Welcome back to Boston Legal Season 3 - I too go onto my balconey with a cigar and whisky to reminisce about the day gone by...

Blade The Series - only 12 eps, come back soon!

Battlestar Galactica - what is it with Sci Fi only letting the webisodes be downloaded by USA patrons. Circumvent you! I have greatly enjoyed the 2 part mini-series, and Seasons 1 & 2. Looking forward to S3.

So all in all, after the elation lost last year as my enjoyment/appreciation waned quickly to not bother seeing out Supernatural, Surface, Desperate Housewives and Invasion, and losing Alias, I have now also dipped into Vanished with some hope of seeing it through. What other delights will the new season bring?

I miss BANYON, BANACEK and BARNABY JONES.

I've been wanting to see the 1960s one-season wonders, BUS STOP and THE BLUE LIGHT, for ages.

I've seen one episode of both. Robert Altman directed BUS STOP's most famous episode, "A Lion Walks Among Us," a surprisingly grim and violent show guest-starring Fabian (!) as a sociopathic serial killer. It probably is not representative of the series as a whole, but it was an absorbing hour of drama and suspense.

BLUE LIGHT is an intriguing concept that I wouldn't mind seeing remade. Robert Goulet (!) stars as David March, an American traitor who lives in Europe and works as a spy for the Nazis. So it seems. He's actually a double agent posing as a traitor who uses his influence and standing among the Germans to filter important information back to the Allies. Walter Grauman (I think) directed the pilot, and it was interesting. Goulet was surprisingly effective.

Is there a ringtone for BLUE LIGHT?

Beats me, but Lalo Schifrin composed the theme.

Don't forget THE B-TEAM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4ESF53VrmI

Barney Miller - only season one on DVD, and then apparently low sales killed off any future releases. More like inflated prices for that short, but brilliant set (although I hated the first episode, the rest felt like the proper show).

The best "B" of all: Buffy, The Vampire Slayer

Ha ha! Boston Legal. They actually left in a shot of James Spader holding up cue cards for Denny Crane (Bill Shatner). Whether staged (presumably - well of course it was staged!) or real, it is another surreal comedy aside for a Network drama TV show. What with their regular breaking of the fourth wall rule, this show is reminding me more and more of The Monkees season two - here is this week's plot (#22) and villain, there is Davy Jones/Alan Shore (James Spader) making love to this week's love interest, etc etc. Genius television, and lots of fun!

Baywatch
The Bugaloos
Bonanza
Batman
Babylon 5
The Bad News Bears (Remember THAT one?)
The Banana Splits (Tra la la.. Tra la la la)
Beat The Geeks
Bosom Buddies
The Bionic Woman
The Brady Bunch
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Earlier today I saw that season 1 of 'Bosom Buddies' is set for release (subject to change, natch) on March 13, 2007. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm wondering just how well it's going to hold up. (See how young Scolari and Hanks look!)

'Bosom Buddies'

IMO, Season 1 had its share of clunkers and the series didn't really get going until episode five, "What Price Glory?" - the first real office-centered episode - since the first few episodes seem overly concerned with the set-up of the central cross-dressing premise(a premise that the best episodes of the second season all but abandoned anyway). But Season 1 doesn't have any outright bad episodes like Season 2's "The Grandfather" and "Kip off the Old Block." And in the first season there is a five episode stretch from "Sonny Boy" to "The Rewrite"(going in broadcast order) where you will find some of the funniest sitcom writing ever, in my book. I'm really looking forward to this release and am crossing my fingers for no music cuts and maybe something in the way of extras; surely some sort of tribute to Wendie Jo Sperber is in order.