You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: Is “High Potential” over for the season or what? It seems to have just abruptly disappeared.

A: We’re at the point in the TV season where shows often take extended breaks to save episodes and make room for holiday programming. Unfortunately, this confuses many viewers, and networks announcing “fall finales” or similar labels does not always help. One reader was sure that the “One Chicago” shows on NBC had announced “season finales” and wondered “what are they going to have when these shows are done?”

Well, hit shows are not done. “High Potential” will resume new episodes on ABC on Jan. 6, the same night that “Will Trent” and “The Rookie” will have their season premieres. The Chicago shows (“Chicago Med,” “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago P.D.”) are back on NBC on Jan. 7 — but may take another break not long after that, when NBC is carrying the Olympics in February.

Q: Will there be a new season of “Dark Winds”?

A: The AMC drama based on Tony Hillerman’s novels has been renewed. An eight-episode fourth season begins on Feb. 15. According to the network, the new season “focuses on the search for a missing Navajo girl, which takes Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito from the safety of Navajo Nation to the gritty terrain of 1970s Los Angeles in a race against the clock to save her from an obsessive killer with ties to organized crime.”

Q: I have been watching “Perry Mason” reruns over and over and wondered if Barbara Hall was married while making the show, and how many children did she have?

A: Barbara Hale, who played Della Street opposite Raymond Burr’s Perry Mason in the long-running TV series and later TV movies, was married for 46 years to actor Bill Williams, whose credits included the ‘50s Western “The Adventures of Kit Carson.” They had three children, two daughters and a son, actor William Katt, who among many roles played Paul Drake Jr. in nine of the “Perry Mason” TV movies. (Bill Williams’ real last name was Katt.) Williams died in 1992; Hale died in 2017.

Follow-up: In a recent column, I mentioned two short-lived science fiction series, “Invasion” on ABC and “Threshold” on CBS, which premiered within days of each other in 2005. A reader pointed out that the duo was in fact part of a trio: “Surface” on NBC also had an alien-invasion theme and a one-word title, and premiered about the same time as the other two shows. “I always wondered if somebody had shopped around a treatment and everybody decided to try their own version,” the reader wrote. I can’t say. But whatever inspiration struck the trio’s creators, it didn't inspire most viewers. “Surface” like the other shows didn’t make it to a second season.

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