Friends: Could It Be More Beloved?

Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc. Photo: NBC 3rd Rock From the Sun was funnier. Mad About You sweeter. Will & Grace was…

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More With Feeling

Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Stewart Head, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Charisma Carpenter and Alyson Hannigan. Photo: The WB I don’t know what Joss Whedon had in mind when he wrote the screenplay…

Hart to Hart 

Not unexpectedly, it was novelist Sidney Sheldon who created this entertaining rip-off of the Thin Man movies. Jonathan and Jennifer (Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers) were wealthy, gorgeous and always giving…

Home Improvement 

In this likable family sitcom, stand-up comedian Tim Allen was the clumsy host of “Tool Time”, a do-it-yourself TV show. All too often “the Toolman” was injured in his work…

Rear Window 

Jason Kemp (Christopher Reeve), a paralyzed architect, spends his nights spying on the apartment building across the yard and suddenly thinks he saw a murder... A few years after the…

A Christmas Carol 

Charles Dickens’s ghost story would probably survive even the most slapdash filmization, but this TV movie is not one of those. It is a distinguished version where the filmmakers succeed…

RKO 281 

The story of how a lauded theater man called Orson Welles got the chance to direct a movie, but his choice to make Citizen Kane damn near killed his career. Why? Because…

Empty Nest 

With The Golden Girls a hit, Susan Harris came up with another sitcom in the same vein. From her previous show Soap came Richard Mulligan, and his charisma boosted the…