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The new TV season has hardly begun but Arts and Entertainment Editor Bob Sokolsky is starting to wonder about the confusion raining down on viewers.

For example, he asks, is that Jimmy Smits rushing to the aid of the wrongly convicted on "Outlaw"? Or is it Perry Mason picking up another script?

And are those lost episodes from "Lost" or are they really a part of the new "Event"?

Then there are those female detectives, outsmarting and out muscling the bad guys. Miss Marple? Xena?

Sokolsky suggests musical themes to distinguish bad guys from good. After all, he notes, that worked in those black and white movies.