I want to watch 10-15 episodes of a series that was cancelled after it's 1st season with a myriad of unresolved plot lines.
I miss the days of Barnaby Jones, Mannix, Cannon, Rockford Files, Columbo, etc.. where each episode had a beginning, a middle and an end with closure and resolution.
You could miss 2 or 3 episodes and still enjoy the show.
Now, you have to watch every episode, and if you miss just one, you end up clueless and lost........
just like Obama.
I’m with you. I only really care for tv-series with episodes that offer self-contained storylines. Have zero interest in anything serialized. Remember an interesting academic discussion on this several decades ago, reflecting the differences between the tastes of men and women. Supposedly, women looked at ‘life’ as a long, winding, unresolved thread, and men looked at life as a series of singular, individual incidents. Supposedly this explained the female predilection for soap operas. But now serialization is the norm. Which could also conceivably reflect the feminization of the culture. Although I’m not so sure things are so much feminized any more as they are all-out faggoty.
Anyway, the only sci-fi series left that I’m awaiting to arrive on dvd is the old 1950s “Science Fiction Theater,” hosted by Truman Bradley. It’s more ‘science’ than sci-fi, but I still enjoy its dated vibe.
I liked The Time Tunnel. It was on Friday nights on ABC, in the 1966-67 TV season. It only had one season. I’ve never seen that series rerun.
>>>where each episode had a beginning, a middle and an end with closure and resolution.<<<
Amen, Bro! If I wanted soap operas, I’d tape the daytime shows.
Thank heavens there is ME-TV for those classics like the ones you mention. I’d like to see Barnaby Jones on ME.
Terra Nova is pretty much like you describe. The only underlying plot that you would have to watch all episodes to get is that “corporations = bad, because they want to exploit the abundance of resources in the past”.
Otherwise it’s a fun series in my opinion with many episodes just about surviving in a dinosaur ruled world.