MY CHILDHOOD or things you find online...

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Speaking of Robert Hays:

Airplane! came out when I was 10. I always remember it as one of the most hilarious films ever made, but somehow it got even funnier in my mind when I learned that almost all of its dialogue was taken VERBATIM from a serious disaster movie (Zero Hour!).

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmW-ScmGRMA[/yt]

And here is a preview of Airplane! re-edited to actually be a serious flick:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DklPalJagc[/yt]

 

[cooleddie74]

^They made a series out of that? I LOVED that movie when I was a kid! I always remember, "Red means stop. Green means go. Yellow means go very fast."

"Dutch Apple Pie."

Yeah, ABC greenlit a series that chronicled the return to Earth by the Jeff Bridges alien from the theatrical film. This time he genetically replicated the body of a professional photojournalist played by Robert Hays. It had a lot of potential and some very strong, well-written episodes and characters, but the ratings were tepid and ABC cancelled it in the spring of 1987 after the first season wrapped.

Loved that show. It was a staple of my Friday nights throughout seventh grade.

And then there's this. I remember very little of it from when it was originally on network television (1982-83), but the theme song is kinda catchy and memorable. Eighties themes had a feel, pull and way of catching the ear and TV's lost that over the years.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w13Vpt074Qc[/yt]

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Yeah, yeah. I know. I'm getting old.

Nah. You're still a young'un if you didn't watch the Mickey Mouse Club. M-I-C-K-E-Y...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

One of my fondest memories of 1979 science fiction television:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfQDMaFH6KI[/yt]

Fun fact: Johnny Harris wrote that song ("Odyssey") specifically for that episode. He wrote it to fit the movements of the actors in the ep.

 

[thestrangequark]

I remember this scaring the shit out of me when I was a child, way more so than the actual drug and alcohol abuse going on around me...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzKx92QD8Hk[/yt]

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Best Super Friends episode of all time:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3qniI3GxbA[/yt]

 

[cooleddie74]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ZUSQQdoS4[/yt]

Pick up, George. I know you're there.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q5ZnTM4VGM[/yt]

Tonight, on a very special episode of Miscellaneous Threads....

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeZsSn0p4KY[/yt]

Solid.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdFhmRdBtno[/yt]

You know, Cousin. You can't always see DeForest Kelley for the trees.

 

[thestrangequark]

^I had a HUGE crush on Balki.

Oh, and: http://nothingsgonnastopmenow.com/

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I won't even post a clip, everyone who reads this will understand.

"You're terminated, RUNNER!"

 

[cooleddie74]

It was cancelled more than four years before I was born but I'm sure some folks on the board remember this show.

What's that? You'd like a late 19th century comedic Western set in the Pacific Northwest and Seattle? With Lazarus, Sarek and Makora (of the people of Vaal) in the lead cast?

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRNpa_vTjRM[/yt]

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ And its Trek literary sequel, Ishmael.

 

[SeerSGB]

Wow, the first episode of TNG on VHS!!! for only $4.95!

I pestered my parents no end to take me to see GI Joe The Movie...THE MOVIE!!! COBRAAA!!!


I couldn't been the only kid that want his own Gunstar?

Bigger kick to the guts than the death of Spock:

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ULg4RSy5Y[/yt]


You couldn't pull me away from the TV during this: First shuttle launch

 

[trekkiedane]

For ages people swore straight up and and down this show didn't exist:

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFgLL8EN71I[/yt]

But I clearly remembered staying up to watch it when aired. They thought I was talking about Star Trek or Star Wars or even BSG. One of earliest things I did online was to set out and prove to people I was right.

In their defence: it was only a (two part) pilot that never went any further (Wikipedia).

 

[1001001]

I used to love this show when I was little...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7UakwR_A4c[/yt]

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Bigger kick to the guts than the death of Spock:

I didn't see that in the theaters, but I saw it on video. "The Touch" when it played, brought me to tears for a little bit after that. And thus producers of toy-centered TV learned that you don't kill off the hero!

 

[SeerSGB]

Bigger kick to the guts than the death of Spock:

I didn't see that in the theaters, but I saw it on video. "The Touch" when it played, brought me to tears for a little bit after that. And thus producers of toy-centered TV learned that you don't kill off the hero!

Yep. You just bring them back as a murdering zombie:
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD_1SD3VxfM[/yt]

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Bigger kick to the guts than the death of Spock:

I didn't see that in the theaters, but I saw it on video. "The Touch" when it played, brought me to tears for a little bit after that. And thus producers of toy-centered TV learned that you don't kill off the hero!

Yep. You just bring them back as a murdering zombie:

And in Japan, you kill them off again. Japan apparently was not cool with us resurrecting Prime/Convoy.

 

[shivkala]

Growing up in New York, this guy was a big part of my TV watching:
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc-Mhynh_pg[/yt]

As was seeing The Scooter advertise The Money Store:
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDQHQkuv9l0[/yt]

There's also promos like this one from WPIX:
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ktDSW5iwI[/yt]

 

[publiusr]

Two favorites of mine was AM WEATHER with Carl Weiss and Joan von Ahn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1sYq90OGd0

The other was The Future is Now.

Some of the educational TV programs on PBS before the modern cartoon craze.
One featured kids fighting about who was allowed to play in a dump, until a keeper ran them both off. A girl led the hero group--but the show featured this thing
http://www.plaidstallions.com/playground/space.html
Similar
http://milo-interior-design.com/playground/futur-world.htm

Now there was also a kid's show that featured a young child who saw a faceless entity stepped on where its face would be--the depression filling with blood. He left the theater, but not before bumping into a scarred individual sitting nearby.

Back on Topic...remember this?
http://space1970.blogspot.com/2013/10/cliffhangers-1979-nbc-promo.html

 

[SeerSGB]

Mr Wizard, bitches. You didn't even have to be into science to love that show. Then MacGyver comes along and it's like a grown up version of Mr. Wizard

I personally blame Macgyver for my life long addiction to Swiss Army Knives.