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21. I don't know if it's great, but My Favorite Year

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 09:36 PM

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I've always thought it was a little jewel of a comedy. Well written and pretty accurate, according to those who actually worked on My Show of Shows. Peter O'Toole is funny and tragic as an aging Errol Flynn type. All the writer characters had equivalents in real life.

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