Old TV Shows

[darkshadow0001]

Anyone here a fan of any old TV shows? It can range from any show up until 1999. I watch a lot of TV on TVLand, they have a pretty good selection of shows. The ones I like to watch are:

• All In The Family
• The Jeffersons
• Good Times
• Sanford & Son
• and, Rosanne

Most of these shows are from the 1970's, I was just a toddler in those years so I don't remember watching them much (except Sanford & Son, reruns were shown in the early 1980's. These shows are great because there's a lot of racial commentary and they make them funny. A lot of shows today don't do much of that, except possibly Family Guy may be the only exception.

I think these shows are much better to watch then all of these reality shows, and I was hoping reality tv would die down eventually and we'd get real TV back. Not so sure that is going to happen... possibly good shows are going to be hard to come by anymore, except for The CW, they have a few good shows and a lot of potential.

So, what are your favorite old shows?

 

[DonIago]

By that definition TNG and DS9 are "old" TV shows...

 

[Kelthaz]

1999?

Yeah, I watch a lot of TV shows from the 90's ...

 

[startrekwatcher]

Oh yes do I love watching old tv shows--this last decade has pretty much sucked.

I like the following:
Roseanne-that's how you do a comedy and not the shit that passes for sitcoms these days. The show tackled a lot of big issues for its time--hard times, birth control, death, teenage depression, being gay, racism, domestic violence, abortion, sex after 60. A definite highlight. A great cast--Love love Roseanne, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert and John Goodman. Loved how it was the first show to make use of the time eaten up with the ending credits by adding some cute scenes. Loved her Halloween episodes where she went all out.

TNG--back when sff was both entertaining, thoughtful and didn't rely on VFX

DS9

VOY--I used to not care for it but the last ten years of recycled crap has tempered my view of the show.

HUNTER--a really fun quintessential 80s cop show--you couldn't beat Fred Dryer and Stephanie Kramer. To this day I still consider the McCall rape two parter to be one of the most gripping hours of tv ever. Plus you had fun characters like Sporty James.

Hill Street Blues--great show with a great cast.

Cheers

Murder She Wrote--I just have always loved Angela Lansbury and once again I enjoy watching older characters moreso than the young ones. I also thought the way the show only had her and a rotating cast each week was inventive.

Melrose Place--the original not that shallow crap the CW dug up. No I mean the one with so many fun characters like Sydney Andrews, Michael Mancini, Amanda Woodward and my fave Dr. Kimberly Shaw. This is how you do a primetime soap. So many entertaining storylines--Kimberly returning from the dead and pulling off her wig to reveal that deep scar, Kimberly blowing up the building, Kimberly's multiple personality storyline, Jane and Sydney teaming up to do in Richard etc etc.

The Golden Girls--another sitcom gem--I appreciate this one even moreso given the propensity of networks to only want to cast young vapid actors. It is nice to see a group of older women knocking it out of the park.

Good Times--low budget but lots of fun.

Friday the 13th Series--I caught this series from the start and my mom was so cool letting me stay up on Saturday nights to watch it. I loved the ensemble of Jack Marashak, Ryan Dallion and Micki Foster. I thought the premise was clever and the show had a great atmosphere. I just rewatched several of the episodes last month as part of SyFy's Halloween airings.

I Dream of Jeannie--love Barbara Eden and this show has so much charm--It never gets old I catch the reruns on WGN.

The Jeffersons--another great Norman Lear sitcom. George, Weezie, the Willises and of course the incomparable Marla Gibbs' Florence.

Dark Shadows

The X-Files--the last few seasons sucked but there were a lot of good seasons before then and to this day the Scully/Mulder partnership and chemistry is unmatched.

I also have rediscovered my love for game shows from back then. That is another thing that are shitty these days--1 vs 100, Deal or No Deal, Minute to Win, post Ray Combs' Family Feud, Let's Make a Deal, it etc-- Give me High Rollers, Richard Dawwson Family Feud, Dick Clark's $25,000 Pyramid/100,000 Pyramid, Concentration, Card Sharks, Bob Barker's The Price is Right.

 

[Saga]

i'm a big fan of 'old' tv shows. i grew up with reruns of Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Dark Shadows, Space: 1999, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Gilligans Island, Munsters, Addams Family, I Dream of Jeannie...i could go on. i would much rather watch reruns of one of these shows than most of the new garbage that's on now.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Anyone here a fan of any old TV shows? It can range from any show up until 1999. I watch a lot of TV on TVLand, they have a pretty good selection of shows. The ones I like to watch are:

• All In The Family
• The Jeffersons
• Good Times
• Sanford & Son
• and, Rosanne

Most of these shows are from the 1970's, I was just a toddler in those years so I don't remember watching them much (except Sanford & Son, reruns were shown in the early 1980's. These shows are great because there's a lot of racial commentary and they make them funny. A lot of shows today don't do much of that, except possibly Family Guy may be the only exception.

