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Thanks for the link ratgirlagogo. I remember Zacherley doing a Halloween evening special performance for New York oldies station WCBS-FM, probably in the 80s.

To date myself...my family watched Star Trek when it was first run, but it got *very* low ratings at the time. So maybe it being cancelled would have broken the internet if a small group of fans could make a lot of noise, maybe not? The huge cult following of Trek happened later when it was rerun, though I have to say that I always enjoyed the show and still do.

I tuned in about 10:50 Eastern and it had just started (I missed the very opening). So they did show it, if you have on demand that might be the best way to see it. I can't wait for football to end! Loved Joan's response to Sherlock: "Then you'll live to be 100!"

I turned the TV on at 10 and saw opening credits for Madam Secretary - I hope Elementary is actually shown tonight.

I just love seeing Stephen interviewing Nick Offerman, I hope he becomes a recurring guest.

Thanks Blergh, I didn't know about that. Buster made a lot of appearances on early television after being rediscovered so I did wonder if he'd ever appeared on I Love Lucy, certainly a lot of other celebrities did. I know he made an appearance on The Twilight Zone, though I've yet to see it.

I thought I might be going back too far with this one but I can see some of these are even farther back in time so -- My two favorite Hollywood actors are Buster Keaton and Humphrey Bogart. There's a very interesting six-degrees connection between them - Sybil Seely, Buster's charming leading lady in such early short silent classics as One Week and The Boat, married none other than Jules Furthman, the co-screenwriter (with William Faulkner and Leigh Brackett) of The Big Sleep, my favorite Bogart/Bacall noir. Furthman was also the screenwriter for Shanghai Express.

I'm actually sorry that TWC let Keith Carson go - he posted that he missed Maine but I wish they'd tried to keep him. I thought his irreverence was welcome on the station, and he did post online once an opinion that Weather Channel was naming too many winter storms, which I doubt too many more folks at the station would have done. (No I don't like his 5 o'clock shadow either, but I don't like it on any man.) Anyway I do follow him online to keep up, maybe Weather Channel will do a remote with him in the winter. I was watching a lot of the Hurricane Matthew coverage last week and I have to say that Dave Malkoff was doing an excellent job covering the storm in the Bahamas, speaking to the prime minister and police chief and doing a very sad piece with survivors, including a man who rode out the storm in his attic and a woman with a niece and nephew whose home had been destroyed. I didn't see any coverage of Haiti, I can only imagine how horrible things are for them.

Yes, I agree, Channel 11 in New York was rerunning the early seasons on Sunday nights last year.

I can understand Joan's outfits actually because it's been the hottest summer in New York that I can ever remember, and it didn't cool down until very recently. I was afraid that the former patient friend was going to turn out to be the other bomber, glad it wasn't him. Interesting that the title of this episode was the same as a title of an episode of Law and Order Criminal Intent, and the initial setup of a crime re-occurring after a period of time was also the setup of LOCI's "Shibboleth".

I wrote about this somewhere else on the board, but I revisited UNCLE also after not seeing it since I was probably a young teenager, and it seemed so silly and implausible that I almost wondered if it was actually intended as a satire. Probably more "tongue in cheek" perhaps but I don't think from what I saw that it holds up very well (they were fortunate though to have Barbara Feldon as the guest star in the second episode I saw to shore up the comedy aspect). I do like David McCallum on NCIS however. Just wanted to add that I have had problems in the past with the over-the-air transmission from METV in the New York Area (though I live right near the transmitter, it's "low-VHF" which apparently is problematic) anyway it would break up a lot, which really frustrated me when trying to record Perry Mason. However it has suddenly improved considerably. I don't know if they changed anything but I hope they keep it up if so.

I've only seen one preview ad for the show that I can remember, while watching Stephen Colbert. I guess CBS isn't into advertising the show much, but at least they keep renewing it...

I've watched a lot of them but it looks liked they skipped Over the River and Through the Woods? I wonder why, it's such a classic.

