by David Krell | Feb 14, 2015 | David Krell
From 1977 to 1986, America went on vacation every Saturday night, beginning with short jaunts to Puerto Vallarta and graduating to longer trips to other ports of call, including Alaska, the Panama Canal, and Australia. American went on The Love Boat, vicariously...
by David Krell | Oct 11, 2013 | David Krell
During its eight-year run on NBC from 1986 to 1994, L.A. Law showcased legal issues without tidying everything in a package for the audience. It was a more realistic way of looking at law practice, which can be messy, full of ambiguities, conflicts, and unresolved...
by David Krell | Oct 2, 2013 | David Krell
Media historians will likely document the 1980s as the Decade of the Peacock. As television approached its 40th anniversary since Milton Berle launched the medium into mass status in 1948 with Texaco Star Theatre, NBC’s avian emblem emerged like a phoenix,...
by David Krell | Jul 23, 2013 | David Krell
In the 1980s, an NBC show about cops had it all. A new look. Story arcs existing through several episodes. And the elevation of lesser known actors to household name status. Hill Street Blues? No. Miami Vice? No. Crime Story? Yes. Michael Mann’s production...
by David Krell | Jul 22, 2013 | David Krell
Yuppies existed on prime time television before we had a word to describe them. Yuppie, of course, is a slang word for young, upwardly mobile professional. Dr. Bob Hartley was a Chicago yuppie on The Bob Newhart Show. Rob Petrie was a television comedy writer yuppie...
