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Your Favorite Military TV series? - VANITY

Posted on 12/02/2005 8:48:37 AM PST by FlatLandBeer

Ok this is a FRIDAY VANITY post.... What were some of your favorite Military oriented tv shows?

Go back as far as you like.

Mine are: Steve Canyon, 12 O'clock High, Rat Patrol & Combat.

Comedys are ok too.... MASH, Phil Silvers, McHale's Navy...


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KEYWORDS: ftroop; stevecanyon
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To: Armigerous

:grin: Maybe THAT's why he's not turning up in my google searches...


81 posted on 12/02/2005 9:15:45 AM PST by Clioman
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To: FlatLandBeer
Rat Patrol/Black Sheep

Victory at Sea (Great music)

82 posted on 12/02/2005 9:16:25 AM PST by Doomonyou (FR doesn't suffer fools lightly.)
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To: FlatLandBeer
Combat and 12 O'Clock High. My late Dad despised shows that belittled the Germans, who had managed to place shrapnel in his buttocks and to whom he made every effort to return the favor.

And, of course, Victory At Sea is in a class all by its own.

83 posted on 12/02/2005 9:16:47 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: shield
BAND OF BROTHERS

Amen to that one. I ought to have the episodes memorized by now, but I still watch every dang chance I get.

84 posted on 12/02/2005 9:17:18 AM PST by Dunstan McShane
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To: CoolChange

No, Kim Delaney was Tour of Duty. Dana Delaney was China Beach.


85 posted on 12/02/2005 9:17:59 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: FlatLandBeer

Not the all-time best, but worth mentioning: "Wackiest Ship in the Army" based on the movie with the same name. Seems like it was only on for a year and in the late '60's.


86 posted on 12/02/2005 9:18:40 AM PST by StayAt HomeMother
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To: CoolChange

Good show. I just watched the DVDs recently and it is grittier than China Beach, a decent show in its own right. The only problem is that due to the cost of music licensing, the theme and all of the rest of the period music has been replaced with a sort of generic '60's soundtrack.


87 posted on 12/02/2005 9:19:03 AM PST by mak5
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To: zzen01
MASH was a bunch of 60's Anti-War/Viet Nam BS! IT SUCKED!

You're right. MASH glorified the idea of 35 year old men acting like 17 year old boys in eternal rebellion against parents.

It's hard to come up with a less attractive image. Military men as whiny liberal emotionally immature 17 year old (on the inside), passively aggressively taking on "daddy" (the establishment) has got to be a bottom.

MASH worked at the time because the "in group" was young, and hated the military. That's not the case now. Boomers are older and they don't hate the military. And young men? They don't hate the military either. (Note to Hollywood writers: find your inner adult -- look at a calendar - it's 2005, not 1970)

88 posted on 12/02/2005 9:19:19 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: Dunstan McShane

I agree that Band of Brothers is the best mini-series ever. But I thought this was about weekly TV series.


89 posted on 12/02/2005 9:19:33 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: A.A. Cunningham

A.A.,

Spent a couple days at China Beach. Never saw anything like her. In fact, I don't remember being able to see anything at all.


90 posted on 12/02/2005 9:19:34 AM PST by sargunner
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To: Clioman

That's what first got me interested in the Marines..


91 posted on 12/02/2005 9:19:54 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: dfwgator

Oops. The names are too close.


92 posted on 12/02/2005 9:20:08 AM PST by CoolChange
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To: FlatLandBeer
Anything with R. Lee Ermey in it!


93 posted on 12/02/2005 9:20:31 AM PST by COBOL2Java (The Katrina Media never gets anything right, so why should I believe them?)
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To: Billthedrill

Remember "the Silent Service?"


94 posted on 12/02/2005 9:22:14 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: GaltMeister
LOL! You and I are of the same mind! See my Post #93!
95 posted on 12/02/2005 9:22:52 AM PST by COBOL2Java (The Katrina Media never gets anything right, so why should I believe them?)
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To: dfwgator

We really liked Tour of Duty but my all time favorite are the old Baa Baa Black Sheep. When I was young I really had a thing for Robert Conrad until I found out I was as tall as him when I was 8.


96 posted on 12/02/2005 9:22:54 AM PST by CoolChange
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To: FlatLandBeer

Band of Brothers and Ba ba Blacksheep


97 posted on 12/02/2005 9:22:59 AM PST by TheGunny
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To: Dark Skies
...I think it was Jon Landis

Point taken. I just wish it never happened! Childhood Heroes are not easy to come by.

98 posted on 12/02/2005 9:23:18 AM PST by Calusa (Say Nick, was ya ever stung by a dead bee?)
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To: FlatLandBeer

Band of Brothers and Ba ba Blacksheep


99 posted on 12/02/2005 9:23:38 AM PST by TheGunny
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To: FlatLandBeer

Hogan's Heroes.


100 posted on 12/02/2005 9:24:35 AM PST by lawgirl (Y'all don't wanna hear me, ya just wanna dance....)
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