There are some - decent people with responsible jobs - who worry television is the home of all that is flippant and glib in this world.
All they ask for is programming that cuts to the chase of those very important matters that affect humankind.
They want meaning, not light entertainment.
They want science and philosophy, and are so often pelted with reality television and the meaningless melodramas of the Hollywood set.
Finally, there is a show for them.
It deals with the controversial subject of stem cell research.
It features that brilliant searcher for truth and scientific fact, Dr Stephen Hawking.
Dr Hawking introduces what he describes as ''our own personal galaxies of cells''.
''Today we are on the brink of a new age in medicine; an age where we will be able to heal our bodies of any illness, all because of cells inside us which have special powers.
''They are called stem cells.''
But first, the brilliant comedy of manners, class, taste and overblown pretensions - Frasier - has been providing hours of hilarity on the Jones channel on Sky.
It follows the amusing goings-on of Dr Frasier Crane, played by the fabulous Kelsey Grammer.
Frasier runs most nights of the week at 8.05pm, and it is well worth returning to the show, which ran from 1993 to 2004.
As a brilliantly written and cuttingly insightful look into the pretensions of the educated well-to-do in Seattle around the turn of the century, it has no peer.
Interestingly, Jane Leeves, who stars as Dr Crane's live-in physical therapist, Daphne Moon, was once a regular on the Benny Hill Show.
She also had a role as a dancer on the ''Christmas in Heaven'' scene from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
Eddie the dog (real name Moose) was born in 1990 in Florida and was the largest puppy in his litter.
Apparently, when Moose had to lick his co-stars, sardine oil was applied to the actors' faces.
During the height of Frasier's popularity, Moose received more fan mail than any of his human counterparts.
Niles Crane's fictional wife, Maris, who is never seen on the show, had abnormally tight quadriceps, a rigid spine, a large number of very specific allergies, could not produce saliva, and had webbed hands that made her wary of physical intimacy.
Just hilarious, but that's not all.
Frasier's radio producer in the show, Roz Doyle, was played by Peri Gilpin. In 1999, Gilpin married realist painter Christian Vincent.
It's all just fascinating.
To top it all off, Kelsey Grammer is a member of the Republican Party!
Stem Cell Universe with Stephen Hawking is on the Discovery Channel at 7.30pm on Sunday.
Stephen Hawking once ran off with his nurse.
- Charles Loughrey
