Lists and Rankings

John’s top 10 movies of 2002

NDSU Spectrum: Top 10 movies of 2002 ‘Good Girl’ the best of a depressing batch of films By JOHN HANSEN Dec. 13, 2002 Call 2002

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John’s top 10 movies of 2000

NDSU Spectrum: Top 10 movies of 2000 ‘Perfect Storm’ couldn’t be topped in 2000 By JOHN HANSEN Jan. 12, 2001 Following a 1999 movie year

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John’s top 10 TV shows of 2001

NDSU Spectrum: Top 10 TV shows of 2001 ‘Buffy’ edges ‘Gilmore Girls’ as year’s best By JOHN HANSEN Jan. 11, 2002 Although the shows on

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John’s top 10 movies of 2001

NDSU Spectrum: Top 10 movies of 2001 ‘Ghost World’ goes to head of teen movie class By JOHN HANSEN Jan. 11, 2002 It’s ironically appropriate

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10 funniest moments in ‘Family Guy’s’ ‘Blue Harvest’

There are broad “Star Wars” parodies, and then there are insider-y “Star Wars” parodies, and then there’s a near-perfect mix of the two: The “Family

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Fall TV 2017: 1 new show and 5 returning shows John is looking forward to (Commentary)

There are more good TV shows than ever before – so much so that TV overload has become an issue for even the biggest TV

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: The 10 best ‘Clone Wars Adventures’ digest stories (2004-07) (Comic book reviews)

The Genndy Tartakovsky “Clone Wars” TV microseries (2003-05) delivered bite-size kinetic tales that served as a testing ground for “The Clone Wars” (2008-14). Its comic-book

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7 times ‘X-Files’ borrowed from ‘Kolchak’

Today, it’s impossible to talk about “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” (1974-75, following TV movies in 1972 and 1973) without talking about “The X-Files” (1993-present). While this annoys some “Kolchak”

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All 22 installments of ‘Kolchak: The Night Stalker’ (1972-75), ranked

Like most people who weren’t around when it was on the air, I was inspired to check out “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” (1974-75) – and its preceding

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All 10 episodes of ‘James at 16’ (1978), ranked

Although it’s still technically the same show, just with a new name, the 10 episodes known as “James at 16” (1978, NBC) divert from the 11 previous

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