I watched a lot of Divorce Court in the late 60's. I don't know why, ended up with an nasty one myself. Luckily I didn't waste too much time on soap operas.
Guess I read to make up for it and looked forward to made-for-tv films and just some that I enjoyed. Dr shows until it was making me scared and a tendency toward hypochondria.
I saw two porn movies and never wanted to see any again, hate prurient sensational stuff.
Your next post great music on par with Shakespeare. You are probably right. Some of it by fiat and not the choice of large groups of people.
Seleek. Tom Seleek. That was his name. I loved that show whatever it was.
Hope I didn't bore you; our tastes are different. But I wouldn't fight you for the tv over any of it. Except maybe football and too much sports. Did some in school but preferred golf, a little tennis, biking, walking.
Enough, maybe we won't have a 23rd century. Or by then entertainment of new forms like interact with the screen or a hologram room or whatever environment you want to be in which might bring out the dark side in a lot of people.
And I do appreciate your "listening". It helped me remember a lot of things long-forgotten.
Apologies for not replying to your post last night. My internet connection went down after I wrote an opus on Lincoln & the Civil War in another thread.
I was a big Star Trek fan, albeit I came along 5 years after the show ended. I was already a fan by the time the Motion Picture came out in 1979, though oddly my parents wouldn’t take me to see the movie, so I had to make do with getting Happy Meals boxes from McDonalds until I was “old enough” to watch it. I’ve been disgusted with what they’ve done to it with the film reboots (which I call “Faux Trek” with whiny little teenage brats instead of grown men and women in the roles). The recent series on CBS All Access I have shunned altogether as being a Communist Social Justice Warrior abortion. Whatever IT is, that’s not Star Trek.
Ian Fleming ? Can’t go wrong there. I was a Bond fan, too. Not crazy about the last two guys to portray him, though. Connery was the best and I liked his one-off replacement, George Lazenby (the one where his new wife is murdered at the end) and Timothy Dalton (who replaced Roger Moore for two films).
MacGyver, watched that as a youngster in the ‘80s. They have a remake series at present on CBS, for which I have no interest. They can’t seem to come up with original ideas for shows anymore.
Tom Selleck, you’re probably thinking of Magnum PI, another CBS series from the ‘80s. They’re apparently also going to do a remake of it, which will be predictably bad. Selleck is on another series at present as a police chief in NYC, “Blue Bloods.” I don’t watch it, however.
“The Honeymooners” ? I can see what you mean about barren. Neither the lead couple or their friends had children, which was decidedly odd for such an era. Of course, it wasn’t supposed to be about realism exactly, it was just a set-up for a skit with a battling couple. Children would’ve gotten in the way as soon as the shouting started. I believe Gleason initially did the skit with a much older actress who was blacklisted (though I believe she later played his mother-in-law). It made more sense for them to be childless with the older actress (Pert Kelton).
In reality, there’s no way a fairly good looking Audrey Meadows would’ve lived in a hovel with one tiny bedroom (never seen) and just a kitchen with virtually no belongings before leaving Ralph Kramden. It was so meager that even Communist digs would’ve had more features than that.
“Bonanza, Charlie’s Angels, I Love Lucy in small doses” Yeah, that’s about how well they can be taken. I find it astonishing they were able to run some of those westerns for so long (Bonanza and Gunsmoke), with the latter going 20 years. You’d think they’d have long run out of storylines. “Angels” got so schlocky. The actresses weren’t very good, though, including initially Farrah Fawcett. If it wasn’t for someone taking a chance on her with playing a battered spouse in “The Burning Bed”, they’d not have discovered she did have acting ability under all the glam.
I watched nighttime soaps (”Dallas” to be specific) from when I was a kid. I never cared for daytime soaps until my former fiancée got me hooked on them back around 2000 or so. I still watch 3 of the remaining 4 on network tv, except for “Days of Our Lives”, which I lapsed on in late 2016. Once these go, there won’t be another soap on the networks again (excluding nighttime, of course).
I used to enjoy when they did made-for-tv films on the networks in the past or mini-series, but they really ceased doing those, likely due to costs and declining viewership. The worst-rated shows of 30 years ago got ratings top-rated shows would kill for today. I think one thing that held our culture together was shared viewership of these programs. After the age of cable, and after the ‘90s, viewership and preferences have become so fractured that you maybe run less than a 10% (or 5%) chance you’ll be able to relate to others on what they like to watch.
And we’ve seen, too, the collapse of the late night talk shows, which are now nothing but filthy hate and Communist propaganda from overpaid, unfunny imbeciles. Watch one of their shows and contrast it with Johnny Carson and you wonder what happened to our culture. It makes one want to cry.
Doctor shows, yes. I watched some on and off, but I gave up for awhile after “ER.” I thought it was too realistically nerve wracking and not enjoyable to watch. I preferred older shows like “Quincy.”
Pornos. They’re good for about 5 minutes tops and then they’ve pretty much achieved their goal. They run the soft-core stuff, which is just fake grunting and thrusting on the late night cable, but that’s really often too funny to be taken seriously.
Sports. Not really a sports person. Politics was more my sport. As soon as sports comes on the tv, I switch to something else or turn it off entirely. Probably watched way too much tv growing up and should’ve gone out and done more productive and healthier things.
Well, hopefully we’ll have a 23rd century, once we’ve eradicated the evil in our culture and especially those brainwashing our youths. That way we’ll get back to real education again and perhaps technological advances that will really lead us to the stars. Unfortunately, if we get really deep into developing technologies that give us a chance to hide away in our own little worlds, that will be very destructive overall. Although I can certainly understand that fantasy is preferable to reality for many. Probably why we should strive to make reality as “fantastic” as possible.
Anyway, no, you didn’t bore me, and if I was any help in jogging your memories, that’s great (well, so long as they’re more pleasant ones, of course). ;-D
Best wishes !