I remember watching MASH, Sanford and Son, Carol Burnette and Flip Wilson with my mother when those were first run shows. 5 minutes per half hour for ads and c

I remember watching MASH, Sanford and Son, Carol Burnette and Flip Wilson with my mother when those were first run shows. 5 minutes per half hour for ads and credits. But the shows were good enough to tolerate the garbage. That has not been true for a long time now. Television is a medium, so called because it is neither rare nor well-done. -- Ernie Kovacs [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Kovacs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Kovacs