Miami Herald (Sunday)

More retro rewinds

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“Jeopardy!” (Netflix, streaming): It may seem unusual to label a series as “classic” while it’s still actively running, but if any show qualifies for it, it’s this one. The episodes featuring the late Alex Trebek as host now can be considered classic, with many guest hosts having been enlisted since his passing, and this streaming run has just added shows from 2015-16 ... offering opportunit­ies to appreciate and enjoy Trebek’s singular style again.

“Barbary Coast” (Crackle, Sundays and Saturdays): William Shatner had his most iconic series roles in “Star Trek” and “T.J. Hooker,” but he also had a brief mid-1970s run in this lightheart­ed adventure series that took more than a few cues from “The Wild Wild West.” Shatner and fellow home-screen staple Doug McClure (“The Virginian”) play 19th-century San Franciscan­s who find their fair share of action while based out of a normally rowdy casino.

“Escape From New York” (AMC, Wednesday, June 16): Kurt Russell owes a lot to director John Carpenter for helping him break what was the actor’s standard image – first by playing Elvis Presley (with whom Russell had worked) in a TV-movie, and then as textbook antihero Snake Plissken in this 1981 fantasyadv­enture. The reluctant Snake is forced to enter a walled-off Manhattan in the then-future to rescue the U.S. president (Donald Pleasence), and to put it mildly, it’s not easy.

“Snow White and the Three Stooges” (FXM, Thursday, June 17): A movie with this title might not be expected to have as much charm as this 1961 novelty does. The Stooges – Moe Howard, Larry Fine and “Curly Joe” DeRita – still get in many of their trademark comedy antics as the guardians of Prince Charming (Edson Stroll, later of TV’s “McHale’s Navy”), whose love for Snow White (Olympic-medalist figure skater Carol Heiss) becomes a problem for an evil queen (Patricia Medina).

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