Old TV Shows
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When I was a little, little kid in the 1970's, my favorite show was Emergency!. When that went off the air, I was all about Battlestar Galactica. I didn't really get into Star Trek until a local independent TV station started showing the syndicated reruns in 1980 (I was six, turning seven).
In the 80's, I was into The A-Team, Airwolf, Knight Rider, and the usual.
Nowadays I enjoy pretty much all of the "old shows" that everyone else has mentioned.
In the 80's, I was into The A-Team, Airwolf, Knight Rider, and the usual.
Nowadays I enjoy pretty much all of the "old shows" that everyone else has mentioned.
"Cannon"
"Nero Wolfe" (William Conrad version)
"The Addams Family"
"Lost in Space"
"The Time Tunnel"
"Land of the Giants"
"My Mother the Car"
"Knight Rider"
"Doctor Who" (1963-1989)
"Black Adder"
"Are You Being Served?"
"Police Squad!"
"Chips"
"Dragnet" (1967-70 version with Harry Morgan)
"The A-Team"
"The Greatest American Hero"
"Nero Wolfe" (William Conrad version)
"The Addams Family"
"Lost in Space"
"The Time Tunnel"
"Land of the Giants"
"My Mother the Car"
"Knight Rider"
"Doctor Who" (1963-1989)
"Black Adder"
"Are You Being Served?"
"Police Squad!"
"Chips"
"Dragnet" (1967-70 version with Harry Morgan)
"The A-Team"
"The Greatest American Hero"
Well, using your definition of 'old' shows, here are a few I like and have on DVD if available:
DS9
B5
The X-Files
Dark Shadows - Yes, I have this complete show on DVD, the most expensive TV show in my entire collection.
BtVS
M*A*S*H
Northern Exposure
All Creatures Great and Small (BBC)
Hill Street Blues (only partly out on DVD)
The Rockford Files (have complete on DVD)
LA Law (not out on DVD - BOO!!!!!)
Cagney & Lacey (only partly out on DVD)
Falcon Crest (only partly out on DVD)
Homicide: Life on the Street (too lazy to go look up whether it ended before 2000, but this show is complete on DVD and I own all of it)
Bonanza
Perry Mason
DS9
B5
The X-Files
Dark Shadows - Yes, I have this complete show on DVD, the most expensive TV show in my entire collection.
BtVS
M*A*S*H
Northern Exposure
All Creatures Great and Small (BBC)
Hill Street Blues (only partly out on DVD)
The Rockford Files (have complete on DVD)
LA Law (not out on DVD - BOO!!!!!)
Cagney & Lacey (only partly out on DVD)
Falcon Crest (only partly out on DVD)
Homicide: Life on the Street (too lazy to go look up whether it ended before 2000, but this show is complete on DVD and I own all of it)
Bonanza
Perry Mason
Well I only said old shows until 1999 because I didn't want to talk about reality tv shows. I wanted to discuss REAL TV shows
I like most of what you mentioned, too... B5 though, is that Babylon 5? and what's BtVS?
Alright, I'm changing the definition of old to mean pre-Star Wars. I can barely think of any shows I watch that started this century, so 1999 is just not going to work.
Old shows I Like:
All in the Family
Blake's Seven
Doctor Who
Jeffersons
Lupin III
M.A.S.H
Star Trek TOS (duh)
Super Sentai (1975 and still going!)
Three's Company
Old shows I Like:
All in the Family
Blake's Seven
Doctor Who
Jeffersons
Lupin III
M.A.S.H
Star Trek TOS (duh)
Super Sentai (1975 and still going!)
Three's Company
Besides all EVERY incarnation of why I am on this forum...
and from off the top of my head....
The 70's:
Lost In Space
Land Of the Giants
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The Six Million Dollar Man
Kolchack: The Night Stalker
Battlestar: Galactica
Wonder Woman
Doctor Who(Tom Baker)
Baretta
Happy Days
The Brady Bunch
The 80's:
Quantum Leap
Airwolf ( like Biggles, the JMV episodes)
The A-Team
T.J. Hooker
Superboy
KnightRider
Spenser for Hire
Magnum P.I.
