NBC | Great American Things

Posted by Robin on Jan 1, 2011 in Americana | Comments Off on Americana: Rose Parade

If you happened to have been in Pasadena in 1890 (Anyone? Anyone?), you could have been one of the 2,000 or so people who saw a...

Posted by Robin on Nov 1, 2010 in TV Show | 1 comment

The TV classic Columbo was an “anti-whodunit.” Typically, we saw the crime being committed at the beginning of the...

Posted by Robin on Oct 16, 2010 in TV Show | Comments Off on TV Show: Hill Street Blues

From the moment the great Mike Post theme song came on, you knew you were going to see a different kind of show. Hill Street Blues...

Posted by Robin on Oct 7, 2009 in Actor | Comments Off on Actor: Bob Hope

No one has ever done as much to entertain our troops overseas as Bob Hope did. It began normally enough, when Bob was one of many Hollywood...