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What were the best TV shows?
The Past | 10/24/23

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"


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: boomer; entertainment; nostalgia; tv; vanity; woke
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To: dfwgator

My high school history teacher hated the book Connections.

I carried it most ever day to class.


201 posted on 10/24/2023 2:44:51 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: nagant

Remington Steele is also a top favorite.


202 posted on 10/24/2023 2:46:41 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: wally_bert

Sanford and Son!!!


203 posted on 10/24/2023 2:47:14 PM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (You may not take an interest in politics, but politics takes an interest in you "Pericles" )
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To: DallasBiff

Joanie Loves Chachi


204 posted on 10/24/2023 2:49:55 PM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: DallasBiff

Twilight Zone...

Montgomery and Bronson comes 2 mind.....heehee.


205 posted on 10/24/2023 2:50:49 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids

Barney Miller.


206 posted on 10/24/2023 2:51:50 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: DallasBiff

Night Court


207 posted on 10/24/2023 2:53:18 PM PDT by dforest
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To: OLDCU

Dick Van Dyke Show was absolutely priceless

I read that they didn’t even script Morey Amsterdam. They just wrote Buddy tells jokes, 50 seconds.

I knew a guy who was a Vaudeville comedian way back in the day. Every time we spoke I thought of Morey Amsterdam.


208 posted on 10/24/2023 2:53:29 PM PDT by cyclotic (It's a great time to live in America. It's like the collapse of the Roman Empire except with wi-fi)
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Elizabeth and Braniff Airline stewardesses opened my little 7 year old mind...


209 posted on 10/24/2023 2:54:18 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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To: DallasBiff

LOST


210 posted on 10/24/2023 2:54:22 PM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Rockford Files! You have the winner.


211 posted on 10/24/2023 2:55:24 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf

Week in week out good old fashion TV.


212 posted on 10/24/2023 2:58:05 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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I influence the wife to wear go-go boots on occasion...


213 posted on 10/24/2023 2:58:13 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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To: DallasBiff

CI-5 The Professionals 1st version.

Danger Man

Prisoner

Naked City

Sweating Bullets aka Tropical Heat


214 posted on 10/24/2023 2:58:30 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: DallasBiff
My favorites scripted fictional shows: The Rockford Files; Kolchak, the Nightstalker; X-Files; Supernatural; Frasier; The Sopranos; Mad Men; The Walking Dead; Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, its spinoff; Justified and spinoff Justified: City Primeval; Game of Thrones; and Yellowstone.

These shows all feature strong narratives and often (but not always) traditional subject matter and themes; excellent writing and acting; main characters who are both admirable and flawed in varying degrees; and with solid supporting characters in family, work relationships, as adversaries, and as friends.

Moreover, these shows take place in and keep true to a well-imagined world that puts characters in situations that are different to but still recognizable in ordinary experience. Notably, all of these shows had show creators with large degrees of creative control. And conservative ideas and themes sometimes pop out.

215 posted on 10/24/2023 3:05:15 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: dfwgator

Mad Men was a great recreation of the early ‘60s, but it tried too hard to be politically correct and make pat little feminist lessons.

Also, I don’t think the showrunner/creator had much of an overall plot vision or exercised much control over his underlings.


216 posted on 10/24/2023 3:17:56 PM PDT by x
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To: Rockingham

Justified was really good. Loved that bad guy who looked like a young Jack Nicholson.

Tried to explain to wife that Hollywood likes return/re-establish doppelganger. She changed her thinking when I said who does” Decaprio” remind you of?

Watch an old movie. You will find him.


217 posted on 10/24/2023 3:19:39 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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To: equaviator

Super Chicken was the best.


218 posted on 10/24/2023 3:34:42 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant ("Our hearts are restless, Oh Lord, until they rest in thee"- St. Augustine)
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To: equaviator

Super Chicken was the best.


219 posted on 10/24/2023 3:34:43 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant ("Our hearts are restless, Oh Lord, until they rest in thee"- St. Augustine)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
My dad, a WWII vet liked Combat

I have memories of watching Combat with my WWII vet Dad.

220 posted on 10/24/2023 3:36:52 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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