If you’re like me, you’re trying to stay at home. If you’re like me, you’re trying to save some money in these uncertain times.

So you have sworn off doing pay-per-view and you may not want to take a trip to a Redbox. If you can stream web-based services through a device such as Roku, you may be exploring like me.

While the three huge streaming services – Netflix, Hulu and Prime – do have plenty of candidates for binge watching, I’ve been looking at some other services, some paid, some free, to find candidates for extended viewing.

One of my favorite services is Shout Factory, which is free. The service offers a diverse amount of programming, some new, but most of it is vintage.

This is the place for some classic TV shows that I find well worth rediscovering.

Dick Cavett has a great talk show back in the 1970s and ‘80s and Shout Factory has a wide assortment of episodes categorized by what Cavett’s guests were known: politicians, actors, authors, comedians, etc. I was quite happy to find an interview with Vincent Price that proved to be fascinating, as well as another show with Orson Welles. Grouch Marx appeared several times with Cavett.

The shows are a gold mine in terms of interviews with prominent people.

Shout Factory also has a number of Ernie Kovacs’ programs. Largely forgotten today, Kovacs was a true innovator in comedy who still has a great deal of influence among comedians. Kovacs understood that TV was a medium that was different than radio and live appearances and explored how comedy could be shaped for it.

Also on Shout Factory is a show I remember from my childhood. I recently decided to give it a try again and I was amazed to find it holds up well. “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” ran for four seasons from 1959 through 1963 and featured Dwayne Hickman as the teenager Dobie Gillis who was always in search of a girlfriend.

The show was essentially about relationships – Dobie and his best friend beatnik Maynard G. Krebbs (Bob Denver); Dobie and a large variety of female classmates; and Dobie and his parents.

One thing that makes the show interesting is the fact that Warren Beatty had a recurring role.

The show is well written and acted and much of the teenage confusion it depicts is still applicable today.

I’ve also discovered another free service, TV Time, that features many vintage movies that are organized by star, such as Bette Davis, John Wayne and Boris Karloff for example. Generally these services only feature public domain movies – films that have fallen out of copyright – but that appears not to be the case here. The print quality is quite watchable as well.

There is a wealth of films from the 1930s through the 1950s here.

I do have to add that we have been binging on a comedy on Netflix and Hulu that has been sorely under-rated in my opinion, “Community.” Dan Harmon’s comedy about a diverse group of students at a community college is very well written, genuinely funny and has a tremendous amount of heart. The characters could be one-dimensional but they are not.

My wife and I watched the show when it was on air from 2009 to 2015 but realized quickly we had missed many episodes. At 22 minutes each the shows are like visual salted peanuts – you consume one and you want more.

I should also mention a great new show – a nine episode documentary series – titled “The Innocence Files” which I discovered by accident and was instantly hooked. The series is about The Innocence Project, an organization that takes on looking at convictions that may be unjust.

It is riveting and after two episodes I had to restrain myself so I would not spend the next seven hours watching the rest of it.

With abundance of content on streaming services, the question after the pandemic will be if people want to return to their normal viewing habits.