I think these shows are much better to watch then all of these reality shows, and I was hoping reality tv would die down eventually and we'd get real TV back. Not so sure that is going to happen... possibly good shows are going to be hard to come by anymore, except for The CW, they have a few good shows and a lot of potential.

So, what are your favorite old shows?

Not a big fan of Roseanne, but I watched all the others you mentioned plus a lot of M*A*S*H and a little Barney Miller.

 

[caisson2delta]

A lot of good shows have been mentioned, many of which I really enjoyed.

A few more:

Hogan's Heroes
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeannie
The Rockford Files
Magnum P.I.
I can think of quite a a few more, but I'll give someone else a chance to post some.

 

[Vasquez Rocks]

I've been watching the Boris Karloff series Thriller recently and it's really pretty good. It's kind of like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, but focuses on horror and crime stories.

I've also seen Sanford and Son recently on TV Land and have been cracking up at that show. Red Foxx and LaWanda Page are hysterical together.

Some of my other favorite old shows:

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek
Deep Space Nine
The X-Files
Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Space: Above and Beyond
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Moonlighting
Three's Company
The Andy Griffith Show
Gomer Pyle USMC
Dennis the Menace (60s series)
The Little Rascals

 

[Star Wolf]

HUNTER--a really fun quintessential 80s cop show--you couldn't beat Fred Dryer and Stephanie Kramer. To this day I still consider the McCall rape two parter to be one of the most gripping hours of tv ever. Plus you had fun characters like Sporty James.

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I still think Hunter made the biggest leap from junk to greatness then any show I can remember, the rape episode in the second season just pointed to things in season 3 when the goofy factor was eliminated. Its a shame it went a year too long and tarnished its legacy

 

[sojourner]

Magnum P.I.
Northern Exposure
Cheers

 

[Kirkman1987]

M*A*S*H
Twin Peaks
Mission Impossible
Quantum Leap

So many more, but there are a few gems.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I enjoy a lot of today's shows and a lot of the shows of the past were crap so I'm not one of those who only thinks of the glory days.

My avatar is from Raumpatrouille (Space Patrol) Orion a fun little German sci-fi show made in the days of TOS Trek that I recently discovered.

I'm currently watching Blake's 7 where every episode where nearly every prop and set has some kind of workmanship flaw or crudity and is delightfully and hilariously "70s".

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'll just let this speak for itself.

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[zakkrusz]

Star Trek
Star Trek: TNG
Star Trek DS9
The 6 Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman
Knight Rider
Seaquest
Space 1999

 

[RandyS]

It's still too soon for anything form either the 1980's or 1990's to be considered old, but here are a few of my "old" favorites:

Eight is Enough
MASH
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman
Buck Rogers
Battlestar Galactica

All shows from when I was a young child in the 1970's, and I loved these.

 

[startrekwatcher]

I'll also add DALLAS since I recently rewatched it all. And predictably it looks like TNT is trying to do a new version--Hollywood just can't help themselves by resurrecting older beloved shows in a futile attempt to make the new one as well received as its progenitor.

I also really enjoy Hart to Hart with Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers.

Simon and Simon.

 

[sojourner]

Riptide - the only show from the 80's that starred a pink helicopter (The Screamin' Mimi!), a boat, and a robot. Oh, and it had some actors too.

 

[tharpdevenport]

I'd say over half my favorite shows would fall under "Old" here; off the top of my head:

"In the Heat of the night" (to a lesser degree)
"Gunsmoke"
The original "The Twilight Zone"
"Magnum, pi"
"The Rockford Files"
"Quantum Leap"
"CHiPs"
"Knight Rider"
"Frasier"
"Batman: The Animated Series"
"What's My Line?"
"Whose Line Is It Anyway?" (that's loosely a show, right?)
"Star Trek: The Next Generation"
"The Norn Show"
"Cheers"
ALF (to a lesser degree)
"Miami Vice"
"Nash Bridges" (though some of it was over 1999)
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
The Ghostbusters cartoon.
"The X-Files"
"Columbo"
"Newsradio" (I miss Phil Hartman still. Shit -- and Chris Farley)
The first approx. seven seasons of "The Simpsons"
"M*A*S*H"

 

[cardinal biggles]

Apart from the obvious (TOS and TNG), I'm also a fan of Knight Rider, Airwolf (the three seasons with Jan-Michael Vincent; we shall not speak of that abomination starring Barry Van Dyke), M*A*S*H, and I just recently discovered the original Hawaii Five-O.

 

[RandyS]

Riptide - the only show from the 80's that starred a pink helicopter (The Screamin' Mimi!), a boat, and a robot. Oh, and it had some actors too.

Pink helicopter you say? Huh. I was strongly considering my next Amazon purchase being the complete series set, but now you've convinced me.

I've got to see that.