http://www.unclebarky.com/index.htmlNews, views, and reviews from TV Critic Ed Barkenunclebarky@tx.rr.comCopyright 2006 Ed Bark2012-06-12T14:37:26-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Tue, 2 Oct 2012 07:56:55 -0500unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2012-06-12T14:37:26-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/6390b42e6dd4ddf6b33ee52d240b7e87-47.html#unique-entry-id-47http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/6390b42e6dd4ddf6b33ee52d240b7e87-47.html#unique-entry-id-47Dallas set an all-time ratings record that held until the M*A*S*H finale broke it on Feb. ...4. Only two cast members stayed with the original Dallas series for its entire 356-episode run -- Hagman and Ken Kercheval, who has a recurring role in the TNT re-do as the oft-beaten but never bowed Cliff Barnes. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2012-06-12T12:44:43-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/de1b240c696a88fdd358e179c8f3a32e-46.html#unique-entry-id-46http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/de1b240c696a88fdd358e179c8f3a32e-46.html#unique-entry-id-46unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2012-06-12T12:41:43-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/9a8e2292151e880f81e56594675aa60e-45.html#unique-entry-id-45http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/9a8e2292151e880f81e56594675aa60e-45.html#unique-entry-id-45unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2010-12-23T13:08:43-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/b59d19103830f6cc3450053a92c88b9d-44.html#unique-entry-id-44http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/b59d19103830f6cc3450053a92c88b9d-44.html#unique-entry-id-442. Idol adds and subtracts while ratings retract -- The most powerful series in TV history, Fox's American Idol, had a bruising year that began with judge Simon Cowell's January announcement that he'd be leaving the show after May's finale. ...Late night tilt-a-whirl -- The year began with Conan O'Brien leaving NBC's Tonight Show behind rather than succumb to the network's plans to have a half-hour Jay Leno comedy show precede him after late night local newscasts had ended. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2010-01-28T14:13:26-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/eca27a32e2da94d83cf2c92664786ad8-43.html#unique-entry-id-43http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/eca27a32e2da94d83cf2c92664786ad8-43.html#unique-entry-id-43 -- Riveting as bad guy Mel Profitt in a multi-episode arc on CBS' Wiseguy series, Spacey made an odd U-turn to televangelist land in the 1990 NBC movie Fall From Grace. ...Nelson as Ted Kennedy -- I'm still not sure how and why NBC settled on the Coach star to head up this 1986 dramatization of Ted's son, Teddy Jr., and his fight to rehabilitate himself after losing a leg to cancer. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2009-12-16T11:00:45-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/19685e505dd09a6e96c415daa4fcf619-42.html#unique-entry-id-42http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/19685e505dd09a6e96c415daa4fcf619-42.html#unique-entry-id-42 -- Oprah Winfrey will be exiting her landmark syndicated show to devote full attention to a new, yet to be launched cable network that will bear her name. ...Jay goes to prime-time, falls flat on his chin -- Rather than lose him to a rival network, NBC gave Leno an unprecedented Monday-Friday slot in the concluding hour of prime-time. The Jay Leno Show, hailed as supremely cost-efficient compared to one-hour scripted dramas, started fast in the new fall season ratings before quickly running out of steam. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2009-06-15T10:24:27-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/51fa50b30c8eb636b28894cc0e2193e8-41.html#unique-entry-id-41http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/51fa50b30c8eb636b28894cc0e2193e8-41.html#unique-entry-id-41 -- After months of relentless baiting, First Lady/New York senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton at last succumbs to an image-enhancing sit-down with Letterman, who becomes a teddy bear. The host doubles his usual audience while Hillary agreeably reads a Top 10 list -- "I have not been to the Ed Sullivan Theater since I was dating Ringo" -- and passes a pop quiz on New York odds and ends (the state tree is the sugar maple). ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2009-04-20T14:00:58-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/9c13fcc6da8b031ac962191b90119937-40.html#unique-entry-id-40http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/9c13fcc6da8b031ac962191b90119937-40.html#unique-entry-id-40Inspector Gadget cartoon series and took five cruises on The Love Boat. ...JAMES ARNESS -- CLAIM TO FAME: Walked tall as Marshal Matt Dillon on all 20 seasons of Gunsmoke, which ended in 1975 with a likely never-to-be-broken total of 635 prime-time episodes. