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True dat, huh? Anyway, Love That Bob! is back, and that's pretty exciting! This week, " Bob Becomes a Genius ," and Hal tells us all about it at The Horn Section. It's only the fifth episode in the series, but Bob's playboy character is already well-established.

At Comfort TV, David offers a fond remembrance of John Karlen, who came on the scene in Dark Shadows and won an Emmy for Cagney and Lacey. In particular, David examines how the death of Karlen's character in Dark Shadows changed the show completely —a first in the Comfort TV Era?

As John points out at Cult TV, the Jon Pertwee era of Doctor Who was rarely as good as it was when The Doctor's nemesis, The Master, appears—and boy, does he appear in Terror of the Autons . It's a terrific episode with a healthy skepticism about technology. We could use a little of that today.

"The New Exhibit" is the focus of this week's Twilight Zone Vortex, and it's an intriguing episode, with the great Martin Balsam in a killer's row display at a wax museum. Ultimately the episode fails to make the concept pay off, but it's still far from a failure.

Sterling Silliphant is back on the job at the Hitchcock show, and Jack's back on the case with his Hitchcock Project at bare•bones e-zine. This week's episode is " The Return of the Hero ," a very unusual Hitchcock with an unforgettable conclusion—and no cheeky comments by the host afterward.

"A Hitch in Time" has nothing to do with Alfred Hitchcock; it's a 1978 children's movie from England, and as Silver Scenes reveals, the professor who's invented the time machine that he and a couple of schoolkids use to travel—well, it's none other that that old time traveler himself, Patrick Troughton.

And finally, at Classic Film and TV Café, Rick gives us seven delightful things to know about Eva Gabor , including #2: playing Lisa Douglas on Green Acres was "the best six years of my life...I adored every minute of it." She wasn't the only one, I'm sure. TV