The Mango Sentinel
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Haha, same.
But lately I've been watching Homicide: Life on the Streets. Pretty good stuff.
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What are some older T.V. series you have enjoyed?
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Haha, same.
But lately I've been watching Homicide: Life on the Streets. Pretty good stuff.
Bobby Roberts
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Taxi is pretty fucking great.
PhoncipleBone
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Simon and Simon?
Black Mamba
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no one mentioned I love Lucy?
I'm not going to list shit from the 90s, that ain't old.
twilight zone was great, too.
That set is used in lots of movies.
I'm not going to list shit from the 90s, that ain't old.
twilight zone was great, too.
That set is used in lots of movies.
Secret Fawful
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Shit, some of my favorites of all time are older.
MASH
Get Smart
Sanford and Son
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Columbo
MacGyver
The A-Team
I Love Lucy
Kung Fu
Kung Fu: The Next Generation
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Martial Law
Matlock
The Twilight Zone
Nash Bridges
THE MUNSTERS
MY FAVORITE MARTIAN
Good Times
The Jeffersons
The Beverly Hillbillies (Buddy Ebsen is a king)
Murder, She Wrote (I like watching Jessica cause everyone's deaths by existing)
Batman
Star Trek
Gilligan's Island
Seinfeld
Twin Peaks
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
I Dream of Jeanie
Bewitched
Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
The New Scooby Doo Movies
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
Snagglepuss
The Funky Phantom
Fantasy Island
Walker Texas Ranger
Hogan's Heroes
The Real McCoys
What I never really enjoyed:
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Maude
Dragnet
Three's Company
The Brady Bunch
The Fugitive
Neutral on:
Gomer Pyle
The Andy Griffith Show
Petticoat Junction
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
The Golden (smutty) Girls
Leave It To Beaver
MASH
Get Smart
Sanford and Son
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Columbo
MacGyver
The A-Team
I Love Lucy
Kung Fu
Kung Fu: The Next Generation
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Martial Law
Matlock
The Twilight Zone
Nash Bridges
THE MUNSTERS
MY FAVORITE MARTIAN
Good Times
The Jeffersons
The Beverly Hillbillies (Buddy Ebsen is a king)
Murder, She Wrote (I like watching Jessica cause everyone's deaths by existing)
Batman
Star Trek
Gilligan's Island
Seinfeld
Twin Peaks
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
I Dream of Jeanie
Bewitched
Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
The New Scooby Doo Movies
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
Snagglepuss
The Funky Phantom
Fantasy Island
Walker Texas Ranger
Hogan's Heroes
The Real McCoys
What I never really enjoyed:
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Maude
Dragnet
Three's Company
The Brady Bunch
The Fugitive
Neutral on:
Gomer Pyle
The Andy Griffith Show
Petticoat Junction
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
The Golden (smutty) Girls
Leave It To Beaver
Black Mamba
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Lionel Mandrake
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My family raised me on Red Skelton Show VHS tapes, and I developed a taste for it.
Redd Foxx's delivery is hilarious.
I recently watched the first few episodes of this and found myself laughing/smiling a lot more than I thought I would.
PhoncipleBone
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Twilight Zone is still the best TV series of all time.
Secret Fawful
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Updated it cause I missed a few. I seriously watched a shitton of these shows as a kid, and the more I think on it, the sadder I am that I don't see them much anymore.
Christina Mackenzie
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Fond childhood memories.
Bobby Roberts
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Basically the genesis for every great sitcom that ever came out post 1984 is Cheers. And the people who make those sitcoms will admit this willingly. There isn't a great sitcom that has come since that hasn't freely copped SOME element of Cheers' formula and repurposed it for their own.
Fond childhood memories.
I use to do an impression of the guy on the right.
"Oh my Lord"
blainethemono
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Used to watch the hell out of this late at night when I was in high school
Allo ALlo
MASH
Are You Being Served?
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Almost perfect post. Only show it's missing is Twin Peaks. MASH is probably the best TV show ever.
