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Doug Krentzlin is a professional freelance writer, guest lecturer and actor living in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his cats, Buffy and Angel. Doug covers the classics of television, including comedies, dramas, mysteries, thrillers, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, animation and literary adaptations. He has also had articles published in the New York Post and Movie Maker Magazine. Doug can be reached here.

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TV's 25 Best Xmas Episodes - #25 - Xena, Warrior Princess: 'A Solstice Carol'

Monday, November 30th, 2009

How do you do a Christmas episode of a television show that’s set in the period B.C.? This was the challenge faced by filmmaker Sam Raimi for...
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SCTV: 'CCCP1'

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

According to Dave Thomas in his book SCTV: Behind the Scenes, when the cast and writers of SCTV set up shop at NBC, the network presented them with a...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 'Phases'

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Let us take this opportunity to praise Seth Green who, when it comes to deadpan comedy, might well be this generation’s answer to Buster Keaton....
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Police Squad! (In Color!): 'A Substantial Gift' (or 'The Broken Promise')

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

In the 50s and early 60s, who would have dreamed that Leslie Neilsen, the dashing young leading man best known to television audiences as Swamp Fox on...
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Get Smart: 'The Amazing Harry Hoo'

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 · 2 comments

Political correctness is to comedy what Kryptonite is to Superman. Nothing buzzkills a laugh more than someone (usually a white liberal) insisting...
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The Outer Limits: 'Controlled Experiment'

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Unlike other anthology shows, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits almost never did comedies. The one exception...
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Get Smart: 'I'm Only Human'

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For those unfamiliar with the term, a “shaggy dog story” is a joke with an elaborate set-up and a non-sequester punch line that, more...
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SCTV: "Polynesiantown"

When SCTV (quite simply the single funniest television show ever) switched over from a syndicated half-hour (26 minutes minus commercials) show to a...
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R.I.P. Henry Gibson

These are not good times for baby-boomers who are into nostalgia. Yesterday came the bad news that yet another television icon is no longer with us....
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Sgt. Bilko: "The Con Men"

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When last we met, I was talking about The Court Marshal, the funniest episode ever of the Sgt. Bilko (played by the great Phil Silvers) show, and I...
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