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2009-03-31T14:31:18-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/262950a7a09f5e70f2721ea32a43899e-39.html#unique-entry-id-39http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/262950a7a09f5e70f2721ea32a43899e-39.html#unique-entry-id-39 -- The title character, played by veteran actor Robert Young, was a genial, kindly Santa Monica general practitioner who, miracle of miracles, made house calls. Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969-76), was among prime-time's top 10 shows for its first three seasons in times when ABC otherwise had a paucity of hits. ...He stayed for the entire 11-year run of the series, which ended with a two-and-a-half-hour finale that still ranks as the most-watched program in TV history more than a quarter century after its Feb. 28, 1983 air date. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2009-03-18T11:59:40-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/b67ae99f353a0650521c7c22d8e2d539-38.html#unique-entry-id-38http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/b67ae99f353a0650521c7c22d8e2d539-38.html#unique-entry-id-38 -- He dispensed two-fisted justice as the title character of the long-running CBS series Mannix before throttling down a bit as agent Ben Slater on ABC's Today's FBI. ...He also sang, joked and kibbitzed on all of the reigning variety shows of that era. The Practice, not to be confused with the later legal drama series, gave him a modest hit in the mid-1970s as an old-school sawbones. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2009-02-16T13:43:13-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/3132237bf3273b5d1b0e851a2197f5db-37.html#unique-entry-id-37http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/3132237bf3273b5d1b0e851a2197f5db-37.html#unique-entry-id-374. "I'll lay eight to five that only two of you were looking at me," a leering Dean Martin cracks before taking a few southward looks at co-presenter Raquel Welch in a deep-plunge gown. ...But the mere fact of it -- the prodigal, pure human kindness of it -- must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament, which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little, but filling me with warmth and the extraordinary elation, the euphoria, that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic growth of a new tomorrow." ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2009-01-29T11:00:55-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/662a75b1e4eb7255e121ad98930f4d6d-36.html#unique-entry-id-36http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/662a75b1e4eb7255e121ad98930f4d6d-36.html#unique-entry-id-36The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) -- His first star vehicle, after supporting roles in the likes of Bruce Almighty and Anchorman, took Carell into the realm of bankable comedy stars. The Office still churns his butter, but he now can pick and choose among big-ticket projects. Domestic box office: $109.4 million ...John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (1977) -- Travolta was still playing "Sweathog" Vinnie Barbarino on ABC's Welcome Back, Kotter when this unexpected big-screen smash put him on Hollywood's A-list as strutting, white-suited, disco king Tony Manero. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2008-12-16T11:28:38-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/4b49cc47b989cf056fd91970d5ef32df-35.html#unique-entry-id-35http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/4b49cc47b989cf056fd91970d5ef32df-35.html#unique-entry-id-35 -- Bewitched, a little bothered and sometimes bewildered by her resemblance to Palin, the 30 Rock star nonetheless soared on the strength of killer sendups on the show Fey thought she'd left behind. Saturday Night Live became "event" television again, drawing larger audiences than most of NBC's prime-time series whenever Fey popped in with her Palin. ...Jay goes to prime-time, Conan takes it on the chin -- Not wanting to lose Jay Leno, NBC stepped up this month with the ultimate offer he couldn't refuse -- a weeknight prime-time gig in place of the Tonight Show he'll be leaving next spring. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2008-11-20T09:43:29-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/ed755664c765b55afb15d50ce4e05d29-34.html#unique-entry-id-34http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/ed755664c765b55afb15d50ce4e05d29-34.html#unique-entry-id-3424 movie that sets the stage for January's rock-around-the-clock return. ...TONY SOPRANO (The Sopranos -- He violated the he-man code by seeing a psychiatrist, but you might say he made up for it on other fronts as Jersey's macho-est mobster. