re: #205 William Barnett-Lewis

There are only a tiny handful of TV shows I can go back to and watch at any time - the ones that hold up and remain entertaining. For me it’s Start Trek, Hogan’s Heroes, Rockford Files, Hill Street Blues & Magnum PI. I’d hate to try and rank them but you are so right about what they did and how they did it on Magnum with a flair rarely matched since.

Haha, you should have been around for the “Peyton Place” phenomenon in the mid-60s. Since there was no way to record the show then, no one even went out on the nights it aired. I’d never heard of the book until then (it came out in 1956) but I read it and even though it was “cleaned up” somewhat, the series was pretty edgy for the time. It made a lot of careers.

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