I'm evolving into a super warrior.

   At one time some years ago I was watching over nine hours a week of "whodunits."  I watched NCIS, CSI (two or three different cities), and Law and Order (one or two different variations) and I forget what all else.  Now there's a channel in Richmond that shows just Law and Order SVU all day (most days).  It's a good thing I'm over having to watch that.

  What disturbs me about some people lately is that they could go to college for what they're paying for just plain television.  Sure, there's an episode of Nature on PBS with some avant-garde science once a year, but it's not like it's part of a degree in anything.

   I am old enough to have watched Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea when they originally aired.  As a mere child with no great worldliness I didn't notice how very silly many of those episodes were.  There was one episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea that left a profound and abiding memory.  The mad scientist (There's one in several episodes.) created a monster (There's one of those in several episodes too.) that did whatever it was told to do through a box that looked like a transistor radio.  At some point it got loose and someone got hold of the control box and said, "Die!, die!"  Then it died because it did what it was told to do.  That was historic, I never forgot it.

   I remember several episodes of The Twilight Zone, which of course is more pithy stuff on the whole than Irwin Allen.  I especially remember the episode where you see a farm lady troubled by noises who finds an alien spacecraft in her loft.  The aliens are about the size of chihuahuas in comparison to her.  The surprise ending is .