Top Ten #370: Special "Are you ready for or already tired of football" Edition!

1) The Love Boat: This week's Fun for All Ages podcast features a discussion of the show with Jill Whelan and (author of a forthcoming book about the series) Jim Colucci. There were some funny and bawdy stories told, but I think my big takeaway was that Whelan is tight with Glenn Scarpelli.

2) Police Squad!: Laurie and I started watching the original series this week. I think it will benefit from doing one a week instead of burning through all 6! The show holds up very well and feels like a "gone too soon" effort. It might have worked better as a summer replacement show each year than a full season, though.

3) Ironside: In our Facebook group this week, our friend John recommended Season 5 episode "Bubble, Bubble, Toil, and Murder" partly because of an amazing guest cast, including a Genius winner. I had a great time seeing it last night, and I suggest you check it out!

4) Junkyard Dog: WWE, via its YouTube account, has finally released original episodes of Hulk Hogan's Rock and Wrestling, its 1980s cartoon on CBS, and who should star in the first one but the guy who was my favorite in 1985, the Dog.

5) Shark...Terror, Death, Truth: Before Peter Jennings became big dog (not Junkyard Dog; that was David Brinkley's role) at ABC News, he had to host stuff like this Jaws cash-in that aired 50 years ago tonight.

6) Super Powers: Galactic Guardians: This version of Super Friends premiered September 7, 1985 on ABC. I think it may have had something to do with toys.

7) Scooby's Mystery Funhouse: Also on this day in 1985, ABC debuted this repackaging of Scooby and Scrappy reruns. As far as invigorating veteran franchises goes, I'll take Firestorm and Cyborg over Scrappy.

8) ABC Weekend Special: Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn: This special with Drew Barrymore premiered 40 years ago today. Of course, 3 days before it aired, scores of angry viewers rushed down to their local general stores and protested the gender swapping.

9) The National Football League: Pro football is back this weekend, but I think the CBS studio show gets a little too much attention, so here's a bit of NBC from back in the day.

10) R.I.P. Giorgio Armani (I don't know anything about fashion, but I like Miami Vice!), Graham Greene, Frank Price (head of Universal TV):