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Dads (9/17/13) Da Ali G Show (7/17/04) The Daily Show (8/30/04) The Daily Show (9/28/15) (Trevor Noah arrives) The Daily Show at 25 (w/ Lorraine Ali) (7/22/21) Dallas (6/12/12) Damien (3/7/16) Dancing on the Edge (10/17/13) Danger 5 (3/28/15) Danger & Eggs (12/24/17) The Dark Crystal (9/13/19) Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth (9/3/04) David Bowie cornucopia (2/5/16) David Bowie: The Last Five Years (1/7/18) David Letterman (30 years in late night) (2/1/12) The Day of the Jackal (11/13/24) Deadbeat (4/9/14) Dead Boy Detectives (4/24/24) Dead End (7/2/14) The Dead Will Tell (10/22/04) Death and Other Details (1/14/24) Death by Lightning (11/6/75) Death Comes to Pemberly (10/14/24) Death Comes to Town (2/21/06) The Deception (1/6/13) Decker (10/11/19) Deli Boys (3/5/25) Desperate Housewives (10/1/04) Desperation (5/23/06) Destroy Build Destroy (6/17/09) Detroit 1-8-7 (9/20/10) The Dick Cavett Show - Comic Legends ( The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited (interviews w/ Dick Van Dyke, Carl Reiner, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie) (5/11/04) Disco: The Soundtrack of a Revolution (6/18/24) Divorce (10/6/16) DMV (10/13/25) Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (10/8/12) Dr. Vegas (9/24/04) Doc (1/9/25) Doctor Who (Donna Noble season) Doctor Who (4/22/11) Doctor Who (9/22/11) Doctor Who (Christmas special) (10/24/11) Doctor Who (at 50) (3/22/13) Doctor Who (60th anniversary specials) (11/24/23) Doctor Who (Christmas special) (12/22/23) Doctor Who Figure Adventures (6/22/10) Documentary Now! (8/19/15) Donor Unknown (10/22/11) Doom Patrol (10/11/19) Doomsday Preppers (11/13/12) Dope Thief (3/13/25) "Downfall" parodies (4/21/10) Downton Abbey S2 (1/6/12) Downton Abbey S3 (1/5/13) Do You Speak American? (1/5/05) Dracula (pick) (10/25/13) Dracula (10/25/13) (full review) Drawn Together (10/27/04) Dreamkeeper (12/26/03) Duck Tales (12/24/17) The Dust Bowl (11/7/12)
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The Fabric of the Cosmos (11/2/11) Factory (6/27/08) The Fades (1/14/12) A Fairly Odd Christmas (11/29/12) A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner (7/9/11) Fallon/Trump (12/18/16) Fall Preview 2013 (9/13/13) Fame High (9/12/13) Family Tools (5/1/13) Family Tree (5/11/13) Fanboy and Chum Chum (11/6/09) Fargo (10/12/15) The Fashion Show (5/7/09) Final Space (2/25/18) The Fix (3/17/19) FlashForward (9/21/09) Flashpoint (7/11/08) Flight of the Conchords (6/17/07) Flight of the Conchords S2 (1/17/09) Flint Town (3/1/18) Flip: The Inside Story of TV's First Black Superstar (book) (5/2/13) Flip Wilson (Geraldine Jones) (5/5/13) Fly Girls (3/24/10) Food Party (Thu Tran interview) (5/16/10) Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways (10/24/14) Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (Craig McCracken interview (8/8/04) Foundation (Jared Harris sits in a chair) (10/1/21) Foyle's War (5/1/10) Fractured Flickers (DVD) (12/16/04) Fraggle Rock DVD (12/27/08) Fraggle Rock reboot (1/20/22) Frankenstein (Hallmark Channel) (10/5/04) Frankenstein (USA Network) (10/5/04) Franklin (4/11/24) Freaks and Geeks at 25 (9/25/24) Free Agents (9/14/11) Freedom Riders (5/14/11) French in Action (7/22/08) Friends (series finale) (5/8/04) Fringe (5/14/09) Friends and Crocodiles (2/24/06) Friends With Better Lives (3/31/14) From the Sky Down (10/29/11) Frontline: The Vaccine Wars (4/27/10) Frozen Planet (3/16/12) Full Circle (7/13/23) Futurama (6/13/13)
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Galavant (1/3/15) Game of Thrones fan films (4/12/19) Game Over (3/10/04) Gary Saves the Graveyard (10/31/16) Generation Kill (7/11/08) Genius: A Night for Ray Charles (10/22/04) George Harrison: Living in the Material World (10/5/11) George & Tammy (12/1/22) Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage (10/17/24) Get a Life (DVD) (12/21/12) The Get Down (8/8/16) Get Millie Black (11/28/24) Ghost Ghirls (10/31/16) Ghost Ghirls (10/25/24) Ghosts (various series concerning spooks) (10/30/11) Ghost Shark (8/22/13) Ghost Whisperer (9/23/05) The Gifted (9/28/17) The Gilded Age (1-24-22) The Girl (10/19/12) The Girl in the Cafe (6//05) The Glades (7/10/10) Glee (9/9/09) Glenn Martin, DDS (8/17/09) Glory Daze (11/16/10) God in America (10/11/10) God Is the Bigger Elvis (4/5/12) Godless (11/22/17) Golden Globe Awards (1/26/04) Golden Globe Awards (1/17/05) Golden Globe Awards (Fallon) (1/8/17) Golden Globe Awards (Nikki Glaser) (1/5/25) The Golden Globes: Hollywood's Dirty Little Secret (12/6/03) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (10/18/03) The Good Doctor (9/25/17) A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (8/1/24) Good Night and Good Luck (6-7-25) The Good Place (9/15/16) Good Vibes (10/27/11) The Goode Family (5/27/09) Going Dutch (12/31/25) Gordon Ramsay (various series) (6/5/11) Gortimer Gibbons' Life on Normal Street (11/21/14) Gossip Girl (5/19/09) The Graduates (10/25/13) Grand Crew (1/4/22) Grandfathered (9/29/15) Gravity Falls (6/13/12) Grease: Live (2/1/16) The Great Indoors (10/24/16) The Grid (7/19/04) The Grinder (9/29/15) Grosse Point Garden Society (2/23/25) The Guild (w/ Felicia Day interview) (9/25/11) Gunther's Millions (2/1/23)
