For a reason which I cannot remember right now, last week I started thinking about “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” again, a show which I’ve never seen but which sounds fascinating. It isn’t on DVD yet. It ran from 1976-1978. Normal Lear was its executive producer. No major network wanted to carry it so it was shown exclusively in syndication (like “Star Trek”). It was on FIVE DAYS A WEEK, just like the kind of soap operas it was satirizing; thus, even though it was on the air for less than two years there were 325 episodes. It took place in the fictional small town of Fernwood, Ohio and starred Louise Lasser as Mary Hartman, a homely-looking and somewhat dim housewife continually beset by bizarre tragedies. And apparently she was also paranoid about the “waxy yellow buildup” on her kitchen floor. Martin Mull, Dabney Coleman and Mary Kay Place were among the other cast members. Reading about it online really makes me want to see it. It sorta sounds like “The Incredible Shrinking Woman,” a movie I was obsessed with when I was a kid; it was on cable constantly.