MMC 1000 update — week of Oct. 10-16

For your blog this week, I’d like you to list your five favorite television shows from any era. They don’t necessarily still have to be on the air.

To get you started, I’ll tell you about three of mine.

I’m not sure if it was the fact that about 10-15 years ago I thought I’d become an attorney, but I was captivated first by L.A. Law in the 1990s and then The Practice later in the decade and the show it morphed into, Boston Legal.

The common trait in all three shows was that they usually centered around two or three cases per episode (so you could stay focused and not overwhelmed). One of the cases usually had a comedic tone or focus, and one dealt with some type of societal issue.

But I liked that that you had to concentrate the entire hour (you couldn’t leave for a few minutes otherwise you’d be lost).

The writing was superb (I love just about anything David E. Kelley produces) and the acting was magnificent (having William Shatner play a self-deprecating lunatic like Denny Crain was perfect — and so far out-of-the-box for anything he’d done previously on TV).

Remember that these posts must be made by 11 p.m. each Sunday and please make sure you are using the grammar spell check (the blue check mark on your commands on the top of each post) because I’m still seeing several grammatical issue (small i’s rather than I).

Also, avoid using more than three sentences in any paragraph. It makes your posts much more readable than reading a large block of copy.

Mr. Marino