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Series · CBS · 1972

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The Bob Newhart Show

63Watch it awake.

Two adults who like each other, and a man who gets paid to listen. I would leave it on.

The review

Bob's work is listening, and they play that listening for comedy. Emily teaches and is his wife. A neighbor who navigates planes wanders through. The patients are the joke of the week. Nothing here pretends the stakes are enormous. What the louder hits skipped is a marriage of two adults who simply like each other.

I leave this on without a speech afterward. The jobs are recognizable, the home is not a backdrop, and you are not being pushed toward the next meanness. It will not make a coward brave. It may remind a house that a reasonable man and a woman who can stand him are already an evening. If you want someone to break, change the channel. If you want a tone a person could live inside, this is the one.

Journal

Keep The Bob Newhart Show in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.

The glance

Courage and Republic are the thin ones.

Does anyone risk something they would miss, or is it only noise?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Andy Griffith Show

73 instead of 63

The Andy Griffith Show is still a comedy show, and it scores 73 instead of 63. What you gain is republic: Mayberry is a commons.

The eight

8
Industry
Bob is paid to listen, and Emily's teaching is a real second job in the house.
9
Household
A marriage of two adults who like each other is the quiet center, not a prop.
5
Piety
Bob's job is listening, and the joke is that he stays a reasonable man.
3
Courage
Almost nothing they value is put at risk; the stakes stay comfortably small.
4
Republic
A navigator lives next door, but nobody owes the block a public duty.
8
Temperance
You are not steered toward the next humiliation; the tone stays livable.
6
Truth
Patients supply the jokes, while listening is still treated as his real work.
7
Stewardship
A marriage that likes itself is left standing, which many louder hits never managed.

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Series · ABC · 1963

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The Fugitive

63Watch it awake.

An innocent man and a lawman who is not a villain. The chase is not the whole debt.

The review

He was convicted of killing his wife. He did not. A one-armed man did, and a lieutenant believes the jury more than he believes the doctor's face, which is the lieutenant's job until the evidence moves. Each week the doctor lands in a town, does some good a fugitive cannot afford, and runs again. The country's appointment for years, and the last episode, just after this decade, was one of the most watched hours television had aired.

What I will keep is not the chase. It is that both men are serious. The law is not a fool, and the innocent man is not allowed to become a charming outlaw. I would watch an ordinary episode with an older child and ask why he stayed an extra day. The answer is usually a person. That is the number. The rating is not.

Journal

Keep The Fugitive in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Waltons

78 instead of 63

The Waltons is still a drama show, and it scores 78 instead of 63. What you gain is household: Parents, grandparents, and children are the subject, and they end by naming each other.