Reply #218: a couple more -- no decent talk shows

[Manifestor_of_Light]

Unsolved Miseries....except that Robert Starch died. Guess the Starch in his underwear that held him up finally failed.

Beyond Belief..with Captain What's-His-Beard Frakes. Told a few stories and at the end it told you whether the story was fact or fiction.

Cosmos (got it on DVD). Brilliant. Mr. Sagan has a new book out called "The Varieties of Scientific Experience", BTW.

Connections, also on PBS.

I, Claudius with John Hurt and Derek Jacobi and Magenta from Rocky Horror.

Notorious Woman, story of George Sand and Fred Chopin.

Lillie, the story of Lillie Langtry.

Various other PBS and Masterpiece Theater things I have forgotten.

Twilight Zone.

Overnight, with Linda Ellerbee on NBC and some guy with curly dark hair and a droopy mustache. Came on at 12:30 am. I was a law student at the time and keeping strange hours.

A Decent Talk show like Dick Cavett, Tom Snyder, even Steve Allen and Jack Paar from my early child hood. Jay and Dave never have any classical or jazz people on their show either. I remember Yo Yo Ma and Beverly Sills and Itzy Perlman performing on The Tonight Show when Johnny Carson was around.