Just a couple of thoughts after some binge watching on Decades: I love the show but it's correct that it shouldn't be taken too seriously. I mean, of course there are a lot of Elliot Carlins out there (though none as brilliantly funny as Jack Riley, RIP I am sure) but suffice to say that in real life a therapist's patients wouldn't visit the doctor at home, drop by on Thanksgiving, etc. and certainly Bob wouldn't be telling Emily all about them on a regular basis. There didn't seem to be much confidentiality in Dr. Hartley's world, but of course it's a sitcom. On another note, I just watched the very funny ep where Bob finds out that Emily has a higher IQ than he does, and I noticed a familiar actor playing a bit role in the High IQ Party scene. I'd seen the actor on The Odd Couple. It turns out his name was Bill Quinn and he was Bob's father in law!

Yes, I noticed that when Stefan Edberg (one of my all time faves along with Federer) was coaching Roger very recently.

I could probably stand Djoker (except when he tries to pull a fast one as he did yesterday) but I'm glad Stan beat him and doubly glad they had to stop showing Boris "mind games" Becker celebrating. There's a guy I'd like to see off my TV for good. It was only about a year ago that Becker tried to stir up something by claiming Nole and Roger "didn't like each other." Some people never change. I think BB's major contribution as "coach" is coming up with ways to try to fake out the opposition.

Just remembered a great Carver quote from In the Wee Small Hours, after Goren and Logan find out they've arrested a prominent judge's son in the case: "Brace yourselves ladies and gentlemen, we're flying into the eye of the hurricane" By the way that episode came out the year of Katrina.

He also appeared on Night Court a few times. Such a brilliant actor, I'm so sad. DECADES is currently running Bob Newhart as a weekend "Binge" in honor of Bob's 87th birthday this week! Happy Birthday Bob! By the way, Bob is on Facebook and he wrote a sweet note there saying how touched he was by all the birthday wishes this week.

I've been watching the earlier episodes from MEtv over dinner lately and particularly enjoyed The Case of the Hesitant Hostess. There's a part where Paul is sent to bring the hostess Inez to be a witness at the trial after she's taken from the courthouse by one of the suspects, and it's like a flirtatious scene from a noir movie. There's also a scene with Perry and Della flying to Vegas and starting to unravel just what was behind the crime to begin with by checking the victim's mail before said suspect shows again. Interesting story. Edit: forgot to mention that one of the substitute DAs in a different episode is named "Cutter". I wonder if that was an in joke at Law and Order when Mike Cutter came on board?

So much has been covered already, but I just want to join in with everyone who loved the convention shows. I thought Stephen's performance was brilliant, especially the Flickerman appearances. I don't think he intends to reappear as "Stephen" often but I hope the legalities will be worked out once Viacom sorts out its own internal current state of affairs, if they have. I do agree that he can be brilliant both while acting and on his own but I think The WERD works every bit as well without the character and I'm glad they have brought it back. Jon's appearance was great too, and John Oliver was hilarious.

Jack Reilly's death makes me very sad. I thought that he was so brilliantly funny that he deserved his own show.

I do feel that there is absolutely no way that Corden would have been nominated without his viral videos, which should not be any kind of a factor, and the fact that the Emmy voters would nominate him and Fallon with his endless silly games over Stephen only strengthens the belief I've had for a long time that most of them don't watch the shows they nominate.

I don't know why Bill Maher taped Monday since I find him too offensive to watch him in anything, but the move to double taping on Thursdays was made so that Stephen could have a chance to make pre taped skits which they had no time to do previously. Obviously they want to comment on the news but they also want to vary the program and Stephen I thought was straightforward in revealing that they were pre taping in discussing the tragedy in Nice in particular.

Stephen was asked about Jon appearing on a CBS This Morning interview yesterday and he kind of implied that Jon *might* show up so it sounds like they may be planning a surprise of some sort.

I read an interview once with Vincent...not sure if you folks have heard this, but he said that it was Kubrick who told him: "It's not enough to be real, you have to be interesting." !!!