Fond childhood memories.
TGIF FTW!
Secret Fawful
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Fawlty Towers
and Seinfeld, Taxi, and Soap. You can be generous and restrict The Simpsons to its golden age and you really do have some of the funniest material ever between these five shows. Some of the best filmed comedy period.
Cheers is also great, as is Frasier but that lasted from the early 90s to the early 00s.
Three's Company, MASH, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show were good.
The Odd Couple TV series was good from what I remember. (But watch the movie if you haven't already.)
The Golden Girls can be funny, but sometimes I just get annoyed with it.
Red Skelton creeped me out when I was a kid but lots of old people I talk to (ie my dad) love it.
and Seinfeld, Taxi, and Soap. You can be generous and restrict The Simpsons to its golden age and you really do have some of the funniest material ever between these five shows. Some of the best filmed comedy period.
Cheers is also great, as is Frasier but that lasted from the early 90s to the early 00s.
Three's Company, MASH, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show were good.
The Odd Couple TV series was good from what I remember. (But watch the movie if you haven't already.)
The Golden Girls can be funny, but sometimes I just get annoyed with it.
Red Skelton creeped me out when I was a kid but lots of old people I talk to (ie my dad) love it.
Boss Riovane
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I literally came here to post this masterpiece. If it wasnt for this show we wouldnt have Supernatural and Xfiles.
Anticitizen One
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SOAP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_(TV_series)
A great parody of soaps and dramas on television. Can't recommend it enough.
This looks like an 80s version of arrested development
Kageshinzo
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I guess I'm the only one who liked this then?
Airwolf
Airwolf
maquiladora
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Sledge Hammer!
A fantastic satire based on Dirty Harry that was ahead of its time in so many ways. The writing is superb, the jokes witty and the slapstick is Naked Gun quality.
Columbo
A Whodunnit that is not a Whodunnit. You get to see the murder, because it's not about the mystery, it's about how Columbo convicts the murderer. Bonus: phenomenal architecture shots throughout the series.
The X-Files
The first time I have seen cinema quality cinematography in a TV series. Yes, the earlier seasons are dated but the imaginative storytelling makes up for it.
Twin Peaks
The first season might be the best thing that has been produced for television ever. Quintessential David Lynch that has enough mainstream appeal.
There's more great ones, but those sprung immediately into mind.
A fantastic satire based on Dirty Harry that was ahead of its time in so many ways. The writing is superb, the jokes witty and the slapstick is Naked Gun quality.
Columbo
A Whodunnit that is not a Whodunnit. You get to see the murder, because it's not about the mystery, it's about how Columbo convicts the murderer. Bonus: phenomenal architecture shots throughout the series.
The X-Files
The first time I have seen cinema quality cinematography in a TV series. Yes, the earlier seasons are dated but the imaginative storytelling makes up for it.
Twin Peaks
The first season might be the best thing that has been produced for television ever. Quintessential David Lynch that has enough mainstream appeal.
There's more great ones, but those sprung immediately into mind.
Talladega Knight
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three's company
the rockford files
cheers
fawlty towers
police squad
the ben stiller show
the rockford files
cheers
fawlty towers
police squad
the ben stiller show
Christina Mackenzie
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CrankyKong
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Star Trek: The Next Generation and Stargate SG1.
Two great sci-fi shows I completely skipped during their original air ( because I was a kid) and am now enjoying the heck out of today.
Two great sci-fi shows I completely skipped during their original air ( because I was a kid) and am now enjoying the heck out of today.
I grew up on classic Nick at Nite in the 80's, so I used to watch...
My Three Sons
The Patty Duke Show
The Donna Reed Show
Mr. Ed
Car 54 Where Are You?
The Danny Thomas Show
Bewitched
Green Acres
The Many Loves of Dobbie Gillies
Get Smart
During the weekends on Nick, I'd watch Lassie and Dennis the Menance.
