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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Ulmus on June 01, 2011, 06:57:26 PM
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If you could bring back any TV show, what would it be?
I'd pick Jericho.
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Magnificent 7 or Lonesome Dove -The Outlaw Years
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Rockford Files, and just for Quaker and Haz, Miami Vice!
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Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus.
beat me to it!
my choice...
The Love Boat, XXX in 3D!
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beat me to it!
my choice...
The Love Boat, XXX in 3D!
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Missed by that much.
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Of more recent Shows, I miss "Over There", "Firefly" and "The Shield", although I'm starting to like "Justified" better so scratch the Shield.
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HBO's Rome, or Babylon 5
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Lost and The Walking Dead!
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Thank you guys for NOT saying Alf! :-X ;D
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I forgot a classic, "The Equalizer". I loved that show.
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How about Combat or Tour of Duty?
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Thank you guys for NOT saying Alf! :-X ;D
E X C U S E M E!
Actually, I was going to vote for, in no particular order,
China Beach
TW3
Carol Burnett Show
Dean Martin Show
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If you could bring back any TV show, what would it be?
I'd pick Jericho.
I'm in for that!
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Rockford Files, Northern Exposure and Trailer Park Boys.
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fire fly
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Only us old guys will remember it, but 2 of my favorites would be "Ripcord", and "The Man And The Challenge". I would sit glued to the TV when I was a kid and they were on. Bill T.
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Jericho.
I'm in for that!
Make that three of us. I loved that show till they started "killing off" the more expensive actors. When the second or third good character died I went looking on the net to see why. Budget cuts! STILL can't believe it got low rateings!!! >:(
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Do I get brownie points for Cowboys? ;)
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Hi;
1; The Fugitive
2; The Wonderfull World of Disney
3; Columbo
4; Married with Children ( The Bundy )
5; Laugh In
6; Hee Haw
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Given some of the posts in other threads, I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Baywatch" yet. Or "Charlie's Angels."
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Hi;
2; The Wonderfull World of Disney
I'd be hesitant to bring back Wonderful World of Disney. Thier new shows SUCK! The girls are Disney fanatics, including the wife, so Disney Channel is on from 3 to 8 every night. Some of the newer movies are OK but the "kids" shows being produced by Disney, and some of the corporate desicsions (Trying to copyright SEAL Team 6, are you serious?) would have Walt and Roy so hot they'd defrost.
I'd like to see Airwolf (upgraded of course) Tour of Duty (maybe a Mid-East version?)
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The X-Files
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Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
Mchale's Navy
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I have always thought that Firefly was cut below the knees too early.
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Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
Loved that show as a kid.
"Jim watches from the relative safety of the chopper while in the jungle below, Marlin wrestles violently for his life with the 18' python in the murky, waist-deep pool of water......"
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Dukes of Hazard
Walker Texas Ranger
Dad's Army
Black Adder ( 4th season style going though ww2, Vietnam to the current war effort )
Have gun Will Travel
Knight Rider
Bay Watch
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The Outer Limits: not the lame remake
Combat!
The Millionaire
Rawhide
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Many of the others have mirror my own, but also.
Rat Patrol
Yes firefly, loved that.
Kyle XY, for you sci fi fans.
Maverick.
Saving Grace
The others I have in mind are coming back next season.
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker
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Firefly, without a doubt. Though I don't know if it would be nearly as good without Wash or Shepherd Book.
Equalizer was good. I enjoyed Stingray as well. Both could have gone longer, or do well in a new iteration.
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Oh man, memory lane here. ;D Kolchak, was good, Black Adder goes 4th , Can't remember the actors names, but along with the Black Adder series the did one called " Mr. Minister" in the first episodes the dumb blonde guy is in Govt., but then he becomes the Prime Minister. LMAO ;D
If BillT wants to play the "Old Fart" game, how about "Sea Hunt" "Voyage to the Bottom of the sea" or "My Favorite Martian" ;D
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If BillT wants to play the "Old Fart" game, how about "Sea Hunt" "Voyage to the Bottom of the sea" or "My Favorite Martian" ;D
I'll see you and raise Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, and UFO.
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Firefly
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Kolchak for sure. Forerunner of the XFiles.
Bravest man on TV. He was absolutely afraid of everything, but he still found the courage to get the story.
Have the series on DVD
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Air Wolf
McHale's Navy
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Run for Your Life and the original Twilight Zone.
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la femme nikita
I don't know what it is about peta wilson, but she always makes me stand at attention.
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Rat Patrol
Yes, Yes.
Also, Combat.
Now to up the anti in the oldfarts game.
How about Topper, Hennessy and The Loretta Young Show
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Gunsmoke!
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Nakita +10 Peta Wilson was hot in "League of extraordinary Gentleman" as well.
"Time tunnel" was cool too
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I like the current Maggie Q version myself.
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Dragnet and Adam-12 would be good too
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The Unit....
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Gunsmoke!
Yes, and Bonanza.
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Human Target. Just heard it was on the chopping block. Bummer.
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Almost forgot...
Emergency!
"Rampart, Squad 5,1 pushing D5W..."
Trauma was a good remake-ish and didn't last long but was pretty good too.
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Dark Shadows ;D
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I'd be hesitant to bring back Wonderful World of Disney. Thier new shows SUCK! The girls are Disney fanatics, including the wife, so Disney Channel is on from 3 to 8 every night. Some of the newer movies are OK but the "kids" shows being produced by Disney, and some of the corporate desicsions (Trying to copyright SEAL Team 6, are you serious?) would have Walt and Roy so hot they'd defrost.
I'd like to see Airwolf (upgraded of course) Tour of Duty (maybe a Mid-East version?)
