Degrassi. I got hooked on that for a while
Old TV shows/ Series you remember watching.
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Speaking of asphyxiation, that is how David Carradine reportedly died. More specifically, it was auto erotic asphyxiation in a Bangkok hotel room.
I never saw Kung Fu. But now that I am thinking about it, I did see Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, the sequel series which Carradine also starred in.
I only remember it because of reading your post about auto asphyxiation. "I am Caine. I will help you". That's what I recall from the series.
Enough of the salacious, getting back to the mundane topic of the thread.
Friday the 13th: The Series. Despite the name, it had nothing to do, storywise, with the movie franchise. That was weird.
Another horror series that I liked was Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Saw the reboot version too.
ALF. That was funny.
I admit I watched some episodes of Degrassi Jr. High. The odd thing was that it aired on PBS at the time.
Another PBS show that I watched was The Voyage of the Mimi.
I guess to each generation, it depends on what you mean by "old". I grew up in the late '80s and '90s, so first-run shows I recall from my early years included Saved by the Bell, Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Boy Meets World, Full House, Home Improvement, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Some asked me during those years, "What's wrong with you? Don't you like older stuff? How about Baywatch, Melrose Place, or 90210?" And my simplest answer to that was usually either silence, or muttering that I wasn't ready. Because of how I was raised, I had very little concept of what sex even was until my teen years, and how my elders presented it was really scary to me. As such, I often felt more comfortable with my more "innocent" side...and anything I thought would push me into "mature territory" scared the absolute hell out of me.
A show which obviously will never, ever, EVER be remade.
Unless they flip-flopped the genders, and that would be creepy as hell in this case.
@Mr. Laser Beam Lets hope not! Some things are better left alone.
I remember a day after my surgery (2003) I begged the nurse to bring in a TV so I could watch the next episode.
I also had the official guidebook too. I never went looking for the two TV movies because not eveeyine came back. *coughLarryHagmancough*
I read something about 20 years ago in a magazine that Jessica Simpson was in talks to play Jeannie in a movie. It might have been a rumour though.
I remember a day after my surgery (2003) I begged the nurse to bring in a TV so I could watch the next episode.
I also had the official guidebook too. I never went looking for the two TV movies because not eveeyine came back. *coughLarryHagmancough*
I read something about 20 years ago in a magazine that Jessica Simpson was in talks to play Jeannie in a movie. It might have been a rumour though.
I too was surprised when I learned it was Canadian. Red often reminded me of my grandfather.
GREAT show! It was so much better than it had the right to be.
A show which obviously will never, ever, EVER be remade.
Unless they flip-flopped the genders, and that would be creepy as hell in this case.
Some of those old shows are fine as they were originally made, and a perfect capsule of the time they were made in. They should be left alone. My set of Hart To Hart should be arriving by next Thursday.
We had Saved By The Bell on every afternoon here for a while in the 80s and horny teenage me well I fell into a mad crush over the girl with frizzy hair and the one played by Tiffany Amber Thiesse (spelling) Those were fun shows.
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Loved Man from UNCLE. Didn't find it until I was in my 20s. I had such a crush on Illya!
My mom loved that show too. Had such a crush on IlIya as well. Could see why. He was handsome and smart.
Heck yea. Hoping that Tubi gets back Miami Vice. Was in the middle of watching it. It's so good. Heard about Hill Street Blues, LA Law and Homicide Life on the Street from my mom. She liked them.
Homicide Life On The Streets was good. Never really got into Hill Street Blues, but did catch the odd episode every now and then.
Elizabeth Berkley played the somewhat snobby and over-achieving intellectual Jessie Spano on the show, while Tiffani Thiessen (still using her then-hyphenated middle name of Amber) played the more relaxed and peaceful "school cheerleader" type, Kelly Kapowski. After the show ended in 1994, both women chose bolder career paths, with Tiffani joining 90210 and Elizabeth starring in the still-vilified failure Showgirls.
Interesting choices. Definitely bold. The show was on 430pm weekdays here in the late 80s to early 90s
Ooh She Spies. Cheesy over the top silly show but I loved it
I only saw a few of Tiffani's 90210 episodes - she was one of my favorite actresses at the time and I just didn't want to see a more overtly sexualized version of her cemented in my mind. Later, I did end up seeing some of Showgirls on cable, and to this day I wish I hadn't. I was completely unprepared for anything like it back then.
She still gets blasted for it now, though she seems to take it in stride. They even worked an extended reference about it into a Season 2 episode of the Saved by the Bell revival, where Jessie is pressured to get back into the dating scene. Apparently, that story has her deciding to use a fireman's pole at a career fair, to dance for a man she's attracted to. I didn't see the episode, but Elizabeth supposedly went so far as to dig out a famous jacket used in the film, to use it in that scene.
I felt that was always wrong of people blasting her for that. That was her choice and she wanted to do something bolder, unless she herself regretted it.
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