Posted on 10/24/2023 11:36:26 AM PDT by DallasBiff
My three favorites, "I Love Lucy". "Star Trek", and "Lost in Space", with a special mention to "Green Acres"
‘Sing Along With Mitch!’
Loved it. I still know all the words to those songs from the early 20th Century thanks to Mitch.
I once explained to a college professor that Green acres was one of the best examples of the theater of the absurd and a great show. Needless to say, he ridiculed me and evidently thought I was stupid.
True True
Monty Python
Oh heck yeah, forgot about that one.
You know I made it through 2 episodes of Trailer Park Boys until I realized it was not a reality show.
It was the episode when one of the guys missed his friends in jail and wanted to be able to spend the holidays with them so he decided to openly sell marijuana in the middle of church services so that he could get arrested and spend Christmas with his inmate friends. It was at this point I realized it was not real.
Were you ahead of your time? The deconstructionists would have a ball with that show.
And Fawlty Towers
And the first three seasons of “Jeeves and Wooster”, which I forgot to include on my original list.
Many professors I have known were brilliant in one subject, but idiots in everything else. I mean REALLY idiots.
It’s like the first season of Baa Baa Black Sheep, it was great.
Then NBC decided they needed to compete with Charlie’s Angels and bring in “Pappy’s Lambs”.
That was the beauty of it. What ridiculous story were the writers going to throw at us next week. It’s so hokey, it’s fun.
The best episode was season 3's "Cry in the Ruins." The Americans and Germans are fighting in a small town when a grieving mother runs into the middle calling for help to rescue her child from fallen debris. The two sides call a truce, set their weapons down, and work together to find the missing child.
I didn't care for the last season, however. It was in color and broke the imagery for me, having been used to black and white depictions of WWII. Color made the show look like it was being shot on a backlot set, which it was.
-PJ
I posted MASTERPIECE THEATRE, which I had hoped would take care of ALL of the series, from it’s start. With but two or perhaps three series ( until recently, since it has lately gone waaaaaaay downhill ), has been outstanding! Ditto re MYSTERY as well.
Mad Men, for the first few years before they got into the late 60s.
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yes kolchak: the night stalker
second only to monty pythons flying circus
third... get smart.
Dick Van Dyke Show, Laugh-In
The Unknown Comic
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