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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.

That Wal-Mart in Simpsonville is a place that I very much dread shopping at whenever my mother and I do it. Why, you might ask? Two reasons: 1. In the entertainment section, all they really have on DVD are the shows of today-- very seldom lately would I find a great deal on an older show. It used to be that I would go there quite a few times and get, say, the latest seasonal release of original-recipe Hawaii Five-O and get it for a good price. Not anymore! (This isn't to say that I've gotten all of Five-O from there or anyplace, since the last seasons were pretty weak and not worth spending money on; I did get that last one as a curiosity piece, though.) 2. It is a veritable madhouse to shop for anything there even besides DVDs-- you can be standing in an aisle, looking at two different kinds of salad dressing, for instance, and someone could come up behind you without warning and need to go around you. Sometimes, I think they widen the aisles out and then narrow them later for whatever reason.

That's good advice! Even some Amazon reviews have said that some episodes are better than others.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I don't know if it's just me or it's the way that first-season DVD release was set up (double-sided discs, no chapter stops within the episodes [each one being a solid 25-min. block or so]), but to me, this anthology series that was first on CBS and then went to NBC does not hold up for me and is incredibly boring. The minutes just seemed to crawl by. M Squad holds up far better for me than Hitchcock did, not only because of what Lee Marvin did as Lt. Frank Ballinger, but because each half-hour episode (generally close to 25 min. w/o commercials, although one was just over 20) has far more action than talk, IME. In fact, that and Perry Mason are the only two 50s shows that hold up for me.

I had remembered original-recipe NBC Star Trek (more popularly known as TOS) as incredibly boring when I first saw some of it with my brother. It wasn't until much later when I saw it through from the remastered DVD releases that I really appreciated it as being the hallmark of television that it was (despite it lasting only those three seasons, 1966-69). I think that the remastering really drew me into it.

Per Frasier: I had not seen it in-depth before (meaning that I didn't get that involved in watching it before), but I may try it sometime in the future. Two of the first four you mentioned (Seinfeld and Friends specifically): I had seen episodes before and decided that they weren't for me, for reasons unknown.

I don't know how to explain why, but you made a great point in that response, and something to think about.

My thoughts exactly! That slogan of theirs is an obvious fabrication, because FOX News is as biased to the right as the "liberal media" is supposedly biased to the left. But of course, Rush and all those right-wing talkers judge the "liberal media" for being biased to the left, while not realizing that they have the same finger of judgment pointing at them from the other side for being biased to the right (all the while, Rush et al. are claiming that there is no conservative bias, only "liberal bias").

You probably mean CBS This Morning-- WBZ is the CBS O&O in Boston. Thought I'd bring that up.

That's a major reason why I have never had an interest in owning any of the releases of such shows as Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, Punky Brewster, and similar shows-- because I have heard (I may be incorrect) that quite a few of the episodes of those were of that persuasion.

What I really dislike about the FOX News Channel is that they treat their opinion shows as if they were the same as regular newscasts/news reporting; what I mean is that if they had a disclaimer screen saying something to the effect of "This is an opinion production of the FOX News Channel" or thereabouts, I still wouldn't watch, but I'd give them credit for at least being honest about something. But as they do not do that, that ever the more damages them in my eyes (I have never liked them from when they started, anyway).

I dislike admitting it, but I might end up feeling the same way about The Man From U.N.C.L.E. It's sort of average, and in fact, I think I find it quite tedious (I had gotten the repackaged first-season DVD release recently, because I was somewhat interested in it, having never seen it before; this will probably be $20 down the drain).

I didn't know at first whether I would like Barney Miller, and as such I sampled some of it from WGN America when they had it. I had also seen the first-season DVD release in an FYE in Huntsville, AL, but forbore from it because I wasn't sure whether it would be funny enough to justify the purchase. I then went whole-hog on it by getting Shout!'s full-series release, and went from top to bottom (don't know how long it took), and my purchase of that turned out to be very much worth it, as Barney Miller is one of the funniest shows I've seen, and as such, I feel that I got my money's worth out of it (with the exception of that first season's worth of the Fish spinoff, which I'm not sure I will find as entertaining as the main event of Barney Miller). In fact, the best character there (at least IMO) is Barney himself, as quite expertly played by Hal Linden.

OTOH, that Perry Mason Casebook is something that I have most assuredly enjoyed (3 of Erle Stanley Gardner's Mason novels in one volume); I don't know if I'll read every one of his Mason novels, or every one of his overall total of novels for that matter, but what I have read of his, to me, has been incredibly enjoyable.

I feel the same way about Nineteen Eighty-Four. It was a very depressing type of book, but at least I read it.

Bumping this up: this is exactly how I feel about M Squad (1957-60 NBC police series w/Lee Marvin). It was very much formulaic (each episode dealing with organized crime or other form(s) of crime in Chicago and how Lt. Frank Ballinger of M Squad ["a special detail of the Chicago Police," as Ballinger put it in almost every episode; I think that one of them lacked that opening] dug deep to solve the case). The good thing about it is that each half-hour episode (24-25 min. without commercials, although one only lasted 20 min.) is very much fast-paced, and Lee Marvin's performance as Lt. Ballinger helped to ensure that it never got boring; this is why I have the entire series on DVD, and why I continue to watch random episodes from it from time to time. Another good thing is that the version of it that I have has an audio CD of selections from the 1959 RCA Victor LP record; that makes it very much worth the money.

Or on DVD, for me! I have enjoyed such shows of the past as Barney Miller, The Bob Newhart Show, M Squad, and Perry Mason, among others.

A real favorite of mine that will endure is All The President's Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward; this is the 1974 classic about how those two Washington Post reporters dug deep to bring about the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon. The 1976 Warner Bros. film is great too, albeit it doesn't exactly follow the book.