Nixon

By Jeffrey Frank

Diplomacy’s wheeler-dealer on the country’s emergence and his own role in it

So I went with Nixonland. Very clever so far, putting a lot of familiar material through a nice interpretive lens.  I liked this:

I’m still looking for a good election-themed drama or adventure episode on YouTube, but haven’t found one so far, at least not a complete episode. I’ll have a dramatic election story up next weekend, though. (If anyone has suggestions for next week, send them my way.) Meanwhile here’s another election-themed comedy episode that is available on YouTube, WKRP‘s “Carlson For President,” which follows the law that every comedy series must, at some point, do an episode where a character runs for City Council, or, at most, Mayor of a small town. (Night Court upped the ante by having Dan run for State Assembly. But that’s the big time; City Council is where the action is.) Another rule is that the campaign for City Council must be run entirely by the person’s friends or co-workers, though at least Mr. Carlson doesn’t make the mistake Ted Baxter made when he let freakin’ Phyllis run his campaign.