier overall.

That was Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, too, and that was the main reason why I enjoyed that 1979-84 ABC series called Hart to Hart (despite there being a few weak fifth-and-final-season outings).

I'm guessing that since that one employee injured her back bending down to get her lunch out, they said "no more lunches in the mini fridges" because they didn't want to have to pay for possible injuries from other people bending down. Am I accurate about that?

Vend-O-Price looks like it's a pretty good game. It has elements of Credit Card (put a voucher--here a coin--into the slot and reveal how many there are of each of the three items); Penny Ante (the wubba-wubba sound effect that is used as the total of each row is revealed [total being determined by the quantity of the item displayed multiplied by the price of the item overall]); and Most Expensive (pick the highest-valued row [again, quantity multiplied by overall price of the item]).

It's somewhat like a catch-22, the way I see it-- come to work when you're sick, get everyone sick and get fired, or don't come to work when you're sick, everyone else stays healthy, but you still get fired for not coming to work sick. It's vicious!

I don't think it was right for her to make you feel under fire no matter which way you went when it came to your plumbing.

That indeed it is! For a 70s throwback, it's a pretty good show. Hopefully they do just as well for the other decades.

IIRC, the last three of the Hart to Hart films simply had Jonathan and Jennifer in new adventures without Max; the films ended in 1996 with Till Death Do Us Hart, and Lionel's final appearance was in Secrets of the Hart, which aired in March 1995.

That, and the so-called "halftime reports" of today are barely even that. I saw a Verizon Halftime Report last week on a CBS NFL game, and all they really did was to show scores and highlights of games from earlier in the day-- there was barely a nibble of discussion about the game that was being played. At least when Jim Nantz was in on The Prudential College Football Report, for instance (last Monday marked the 30th anniversary of his debut on CBS on that halftime studio segment), there were scores and highlights to be sure, but quite a few times, there was also a short feature or interview relating to a headline story in college football. Some of the Prudential commercials that filled the breaks were also very creative and well-done, IMO.

Both of those tie in with the second point I made above in my post about how I dislike shopping at the Wal-Mart in Simpsonville-- that it is quite the madhouse when it comes to shopping for anything, even groceries. Subsequently, I agree that children should not be yelled at for acting up when they are in a store late at night and it's way past their bedtime.

That's why it's hard for me to walk outside and get exercise as often as I should.

I'm on the fifth and final season (1983-84) of Hart to Hart, and I'm doing my best to try to finish that ABC detective/adventure series. The Harts' romance still seems to carry the day, but it has been said that quite a few of the final-season outings were incredibly weak otherwise.

It works the other way as well, when people who have heat in their homes, jobs and cars in the winter complain about how cold it is.