I love older television shows- Page 2

[danmag]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 5:17pm

You just KNOW that Flo was a nasty girl...

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 5:20pm

Im sure Florence Jean Casteberry made 70s porn.

[danmag]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 5:25pm

Oh yes. With Mel as her co-star.

[BWF]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 5:35pm

I've recently finished watching Rhoda: Season One. It's still a great, great show our family had a lot of laughs.

I was approx twenty two years old when we first got it here in the UK, now as a 55.416666 year old it was all a little bizarre to see it again in a very nice sorta way.

Thank heaven for box sets.

(no age issues here kinda smiley)...

Updated On: 6/4/09 at 05:35 PM

[danmag]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 5:55pm

One of the STRANGEST shows I remember growing up was Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Did anyone watch that? We used to watch reruns of it when I was in college. It was best enjoyed under the influence of something...

I would LOVE to see an episode of that again to see if it was really as strange as I remember it.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 6:05pm

I recently watched an episode of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman on some website. Maybe it was hulu? But yes, it was even more bizarre than I remembered. And the production values were WAY below other shows of the era. It truly was a "WTF?" kind of show.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 6:35pm

I was a huge fan of the 1960's Batman series, which aired on Nickelodeon when I was growing up. I never, ever picked up on the campiness aspect of it until much later. As a child, this was straight drama to me!

To this day, I want it on DVD.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 12:13pm

(I am so annoyed that my original post didn't go through and have to retype it)

I decided to bump this thread rather than start a new one though this topic could, probably, fly on the Main Board.

Every now and again I'll decide to have an "athon" where I'll watch all my movies of a certain genre or in a series or whatever. Currently, I'm in the midst of a Superman one where I am watching all of my Superman DVDs. I've buzzed through all of the cartoon DVDs and just finished Lois & Clark season 1 last night. In the season finale Lex Luthor has Superman trapped in a Kryptonite cage and is taunting him as he prepares for his wedding to Lois. As he taunts Superman he is singing snippets of "Tonight" from West Side Story.

When I finished that episode I decided to watch the dvd of Moonlighting I'd received through Netflix rather than move on to L&C Season 2. In one of the episodes Maddy and David are searching for a piece of stolen art. When they think they've found it David starts to sing "Something's Coming" from West Side Story.

It just made me smile a bit. The show is so ingrained in our culture that television shows from two different decades made reference to it. Can anyone think of a tv show from this decade that did?

Posted: 9/16/09 at 12:14pm

Mary Hartman was some groundbreaking TV- always causing controversy. It also lead to a sequel/spin off that was one of the funniest shows I've ever seen: Fernwood 2Night which was a nightly, thirty minute show that took the "Tonight" show format and re-imagined it as a local show filmed in Fernwood (Where MH was set) using a lot of the same characters as Mary Hartman. Martin Mull played the host. Truly amazing.

[madbrian]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 12:38pm

When I think of ground breaking, ahead-of-its-time television, the only series that comes to mind is Soap.

[Wicked Kitty]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 1:19pm

I've started watching Andy Griffith show. I feel bad for Opie when Andy thinks he's lying about the existence of Mister MacFeebee but Opie is really telling the truth.

[ABB2357]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 1:32pm

No mention of MAUDE so far??

God'll get you for that, Walter.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 1:48pm

I loved the Invaders.... a Quinn/Martin Production!

[EVIE]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 5:10pm

I was a big fan of Lois and Clark. I loooooved watching Get Smart re-runs on Nick and Nite, never missed them. Still one of my fav shows of all time.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 5:51pm

What kind of architect was David Vincent?

[Eris0303]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 5:53pm

The kind that fights aliens

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 6:04pm

Aha

[Eris0303]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 12:01am

Lois & Clark season 2 episode 1 - Jessica Hecht as a Daily Planet employee.

[madbrian]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 6:45am

A brilliant show that never found an audience was The Powers That Be, a political comedy starring John Forsythe, Holland Taylor, Eve Gordon, David Hyde Pierce, Valerie Mahaffey, and Jonathan Gordon-Levitt.

[bobby_luvs_bway]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 2:09pm

Anyone remember "Hail to the Chief" with Patti Duke as the first female President?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/5/09 at 11:24pm

I do.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 10/5/09 at 11:25pm

I'm watching an episode of Moonlighting and Judd Nelson and Whoopi Goldberg are guest starring

[I<3bway]

Posted: 10/5/09 at 11:28pm

After hearing about the new The A Team movie that's going to be coming out next year, I looked into some of the clips on Youtube, and the show is pretty funny! I especially like Howling Mad Murdock!

[Luscious]

Posted: 10/5/09 at 11:31pm

Land of the Giants and The Invaders.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 10/5/09 at 11:31pm

The original A-Team is very funny. The chemistry between the four leads was great. They meshed so well.