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And now, after Mission: Impossible—that I adore—, let’s focus on another series produced at Desilu. Star Trek I discovered that show on re-run in the late 1982 and really didn’t like it because it was flat, uneven, cheap, camp, hip 60’s and very talky and lacked of action. I associated that...

Season 3 features original locations and good episodes: see “Home to Judgment”.

Patrick McGoohan’s initial “serial” concept “Arrival” “Free for All” “Dance of the Dead” “Checkmate” “The Chimes of Big Ben” “Once Upon a Time” “Fall Out”

Can you develop your thought on that show, please?

Ditto. I find them repetitive.

The rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie of the seventies. Apart from Columbo, the majority has a Universal TV sausage factory flavor despite a good cast: the scripts are rather conventional and the production values are ordinary or cheap. I tried to watch McCloud, McMillan&Wife, Banacek...

I used to watch it as a kid of the Seventies and I loved it back then because of The Star Wars effect. I watched the pilot in a movie theater with a special equipment that make the seats move. Nowadays, I really can't watch it because it's a product of another time and as you underlined it it...

Do you really believe that any of the westerns ever made were true to the reality, even the most naturalistic? It's all a matter of script and costume designer in the very end.

More CBS series to dissect. The Twilight Zone That anthology appeared in my land in 1984 and didn’t attract me. At that time, I found it very old-fashioned, uneven, repetitive and moralizing—nevertheless, I noticed some unusual and shocking segments that I kept into my mind—because I was into...

Let's dissect the two CBS series. Gunsmoke When I first discovered that western show during the original 2007 DVD release of season 1, I didn’t like what I watched: none of the leads attracted me as well as the stories and the film-making. To be brutally honest, I found it bland and...

It's all in the eye of the beholder. I would add it's all in the various stages of your life too.

British-wise, find how I feel about a selection of shows. U.F.O. is a sci-fi series that I hated when I first discovered it in the late 80’s because I first knew Space: 1999 which was dead-serious and lavishly-produced. U.F.O. appeared to me as a laughable, kitsch, contrived and...

I mean that Cannon as a character lacks of distinction and as a leaning the show is very average. It’s another crime series from QM: nothing more. It’s a bit like a generic ITC series: see The Baron.

Amonst the classic era series I just can't watch these two Irwin Allen shows (Lost in Space, Land of the Giants). I can't stand the average crime dramas from Thriller (1960-1962). Wonder Woman: I used to enjoy it as a kid of the seventies but, now, I find it terrible, contrived and deadly cheap...