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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 - #19 - Futurama: 'Xmas Story'

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

Television network executives are known and revered for their courage, integrity, imagination, acumen and flawless taste. NOT!!! Only in some...
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TV's 25 Best Xmas Episodes - #20 - Moonlighting: 'Twas the Episode Before Christmas'

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

When it first premiered as a mid-season replacement in the spring of 1985, Moonlighting seemed like a brilliant post-modern revival of the romantic...
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TV's 25 Best Xmas Episodes - #22 -Married With Children: 'It's a Bundyful Life'

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Frank Capra’s seminal holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life is practically tied neck-to-neck with Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol...
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TV's 25 Best Xmas Episodes - #23 - The Dick Van Dyke Show: 'The Alan Brady Show Presents'

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

The Dick Van Dyke Show had one of the more unique sitcom premises of the early 60s: a behind-the-scenes look at writers for a comedy-variety TV show...
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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'

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')

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'

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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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