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Magnum p.i. Used Christmas to Do a Clever Island Bottle Episode Magnum and his friends are trapped on an island

Magnum p.i. Used Christmas to Do a Clever Island Bottle Episode

Benson Had a Sweet Reunion With His Late Mother in an Award-Winning Christmas Episode Benson spends time with his mom

Benson Had a Sweet Reunion With His Late Mother in an Award-Winning Christmas Episode

Was Meg Foster Replaced as Cagney on Cagney and Lacey Because CBS Executives Felt That She Made the Show Seem Like it Was About a Pair of Lesbians? Meg Foster and Tyne Daley and Cagney and Lacey

Was Meg Foster Replaced as Cagney on Cagney and Lacey Because CBS Executives Felt That She Made the Show Seem Like it Was About a Pair of Lesbians?

Cagney and Lacey Had an Unusual, But Charming, Christmas Adventure Cagney and Lacey have eggnog with Samuels

Cagney and Lacey Had an Unusual, But Charming, Christmas Adventure

Family Ties Had an Awful Take on A Christmas Carol Alex in the future

Family Ties Had an Awful Take on A Christmas Carol

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Who Was the Garage Band Singing ‘Daddy Cop’ in the Latest Episode of The Rookie? 1

Who Was the Garage Band Singing ‘Daddy Cop’ in the Latest Episode of The Rookie?

Does Neal McDonough Really Refuse to Ever Kiss His Female Co-Stars? 2

Does Neal McDonough Really Refuse to Ever Kiss His Female Co-Stars?

Do Christina Applegate and Ed O’Neill Have a Good Relationship? 3

Do Christina Applegate and Ed O’Neill Have a Good Relationship?

How Did The Big Bang Theory Film Howard in Outer Space? 4

How Did The Big Bang Theory Film Howard in Outer Space?

Why Wasn’t Madonna Included In ‘We Are the World’? 5

Why Wasn’t Madonna Included In ‘We Are the World’?

All Ten of the Only Murders In The Building Opening Title Easter Eggs 6

All Ten of the Only Murders In The Building Opening Title Easter Eggs

Pop Culture Wake-Up Call – Friday I’m In Love 7

Pop Culture Wake-Up Call – Friday I’m In Love

Magnum p.i. Used Christmas to Do a Clever Island Bottle Episode Magnum and his friends are trapped on an island

Magnum p.i. Used Christmas to Do a Clever Island Bottle Episode

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at a Magnum p.i. bottle episode on Christmas where the cast are trapped on a small island together on Christmas Eve.
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Benson Had a Sweet Reunion With His Late Mother in an Award-Winning Christmas Episode Benson spends time with his mom

Benson Had a Sweet Reunion With His Late Mother in an Award-Winning Christmas Episode

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at an unusual, but charming, Christmas episode of Cagney and Lacey.
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Was Meg Foster Replaced as Cagney on Cagney and Lacey Because CBS Executives Felt That She Made the Show Seem Like it Was About a Pair of Lesbians? Meg Foster and Tyne Daley and Cagney and Lacey

Was Meg Foster Replaced as Cagney on Cagney and Lacey Because CBS Executives Felt That She Made the Show Seem Like it Was About a Pair of Lesbians?

Brian revisits an old legend about the gross reason why Meg Foster was fired from Cagney and Lacey.
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Cagney and Lacey Had an Unusual, But Charming, Christmas Adventure Cagney and Lacey have eggnog with Samuels

Cagney and Lacey Had an Unusual, But Charming, Christmas Adventure

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at an unusual, but charming, Christmas episode of Cagney and Lacey.
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Family Ties Had an Awful Take on A Christmas Carol Alex in the future

Family Ties Had an Awful Take on A Christmas Carol

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at an awful Family Ties Christmas Carol riff.
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Moonlighting’s Christmas Episodes Reminds Everyone Why It Was Such a Beloved Series David and Maddie wish everyone a Merry Christmas

Moonlighting’s Christmas Episodes Reminds Everyone Why It Was Such a Beloved Series

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at a classic Moonlighting that helps to remind everyone why it was such a beloved TV series.
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Square Pegs Had a Quirky Christmas With a Rare Appearance by a Parent Patty and Lauren celebrate the holidays

Square Pegs Had a Quirky Christmas With a Rare Appearance by a Parent

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at a quirky Square Pegs Christmas that had a rare parental appearance
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Would a TV Show Continue if the Second Lead Murdered the Creator of the Series? Father Crime returns to the airwaves

Would a TV Show Continue if the Second Lead Murdered the Creator of the Series?

Brian asks his readers if they think that a TV show would keep airing if the secondary lead murdered the creator of the series
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Simon & Simon Got Surprisingly Bittersweet in a Las Vegas Christmas Rick Simon dresses up as Santa Claus

Simon & Simon Got Surprisingly Bittersweet in a Las Vegas Christmas

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at a surprisingly bittersweet Simon & Simon Christmas episode in Las Vegas.
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Christmas Was Turned Literally Upside Down on It’s a Garry Shandling Show Tom Petty on It's Garry Shandling's Show

Christmas Was Turned Literally Upside Down on It’s a Garry Shandling Show

We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at an offbeat It's a Garry Shandling Christmas
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