6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (265+ words) Way back in 1964, when writer Gene Roddenberry penned his first draft for a new television science fiction series, he could not have imagined the success it would eventually have, nor that, over 60 years later, the Star Trek franchise would still…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (313+ words) Robert De Niro won an Academy Award in April 1975 for The Godfather Part II. Within a few months, he was picking up strangers on the West Side of Manhattan in a yellow cab. Almost none of them looked up, and that…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (531+ words) It's been forty years since Stephen King's novella, The Body, was adapted into the film Stand by Me, but the story still holds up as one of Rob Reiner's greatest. The emotional depth portrayed by the teenage actors and written…...

2+ mon, 19+ hour ago   (615+ words) If you've reread the Little House books or queued the new Netflix adaptation, you've probably caught on to the lingo. It's a mix of plain-old pioneer talk and hyperspecific slang that doesn't always translate to 2026 ears. To bridge the gap…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (271+ words) Each decade had its own style when it came to sitcoms, with the 1960s standing out for the burst of color coming to TV screens. Whether it was the beauty of the animation or the brightness of live-action, there was something…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (933+ words) There is a particular, simple, and powerful joy to settling down to eat and watch a TV show. But what if you could magnify that joy by sitting down to watch a beloved episode while eating the same famous meal,…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (438+ words) Only sharp-eyed viewers of The Dick Van Dyke Show would notice the name Frank Adamo popping up regularly in the closing credits. The late Adamo—Dick Van Dyke’s real-life assistant—functioned as the show’s Alfred Hitchcock, inserting himself in one…...