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http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Hart-Hart-Season-4/20458 Just heard about this from Facebook: No. 4 (1982-83) of Hart to Hart is coming from Shout! on 2/10/15 (also Robert Wagner's upcoming 85th birthday, believe it or not!). I was definitely in for No. 3, but now that this is coming, I'm in for No. 4 just as much.

Here's a 20/20 opening that I grew up with, from the time of the Challenger disaster, or shortly after. I was only 5, I believe, when I first saw it. I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers it. It has a WABC 11 P.M. Eyewitness News promo and 9 A.M. Morning Show promo before it (Morning Show promo has a younger Regis Philbin). What I really recall is how Hugh and Barbara opened: "Good evening...I'm Hugh Downs." "And I'm Barbara Walters, and this is 20/20."

This video is of an opening from 20/20 from 1/30/86 (shortly after the Challenger disaster). This is another opening that I grew up with, and I remember very well how it started: "Good evening...I'm Hugh Downs." "And I'm Barbara Walters, and this is 20/20." I especially liked how the magnifying glass passed over the ABC News globe, expanded, and stamped the axis on it before going in between the 20s in the title. I even remember how the title split at the end to show either Hugh or Barbara (it also did so shortly after the title was formed to show both Hugh and Barbara as being the anchors). I even recall Bob Cruz (ABC News V/O then) saying, "On the ABC News magazine, 20/20, with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters..." There was even an old-style NCI captioning icon on the bottom right of the screen for about 2 seconds. The opening starts around the :32 or :33 mark (there is a WABC 11 P.M. EWN promo before it).

Vapidity is indeed a word. I looked it up in the dictionary.

The first time I heard it, I thought that Jay was a transplanted Southerner now living in San Diego; at least that's how it came across to me.

That's one of my favorites. Another one, of course, is Jonathan and Jennifer Hart from Hart to Hart. They're the big reason why I have enjoyed the first two seasons' worth of that, and why I'm very definitely looking forward to Shout!'s upcoming No. 3 release.

I would recommend The Complete Peanuts series by Charles M. Schulz, because not only in my opinion is Peanuts one of America's great comic strips, but also because of the way the books are organized, two years per book (I have two books covering 1969-1972, and five more covering 1979-1988).

Remember this? This was from a short-lived 1979 NBC game called All-Star Secrets w/Bob Eubanks; he not only hosted it, but was one of the EPs. GSN showed one last Sunday, too.

I did also. I liked also at the end of that how Barney turned the lights out on the 12th, went out and closed the doors, and how the credits ran over a darkened shot of the set used for the 12th at ABC (also the extended applause).

It was actually a 5-part miniseries. I also recall that there were only 6 major players in the opening: Bel Geddes, Davis, Duffy, Hagman, Principal and Tilton. Each one took several seconds for the name to post, and the opening was shorter than it would be in later seasons. Here is that short miniseries opening:

Northern Exposure (1990-95 CBS drama starring Rob Morrow and John Corbett, among others) is another one that gets this AFAIC. I had purchased one of the releases, because I had never seen it before, and I was wondering if a show that I had only heard of in passing would be something that I would enjoy in full later. I tried one or two shows of it, and then I decided that it wasn't for me, for reasons unknown. Oddly enough, my father has really enjoyed it, for which I cannot blame him.

I found one at the Dollar General too: The Case of the Horrified Heirs. I purchased it, and I've already read it. It was just that good. I had before also purchased one at a vintage book store; that one was The Case of the Negligent Nymph.

http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Mork-Mindy-Season-4-and-Complete-Series/20315 Albeit I never did like Mork and Mindy, that 1978-82 ABC comedy starring the late Robin Williams is being completed, and a full-series release is also planned. That should be good news for its fans and fans of Robin Williams.

Remember Blacke's Magic, a short-lived NBC series from early '86 starring Hal Linden and Harry Morgan?

It's Friends that gets this from me. Not only did I not laugh once at any of the episodes, but that theme song by The Rembrandts was more than enough to push me away from this awful excuse for a comedy.

Joey King really impressed me in two of the films that I've seen of hers: as Ramona Quimby in Ramona and Beezus, and as Emily Cale in White House Down. The Ramona role of hers really impressed me in how close the film was to the Cleary stories, and personally, I think that Joey was the better of the two actresses who have portrayed Ramona (Sarah Polley was the other one, in the 1988 PBS Ramona series; I saw some of that from YouTube, and, IMO, it really wasn't all that).

The first 28 seconds of this clip are of the CBS Sunday Morning opening that I grew up with, from 1986, shortly after the Challenger disaster (Charles Kuralt had at that time been in for 7 or 8 years). The current opening with Osgood is good, but it pales, in my opinion, in comparison to the original opening (which, for the first few years, had only 6 days of the week on the list of days that had the blind-like animation).

I remember that one from the 80s Newhart. I think that such was the one that was in for the balance of the 80s Newhart series, outside of the first episode (standard Mimsie) and the last one (the Darryls yelling "QUIET!").

When I first saw Family Ties, I saw that UBU logo, and then there was the black IAW screen, and I expected Paramount's bombastic tall-peaked Blue Mtn. logo. Well, I was wrong on that score: Family Ties never had the tall-peaked mountain like Cheers did. It only had the standard logo (space between the mountain and Paramount) with the 1981 jingle (later, the 1982 jingle).

Oh, golly, do I remember that one! I remember it from The A-Team, Hardcastle, 21 Jump Street, and several others.

One of my most favorites: CPT's Sunburst/AT logo from the 70s (a faster version of the original film logo by that name, in addition to being differently colored)

Hart to Hart season 4 (1982-83) is also one of my favorites because of how Max (Lionel Stander) spoke about the Harts (Jonathan and Jennifer) at the top, and then said how it was his job to take care of them, "which ain't easy, 'cause when they met, it was murder!" I also liked how the Hart title appeared from a red heart that zoomed in from the middle of the two cars as they passed (the setup of this opening [minus red heart of course] was taken from the 1979 pilot).

Those Mason movies have been coming out pretty quickly, haven't they? AFAIK, there'll be one more release after that, with the remaining Burrs before his death, and the four Perry Mason Mysteries.

Speaking of which, I just recently purchased that Bob Newhart Show release from Shout! (got it through Amazon), and I'm leaning very seriously towards getting rid of the two original FOX releases that I got before. That Shout! release is all on singles, and those singles will quite nicely replace the FOX doubles.

I've been enjoying it from Shout!'s full release; it's been so good that I'm almost through the series (I'm on the penultimate disc, and I'm nearing the 3-part Landmark finale).