Set the TiVo! (Maybe)

Turner Classic Movies is running Buster Keaton films every Sunday evening this month. By the time you read this, you'll have missed The General, which I think is his best movie. At this moment, The Navigator is on and then comes The Boat and The Goat and The Playhouse and so on. Here's the full schedule for the entire month. There are plenty of other treasures to come including some of Buster's talkies.

Starting tomorrow, TV Land is running The Dick Van Dyke Show — a marathon for a week, then one a day thereafter, I think. I'm not really sure how they're airing them because I won't be watching. I think it's great that the show is getting this exposure and I'd love it to do well so there will be more older shows telecast, including those in black-and-white. But TV Land speeds up the shows they run, they edit them for time and add in mid-show ads and squish the credits down until they're unreadable…and the shows don't start or end on the hour or when your TiVo thinks they start or end. This is why God invented complete runs of a show on DVD sets.