but there were several examples this year (some of them notably long-awaited) that left TV fans grinning and reminding us why we fell in love with these shows in the first place.

She was the Most Beautiful Woman in Puppetland. She had a pretty good run on TV, too. Lynne Marie Stewart, known for playing the ethereal Miss Yvonne on “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” has died, her friends ...

In The Velvet Alley, produced on CBS’ Playhouse 90, TV Playwright Rod Serling told the story of a struggling 42-year-old TV playwright from Manhattan named Ernie Pandish, who sells a script and ...