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Xt Comfort TV, David has a very nice piece on the things you can learn from classic TV. Not necessarily in the way that television might inform your worldview, but something simpler, like Schoolhouse Rock or science lessons. For me, it was the gift of classical music, courtesy of Saturday mornings with Bugs Bunny. No better gift!

John reaches back to 2017 to continue his series on the Brit sitcom They Came from Somewhere Else at Cult TV Blog. Very strange stuff, this, as a pastiche satire on horror films, but if you're enough of a horror fan that you don't mind seeing it spoofed, this is for you.

It's going to be somber, when 2025 comes to a close, to see the year's remembrance role. At A Shroud of Thoughts, Terence adds to the list with tributes to Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Ozzy Ozbourne, the latter being perhaps the most unlikely reality TV star in history. RIP to both.

Adding to that, the satirist Tom Lehrer died this week at 97; The Broadcast Archives takes a look at the songs he wrote for the American version of That Was the Week That Was, including "Pollution," "A Song for World War III" ("So long, Mom/I’m off to drop the bomb") and "Wernher von Braun."

At A View from the Junkyard, it's Mike's continuing review of the Doctor Who novelizations that Target books put out during the show's heyday. Up now is Malcolm Hulke's Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion, based on his Invasion of the Dinosaurs adventure, starring Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor. TV