Classic vs. current tv.
POSTED BY: OPPYH
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 22:17
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Quote:OMG, let's plat catch up:
Originally posted by OPPYH:
Buck Rogers. Cheesy yes, but some episodes were fairly decent...plus Erin Grey:
The laughing Chrisisall
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It does make wish for a western series to make the airwaves, but they don't get anyone to view them. Westerns can't get off the ground in the last couple of decades. I have been watching Gunsmoke and it still holds up. When they added Festus and he would get Doc all flustered with his folktales that just raised the bar on that show. Matt and Kitty would just roll their eyes when Festus and Doc got into a lather.
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:A friend in Hollywood found a slew of 'em on DVD from the UK, he sent me The Love War & Men Of The Dragon. Fun to see again, but whoah, the cheese surely turned on those!
Originally posted by OPPYH:
Now if we can have a lot of those really cool made for tv movies that were so prominent in the 70's release on dvd.
Remember "Outrage" with Robert Culp? The ABC Movie of the Week's answer to "Walking Tall"?
Or "The Stranger Within", the one where Barbara Eden got knocked-up by a sperm from an alien that got 'transported' into her & she had to put salt on ALL her food?
Heh, The Night Stalker & Duel were Shakespeare when you think about it....
Outrage sounds very familiar. I'd love to see it.
Some movies of the week were laughable at best(even back then).
Some were great though. Still remember the girl that survives a plane crash in the Amazon. For the life of me I can't remember the name or actress, but it was riveting. And based on a true story.
Night Stalker, and Duel were gold. I remember both fondly.
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Chrisisall, Traveler,
You guys remember this show?
One of my all time favorite shows period. Leonard Nimoy, and a Moog synthesizer are a recipe for greatness.
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I agree with you, TV should allow viewers to escape their environment otherwise what would be the point of watching something that might happen outside your front door?
As someone who grew up in the '60s when sci-fi was arguably more fascinating because it simply had no comparison with the real world in which we all lived then.
Sci Fi today has a more difficult task to awe us because technology has allowed the brilliant imagination of writer's such as Joss Whedon, to be better illustrated on a TV screen. As a result we are a more sophisticated audience than the audiences of the '60s, and possess higher expectations. This includes the use of our own imaginations to consider alternatives in the development of plots and characters.
For me one of the most irritating disappointments is the cancellation of a TV series with promise, such as Firefly. In the '60s that was less likely to have happened because people were willing to take more risks with anything new. If they hadn't been Star Trek would not be as popular as it is today.
I now write freelance for the Suite101 online mag, with an intention to rally support against this kind of cancellation. I recently wrote an article 'How to Measure the Success of a TV Show'
that I hope will help develop a change of attitude towards popular TV shows in the 21st century.
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A-team, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Mash, Happy Days, Fall Guy, Rockford Files, X-Files...., so many cool Tv shows...Unfortunately I Can't get DVD's for some I really love such as Spin City, Two Guys a Girl and A Pizza place and classics like Shazam, Tucker's Witch, Mr Merlin.
On the subject of Two guys and a Girl, nothing has made me laugh harder than the silent episode and nothing topped the hilarity and retro "horror" of their Halloween epsiodes (e.g.the brain swapping ep where Sharon became Berg). I miss that show and could kick myself for taping over the episodes I had assuming it would be widely distributed on DVD. You'd think they'd put it on DVD given Ryan Reynolds and Nathan Fillions current star brightery.
Rose S
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Originally posted by bobsyr:
In the '60s that was less likely to have happened because people were willing to take more risks with anything new.
...but Star Trek TOS did get canceled!
The main problem at the moment is that everything is trying to:
(a) be gritty, topical and realistic,
(b) have a long story arc.
Now, I quite like the occasional downer show like BSG, and at one stage there were not enough. But now we need a few less BSGs and a few more "Pushing Daisies".
Also, combine long story arcs with 20+ episode seasons and you get dull shows in which sod all happens in an episode ("V", "The Event" - I'm looking at you). When Babylon 5 did it, most of the episodes were carefully crafted with a self-contained "A"-plot, and the arc being carried forward by the subplots.
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Originally posted by ImNotHere:
(b) have a long story arc.
I shudder when I think about all the long hours I put into "LOST". The creative team promised the ending would be amazing, and the questions would be answered.
They of course lied, and therefor the complete series to me at least is a sham. I have never, ever been duped like that.
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Lost?
Saw that one comin'. Used my time elsewheres.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by OPPYH:
I shudder when I think about all the long hours I put into "LOST".
Of course, the most important thing about a "long story arc" done properly (e.g. seasons 1-4 of Babylon 5) is that the writers need to plot out the story in advance - not make it up as they go along. Sure, it'll deviate when actors leave etc. but the outline should be there.
The X-Files sort of got away with it because it was dealing with conspiracy theories - which have to continually change to accommodate inconvenient truths.
That's the main reason the ending of BSG was such a let-down - not what the ending actually entailed, but that it didn't seem to follow on from the rest of the show. The Cylons Had A Plan but clearly the scriptwriters didn't.
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