I was living in the World's Worst Town™ when the landmark TV special "Free to Be. . . You and Me" aired, so my knowledge of it is limited to second-hand observations. Fortunately, David takes a measured look back at it in this week's Comfort TV essay, which I found quite illuminating.
At Cult TV Blog, John continues with the "Sylvia Coleridge Season" and "A Touch of Home" from the 1972-73 series The Lotus Eaters, about British expats living on Crete. It makes for uncomfortable viewing, John says, as it holds up a mirror to Brits with not necessarily flattering results.
F Troop Fridays is back at The Horn Section, and this time out, Hal looks at "How to Be F Troop Without Really Trying" from the show's second season. Seems they're going to be shipped out to Bloody Creek, with Agarn's staying behind to train their replacements. You know, I don't like that "Bloody" part.
Martin Grams shares an essay that he and Robert Tevis wrote on the 1957 Playhouse 90 episode "A Sound of Different Drummers." I devote a chapter in my upcoming Darkness in Primetime to that episode, and I'm so grateful to Martin and Robert for making it possible to see the episode at the Mid Atlantic Nostalgia Convention a couple of years ago.
At Mavis Movie Madness, Paul takes a thoughtful look at hwo movies got to be such a popular part of television programming. As you'll know if you've read my TV Guide reviews, television used to be literally dominated by movies, and Paul's review is quite instructive.
Terence shares his frustrations about favorite shows being pre-empted in this piece from A Shroud of Thoughts, and even though I've never seen an episode of Wild Cards, the show in question, he has my profound sympathies. Now you know what it was like trying to watch TV in the aformentioned World's Worst Town™.
Roger's latest New Avengers review at The View from the Junkyard centers on the episode "Obsession," in which our heroine Purdey finds herself involved with a man obsessed with the idea of revenge. Roger's astute observation: "An obsession is like an addiction. He’s enslaved by it." TV
