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To: Supernatural

LOL the only old series I ever saw was Get Smart and classic Star Trek.


1,187 posted on 03/19/2006 7:57:25 PM PST by Paul_Denton (The U.N. Building. What a joke! They turned it into low rent housing. It's a dump.)
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To: Paul_Denton

I'm reaching way back here...you have to be old like me to remember this stuff. LOL


1,188 posted on 03/19/2006 7:58:39 PM PST by Supernatural (When they come a wull staun ma groon, Staun ma groon al nae be afraid)
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To: Paul_Denton

I LOVE Get Smart. I watched the reruns over and over and over.


1,190 posted on 03/19/2006 8:00:34 PM PST by Maximus_Ridiculousness
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THE LIFE OF RILEY

The Life of Riley, an early U.S. television sitcom filmed in Hollywood, was broadcast on NBC from 1949-50 and from 1953-58. Although the program had a loyal audience from its years on network radio (1943-1951), its first season on television, in which Jackie Gleason was cast in the title role, failed to generate high ratings. William Bendix portrayed Riley in the second version and the series was much more successful, among the top twenty-five most watched programs from 1953-55. Syndicated in 1977, the series was telecast on many cable systems.

THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET

The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet was one of the most enduring family-based situation comedies in American television. Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and their sons David and Ricky (16 and 13 respectively at the time of the program's debut) portrayed fictional versions of themselves on the program. The Nelsons embodied wholesome, "normal" American existence so conscientiously (if blandly) that their name epitomized upright, happy family life for decades.

FATHER KNOWS BEST

Father Knows Best, a family comedy of the 1950s, is perhaps more important for what it has come to represent than for what it actually was. In essence, the series was one of a slew of middle-class family sitcoms in which moms were moms, kids were kids, and fathers knew best. Today, many critics view it, at best, as high camp fun, and, at worst, as part of what critic David Marc once labeled the "Aryan melodramas" of the 1950s and 1960s.

Shows like this would never make it on TV nowadays. Too wholesome (and corny).


1,192 posted on 03/19/2006 8:02:10 PM PST by Supernatural (When they come a wull staun ma groon, Staun ma groon al nae be afraid)
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To: Paul_Denton; Supernatural; Maximus_Ridiculousness
Steve Carell will be playing Maxwell Smart:


1,196 posted on 03/19/2006 8:14:38 PM PST by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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