TV WATCH: I Miss Her Already

I’m screening a mini-marathon of the Bob Newhart show to celebrate the life of Ms. Suzanne Pleshette, one of my original TV crushes. I know I’m not alone in having Emily Hartley impressed in my young 70s-boy-mind as the template for the ideal woman. Smart, brassy, and downright sexy, she ranks right up there with Lynda Carter on the greatest brunettes of all time list. The fact that she married Tom Poston late in life only makes me like her more. What were those dinners like? Watching Newhart again also reminds me that a) Chicago looks exactly the same and b) I need to own a Botany 500 suit sometime in my life.