store but not that night. they said we can t go through somebody was killed. she was a young wife and mother minding the store for her husband, was it robbery? revenge? or something else? we might want to look at his relationship with his employee. years past without an arrest, but for one prosecutor this cold case was personal. that was the case that was unsolved. the clues that lovers tranquil, cash and updated lady. he said it looked like a woman in figure, a really thin guy. mystery with so many head snapping turns. it took two trials. you 18 years for justice, only to have the carpet pulled off from under you. to uncover the truth. we have a verdict. what was it the truth? and adultery is a person who has an evil thing, that does not make a murderer. i looked at him and said let s go to the comic book store and help with the party. we pulled up at the party the police stop this, i knew immediately all the crime scene tape was there and they sa
slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! as we began the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? it s television s primetime prairie potboiler dallas. a move like that will destroy all of ewing oil and ruin our family name! i assure you, a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother, whatever it takes, i ll stop you from destroying ewing oil. dallas really did establish new ground in terms of a weekly one-hour show that literally captivated america for 13 years. dallas is a television show which in some ways is rooted in the 1970s. and one of the crazy things that emerges is this character, j.r. ewing, as a pop phenomenon. tell me, j.r., which slut are you g
okay, well, i had no idea it was that far. so i ve just made my way up thousands of steps to this place, castle brown, which is in portofino, which is in liguria. and liguria is a crescent right on the coast of italy, bordering tuscany and france. they ll carry me out of here on a stretcher, but i don t mind because the food is amazing. i m stanley tucci. i m fascinated by my italian heritage, so i m traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. the rugged environment has made the ligurians tough and unafraid of a challenge. so you call this? le guide le cocho, because everything here must be done by hand. centuries of wrestling their food out of a small amount of land have given these people a wisdom that s right for our times. the harshness of their region has made them inventive. oh my god. liguria gave us pesto. it s really good. their land drove ligurians to the sea and ma
i m breaking up with him tonight. these shows changed the way that we think about sexuality. for god s sake, ellen, tell them you re gay! you re talking about gay rights. you re talking about women s rights. gender diversity. dismantling the patriarchy. you know, sexual revolution. so, i m officially out of men to [bleep]. i have to get married or move. but if you can make them laugh, then maybe we ll watch it again. anything and everything. let s get our sex talk on! oh, mom covered it all pretty good. yeah, maybe about the birds and the bees, but i m your daddy, son, and i m here to keep it 100, alright, despite the fact that your mother thinks that i m uptight. cray-cray, right? sitcoms are a great place to talk about taboo, awkward subjects like sex because it s disarming, and people just want to laugh. i want to go home to my own room to sleep in my own bed. i don t want another beer. would you like another beer? oh, yeah. but it s alway
i suppose, to the outsider, we might seem a little unorthodox, but what does this outsider know anyway? who is he to judge us? the whole notion of the outsider. i mean, it s a strand that goes through most sitcoms, i think. you took tongue right out of my mouth. outsiders help us relate as an audience. what are you some kind of nerd? i m not some kind of nerd, i am the king of nerds. [ laughs ] they re seeing everything with fresh eyes. you rang? that dynamic is pretty awesome, it s special. that confidence really made people feel like they could be okay to be whoever they are. did i do that? and i think, if i believe in who i am and own it, i can still be cool. hello? anybody in there? fly, be free! the absolute essence of a successful sitcom is one word, and that is emotion. we abolished emotions on ork a billion bleams ago. they took a vote, and everyone said all in favor? eh. we have a great love for these alien characters who were st