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RE :”When I was a kid growing up in the 50s, if I wanted to go see a movie, my mother would check the back page of the Michigan Catholic. If it was rated “A” we could go. If it were a “B” then it was questionable. If it were a “C,” forget about it! In 2012, there aren’t too many flicks these days that would qualify for an “A.”

While we are strolling down memory lane : when I was a kid in early 70s era we only had 4 TV stations where I lived total boredom; but my grandmother lived in a big city (owned both a house and yard) and they got 7 VHF channels and a few more UHF channels and they were packed with old movies and TV shows from the 50s and 60s all day and night, Every Saturday they had three stations competing for Creature Feature, Chiller and (I cant remember the other one’s ) black and white horror and Sci-FI movies,
Sunday was Abbott and Costello and Bowery Boys movies. Marx Brothers, Cagney, Flynn, Rathbone as Sherlock Holms (every weekend too_), it was great,

Every-time an old movie I saw then turns up on TCM I DVR aand then enjoy it. Compare that with the total CRAP on Scy-FY channel. In the 50s and 60s they had to have a plot and act in a movie, there was no computer animation and underwear models who can barely read a dull script.

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I retired in Aug 1997 and returned to the USA. The first sitcom I watched when I got back was “Just Shoot Me.”. I watched about half of itnbeforenturning it off in disgust. Now, the only times that I see this rubbish is when they play a promo for them. My sisters/ brothers-in-law, intelligent people usually, LOVE some of this tripe.