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2008-10-10T15:52:12-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/7f20649db72e91e7d7aa5b6f238cfd9b-33.html#unique-entry-id-33http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/7f20649db72e91e7d7aa5b6f238cfd9b-33.html#unique-entry-id-33 (The Andy Griffith Show, 1960-'68) -- The show's namesake star likely didn't mind at all that Don Knotts quickly overshadowed him as Mayberry's inept deputy dunce. ...EVANS, JR. (Good Times, 1974-'79) -- While top-of-the-cast veterans John Amos and Esther Rolle festered, Jimmie Walker's scheming teen exploded on the scene with his catchphrase, "Dy-No-Mite!" ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2008-09-09T15:35:08-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/761fdd120bc5d839c64bf9a13ad8d6d4-32.html#unique-entry-id-32http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/761fdd120bc5d839c64bf9a13ad8d6d4-32.html#unique-entry-id-32 (1981-'84) -- Garrett Morris was SNL's charter minority cast member, but Murphy became the first person of color to steal the show and make it his own during the otherwise mostly dismal early 1980s. ...Those three characters alone easily made her SNL's first breakout woman star on a show that's more often than not been too much of an insular man's world. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2008-08-21T11:21:33-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/318acf64adbb7e8b14d6431f4cac1566-31.html#unique-entry-id-31http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/318acf64adbb7e8b14d6431f4cac1566-31.html#unique-entry-id-31 -- The 1980 Republican convention, which coronated Reagan as its nominee, was spiced with rumors that former president Gerald Ford might well be his running mate. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2008-08-11T09:20:10-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/6be12c1fad088fc512bfd254c9fdf2eb-30.html#unique-entry-id-30http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/6be12c1fad088fc512bfd254c9fdf2eb-30.html#unique-entry-id-30 (2000) -- First to launch a post-Seinfeld series, Richards bombed as hapless L.A. detective Vic Nardozza in a comedy series that was worked and reworked to no avail before NBC somehow saw fit to air it. ...Mary (1978) -- Just a year removed from the glory of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the star tried her hand at comedy-variety with a one-hour series whose repertory company included then newcomers David Letterman, Michael Keaton and Swoosie Kurtz. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2008-08-07T11:04:01-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/19c4258e0521d0c7fe87fd417201dd5f-29.html#unique-entry-id-29http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/19c4258e0521d0c7fe87fd417201dd5f-29.html#unique-entry-id-29 -- The best ex-jock ever to hit a broadcast booth excelled as a kicker for the New York Giants before famously teaming with Tom Brookshier and later John Madden as the resident A-list pro football announcer for both CBS and Fox. ...Curt Gowdy -- People forget how big he was, serving as NBC's go-to guy for virtually every major sports event from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s after announcing the first five seasons of the American Football League on ABC. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2008-07-29T13:45:54-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/e7caa3717e034ae32aca14acf8ef42b8-28.html#unique-entry-id-28http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/e7caa3717e034ae32aca14acf8ef42b8-28.html#unique-entry-id-28 (July 5, 1989, NBC) -- Nearly born on the Fourth of July, it first emerged on NBC as The Seinfeld Chronicles before disappearing until May 31, 1990 and then to January of 1991. Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer didn't take their rightful, permanent place in NBC's famed "Must-See" Thursday night lineup until February, 1993, when the "show about nothing" began a five-season reign in prime-time's top 5. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2008-07-07T14:12:39-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/b4d62a9b9dcd8eca9f4103e8b8569a58-27.html#unique-entry-id-27http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/b4d62a9b9dcd8eca9f4103e8b8569a58-27.html#unique-entry-id-27The Beverly Hillbillies is bookended by stints as Davy Crockett's sidekick, Georgie Russel, on the old Disney series and as spry Barnaby Jones in the same-named detective drama. ...Oddly enough, his first of just two Emmy nominations came for a brief role as an injured soldier in 1977's Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2008-06-30T13:33:01-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/3745e903826c530c54ef2c6e3f8aa0ff-26.html#unique-entry-id-26http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/3745e903826c530c54ef2c6e3f8aa0ff-26.html#unique-entry-id-26 (main TV claim to fame: Mork from Ork in Mork & Mindy) -- He has a best supporting actor Oscar for Good Will Hunting and one of the signature comedic performances in film history as the title character in the mega-hit Mrs. ...WILL SMITH (main TV claim to fame: as himself in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) -- Seldom falling short of anything but box office gold, he's been reliably bankable since cutting his teeth in 1993's Six Degrees of Separation and following it up with the first of two Bad Boys films. Independence Day put him on the megastar map before Men In Black vaulted him into the stratosphere. Ali, which got him an Oscar nomination, preceded The Pursuit of Happyness, which earned him another one. