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A better day overall, I must say. Since I'm in a better mood, I want to list some faves:

"Pet Sounds" by the Beach Boys
"The Roominghouse Madrigals" by Charles Bukowski
The watercolors of Andrew Wyeth
"I Love Lucy" black-and-whites I watched as afternoon reruns when I was eye-level to the center of the console screen.
"Love and Rockets" by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez
"Memories, Dreams, Reflections" by C.G. Jung
"Free Jazz" by Ornette Coleman
"The Mike Douglas Show"

Here's a link* to another one, a Lost Fave I remember well. The show was one of the best ever on television. Just to hear it described, it doesn't sound like much. But you need to remember two things as you look at the season rundown: nothing like this had ever been done on national network television before. Sequential stories, all tragi-comic, and all linked to an overall theme. After it was canceled, the star used to complain over his inability to get the show syndicated or out on video (at the time). He eventually created another show around a few ideas the canceled show had. He and his producers put the story in a contemporary setting, used some of the same actors from the canceled show, and then made the new one work for I think six or seven seasons. It was called "The Rockford Files." But hardly anybody remembers the show that informed "The Rockford Files" back in the 70's, and dozens of TV shows since!

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*I didn't preserve the link to the cancelled show. It was called "Nichols".


LJ orig. 10/31/06