Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was a daily sitcom in the ’70s that, as a kid, screen-geek Ted Sarandos used to binge all the week’s episodes of—on TV, over a single sitting, when they aired together on Sundays.

Ted grew up to have a successful career in the video/DVD rental business, which is what Netflix was, when he joined it in 2000. He could see people similarly burn through boxed DVD sets of TV shows as well.