I love crime dramas; my second career was the direct result of one. Yet we wouldn’t have the Law & Orders, Homicide: Life on the Street, Third Watch, The Shield, The Wire, or any of the other great genre shows we have today if not for ones like Dragnet, Columbo, Mission: Impossible, Police Woman or the original Hawaii Five-O. After …

The second season of PBS’ Pioneers of Television debuted Tuesday night, starting its exploration of television history with the science fiction genre – specifically three series: the original Twilight Zone and Star Trek, as well as Lost In Space. These are shows that paved the way for the genre as we know it today. Certainly, I wouldn’t have grown up …