Posted on 03/28/2016 8:23:05 PM PDT by V K Lee
Just thinking about the I Love Lucy episode where Lucy worked on an assembly line in a candy factory brings a smile to my face. Remembering the family spirit and wholesomeness of other shows like Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver, and The Donna Reed Show still warms my heart. These classic television programs made us laugh and cry without the sex and violence that is so commonly associated with television today. No wonder the interest in TV nostalgia is growing by leaps and bounds. Many of us enjoy revisiting the quality programs from the 50's, 60's, and 70's.
Nostalgia Popularity The growing number of rebroadcasts of classic television shows confirms our longing for those wistful days of yesterday. The Internet adds to our enjoyment with a wealth of Web sites devoted to television nostalgia.
Whether you are a baby boomer or are old enough to be the parent of a boomer, looking back brings vivid memories of the earlier days of television. Parents of boomers will remember bringing home their first TV. Baby boomers, the first generation to be raised in front of the TV, will remember many of the greatest shows ever produced.
Even with the plethora of reruns, sometimes simply watching classic TV isn't enough. The Internet steps in with entertaining information and interesting television production stories. If watching reruns on the tube only whets your appetite for more classic TV, you can find details, antidotes, and statistics about your favorite old programs as the Web and the Tube partner up.
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When writing my cousin, who was stationed in Briton at the time, and telling him we could now see BBC Monty Python on TV he thought that was greater than the invention of sliced Bread :-)) When it first appeared in US guess I was in Jr or Sr High school and certainly didn’t understand the British humor. As I grew older appreciated it more and still watch their movies when they might be found. DH always liked ‘The League of Gentlemen - which was certainly not my taste in good TV watching. Nor was the Graham Norton Show....which I believe lasted only a short time. Best best MP show was the Dead Parrot and best Fawlty Towers show as The Rat as a pet who had escaped. Now those were funny that could be understood. :-))
I grew up as a kid in that era. I think just about every adult back then had what they would call today a “drinking problem.”
And America seemed a MUCH happier place. :)
I agree - and lately that ‘drinking problem’ might seem to be an ideal solution. Trouble being, the drink is now too dam high ;-)) Now ‘folks’ don’t drink in the fear of being pulled over if they get behind the wheel -smart ‘folks’ that is. Don’t know exactly how many it takes to be imbibed, but those able to think do not wish to risk it. The local police must find their coffers shrinking due to the fact there are fewer DUI or DWI. LOL now they set out cones, in unknown patterns to direct traffic around an accident. And then they have you pull over and ask can’t you read my hand signs. And after the abuse, you go to the airport to take off for the holiday and a radical jihadist Muslim blows up the terminal taking you with it.
And to think as youngsters we were afraid of nothing. Even riding our bikes with no helmet and not even using the handle bars. How did any of us ever survive?
It’s no wonder we reminisce about the good ol’ days.
We recently got the H&I Channel on uVerse (actually channel 5.2 broadcast).
We’ve gotten hooked on NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues. Other shows, Have Gun Will Travel, Black SheepSquadron.
Most of the new shows are so predictable as to characters it’s ridiculous.
One each from the 3 major races, one gay, an interracial love affair and if a police type show, a black female boss and a strange female lab worker.
It seemed that after an episode of Marcus Welby, I felt like I had the disease or problem. The show was very good.
My DVD collection is ME-TV on steroids. Most modern shows I really don’t care for. Agent Carter is the one exception.
I love ME (TV)!
I love ME ......I think your kinda special, too.
Glad someone does.
You don’t have to try and find an existing cable tv channel to get many of these old shows. You can get many or most of them on the internet. Just get an HDMI cable and hook it up to your laptop or mobile device. Make sure you find the right input station on your tv. Usually it’s labeled for HDMI.
I show the Lucy candy clip in all my business history classes when I discuss Frederick Taylor’s time and motion studies.
I was very young when I watched Father Knows Best but I still remember Bud always being punished when he did something wrong. Unlike today’s parents the punishment was not revoked when one of the parents felt sorry for him. If he was told he couldn’t go to the dance, he didn’t go. There were no last minute reprieves so that the show had a happy ending.
Yes, I have a good memory, plus it is a big hint when the credits roll and a character listed wasn’t even in the chopped episode. One of the most frustrating is Perry Mason because nearly every scene is relevant to the crime or the investigation and trial. They even cut Johnny Carson to fit in nore commercials and also for content that is no longer politically correct.
Good classic TV free over the air broadcasts here near San Diego.
Since I’m usually awake, I watch two episodes of Cheers each morning on Hallmark at 3am Central. They always give me laughs before hitting the pillow and give me relief from all of the political mudslinging now occurring on FR.
It is always intriguing to see a familiar face, knowing that we know that face, just not placing a name to that face or where we remember seeing. The credits, after such a show, are ALWAYS watched in order to see a name. These words run across the screen so fast that if you were to blink you might even miss them. The entire industry has subcombed to the drugs speed and money. The TeeVee industry found they had to add new stations in order to keep the bucks and the government propaganda fed to its viewers. Notice that the majority of stations in reality exist to show advertisements for ‘health care’,mortgage assistance, the loan racket and countless other government hand out programs. They must continue to build their base of those who are ‘needy’ and need help to live the life they might feel they are due.
What becomes of the original film after being cut and pasted. Do they eventually cut the film so often that there is no film left to cut. Like a story from childhood a poor little girl had a hole in her skirt so being a bright child she cut the hole out of her skirt to mend it.
PS Perry Mason is outright the most trusted lawyer in America. He was the last of ‘good lawyers’ JMHO. From Rear Window to Perry Mason and Godzilla sandwiched in.
Not until they at last bring back the ‘Amos and Andy’ show will this country ever be whole. The censor PC police have had that show under wraps for so long a time most Americans haven’t a clue as to what exactly was aired.
We were fortunate to see at least one episode within the last month. Kingfish, Amos and Andy. Can’t recall where it was seen on the tube. It was an OK episode but not one that should cause riots. In the future will Jack Benny’s side kick, Rochester, be the reason Benny’s episodes will be jerked off the air and placed in a vault? And why not pull all Charlie Chan flicks- burn them as they would books. Charlie was a wonderful series of films, just as Sherlock Holmes, and both enjoyed immensely.
here come the Judge’ Sammy Davis Junior
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Wasn’t Sammy. It was a black comedian whose name I can’t recall right now.
Charlie Chan and Number One Son have already been pulled. I find some old VHS tapes of Charlie Chan at the local Thrift Store.
Say, you sound like just the guy my DH would love to sit with and ask numerous questions in order to get ‘up to speed’ as to how to make it work. At the moment he is attempting to bring two sites on the net (which we are able to view on our computers) over to the TV using Roku or just the Smart TV. There are two movie sites we would love to see in the comfort of an easy chair. It is all a learning process and like any other it takes time and repetition to develop the automatic skills and answer the hurdle problems.
Happy trails! :-))
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