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2008-06-12T08:54:13-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/83d6d2f038250eadc8c4354211bbf17f-25.html#unique-entry-id-25http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/83d6d2f038250eadc8c4354211bbf17f-25.html#unique-entry-id-25 (All In the Family) -- TV's first king of Queens expected one and all to live at his beck and call. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2008-04-14T09:55:04-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/33f8d7cbf8e3ada862056be88f32c373-24.html#unique-entry-id-24http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/33f8d7cbf8e3ada862056be88f32c373-24.html#unique-entry-id-24Battlestar Galactica, USA Network's Monk, Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, TNT's The Closer, AMC's Mad Men, HGTV's Trading Spaces, Food Network's Iron Chef and others from hitting the cutting room floor when it came time to narrow the field to the appointed number. ...The Shield (FX) -- Michael Chiklis reinvented himself and FX put itself on the cable map with this thoroughly adult tale of rogue cop Vic Mackey and his strong-armed law enforcement techniques. The Shield's critical and ratings success paved the way for other high-caliber, out-of-the-box FX dramas such as Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me and Damages. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2008-03-18T12:42:38-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/ac6b7019c5a4150f8cb7bd925e4a2969-23.html#unique-entry-id-23http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/ac6b7019c5a4150f8cb7bd925e4a2969-23.html#unique-entry-id-23Sunday Night Football series, which MNF preordained by packaging the pro game as both an entertainment spectacle and what's turned out to be prime-time's longest-running reality series. ...I Love Lucy (CBS, 1951-61) -- Every funny, high-caliber sitcom in TV history, from All In the Family to Seinfeld and beyond, owes a debt to the genre's architect. I Love Lucy, premiering in the medium's dawning days, spent five seasons as the nation's most popular prime-time show. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2007-12-10T13:23:59-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/f781fbb0805461f1846383c4150fb519-22.html#unique-entry-id-22http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/f781fbb0805461f1846383c4150fb519-22.html#unique-entry-id-22Power of 10, NBC will return 1 vs. 100 to Friday nights, ABC has a British import called Wanna Bet on tap and Fox will be strapping contestants to lie detectors this January in The Moment of Truth. ...The late Merv Griffin created the show, which originally was called Shoppers Bazaar before wiser heads prevailed. Wheel also has become a popular casino slot game, where its gaudy colors are very much at home. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2007-09-12T10:56:44-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/3cd1af1cfaa85c18c94e7237883f93a5-21.html#unique-entry-id-21http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/3cd1af1cfaa85c18c94e7237883f93a5-21.html#unique-entry-id-21FNL if it doesn't start out with a big kickoff return. ...It's Fox's set-in-New Orleans K-Ville, which opens on Monday nights at 8 against the closing half hour of Dancing with the Stars, NBC's Heroes, CBS' potent comedy duo of Two and a Half Men and Rules of Engagement, The CW's Girlfriends plus ESPN's Monday Night Football. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2007-08-29T15:10:53-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/24cbceadcaee102abed1dda08fe0e762-20.html#unique-entry-id-20http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/24cbceadcaee102abed1dda08fe0e762-20.html#unique-entry-id-20 (Fox, 2003) -- Fox struck it rich in the ratings with the first Joe Millionaire, in which a bevy of golddiggers got deceived into thinking that well-chiseled construction worker Evan Marriott was loaded. ... (ABC, 2003) -- The word "celebrity" has seldom been used more loosely than in this jungle-set hoot starring the likes of "Downtown" Julie Brown, Alana Stewart, "Stuttering" John Melendez, Nikki Schieler-Ziering, Robin Leach (who battled leaches along with the others), Bruce Jenner and eventual champ Cris Judd. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2007-08-13T15:16:50-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/972ea0e6d50e7e28cce8891ba0c64d52-19.html#unique-entry-id-19http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/972ea0e6d50e7e28cce8891ba0c64d52-19.html#unique-entry-id-19The O'Reilly Factor long has been the network's most-watched program, with its host also authoring several bestselling books. ...Bob Schieffer (1967-69 at KXAS, then WBAP) -- Durable, affable and still a key CBS News contributor, Schieffer's long, high-profile career at the network peaked when he replaced Dan Rather in March 2005 as interim anchor of the CBS Evening News. