As I said, the mattress set has been replaced several times, along with the working parts on a couple drawers.
Yup, our bedroom set is the dressers and chests we both had in our childhood rooms. Our dining table is the one my grandmother bought in 1928, brought along from the old family home when we moved out. Such continuity is important to us.
Let's see. I have the bed frame, dresser, plates, silverware, glasses and vacuum from the house I grew up in. I inherited it all when my parents divorced in 92. We lived in that house from 76-92, so one can assume most of what I have is 30-40 years old.
My parents had the same mattress for ...fifty years. At one point, I was staying at their house while they were snow-birding and I took it upon myself to at least buy a memory foam top for the darn thing. When they got back, mom couldn't figure out why they were now sleeping so much better.
I have my great-grandfather's work desk in the basement, which was hand made of 1" thick wood in 1889, and could probably support the weight of the house if it fell on it . I recently went thru some of the stuff in it (why I didn't sooner, I dunno), and found a 1917 NY Times edition that he saved because it had battlefront maps of the "current" situation of the war in France :O . The damn thing disintegrates into flakes when you try to turn the pages! I hate to throw it out, but I can't find anyone interested in taking it.
I have the same issue with Ghosts. Last year ended up with 18 episodes, but multiple gaps stretched it out (which is good). I never know how many episodes a season is supposed to be anymore.
I accidentally clicked on this because I hadn't seen the episode... but now I have no worries! Thanks guys! But I still don't get NBC's skip logic? It's one thing if there is a special event like an awards show, sports final or a president debate... but when it is random? At least it is not as bad as Quantum Leap.
When shows were literally half a year long at 26 episodes, gaps were troublesome for the networks. Should they do a double episode to catch up, or push back the next season's premiere a week? Now with 10, 15, 18, even as many as 20, they don't have that concern and may be trying not to get finished too quickly. I just wish they would tell us how many episodes of Night Court are in S1, or any show. For some reason they're being secretive about it.
Not sure what you mean. Those 26 episodes were spread out over around 39 weeks, September/October to May/June, with a long break for the winter holidays and other shorter gaps during the season. After all, it takes more than 7 days to film an hourlong episode, so they needed the extra time to catch up. So there was a cushion if they ran into an unexpected delay. This is because TV seasons were originally 30-odd episodes per year, and a show only took off during the summer, with another summer replacement show taking its place, instead of just reruns. As networks discovered that audiences had tolerance for reruns, they started reducing the number of episodes per season, down to around 26 by 1970, and shrank down to 22 for most shows by 1990 or so. But they still maintained the same tradition of fall premieres and May/June finales, so the number of reruns during the season increased as the number of new episodes diminished.
My concer. Is more if there is an episode block. For example, the streaming services are consistenly dropping new episodes on their designated day, no matter what else airs (like Last of Us going against the Oscars), so I can count on it being there, or catch it on demand if MY schedule is disrupted. Traditional Network shows... maybe not so much
They did reruns in the summer when I was watching TV in the 70's and 80's, so they could potentially skip or double up there I guess. They usually ran the 26 (or whatever #) in one long run, barring pre-emption (dirty word, that). The first show I remember watching that did a mid-season gap was ST TNG, but obviously other shows could have done it earlier.
Yes, they did reruns throughout the 3 months of the summer, but they had to stretch out those 26 episodes over 39 weeks of the main season, so there were periodic breaks during the season. For instance, look at the schedule for the original Night Court: http://www.tvtango.com/series/night_court/episodes Season 1 was a 13-episode midseason replacement, but even so, there's a week off between episodes 3 & 4, and a gap of two whole months between episodes 12 & 13. Then in season 2, you have 22 episodes airing from September 27, 1984 to May 9, 1985, which is 32 weeks, so they took 10 weeks off during the season. That includes a 3-week holiday break between December 13 and January 3. Going back to the '70s, just to pick one example, here's The Rockford Files: http://www.tvtango.com/series/rockford_files/episodes Season 1 is straight through for 11 episodes, then a 3-week gap, then a 2-week gap, then three in a row, then another 2-week gap, then straight through to the end, so that's only 4 weeks off midseason. Season 2 has the first dozen straight through, then a 2-week gap, then a 3-week gap, then 7 in a row, then a 3-week gap, then the last two, so that's 5 weeks off during the season. So if that's typical, it wasn't as systematic as it became by the time of ST:TNG and the like, but it still wasn't completely straight through.
And it's not the only show breaking until then: Abbott Elementary and The Conners are doing the same. Stephen Colbert is off this week, too, and I bet he won't be back until that week.
A reasonably good episode this week, revolving around wedding planning gags in a way that allowed delving into most of the characters in interesting ways -- Abby eager to plan her wedding but sad that her dad won't be there, Dan reveling in getting free stuff but insistent that he'll never marry again after losing his wife, Gurgs and Olivia competing for maid of honor and discovering they make a good team. Neil is still getting short shrift, though, since his unrequited crush on Abby is uninteresting. And yet the episode also did a good job with giving the guest stars fun business, something this show often overlooks in favor of focusing on the leads. The quirky people who came through the courtroom were a highlight of the original, and though it was spread about among brief appearances by a bunch of different people, it was nice to see that return. I hope the show manages to maintain that balance between developing the main cast and highlighting the guest stars. And hey, they rebuilt the roof set as a nostalgic callback. I don't recall if it's authentic to the original set, but the courtroom and office sets are, so I'd assume this one is too, allowing for updates to the Manhattan skyline.