Top Ten #394: Special "Is it gonna snow again?" Edition!

1) Alfred Hitchcock Presents: We had a blast watching AHP episodes for this week's podcast. I wonder of the fame of Hitchcock himself and his legendary film output overshadows how good this series is.

2) Aaron Spelling: We gave James Edwards a shout on the pod for his career and his brief appearance in "Breakdown" on AHP, but it's also a kick to see a young Spelling in a small role. And his dad wasn't even the executive producer!

3) Suspicion: During the long run of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the filmmaker also was a producer on 1957's short-lived NBC anthology Suspicion (Of course, also the name of his 1941 classic movie). The show mixed live and filmed episodes.

4) Perry Como's Hawaiian Holiday: 50 years ago tonight, NBC gave us this special. You'll be shocked to learn that Don Ho was one of the guests.

5) Weird Al's Guide to the Grammys:  CBS ran this special 40 years ago today, and, man, I want to see it.

6) Ray Bradbury Theater: 40 years ago tonight, after its debut a year earlier, this anthology returned to HBO with a trio of stories starring Peter O'Toole, Drew Barrymore, and Jeff Goldblum. The reviewer in The New Yok Times referred to the 10-year-old Barrymore as "pouty and pudgy as ever." Ouch!

7) Fortune Dane: The series' second episode premiered this night in 1986 and was titled "Bay City." 

Wait. Bay City? Is Fortune Dane in the Rockford universe?

8) Paul Dooley: Happy 98th birthday to Dooley!

9) Yogi Bear: MeTV Toons celebrates the 65th anniversary of The Yogi Bear Show today with a Yogi-thon featuring cartoons from his various series. Did someone say that he was so popular no one bothered to watch him anymore?

10) R.I.P. Jesse Jackson: Not a TV star, per se, but here's an excuse to post this Saturday Night Live sketch. I'm trying a Dailymotion embed because NBC is annoying and so I couldn't find the sketch on YouTube, but it's "The Question Is Moot."