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I don't get it. Is the implication that the Luftwaffe had nothing to do with the Nazis? This is #5,612,884 on the list of things I don't get.

The books I've read said he sold I Love Lucy, specifically, to CBS in 1957 in order to raise the money to buy RKO, thinking they weren't of much value because no one would want to watch the same shows over and over and over. 1960 must have been when he sold the other pre-1960s Desilu shows. At...

Not all syndication before I Love Lucy was based on kinescopes. There had been filmed series before, such as Trouble with Father and Amos 'n' Andy. CBS showed reruns of the series for three seasons after the original run, which was all profit because they owned the series by then. That's not...

I don't think this is correct. Shows were in syndication long before I Love Lucy ended its run. (Amos 'n' Andy, for instance.) Besides, Desilu didn't own I Love Lucy any more. Desi had sold it to CBS to raise the money to buy RKO. He thought he was being shrewd, because no one would want to...

About Darrin of Bewitched being a fool or an idiot -- yes, one of the biggest in TV history. But what words do we use for Samantha who was willing to give up her powers for him?! The same words come to mind. There was something fundamentally wrong with the entire premise. Of course, it still...

I'm not sure why I didn't think of this before, but my all-time #1 "I just don't get it" show is Star Trek. I say this as a lifelong fan of science fiction, too. My favorite thing to speculate on is life on other planets, and what it would be like, and if they've made a better world for...

I find myself agreeing with almost everything that's being said! Which raises the question, if I find so many of them so bad, why do I keep watching old TV shows? Because I'm a nut, that's why! Actually, a good case can be made that most highly praised TV shows are overrated. I absolutely do...

I certainly agree with you about Hogan's Heroes. I don't find much that's funny about Nazi POW camps. When Mad Magazine did their satire of it way back when, they ended with the question of what's next -- a show about the hilarious adventures of the Jews in a concentration camp? Along the...