One night in the summer of 1991, I woke up around 3 AM, couldn’t get back to sleep, and went out to the den and turned on the television. The only thing on was some bizarre cowboy movie. I’d come in about 15 or 20 minutes into the show and …
I’ve been a fan of Dick Van Dyke for as long as I can remember — and [whatever the opposite of a fan is] of his brother Jerry for almost as long. When he was young, Jerry would show up on his big brother’s show and I’d marvel at the …
I never could see the appeal of Happy Days, but The Andy Griffith Show, in my opinion, was the single best television comedy ever broadcast. Sheriff Andy Taylor was my surrogate TV father when I was growing up (Laura Petrie my surrogate mom, from whom I became alienated when she …
