mine: The Andy Griffith Show
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Q-Trips — 11 years ago(December 15, 2014 09:36 AM)
Bonanza was the show my parent always watched, espeically my father. But, I used to watch the reruns of Star Trek, The Munsters, and Get Smart.
You beep with the wrong Marine! - Col. Jessep,
A Few Good Men. -
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Q-Trips — 11 years ago(December 22, 2014 09:02 AM)
Yeah, I liked that show as well. I always tried to whistle that themes song, but could never get it right
For some reason, I used to whistle the Gomer Pyle theme as well, but couldn't that one either..
You beep with the wrong Marine! - Col. Jessep,
A Few Good Men. -
amyghost — 11 years ago(December 21, 2014 07:17 AM)
Nearly all of the spy shows, from the ridiculous (
Man from UNCLE
,
Wild Wild West
) to the sublime (
Secret Agent
,
The Prisoner
). The world was just a more fun place back when these types of shows had their cachet. -
darryl-tahirali — 10 years ago(June 10, 2015 06:59 PM)
I found what was then called a "midget" running around in a bowler hat and giving orders more ridiculous than serious. - MrMime2015
Don't insult Number One like that.
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.D. Adams -
howard.schumann — 11 years ago(February 27, 2015 11:04 PM)
It's a Man's World
1962-63 directed by Peter Tewksbury, Hal Todd and Lamont Johnson was my favorite TV show of the 60s and maybe ever. Four struggling young men living unsupervised on a houseboat called The Elephant in Ohio does not sound like the ingredients for a successful television series. If you judge success by ratings and longevity, the series was a failure. It lasted only one year and 19 episodes, but when it was canceled by NBC, the cancellation caused the biggest protest that TV land had ever seen.
According to writer Kerry Prechter, NBC received thousands of letters protesting the show's cancellation. Fans sent elegiac poems and accused the network of implicit censorship. One writer asked the NBC executive Walter D. Scott, ''When a sprig of green appears in the wasteland, must you run out and chop it down?
Unlike the typical TV idealized teen drama about upper-class twits living in the suburbs, it was a comedy/drama that was far ahead of its time in dealing with real issues in the transition from adolescence to adulthood in an honest and intelligent way, including those of adolescent sexuality.
James Brooks, director of Terms of Endearment, said that the show ''felt utterly real, and you believed every minute of it, it had a sense of purpose, and you get how good the characters are. It's as though Tewksbury gave everybody a license to have integrity.'' ''I think, he said, it was singular, something that was there and was gone. It was so much a personal way of seeing life that no one else could have repeated it.''
"The real does not die, the unreal never lived" - Nisargadatta