Simon & Simon
Riptide
Stingray
Family Ties
Different Strokes
Miami Vice
The Greatest American Hero
Who's The Boss?
Time Trax
The 90's:
Lois and Clark: TNAofS
Renegade
The Flash
Nash Bridges
Hercules
Unhappily Ever After (w/ the "grown up Nikki Cox!....
)
Can you tell which decade I got married?...
and from off the top of my head....
The 70's:
Lost In Space
Land Of the Giants
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The Six Million Dollar Man
Kolchack: The Night Stalker
Battlestar: Galactica
Wonder Woman
Doctor Who(Tom Baker)
Baretta
Happy Days
The Brady Bunch
The 80's:
Quantum Leap
Airwolf ( like Biggles, the JMV episodes)
The A-Team
T.J. Hooker
Superboy
KnightRider
Spenser for Hire
Magnum P.I.
Simon & Simon
Riptide
Stingray
Family Ties
Different Strokes
Miami Vice
The Greatest American Hero
Who's The Boss?
Time Trax
The 90's:
Lois and Clark: TNAofS
Renegade
The Flash
Nash Bridges
Hercules
Unhappily Ever After (w/ the "grown up Nikki Cox!....
)Can you tell which decade I got married?...
I've started to pick up on old Hawaii Five-Oh and Magnum, P.I. I'm also fond of Law & Order although I'm not too sure if that counts as "old t.v. shows".
Other than that- Simon & Simon, Columbo, Murder She Wrote, the Rockford Files, old Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, and old Poriot with David Suchet. I also like Doctor Who although I'm only acquainted with the old series in patches - not a continous run.
Other than that- Simon & Simon, Columbo, Murder She Wrote, the Rockford Files, old Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, and old Poriot with David Suchet. I also like Doctor Who although I'm only acquainted with the old series in patches - not a continous run.
I'm a fan of shows going back to the 1950s - original Twilight Zone, Honeymooners. I also enjoy watching shows from the 1960s, with many of the famous spy shows of the era among my favorites - The Avengers (and I'm including the old videotaped Honor Blackman episodes in this, before Emma Peel showed up), Secret Agent/Danger Man, The Prisoner, Man from UNCLE, etc.
The earliest TV series I remember watching as a child were from the early 1970s - The Starlost, Planet of the Apes and The Six Million Dollar Man. A number of these shows I've been able to revisit out of curiosity and nostalgia, and in a few cases I've found they've aged better than I might have expected. Doctor Who of course I've seen virtually every episode in existence back to 1963.
I'm with others on this thread. Perhaps it's due to denial, or the fact that thanks to DVD and reruns they just don't feel that old, or the fact my life experience starts in 1969, I can't really look at stuff from the 80s or 90s and consider it "vintage". If I was born in the 1980s, however, that would be different. I have to keep reminding myself that there are people going into university next fall who weren't even born when I graduated from university in 1991.
Alex
The earliest TV series I remember watching as a child were from the early 1970s - The Starlost, Planet of the Apes and The Six Million Dollar Man. A number of these shows I've been able to revisit out of curiosity and nostalgia, and in a few cases I've found they've aged better than I might have expected. Doctor Who of course I've seen virtually every episode in existence back to 1963.
I'm with others on this thread. Perhaps it's due to denial, or the fact that thanks to DVD and reruns they just don't feel that old, or the fact my life experience starts in 1969, I can't really look at stuff from the 80s or 90s and consider it "vintage". If I was born in the 1980s, however, that would be different. I have to keep reminding myself that there are people going into university next fall who weren't even born when I graduated from university in 1991.
Alex
How could I have forgotten "The Prisoner"? I wrote a fan fiction for it that made it's way into the fan society paper The Penny Farthing.
Well, now that I got British shows on the mind, some of my favorites from there:
"Are You Being Served?"
"Mr. Bean"
"Red Dwarf"
More American shows:
I love "Due South", more specifically the first run.
