Saturday, December 19th, 2009
In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Passion, Willow Rosenberg confesses to Buffy that her Jewish upbringing is so strict that she has to sneak...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
The Andy Griffith Show was television’s equivalent of the old Frank Capra movies with their mixture of warmhearted comedy and sentimentality. It...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
OK, boils and ghouls, just one more foray into murder and mayhem before we hunker down to (slightly) more traditional fare for the rest of our holiday...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
“Christmas is awesome. First of all you got to spend time with people you love. Secondly, you can get drunk and no one can say anything. Third,...
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
John Collier’s 1939 short story Back for Christmas has been adapted many times for both radio and television. The story’s protagonist has...
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle is the only Sherlock Holmes story that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle set during the Christmas season. Although the bulk...
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
One of the many reasons that the WB Network is no longer with us is that the suits running the joint seemed determined to outdo the suits at Fox for...
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When the seminal British series The Avengers debuted in 1960 as a straight-forward police procedural, no one would have guessed that, in just a few...
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A lot of people want their holiday entertainment to be all sweetness and light with emphasis on sentimentality, but us mystery aficionados like to...
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
When the popularity of television starting spreading like wildfire in the late 1940s, the movie studios considered it an enemy to be conquered at all...
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