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I didn't either until I happened to notice it last night. Sundance has been running a number of classic TV shows, but I think MTM started just recently, as the episodes I saw were early ones from the first season. I haven't watched the show in years, so it was nice to see them again after all that time.

I was watching the MTMS on Sundance last night. A couple of first season episodes. I noticed that Mary has a stereo and one speaker, but not two. Maybe she bought a second speaker later on.

I always thought Gillis was a guy in a tight spot who lucked out temporarily by ditching the car in Norma's garage and then took advantage of that piece of good luck. In hindsight he should have gotten out of the place earlier, but his life wasn't too bad at the time. Oh well, that's show biz. My theory is that Joe was killed by Blue Boy's dad, an early adapter of drugs of all kinds. Not too steady in the smart behavior dept. Like father, like son. I do remember those wooden milk crates. A great gathering place for spiders.

Richard Wagner is in enough trouble for his anti-Semitism. The last thing he needs is a possible murder rap.

Lucky guy. The next morning it is implied that she gave him a ride too. White Heat was one of the first classic films I recall seeing. My parents were visiting some friends and I was left alone in their cozy little TV room and on came White Heat. Wow.

I can see clever Cody sneaking up on ol' Rocco and blasting him away while he sits in the bathtub chewing on his cigar. Cody had obvious psychological problems that needed treatment whereas Rocco was just one mean, low down, cruel s.o.b. OTOH, no one should be allowed to slap Virginia Mayo around like Cagney did. That's an unforgivable black mark against Jarrett.

Well that's a matter of individual preference, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Gronk didn't catch it. Ha ha.

It's been a while since the Cowboys were a Super Bowl threat, so that lessens the dislike a bit. And watching the Pats fall short on that Hail Mary play was just as enjoyable.

Any day that is a bad day for the Cowboys is a good day to me.

Yeah, especially around school buildings, now that going postal seems to be just a piece of nostalgia, thank goodness. Of course if you wanted to split hairs, you could say that Joe wants to shoot just one particular person and not everyone in his path. Still, that ain't cool.

It was one of the best episodes of the hour long Hitchcock program, borrowing quite a bit from The Spiral Staircase.

Yeah, after Chad and Jeremy and Peter and Gordon things get pretty thin on the ground.

Granted there was a lot less gov't regulation during that time period, but there was still some and there would be more to follow, some as an effect of the robber barons' methods of business.

Maybe she thought the haystacks would give a reverb effect. Yeah, a lot of those old sitcom plots were pretty out there. ( I would have loved to see Freddy Mertz' reaction to Wayne Newton). Then in the mid 1960s they would try to work a British invasion band, real or made up, into the plot along with a "funny" band name. The Electric Toothbrushes.

I didn't even realize that Marty Allen was still alive. Whenever I think of that hairdo, I think of a little toy motorcycle rider made in West Germany that a friend of the family gave me. It had a reddish clump of hair that reminded me of Allen.

Wayne Newton was also in a couple of episodes of Bonanza, playing a kid who liked to sing but his pappy was against it. Something a little strange about the whole thing. And that hairdo. Yikes.

When I first saw the title of the original thread, I figured it wouldn't be too long before the TCM nannies made it disappear.

Doesn't matter. The U.S. has never had a strictly capitalist economy.

They made Vic an offer he could refuse. My dad liked Jerry Vale, not sure why as he wasn't a big music fan. These guys did have good voices, but they never did much for me.

That thought crossed my mind too. And if Bob Dylan, why not Pete Townshend? Many of the deserving writers never received a Nobel Prize, but not because they were popular with a mass audience.

Perhaps this shows that novels have risen in literary esteem in the last 150 years or so. Of course Dickens is now regarded as both an author very popular with the mass audience of his time and as a sophisticated "literary" writer. I doubt either Grisham or King is in line for a Nobel. That isn't to say they aren't good writers. I know I've written about this before, but back in the 1990s conservatives were saying that there was no longer a need for PBS. With the explosion of cable channels, one or more of them would fill any void left by there being no PBS. One example mentioned at the time was A&E. That didn't quite work out.

As Grisham and King are novelists and Frost and Sandburg were poets, I can see the point.

No matter how hard ol' Martin tried to teach the boys to be a bit more humble, next week they were back to being the same arrogant, petty prisses that they were the week before.