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Series · CBS · 1962

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The Lucy Show

48Watch it awake.

Often number one or close. The slapstick is the sale. The widow's competence is thinner.

The review

After the first Lucy, this is the one the country kept watching: a widow, a friend, a job, and a scheme that pulls a wall down. For several seasons it was at or near the top of the ratings. The ratings were for the timing. The timing is extraordinary and it is not a life. The children are present, which matters. The men are exasperated, which is the joke, and the joke needs them to be a little stupid so she can be a storm.

I can put one on and enjoy it and still not hand a house the scheme as a personality. She is brave about embarrassment. She is not often asked to be wise. Say that while you laugh. A child can watch the physical bits. An adult should not confuse a great clown with a picture of how a widow's week ought to run.

Journal

Keep The Lucy Show in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 48. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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

Consider this

All in the Family

60 instead of 48

All in the Family is still a comedy show, and it scores 60 instead of 48. What you gain is republic: A neighborhood's prejudices get said in a living room the whole country watched.

The eight

6
Industry
She works, and the job is real enough that a boss can be angry for a reason.
6
Household
A widow and her children are a household, shared with a friend, and the children exist.
3
Piety
No reverence in particular. The mess is not cruel, which is a kind of restraint.
5
Courage
She charges at the week's problem. The charge is nerve more than judgment.
3
Republic
The town is a place to cause a scene. It is rarely a debt.
5
Temperance
The excess is physical and ends when the episode ends.
5
Truth
The plan was bad. The show usually admits the plan was bad by the wreckage.
5
Stewardship
A house inherits laughter and a habit of the scheme, which needs a sentence.

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Series · Not named in the listing · 2026

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Murder in a Small Town

48Watch it awake.

Thin period whodunit that mixes up its own year and leaves almost nothing solid behind.

The review

It's Gene Wilder as Cash Carter, the Stamford theater man moonlighting as unofficial detective. The listing tags it a 2026 series, yet it's a 1999 A&E film where stagecraft meets police work, and the solid piece is that drive to keep after what actually happened.

Home life stays barely sketched and little gets left for anyone after. Safe peering at other people's crimes may not beat the evening when real neighbors and their craft sit outside the door.

Journal

Keep Murder in a Small Town in the record.