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2007-07-06T11:05:40-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/a472fb5855aa5abc6bd88f0d1b160454-18.html#unique-entry-id-18http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/a472fb5855aa5abc6bd88f0d1b160454-18.html#unique-entry-id-18unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2007-06-25T11:17:27-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/4719395c04d78e8557fa0c992e0bc217-16.html#unique-entry-id-16http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/4719395c04d78e8557fa0c992e0bc217-16.html#unique-entry-id-16Ocean's Thirteen pretty boy and give the rest of us earthlings a chance to do good works on our own without your constant prodding. ...Rosie O'Donnell -- You mercifully left The View early, but now it's bray-per-view on your blog. The New York Times only encouraged you with a recent big splash of a story that basically said you're still too marvelous for words. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2007-06-08T15:55:00-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/7ded4a396626ecbfa083d77e240e82dd-15.html#unique-entry-id-15http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/7ded4a396626ecbfa083d77e240e82dd-15.html#unique-entry-id-15The Sopranos. This one lists the 10 best drama series ever, without regard to whether they were ratings hits. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2007-06-07T12:19:14-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/5879dc3e1f1895dab9884f1f7453e728-14.html#unique-entry-id-14http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/5879dc3e1f1895dab9884f1f7453e728-14.html#unique-entry-id-14Perry Mason series ran its course, Burr returned to play the character in a series of popular NBC movies. ...Ewing (Dallas) -- Larry Hagman struck it rich as a Southfork oilman who lived in fear of his daddy, aimed to please his momma and intended to screw just about everyone else, either in a dirty deal or on a satin-sheeted mattress. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2007-06-06T16:55:44-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/3850daa0034f0eed561c9afd9db0ff79-13.html#unique-entry-id-13http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/3850daa0034f0eed561c9afd9db0ff79-13.html#unique-entry-id-13 (original version, 1959-65, CBS) -- Host Rod Serling's cryptic introductions set in motion television's first great suspense anthology series. Alfred Hitchcock Presents got there first in 1955, but its stories for the most part were no match for Serling's sagas of a "dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity . . . an area we call The Twilight Zone." ...Clint Eastwood, who played trailhand Rowdy Yates in Rawhide, likely never would have gotten the chance had Gunsmoke been a flop instead of prime-time's No. 1 series from 1957 to '61. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2007-05-25T13:22:10-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/085eaf4fdfe95790adb5c90db250ae9b-12.html#unique-entry-id-12http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/085eaf4fdfe95790adb5c90db250ae9b-12.html#unique-entry-id-128. March 4-10, 2005 -- Prohibited from telling Michael Jackson jokes because he's a witness in his child molestation trial, Leno calls on other comics to stand in for him. ...4. May 20, 1993 -- Tonight originates live from Boston's Bull & Finch Pub, where the cast of Cheers is celebrating that night's series finale on NBC. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2007-04-04T12:16:24-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/959c944311c0ed49f3d7fadbf206b195-11.html#unique-entry-id-11http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/959c944311c0ed49f3d7fadbf206b195-11.html#unique-entry-id-11Cause of death: Two bullets in the chest from Janice's warm gun. ...This doomed him when Tony learned the awful truth. Cause of death: A barrage of gunfire on a boat, with Tony, Silvio Dante and Paulie Walnuts simultaneously pulling the triggers after Pussy asked only that they not shoot him in the face. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2007-03-18T20:38:05-05:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/df8dd82e5a155c25998742534e130ec5-10.html#unique-entry-id-10http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/df8dd82e5a155c25998742534e130ec5-10.html#unique-entry-id-10Good Day mainstay Megan Henderson, who's pulling the 9 p.m. shift until Heather Hays returns from maternity leave. ...The early hours so far haven't taken any visible toll on her, but now she'll get a brief respite filling in for Heather Hays at 9 p.m. