I'm Outta Here
It's obvious that some assclowns on the staff don't want me here so I'm retiring from all my guides with the exception of The Untouchables, Perry Mason, Daniel Boone, Dukes of Hazzard, and Maverick. I'll still check in and process submissions for those guides because I've put a huge amount of time into them but I won't make anymore subs nor will I try to become editor for anymore guides. It's been fun but now I suppose it's time to leave. You can thank the staff. They've finally done it.
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I am really sorry to see you dump these editorships. We have lost too many good people over the past three years, and experience suggests that you are now committed to a path that will see you abandon the remaining editorships, and the site, in short order. That prospect saddens me, and I do hope you stick around, even if you stop making submissions. You are greatly respected. You have always been a maverick voice, and your kind words have helped bolster me on many occasions.
Best wishes.
When you look at TV in the US in the 50s, you see game shows, comedies (not all of which were as good as remembered), soapish serials, and westerns that were very B-movie kid oriented. The best of the era were the variety shows and the anthology dramas. And from the anthology dramas emerged the noir crime dramas like "The Untouchables", "The Naked City", "The Lawless Years", "Cain's Hundred" and others at the end of the decade/beginning of the next. Making drama into weekly installments isn't easy, and usually means leaving out as much as you put in. All American TV improved (including westerns) because of them.
So, even if the programs you no longer edit are scooped up by someone, they won't be the same. You are one of the few here who actually spent your own time and money grabbing private VCR tapes and DVDs of long-gone shows just to add more info.
I hope you aren't going to move over to one of the other TV sites. Frankly, I've seen a lot of nonsense on the forums and blogs of one of those other sites, including a publicly discussed plan to attack TV.com through a denial-of-service scheme and a public threat of violence made against me personally (with my user name displayed in bold letters). Most of the forums and guides on that site get very little traffic according to Alexa.com, so I would think seriously before devoting a lot of time to building up any guides over there. While the fan community for TV shows from the 40s, 50s and 60s is small on TV.com, it's probably about 5% of that total on the other site.