classic tv

Reboots of Classic TV shows continue to be all the rage, but, generally speaking, they’re either an extension of an original TV series along the lines of Will & Grace and Roseanne/The Conners,...

The Classic TV series Get Smart introduced the world to Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, secret agent 86, and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, both working for the secret government agency CONTROL and...

Talking to actress Juliet Mills, you can’t help but feel that there’s still some magic afoot, and not simply because she starred in the Classic TV sitcom Nanny and the Professor. It has more to do...

The love story between Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz — and their journey together in creating the legendary Classic TV sitcom I Love Lucy — should have been the thing that Hollywood fairy...

If there are two words that best describe the Donny & Marie variety show of the mid-1970s, it would probably be “comfort food.” The show could be silly, the humor kind of corny,...

Created by Jay Tarses, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd was a dramedy series that undoubtedly served as a vehicle for its star, Blair Brown. In fact, the actress earned five Emmy...

You may think that Marvel Studios has the idea of a shared universe covered with superhero extravaganzas like Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, but you ain’t seen nothin’ until you’ve seen playwright Stephen Garvey‘s The Bardy Bunch. A...

Don’t let any of the smiling images fool you: Sally Field was not happy portraying Sister Bertrille for three seasons on the Classic TV show The Flying Nun, no matter how many people...

Imagine being a devotee of Classic TV your entire life, then getting the opportunity to speak to many of the people you admire and actually turning those conversations into biographies or companions to...

We’ve all heard the cliché that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but the bottom line is there’s also no better way to cash in on a popular trend. That’s been a...

Back in the 1960s, the line between TV and movie stars was never more clearly defined, with actors from television seldom being able to make it on the big screen while film actors...

By the start of the 1970s, television — those shows we know now as Classic TV — was beginning to lose a bit of its magic, with I Dream of Jeannie ending its five-year...

Whether you’ve realized it or not, over the past 35 years or so Rob Paulsen has been entertaining you. A lot. If you were a fan of cartoons like the original ’80s version of...

Brandon Cruz is not a fan of Hollywood, and it’s not because after spending three years costarring on The Courtship of Eddie’s Father he felt abandoned by the system, tossed aside and lost himself...

If you were to come up with a Classic TV sitcom that embodied 1950s American family values — not necessarily life as it was, but as many imagined it — you could probably...

For today’s television audience, the name Bill Bixby may not stir a lot in the way of memories, but for anyone who grew up on Classic TV, he was a mainstay because of...

A dog with a speech impediment following four teenagers who solve seemingly supernatural mysteries does not sound like the sort of thing that would make for Classic TV (or the subject of innumerable spin-offs,...

When looking back at TV history, and the evolving role of women in it, there seems to be this jump from June Cleaver on a show like Leave It To Beaver (the woman...

There’s no escaping the fact that the 1960s were a time of strange and different things, whether you’re talking about society as a whole or pop culture in the form of music, film,...

From September 1975, to June 1979, this high school class said “up your nose with a rubber hose” to authority. The iconic American sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter told the story of Gabe Kotter —...