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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2014 15:35:14 GMT -5
Oh and embarrassingly enough...Hee Haw!
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Post by Cei-U! on May 14, 2014 15:49:16 GMT -5
Oh and embarrassingly enough...Hee Haw! -M Me too, only I'm not embarrassed about it. Between my love for country music (especially Roy Clark) and my lust for the Hee Haw Honies (big hair, tight clothes and a Southern accent still wind me up), there was a lot of incentive to watch. Which reminds me of another favorite from that era: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Cei-U! I summon the Fickle Finger of Fate! |
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Post by coke & comics on May 14, 2014 15:51:29 GMT -5
Well there are several late '80s/early '90s shows, as that's when I was 10, but I'll try to go a little earlier, to the "before my time" shows.
I think the Twilight Zone is the smartest show I've ever seen.
And Taxi is among the funniest.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 14, 2014 16:01:55 GMT -5
Thanks to the James Bond Craze we had all those 1960s spy shows
I Spy
Mission Impossible
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The Avengers
The Prisoner
Secret Agent
Get Smart
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 14, 2014 16:06:01 GMT -5
Oh and embarrassingly enough...Hee Haw! -M Me too, only I'm not embarrassed about it. Between my love for country music (especially Roy Clark) and my lust for the Hee Haw Honies (big hair, tight clothes and a Southern accent still wind me up), there was a lot of incentive to watch. Which reminds me of another favorite from that era: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Cei-U! I summon the Fickle Finger of Fate! That's one I watch with my dad. (I remember back in the 1970s, reading comic books while Hee Haw was on as I waited for the time for GOOD television.) He has a set of DVDs with select Hee Haw episodes. Love the Ray Charles appearances!
My favorite is Cathy Baker. I love her delivery.
And what was the name of the weird soap opera? With Junior, Grandpa, Lulu (I forget the fourth, was it Gordie?) and they just sit in chairs and everyone gets one or two lines of dialogue and then it's over until next week? That always cracks me up.
Dad also has a DVD set of The Smothers Brothers, and those are surreal. Highlights: Pete Seeger and the episode dedicated to the Second Amendment. (There's an extra where Dick and Tommy read the outraged letters about that one.)
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Post by gothos on May 14, 2014 16:40:29 GMT -5
I'll play:
BATMAN (66)
STAR TREK TOS
JONNY QUEST
DICK VAN DYKE
GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
KUNG FU
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (80s)
CAROL BURNETT
GET SMART
MAN FROM UNCLE
SPACE GHOST
THE CISCO KID
BIG VALLEY
Probably will think of more later, and say the usual, "How could I leave out __________"
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Post by Cei-U! on May 14, 2014 16:43:28 GMT -5
And what was the name of the weird soap opera? With Junior, Grandpa, Lulu (I forget the fourth, was it Gordie?) and they just sit in chairs and everyone gets one or two lines of dialogue and then it's over until next week? That always cracks me up. "The Edge of Wetness" featuring the Culhane family. Cei-U! That number is BR-549! |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 14, 2014 16:53:49 GMT -5
I crossed an electric blanket with some pancake mix.
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Post by Jasoomian on May 14, 2014 16:57:13 GMT -5
1. The Prisoner
2. Mystery Science Theater 3000
Some runners-up:
Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
Columbo
Get Smart
Seinfeld
M*A*S*H
Star Trek
I Love Lucy
Dick van Dyke Show
Cheers
Married... With Children
All in the Family
Batman
etc
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Post by Rob Allen on May 14, 2014 17:32:14 GMT -5
I watched most of the shows that have been mentioned. Here are a few that haven't come up yet:
I've always been something of an Anglophile, having a UK-born grandmother and reading a lot of King Arthur stories as a kid. So I watched "Doctor in the House" in high school, then in college I introduced my dorm, and maybe the whole campus, to Monty Python's Flying Circus, and in the 80s I raved about Blackadder to anyone who'd listen.
Also not mentioned yet, and one of my favorite shows when it debuted: The Flying Nun.
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Post by Jasoomian on May 14, 2014 17:39:41 GMT -5
Can't believe I forgot Monty Python! First five years of SNL too.
Late Night with David Letterman.
Police Squad!
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 14, 2014 17:44:02 GMT -5
Stuff I loved as a kid, but didn't age well:
Three's Company
Night Court
Mayberry RFD
Benson
Stuff I still love:
Star Trek (Original)
Cheers
In Living Color
Dallas
Stuff I haven't seen in forever:
Laverne and Shirley
Bosum Buddies
Perfect Strangers
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Post by Jasoomian on May 14, 2014 17:51:17 GMT -5
Green Acres
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Post by Hoosier X on May 14, 2014 18:15:20 GMT -5
I just watched an episode of The Young Ones on YouTube.
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Post by The Captain on May 14, 2014 18:57:23 GMT -5
Most of my favorites have been mentioned by others already, stuff like The A Team, Greatest American Hero, WKRP in Cincinnati, Night Court, Cheers, and MST3K.
One that I loved that no one else has mentioned is Quantum Leap, which just barely made the cut by debuting in 1989. Yeah, it cpuld veer toward the saccharine and preachy, but I thought that Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell had great chemistry that transcended some of the cheesiness.
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