"Roseanne"
"Murphy Brown"
"Night Court"
"The Red/Green Show" (duct tape -- the answer to all life's problems)
"Profit" (if you watch "Dexter", then you seriously need to check out this short-lived TV series -- thanks to a post here a year or so ago that brought it to my attention)
To lesser extents:
"Home Improvement"
"Perfect Strangers"
"Seinfeld" (depending on when you catch me)
"7 Days"
"Time Trax"
"Married With Children"
Non drama/comedy/regular TV shows:
"Mythbusters"
"The O'Reilly Factor"
"Glenn Beck"
Lou Dobbs Show -- the only light of reality at CNN before the canning.
"Inside the Actor's Studio" (I particularly liked their "The Simpsons" episode where they have the main voice actors all on stage)
"Pawn Stars" (though part of me hates that I ever continually watched something that is essensially half reality TV series)
"Late Night With Conan O'Brian"
Well, now that I got British shows on the mind, some of my favorites from there:
"Are You Being Served?"
"Mr. Bean"
"Red Dwarf"
More American shows:
I love "Due South", more specifically the first run.
"Roseanne"
"Murphy Brown"
"Night Court"
"The Red/Green Show" (duct tape -- the answer to all life's problems)
"Profit" (if you watch "Dexter", then you seriously need to check out this short-lived TV series -- thanks to a post here a year or so ago that brought it to my attention)
To lesser extents:
"Home Improvement"
"Perfect Strangers"
"Seinfeld" (depending on when you catch me)
"7 Days"
"Time Trax"
"Married With Children"
Non drama/comedy/regular TV shows:
"Mythbusters"
"The O'Reilly Factor"
"Glenn Beck"
Lou Dobbs Show -- the only light of reality at CNN before the canning.
"Inside the Actor's Studio" (I particularly liked their "The Simpsons" episode where they have the main voice actors all on stage)
"Pawn Stars" (though part of me hates that I ever continually watched something that is essensially half reality TV series)
"Late Night With Conan O'Brian"
Barney Miller and Taxi were two of the best sitcoms ever produced. And I love Married With Children -- it was in such delightfully, deliciously bad taste. At least up until its last couple of seasons, when the show just ran out of steam and stopped being funny.
Funny thing about that. A lot of under-40 viewers remember Julie London as Nurse Dixie McCall from that show, and have only recently discovered, thanks to YouTube and similar sites, that she was also a singer! And a damn sexy one.
Oh Yes, I'm a big fan of the follwing shows:
All In The Family
Sanford & Son
The Partridge Family
Green Acres
Mannix
Cannon
Lost In Space
Space 1999
I love old shows:
Cheers
Night Court
All In the Family
Married With Children
Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
Battlestar Galactica
Doctor Who
Golden Girls
Newhart
Tales from the Darkside
Rosanne
Taxi
Sanford and Son
Seinfeld
Andy Griffith
Fawlty Towers
Cheers
Night Court
All In the Family
Married With Children
Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
Battlestar Galactica
Doctor Who
Golden Girls
Newhart
Tales from the Darkside
Rosanne
Taxi
Sanford and Son
Seinfeld
Andy Griffith
Fawlty Towers
Riptide was a knock-off of Magnum P.I. that was never as good, but that big, clunky, unreliable old Sikorsky had some personality that T.C.'s slick Hughes never had.
I quite agree. Both were great ensemble pieces, and it has been said that Barney Miller was a bigger influence on Hill Street Blues than earlier "serious" cop shows, and that "dramedy" influence can still be felt in shows like Rescue Me.
And her husband Bobby Troupe, who played Dr. Early, was a well-known bandleader and wrote "Route 66." I love in the Emergency! pilot when Dixie gets knocked out and the paramedics radio in that she is "approximately 30 years of age." They established earlier in the episode that she had served in the Korean War, which must have made her one of very few pre-teen nurses in army history!
--Justin
Oh Yes, I'm a big fan of the follwing shows:
... Lost In Space
Space 1999
Me too.
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