You get the idea. The premise has become the programming for these channels, their predictability a brand name, dependable, uncontested. It's a special event, in other words, when Court TV decides to break from their regular format to re-run a circa 1987 Perry Mason movie. It's not an obvious choice, but one that's worth seeking out. Chances are it's a station stacked way up at the end of your local system's line-up, if it's carried at all.
Chances are it comes in with a little static, if at all.
Moonlighting, a show that paired two top stars at the peak of their respective games. Maybe you remember the retro-cool Al Jarreau theme song. Perhaps you recall the last time Bruce Willis's half-smug smile was actually charming. Watching it amounts to quite a bit more than some simple time-travel nostalgia trip. Indeed, Moonlighting, which aired from 1985 to 1989 today suffers from a sense of datedness not just because of unfashionable hairstyles but because of how it outshines almost all its present day counterparts.