> One night I was dead tired and she came up wanting some attention.  My
> first thought was "Blanche, let me sleep" like John would say.
> That became her name, Blanche Bickerson DuBois.  The DuBois was after
>Blanche DuBois from the play/movie A Streetcar Named Desire who had depended o
> the kindness of strangers.

Very cool -- you still have her?

> Re: your lost OTR shows you can check:
> https://otrrlibrary.org/version1.html
> https://www.otrcat.com/old-time-radio-listener-s-gift-guide#downloads
> https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/jack-benny
> For some shows.  The library is the best site.

Thank you so much; I'll check all!

I'm enjoying Z-Lib.org very much -- thanks to Augie. . .

But only books, no movies.

my local library has physical DVDs for 7-day borrowing (up to 5 at a time)

I tried, twice, but giove up now, as I never seem to fit them in to my schedule or remember I have them until I get the $2/day late notification in my email  (they ultimately don't charge fees, as of last year(01/01/2021) -- these are  just to slow us down & bring to our attention that other users like stuff, too)

>> I only insist on ewatching all in a franchise in order & usually in close
> time  to each (I'll spend a week watching one a day maybe, or binge for a
> weekend)
> I use IMBd to get the dates on shows, unless its marked S01E01, etc.

I prefer the format in Wiki for episodes of a series, & match those up to  s01e01 etc for my torrents; if an old proggy, I can often get entire seasons or an entire series in just one download.

> Characters come and go, referenced later, etc and unless in order that
> often makes no sense.

Exactly.   I'm used to watching fave sitcoms in random order in reruns when 
bored,but with tv on. . . they're comforting old friends  (there was recently  published a study on this)

Rarely I discover a new series, not8 yet seen, then go get s01e01 & go from  there if it was as good at the start as what I'd just seen (a British drama --  Murder in Paradise or some such was the last to do this, about a UK Bobby sent  to one of the British territories in the Caribbean set in the days they were  run by an appointed-by-the-Crown Governor)

The ear4lier oners were B&W.

My mom only watches B&W movies or tv now (has that right, & someone set her up  with Amazon Prime & TV, so she can find most anything, any time now)

I only watch Perry Mason on the rare Friday night I'm stil up at midnight.

I love the show, but that's enough to keep me going. . 

> I can also watch the characters revolve and become defined as the one the
> viewer came to know.

Yup, love doing this, especially in going tback top s01e01 of aseries I  formerly watched regularly(weekly) but ony discvovered part-way through (e.g.  season 3)

> I'll watch two half hour shows but usually only one one hour show at a
> time.  Unless the one hour show is a two parter.

I do this, too, as longer than that & my internet-retrained attention span  wavers &/or my bladder shouts up at me, warning of a potential leak in the dam. . .

> I also like to watch the shows on the days they originally aired.

I'm doinhg that on thursday, as that's when all my fam is watching (mainly for  Ghosts, but they like the others that play new then, too); then I'll rewatch on my downloaded copies, & catch stuff I missed the first time around, because of  background noise, etc.

> Almost all the shows I watch are pre-1990.  Unless its a particularly
> long running program, such as Columbo, which went from the late '70s to the
> mid-90s.
> Plus a few shows I wasn't interested in during the '90s but am now.

Do you subscribe to a package of old shows? I see ads constantly for one here,  but $4/month extra for TV is a waste, to me. . .

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