That twilighty show about the zone

There were a bunch of hour-long episodes of "The Twilight Zone" that I've never seen. Most of them were on the Sci-Fi Channel on Thursday and Friday, so I recorded them...but as it turns out, I was right to have never seen them before, because they're all pretty boring, what with having to be an hour long and all.

What I would like to see are reruns of "The New Twilight Zone" from the '80s at their original 60-minute length. A lot of those hour-long shows contained two or three episodes of varying lengths, but then they were all cut or expanded to fit into a half-hour time slot for syndication.

And then there's a new new "Twilight Zone" that's going to be on UPN this fall, the rationale being that the Viacom corporation still owns the "Twilight Zone" title and concept, they own UPN, and so all they need are a few dozen scripts with twist endings and a few dozen unknown actors, and they've got themselves a cheap TV show.

Speaking of TV shows, last week, A&E had a "TVography" about "The Wonder Years," which I watched back in the day but haven't seen in reruns. During the "TVography," they showed the opening titles a couple of times, and every time they did, something about it looked just a little bit off to me. Finally, I figured out that it was because I was seeing the opening titles for the first time without the ABC "In Stereo Where Available" graphic appearing under the "Wonder Years" logo. (There's a similar problem with my DVD of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown": it doesn't start with the "A CBS Special Presentation" bumper.)