Since it is my birthday week, I picked a show from the last ten years that I enjoyed for this week’s Tubesday. In this case, a canceled show. Sure, I could have gone with The Office, 30 Rock, The Daily Show or some other show I watched…and still watch…but the spirit of Tubesday for me is in shows that no… Read more →
Category: Tubesday
Tubesday: Maude
Every Tuesday I write about the television shows I watched growing up and I watched a LOT of tv. Ask my retinas. It should be noted that this particular Tubesday is a special one in honor of Bea Arthur who passed away over the weekend. To me, there are three sitcoms that are the gold standard for live action American… Read more →
Tubesday: WKRP in Cincinnati
Every Tuesday I write about the television shows I watched growing up and I watched a LOT of tv. Ask my retinas. To this day, I still believe this line is the greatest response one liner in the history of television. That line comes from WKRP in Cincinnati, the hilarious CBS sitcom that ran from 1978 to 1982 and centered… Read more →
Tubesday: Alice
Every Tuesday I write about the television shows I watched growing up and I watched a LOT of tv. Ask my retinas. Television sitcoms have long been known for catch phrases and running gags. From “Pow! Right in the kisser!” to “NORM!” sitcoms have kept us repeating nonsense phrases for decades. One of the most famous catch phrases in tv… Read more →
Tubesday: The Facts of Life
Every Tuesday I write about the television shows I watched growing up and I watched a LOT of tv. Ask my retinas. You take the good. You take the bad. You take them both and then, what do you have? The facts of life, silly! It seems only fitting that since I wrote about “Diff’rent Strokes” last week that I… Read more →
Tubesday: Diff’rent Strokes
Every Tuesday I write about the television shows I watched growing up and I watched a LOT of tv. Ask my retinas. If there was one thing people loved in the late 70’s and early 80’s, it was little black kids. I mean, REALLY little and if they had chubby cheeks and a sassy disposition, they were destined to become… Read more →
Tubesday: The Equalizer
Every Tuesday I write about the television shows I watched growing up and I watched a LOT of tv. Ask my retinas. When you’re a kid who grows up liking kung fu movies, you tend to lean towards films and tv shows that are about avenging something or protecting those victimized by bullies. The underdog makes for a popular character… Read more →
Tubesday: The Fall Guy
Every Tuesday I write about the television shows I watched growing up and I watched a LOT of tv. Ask my retinas. Lee Majors is not the kind to kiss and tell, but he’s been seen with Farrah. At least that’s what he sings to us in the intro song for the classic early 80’s action tv series, “The Fall… Read more →
Tubesday: Three’s Company
Every Tuesday I write about the television shows I watched growing up and I watched a LOT of tv. Ask my retinas. “Come and knock on our door…” Rarely have words been sung so cheesily and with such a sense of naughty irony. In the late 1970’s, I was not even 10 when I started watching adult sitcoms. Many of… Read more →
Tubesday: The Greatest American Hero
Every Tuesday I write about the television shows I watched growing up and I watched a LOT of tv. Ask my retinas. Like most boys, I was enamored with things like athletes, martial artists and, yes, comic book heroes. When The Greatest American Hero hit the airwaves, I was immediately hooked. GAH ran from 1981-83 on ABC and starred William… Read more →