Last night one had the option of watching either of two no doubt interesting programs on TV: CNN’s The Nineties and the History Channel’s new special on Amelia Earhart. I watched the Earhart program if for no other reason that CNN is more likely to put its show on demand. (Yup, that’s 21st century living.)

I found Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence to be worth two hours of my time. Spoiler alert… she’s still missing, but after watching the show I’m at least 10-15 percent less certain that her plane went down somewhere in the Pacific never to be seen again, as the government-sponsored tale has gone the past 80 years. New evidence (if we want to call it that) places Earhart in Japanese hands after July 1937, perhaps the first American casualty of what would later be called World War II.

Conclusive evidence? Hardly. Entertaining TV? For sure.

Now fast-forward a few decades and be ready to get your ’90s on!

Starter jacket optional.