Contributing Editor Herbie J Pilato is busy these days with not only his own TV series but also writing regularly about classic TV for the TV Academy’s website, Emmys.Com. Here’s his latest, reminding us of what good television writing can be:
by Herbie J Pilato
The first frames of the opening credits of television’s legendaryThat Girl placed viewers in the front car of a train as it barreled into New York City.
That locomotive not only carried a young woman who was filled with dreams of independence, but it also brought television into a new era of enlightenment. A groundbreaking program teeming with wit, style and social consciousness, That Girl didn’t set out to change the world. But over the course of its celebrated five-year run, it did exactly that.