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H8R (9/14/11) Hal & Harper (10/19/25) Halloween episodes (10/25/24) Hamlet (David Tennant) (4/29/10) The Handmaid's Tale (4/25/17) Hank (9/30/09) Hannah Montana (3/24/06) Happily Divorced (6/15/11) Happy Endings (5/1/13) Happy Family (9/9/03) Happy's Place (10/17/24) Hard Sun (3/7/18) The Hard Times of RJ Berger (6/5/10) Harry's Law (1/17/11) Haven (7/9/10) Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II (12/1/05) Hawaii (9/1/04) Heads of State (7/1/25) Heartbeat (3/22/16) Heavy Load (6/23/08) Helix (1/10/14) Hell on Wheels (11/4/11) The Help (3/5/04) Helter Skelter (3/15/04) Hemingway & Gelhorn (5/28/12) Hercules (5/16/05) The Hidden Fuhrer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality (4/20/04) Hidden Palms (5/30/07) High Desert (5/16/23) High Potential (9/20/24) High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (11/11/19) High Society (3/10/10) Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi (11/19/04) Hold the Sunset (10/11/19) Hollywood Heights (6/18/12) The Hollow Crown (9/20/13) Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh (12/24/17) Homeland (9/28/12) Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County (7/26/10) The Homestretch (4/13/15) Hot in Cleveland (6/16/10) Houdini & Doyle (5/2/16) The Hour (8/17/11) House (9/5/06) House of Lies (1/7/12) How I Met Your Mother (9/19/05) How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin (1/13/10) How the States Got Their Shapes (5/3/11) How To Be a Gentleman (9/29/11) How To Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) (4/3/13) How to Make It in America (2/13/10) How To Rock (2/4/12) H.R. Pufnstuf (DVD) (4/3/11) Huell Howser (feature) (7/26/09)  Huell Howser (retiring) (11/27/12) The Hunting Wives (7/21/25) The Hustle (6/12/13)
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Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (11/24/11) Iconoclasts (11/17/05) If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise (8/23/10) Ike: Countdown to D-Day (5/31/04) I Love Dick (5/11/17) I Love L.A. (10/30/25) I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (DVD) (12/21/12) The Imagineering Story (11/11/19) Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art (12/28/05) I'm in the Band (1/18/10) Important Things With Demetri Martin (2/11/09) Incorporated (11/28/16) The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (10/1/10) Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable (9/9/04) The Innocents (8/23/18) The Inside (6/8/05) Inside the Actors Studio (10/15/19) Into the Deep: America, Whaling and the World (5/10/10) Into the West (6/10/05) Inventing David Geffen (11/20/12) Isa (6/11/14) The Island President (4/18/13) The Institute (7/13/25) The IT Factor (9/30/08) It's a Big, Big World (1/3/06) It's a SpongeBob Christmas (11/22/12) It's Garry Shandling's Show (DVD) (10/20/09) It's Okay to Be Smart (3/28/15) It: Welcome to Derry (10/24/25)  I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown (12/9/03) iZombie (3/16/15)
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Jack & Bobby (9/10/04) The Jack & Trimph Show (2/20/15) Jake and the Neverland Pirates (2/15/11) Jake in Progress (3/11/05) The Jay Leno Show (2/10/10) James Dean: Sense Memories (5/11/05) Jane By Design (1/3/12) Jane Doe (1/14/05) Jay Leno leaves the Tonight Show take 2 (2/7/14) Jeff & Some Aliens (1/10/17) The Jellies (12/24/17) Jericho (9/20/06) Jerry Lewis: Method to the Madness (12/17/11) JFK assassination + 50 (10/25/13) Jim Henson: Idea Man (5/30/24) Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow (11/20/15) Jimmy Fallon: 10 years of the Tonight Show (5/14/24) Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew (2/24/04) Joan (10/2/24) Joan of Arcadia (9/26/03) The Job (2/8/13) Joe Pera Talks With You (5/18/18) Johnny Carson: King of Late Night (5/12/12) John Stamos essay (6/18/21) Jonny Zero (1/14/05) Just Desserts (2/6/04) Justice (8/30/06)
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Kappa Mikey (2/24/06) Karen Sisco (10/1/03) Ken Burns/Michael Moore essay (8/5/07) Kevin Hill (9/29/04) Kid Notorious (10/22/03) The Kids Are Alright (10/16/18) The Kids Are Alright (Mary McCormack essay) (1/16/20) The Killing (3/31/12) The Killing (6/20/12) Killing Eve (4/8/18) Killing Fields (1/5/16) Killing Jesus (3/28/15) Kind-Hearted Woman (4/1/13) King Douglas (7/2/14) King Lear (3/25/09) King Solomon's Mines (6/11/04) Kings (3/13/09) Kitchen Nightmares (9/19/07) Kojak (reboot) (3/25/05) Krapopolis (9/24/23)
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Quantico (9/26/15) Quintuplets (6/16/04)
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The X-Files (5/12/13) The X-Files (return) (1/22/16) The X-Files (second return) (1/3/8) XIII (2/7/09)
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