I could probably do a whole week or more just on West Wing characters. Among them would be, without question, Amy Gardner. There's so...

There's no question that City on the Edge of Forever is the best episode of the original Star Trek series. The top five is open to some...

The Princess Bride is terrific. Let me explain...no, it is too much. Let me sum up: Goldman's book is a brilliant romp that evokes and...

I always regarded Babylon 5 as the poor man's Star Trek (specifically, the poor man's Deep Space 9). A few years back, at the urging of...

I was never all that impressed or affected by Bambi. His mother's death wasn't a seminal moment for me. But boy, did I dig Thumper. Here...

I always loved that in a time that valued and celebrated men of battle prowess and epic strength, there was an Odysseus (or Ulysses). A...

There are plenty of reasons Cheers is in the conversation as greatest sitcom of all time. Cliff, Norm, Coach (always better than Woody),...

I first read Chaim Potok's The Chosen when it was assigned in early high school. I was struck then by Danny Saunders, a character so...

Much has been said comparing House of Cards to the West Wing. That the former is the latter without the moral compass or the naivety,...

I don't think I need to recap the plot of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington here. If you haven't seen it, or if it's been so long that you...

I grew up on the original Star Trek series, with endless reruns on Channel 50 in New Hampshire, and with the uneven movies with the Kirk...

Frank Deford has long been one of my favorite sportswriters. He brings a dignity and intellect to his work that I admire, with an...