I know the show isn't that old, but I loved Sliders as a kid. I bought the first two seasons on DVD, and was seriously disappointed in it. The fact that these four people are extremely important on other worlds is ridiculous, and when the Kromaggs show up, it's barely watchable. There was so much potential in the premise.
One Kro-magg episode should have been enough, and then they should have moved on to something else.
It was the Professor's death that marks the line between ultimate watch/unwatchability. John Rhys-Davies is an actor who could make the phone book sound dramatic. I've been writing some Sliders fanfic over the years, and in my "Sliders-verse" the Professor never died and I get rid of Maggie ASAP.
Fantastic Journey. Early '70s sci-fi series. A group gets lost in the Bermuda Triangle and find themselves on an island(?) where different cultures somehow by different pockets of time or something.
I thought it was cool as a young teenager. Now--Yeesh!
My teenage self was quite taken with Ike Eisenmann, Jared Martin, and Roddy McDowall. But I found the series online last year and watched it... damn, most of the writing was horrible. Of course part of the difference is that I'm no longer into ancient aliens, Atlantis, and other such nonsense.
I wonder how the original The Twilight Zone holds up after fifty plus years.
This is one of the series that stands up extremely well.
lets see, can we include some of the 60s Saturday morning cartoons..sadly most including my favorite are, shall we put it mildly, racist to an alarming degree..Jonny Quest was definitely a product of it's time ( I own the original series on DVD)..the Herculoids. watching them with my now 21st century sensibilities, I shudder frequently..
I remember watching the Herculoids, but I never saw Jonny Quest - have no idea what it's about.
It's the same with some books, though. During this past year I've been going through my book collection, deciding what to keep and what to get rid of. I took a skim through some of the books I read as a kid in the '60s and early '70s, and was utterly disgusted. Those Bobbsey Twins and Donna Parker books promptly got weeded out, either because of racist themes or sheer stupidity in the writing.