I also would watch Taxi and Airwolf just because of the theme songs, I think Knight Rider too.
In the 90's during summer vacation I'd watch Good Times, Sanford and Son, and some others.
My Three Sons
The Patty Duke Show
The Donna Reed Show
Mr. Ed
Car 54 Where Are You?
The Danny Thomas Show
Bewitched
Green Acres
The Many Loves of Dobbie Gillies
Get Smart
During the weekends on Nick, I'd watch Lassie and Dennis the Menance.
I also would watch Taxi and Airwolf just because of the theme songs, I think Knight Rider too.
In the 90's during summer vacation I'd watch Good Times, Sanford and Son, and some others.
jossueinacoma
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Small Wonder
I guess I'm the only one who liked this then?
Airwolf
Saw some of that on TV recently, it has not held up well. Still awesome, but terrible.
I watched re-runs of this as a kid - it started in 1982, so it's 31 years old now! Really enjoyed it back then although I'm not sure if it holds up today. Here's the premise courtesy of wikipedia:
Remington Steele's premise is that Laura Holt, a licensed private detective played by Stephanie Zimbalist, opened a detective agency under her own name but found that potential clients refused to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele", Pierce Brosnan's character, a former thief and con man whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.
David Simon's first successful show about Baltimore crime and Detectives turns 20 this year. Homicide: Life on the Street is an excellent show for any fan of The Wire. It's a different style of show, but still feels raw and real. A "cop drama" that completely breaks the procedural drama mold. Characters so strong that in one case, the exact same character was reused in SVU (Detective Munch).
Sir_Crocodile
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Wayyyyyyyyyyyy too many to count
Some of them include:
Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister
Mission Impossible (from season two onwards when Graves joins the cast)
Twilight Zone
Perry Mason (both the tv series and the movies)
The Good Life
To The Manor Born
Red Dwarf
Blackadder
The Saint
Remington Steele
Miss Marple (Joan Hickson ONLY)
Prince Valiant(cartoon series, bit kiddish)
Jeeves & Wooster
Randall & Hopkirk(deceased) original series
Lord Peter Whimsy (Petherbridge ones)
Porridge
Dads Army
I can go into detail if you're interested in any of them. Yes Minister/Prime Minister is my favourite tv show ever
Watched it again a few years ago, has eighties cheese, but holds up well. Does not treat its audience like idiots at all, which is rather a breath of fresh air these days
Some of them include:
Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister
Mission Impossible (from season two onwards when Graves joins the cast)
Twilight Zone
Perry Mason (both the tv series and the movies)
The Good Life
To The Manor Born
Red Dwarf
Blackadder
The Saint
Remington Steele
Miss Marple (Joan Hickson ONLY)
Prince Valiant(cartoon series, bit kiddish)
Jeeves & Wooster
Randall & Hopkirk(deceased) original series
Lord Peter Whimsy (Petherbridge ones)
Porridge
Dads Army
I can go into detail if you're interested in any of them. Yes Minister/Prime Minister is my favourite tv show ever
Watched it again a few years ago, has eighties cheese, but holds up well. Does not treat its audience like idiots at all, which is rather a breath of fresh air these days
David Simon's first successful show about Baltimore crime and Detectives turns 20 this year. Homicide: Life on the Street is an excellent show for any fan of The Wire. It's a different style of show, but still feels raw and real. A "cop drama" that completely breaks the procedural drama mold. Characters so strong that in one case, the exact same character was reused in SVU (Detective Munch).
Is this on Hulu or Netflix or something?
DidntKnowJack
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Red Dwarf
The oldest seasons are my favorite.
The oldest seasons are my favorite.
Glorious_Paradox
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Slightly more recent, but I watched Babylon 5 for the first time about a year ago, and despite being a little dated, I consider it one of mankind's greatest achievements.
Hell no.
I recently embarked upon a Frasier marathon finishing all 11 seasons in under a month. Loved every minute of it.
Sir_Crocodile
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