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Found the answer: Dan Ferguson played guitar on the Rockford Files theme, and a shitload of others.

Rockford Files guitarist? : The Steel Guitar Forum

Dan Ferguson discography

The circular bridge work near the end sounds very much like something Jerry Garcia would do.

 

Lou Gossett Jr. and Isaac Hayes walk into an L.A. Nazi bar ... on the next Rockford Files!

 

Gossett and Richard Pryor on the Partridge Family episode "Soul Club."

 

This is one way to do a teaser during the pandemic. The cast of The Walking Dead did a read of part of a scene from an upcoming episode featuring Maggie returning and finding out Negan is not only alive but accepted as a member of the group.

 

The West Wing hit emotional highs which stick with me years and years later. Giving Charlie the carving knife, the framed Bartlet for America napkin, Leo telling Josh the guy falling down the hole story, etc.

 

I've been down here before. I know the way out.

 

Speaking of Leo...."Ain't nothin' but a family thing."

 

Went through "Red Oaks" on amazon prime (3 seasons, 26 episodes, about 22 minutes each). It's about teens and early-20somethings working the summer at Red Oaks Country Club in New Jersey, just across the river from NYC. It starts like a takeoff of Caddy Shack, but gets less silly and deals with some real issues. Besides the girls being gorgeous, I was surprised by the references to Trump. The show is set around 1986, but was filmed in 2017. Several Trump takes that are positive toward him.

Spoiler

It ends with the club closing and the tennis pro getting a recommendation to a club in West Palm Beach. He gets a card with the phone number and says, "Mar-A-Lago. Sounds like a wonderful place."

 

I thought that was a fun watch. Paul Reiser is one of those guys I just like.

I liked the tone - it was sincere.

 

Red Oaks is great. Did anyone catch that the characters attended showings of Alien and Dirty Dancing?
When it ended at season two, I had mixed feelings. The last episode came to a stop right where it should, but I still wanted more.

 

1) Schitt's Creek got worse as it went on. Not as funny and the show was just repeating jokes. Catherine O'Hara and Daniel Levy were so over the top in the last few seasons.

2) West Wing sucked. Aaron Sorkin is so much up in his own ass, he is useless.

3) Chuck Lorre is a flaming asshole and puts out lowest condeminator bullshit. His shows are the simplest sitcoms that can be written. He makes no effort to do anything clever or original.