The original Wonderful World of Disney is what I would love to see again. I don't understand why the Disney Channels don't run them.
Airwolf is one I had forgotten, but is right up there.
Black Sheep Squadron
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Loved that show as a kid.
"Jim watches from the relative safety of the chopper while in the jungle below, Marlin wrestles violently for his life with the 18' python in the murky, waist-deep pool of water......"
Now there is a spin I would love to see!
Like Bill Cosby's version of the Lone Ranger and Tonto: Tonto - You go to town and check the saloon. You go to hell Kemo Sabe!
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Almost forgot...
Emergency!
"Rampart, Squad 5,1 pushing D5W..."
Trauma was a good remake-ish and didn't last long but was pretty good too.
All the Jack Webb series were pretty good TV.
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Now there is a spin I would love to see!
I was just poking fun at remembering this old episode......................... ;D ;D ;D
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The Sopranos
Mission Impossible
I, Spy
Beverly Hillbillies
Home Improvement
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
Have Gun Will Travel
Sky King
Laugh-In
Hee Haw
I'm sure more will come to mind as soon as I hit "Post". ;D
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The original Hawaii 5O.
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MST3K.
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ADAM 12.
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X FILES
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1. Star Trek (The Original Series)
2. X-Files
3. Kolchak: The Night Stalker
4. Emergency!
Yog
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Get Smart and Gilligan's Island.
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F Troop
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Crusader Rabbit pointed it out on the James Arness thread, but I'll talk about it here:
I grew up in the 60's and 70's when you could watch tv without the sex and language we have now. My parents had very little they had to be concerned about when we all sat down to watch tv. With our kids in the 80's and 90's there were more shows that we turned off than we continued to watch.
I remember in the 70's when everyone was ranting about sitcoms and other programs not being "realistic." "They solve every issue in 30 minutes, and that isn't real life." #1. That 30 minutes covered several days, and #2. It is entertainment with a moral message in it! I was at a church where they had a Sunday School program that used the old Andy Griffith shows for the discussion. How many of today's shows could you use in a family setting much less Sunday School. I can think of several 60's and 70's, and even a few 80's shows that could be used.
I guess this is why I like our DishTV. When I want to watch tv I can see the different History and Discovery Channels, Military, and of course the Outdoor Channel. But when I want good old entertainment there are the old shows we are remembering here and the movies on the Encore Channels.
Ok, I am now officially an old fuddy duddy :-\
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We did not spend as much time watching television back then m58 cause we were outside using our imaginations to entertain or hunting and fishing.
Kids today always have to be entertained. It's a shame.
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BRING BACK REAL CARTOONS ON SATURDAY MORNING !!!! (Yes I'm yelling ;D )
But then I guess Bugs Bunny wasn't "PC"
Watch to the end ;D
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We did not spend as much time watching television back then m58 cause we were outside using our imaginations to entertain or hunting and fishing.
Kids today always have to be entertained. It's a shame.
Also true!
Try and explain to a kid that instead of sitting in front of a computer or tv with a laser thingy that they can come out and shot real guns. I had a kid in Firearm Safety and Hunters Education explain how much fun it is to sit at his computer and "hunt deer" and some day he is going to do the hunt where there is a gun on a stand in Texas that you control from you home computer and shoot deer and hogs ??? He looked at me like I had grown a third eye when I told him he could go outside and shoot a goose, duck, rabbit, deer, coyote or fox for less money than he had rapped up in his electronic stuff.
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BRING BACK REAL CARTOONS ON SATURDAY MORNING !!!! (Yes I'm yelling ;D )
But then I guess Bugs Bunny wasn't "PC"
Watch to the end ;D
Egads, my favorite cartoons of all time.....................................How could we have went this far without bringing up Bugs Bunny?? ;D
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Egads, my favorite cartoons of all time.....................................How could we have went this far without bringing up Bugs Bunny?? ;D
becuase they still play the reruns. I have to say the old cartoons are 10 million times better then the new ones.
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becuase they still play the reruns. I have to say the old cartoons are 10 million times better then the new ones.
The only ones I've seen on TV are edited for 'violence' and PC content......plum butchered....which is why I bought the DVD's.
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Hill Street Blues
NYPD
Combat
Tour of Duty
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From the Arness thread:
Yancy Derringer, Jim Bowie, Bat Masterson
Yes.....SOMEONE ELSE REMEMBERS YANCY! Loved that show. Remember Pahoo?
I spent my childhood in what was Burke County, GA and some historians have Bowie spending some childhood there as well, so I always felt an affinity towards Mr Bowie. I figured I possibly stomped some of the same ground and parts of the Ogeechee River as he did.
And who couldn't resist the man with the cane and derby hat. The James Bond of the west. "Hi, my name is Masterson. Bat Masterson."
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I'm with Tom, bring back Bugs! 8)
And just for guilty pleasure. Tremors the series.
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Remember these classic's ? ;D
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Remember these classic's ? ;D
Ahh yes...Rocky and Bullwinkle and friends.....
Much more adult than you see at first glance....and not in any kind of innuendo or off color type of script...just that the wording and situations were more adult..some political jabs in three too. Maybe sort of like Alice In Wonderland.
For example one of the items in the show was the Kerwood Derby.... A hat that turned someone who put it on mediocre. I heard they were sued for it's use by the somewhat uninspiring actor, Durwood Kirby
The episodes were full of hidden humor that most kids would miss.
Had a few years of episodes on tape once.
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I used to think Natasha was kind of a hottie, ;D Course, I was about 4 y/o at the time ;D
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Speaking of cartoons.
Clyde Crashcup. My hero.