Mutual admiration society going on here,I'm with you on MacGuyver! I couldn't stand that show! I thought it was akin to watching paint dry!
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I in turn would like to add the very underrated Father Dowling Mysteries, which is long overdue for a DVD release.
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quote:Originally posted by Chris the CandyFanMan: I in turn would like to add the very underrated Father Dowling Mysteries, which is long overdue for a DVD release.
Candy,
I had forgotten this one. Good choice!
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While on the subject of classic TV shows, will there be such a feature on the site soon?? that would be sweet! Why only cover movies?!
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Growing Pains Family Ties Wonder years Who's the Boss? Charles in Charge to name a few...80's shows were so funny, they just don't make them like they used too!
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aTomiK's list was quite comprehensive but here's my all-star list (in alphabetical order):
A Different World Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Charlie's Angels Cosby Show Crazy Like A Fox (does anybody remeber?) Dallas Dempsey & Makepeace Family Ties Golden Girls Hart To Hart Heart of the City (with Christina Applegate) Highway to Heaven Hollywood Beat (where can be found the great theme song sung by Natalie Cole?) Houston Knights Kate & Allie Knight Rider Love Boat MacGyver Married With Children Matt Houston (any fan site dedicated to this trouble-solver?) Miami Vice Moonlighting Robin of Sherwood (starring Michael Praed) Sapphire & Steel Spenser: For Hire Street Hawk The Equalizer Whiz Kids Wonder Years
These shows were aired in Finland. Who ten year old watched kid shows... naah, not me!
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quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: The Tripods was also a good one from UK (1984-85).
That looks cool aTomiK! I would have watched that show
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80s tv shows would have to be A-Team, Married with Children, Airwolf, Battlestar Galactica, V these were the top shows for me. I remember these used to run over here in UK on saturdays around 5pm always made time to watch these shows. We always went for apple scrumping before these shows came on!
"I ain't getting on no plane" (sigh) brings back such fond memories of better days.
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Hey WolfmansGotNards i still remember the theme tune for out of this world lol, havent seen that since it first aired back here in UK in 88-89 i think he he he
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The Golden Girls The Wonder Years Facts of Life Cheers The Cosby Show Double Dare Tales From the Crypt Family Ties Full House Family Matters Growing Pains Hart to Hart 3,2,1 Contact Voyagers Empty Nest Square One Murder, She Wrote Perfect Strangers In Search Of... Amazing Stories Cagney & Lacey Three's Company Thundercats Smurfs Father Dowling Mysteries
I also used to love the ABC Weekend Special with O.G. Readmore especially "Zack and the Magic Factory", "The Red Room Riddle" (scared the CRAP out of me when I was a kid), "The Haunted Mansion Mystery", "Cougar" and "The Puppy's Great Adventure".
Anyone remember the old series "Big Blue Marble"? Well, if you do, I adored the episode entitled "The Witch's Sister".
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I'm shocked, How can noone mention the joys of T.J. Hooker, OK it was corny and Dated when it was on the TV, But you have to admit It was Great fun to watch, if not a little predictable.
so my list in no order.
T.J. Hooker Battlestar Galactica Dukes of Hazzard CHiPs Airwolf StreetHawk Tour of Duty MoonLighting FallGuy Married with Children A Team Dempsey and Makepeace
And if anyone from Sony Home entertainment is watching. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE relese the other Seasons of T.J. Hooker. Its Killing me only having seasons 1 and 2 on DVD, I need to complete the set. P.S. Same goes for CHiPs
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Watching A Very Peculiar Practice Private Schulz Metal Mickey
Watching actually ran for seven series, and was a sitcom about people whose hobby was sitting in a pub, watching strangers and inventing whole life stories about them - the more outrageous the better.
A Very Peculiar Practice was a very dark sitcom set in an 80s University Medical Practice, with very extreme characterizations.
Private Schulz was a six-part comedy drama mini-series about the German Espionage effort duing WW2, focusing on an ex-con who effectively headed up the effort to forge millions of UK currency and break our economy.
And Metal Mickey was just cool - all about a robot which somehow came to life.....
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I could'nt sleep last night so I was surfing and came across Threes company on TV land. I was laughing so much I woke my girlfriend up. Don Knotts is harlious and I love the slapstick of John Ritter. =We will miss ya John and Don=
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Being a teen in the 80's, naturally my TV diet consisted of one part Glen A. Larson productions to one part Stephen J. Cannell productions, with a weekly dose of Hill Street Blues for added moral fibre.
To throw in a couple that haven't been mentioned so far: BJ & The Bear and Hardcastle & McCormick (two shows that I remember enjoying immensely at the time, but that have since become so blurred in my memory that only after a recent visit to IMDb did I realise that I'd got the two confused with each other), Simon & Simon, and Hunter (that rare creature, an 80's show without an "&" in the title).
Also a special mention to Moonlighting for teaching me, long before The X Files, that forging a long-term relationship with a television programme would only lead to a heartbreaking collapse in quality and lingering sense of betrayal in the long run.
As for guilty pleasures, I'd have to say Midnight Caller, with Gary Cole as Jack "Night Hawk" Killian, the graveyard shift radio host who could still find the time for some sleuthing. Despite the fact that every episode seemed to be exactly the same - Jack would inevitably solve a crime from the 40's or 50's, under the watchful eye of his foxy female boss, before dispensing a hard-won life lesson to his listeners in the final scene ("Goodnight America...wherever you are") - it still managed to keep me hooked for a couple of years.
And later on in the decade, there was always Tour of Duty...and don't get me started on Quantum Leap...
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The Wonder Years The Cosby Show That's Incredible Press your Luck Punky Brewster Out of the World The Adventures of Pete & Pete You Can't Do that on Television Knight Rider Perfect Strangers Bosom Buddies ALF Tales from the Crypt The Simpsons Quantum Leap V Greatest American Hero Alien Nation
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