It's amazing how much my relationship with television has changed over the years.

I was never a big TV viewer when I was young. While I ultimately became a big fan of "Star Trek," I never watched even one episode during the years it was shown on ABC. The first show that ever became "appointment" television for me was "Dallas," which came on in 1978. It was around that same time that I first got HBO, and for most of the next decade I watched a lot more movies on cable than I did regular shows with all the