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2007-03-07T09:53:39-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/6492c60dbfcf52e5b609ed8578159a0c-9.html#unique-entry-id-9http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/6492c60dbfcf52e5b609ed8578159a0c-9.html#unique-entry-id-9 -- The Cisco Kid and Pancho are in retirement, so get ready to ride the range with a surly nicotine addict from Dead Man's Gulch and his always smiling saddle mate. ...Tony the Tiger -- There's a cereal killer on the loose, and Tony's just the guy to find out who hijacked a year's supply of Rice Krispies. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2007-02-12T10:41:16-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/1ef2ad13c5c6a84888efc773ae9f28cb-8.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/1ef2ad13c5c6a84888efc773ae9f28cb-8.html#unique-entry-id-8Entertainment Tonight and its running mate, The Insider. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2007-01-24T21:11:29-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/e93c66a84ca35b3b646e20111d4435af-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/e93c66a84ca35b3b646e20111d4435af-7.html#unique-entry-id-7"The funniest part about my wedding story is I had absolutely nothing to do with it," Kelley says. "My wife was so sensitive to the idea that paparazzi might invade the process and ruin it that she kept all the details secret from everybody, including me. ...Blitt, an admitted real-life replica of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, takes particular glee in demolishing Faye Dunaway, who has a longheld reputation as a temperamental artist. "I've never learned how to drive a car," he says. "And every driver that I've used, I ask, 'Who is the worst person you've ever met?' ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2006-12-28T15:39:07-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/7a71c720e6c3fe635c4bbec54d730a92-6.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/7a71c720e6c3fe635c4bbec54d730a92-6.html#unique-entry-id-6SNL, were enough to cost him the presidency in a very close election with Democrat Jimmy Carter. ...Darrell Hammond as Al Gore -- His condescending, stiff-as-a-board demeanor in a "lock box" sketch later was shown to the real-life candidate in hopes of making him see what others had seen during Gore's first TV faceoff with George W. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2006-12-15T17:11:57-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/106925fd4c400a4a4f48ac32f28f756a-4.html#unique-entry-id-4http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/106925fd4c400a4a4f48ac32f28f756a-4.html#unique-entry-id-47. Taxi's Louie De Palma (Danny DeVito) -- The pint-sized dispatcher scaled the heights of indignity from his cage above the put-upon drivers of New York's Sunshine Cab Company. ...4.Buffalo Bill's Bill Bittinger (Dabney Coleman) -- Vain, pompous and immensely insecure, "Bufffalo Bill" zealously guarded his turf as host of Buffalo's reigning local TV talk show. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2006-12-07T13:09:16-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/b1b95e190900359b4b59802a75bc1658-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/b1b95e190900359b4b59802a75bc1658-2.html#unique-entry-id-2Chevy Chase and you're not" and the show's weekly call to arms -- "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night! ...Uncle B could go on and on, but will settle for listing the Top 10 catchphrases not included anywhere in TV Land's 100 Greatest. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2006-12-03T13:48:59-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/9f8e18837f45e3f5bd1c5b7f7ec45fe7-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/9f8e18837f45e3f5bd1c5b7f7ec45fe7-1.html#unique-entry-id-1 -- At the height of her fame as Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show, the then Phylicia Allen heard him propose marriage during the halftime show of a Thanksgiving Day game between the Detroit Lions and New York Jets. ...John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal (1986-'94) -- The hot-tempered tennis champ and the Oscar-winning actress (as the child star of Paper Moon) hooked up for love, set and then a very bitter end-game. ]]>unclebarky@tx.rr.comMaking a List2006-11-26T20:28:00-06:00http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/1e8f6c5eb06e779035156982a4665c49-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://www.unclebarky.com/list_files/1e8f6c5eb06e779035156982a4665c49-0.html#unique-entry-id-0 -- The longtime general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers got tossed after he told Ted Koppel on a 1987 Nightline that blacks "may not have some of the necessities" to either manage or hold a high level front office job in major league baseball. ...Simpson specials titled If I Did It, Here's How It Happened. Immediate condemnation from all quarters prompted Fox to drop the idea six days later, with poobah Rupert Murdoch taking the highly unusual step of going public with an apologetic statement. ]]>