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.
When a new idea appears, and it becomes successful, then we see too many clones soon after. Like the westerns of old. Bonanza beget Big Valley. 77 Sunset Strip beget Hawaiian Eye, Bourbon Street Beat, and possibly many more.
Remember The Mod Squad? The black, the woman, and the white male. All young unknowns when found to star in the show. Link is still seen from time to time still, Peggy Lipton was last seen in Twin Peaks and the young white male, older now, has a name I can’t recall and at the moment too lazy to look it up :-)) Michael? Just a guess.
One oldie which has yet to be mentioned is ‘Adventures in Paradise’ Do any remember that series? Adam Troy portrayed by Gardner McKay. And for a short time we were shown ‘Bus Stop’ which IIRC was with Marilyn Maxwell. Then TPTB had imagination and shows were more than just spit out chewing gum, re-chewed until it lost its flavor.