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Whatever happen to classic tv? SHows from the 60s-80s will forever remain classics..u can still watch them and get a great laugh at them and enjoy it..some shows now are good, but nothing like the classics: Sanford and Son The Jefferson All In The Family Maude The Carol Burnett Show The Andt Griffith Show The Flip Wilson Show Dean Martin Celebrity Roast Rhoda The Mary TYler Moore Show The Dick Van Dyke Show Good Times What's Happening Different Strokes Gimme A Break Soap Eight Is Enough Three's Company The Odd Couple Happy Days Mama's Family THe Golden Girls Designing WOmen Mork and Mindy' Laverne and SHirley That's My Mama The Bob Newhart Show Bob Newhart The Cosby Show The Bill Cosby Show Amen 227 A Different World I Love Lucy Here's Lucy The Lucy Show Life WIth Lucy The Beverly Hillbillies Green AScres Petticoat Junction Laugh In Hee Haw The Smothers Brothers COmedy HOur Saturday Night Live THE Richard Pryor Show
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I've heard Adam Carolla say a few times on his podcast: the only reason we think a lot of the shows from back in the day were so awesome is because we didn't have a million entertainment options back then. I can't say I disagree with that. | |
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"classic" tv?
TV has always been about cheese, cheese and more cheese
Sure, TV was more entertaining back in the day, but the cheese was there already; now it's just expensive, boring, self-important cheese  | |
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Other than a couple of the judge shows and "The Walking Dead", I don't watch TV. I have a lot of these classic sitcoms on DVD and that's what I primarily watch every night. I HATE all of those reality shows and even the sitcoms and dramas that I do manage to stumble upon, I don't find any of them very entertaining. "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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Are you saying the Kardashians aren't classy enough?!?
In all seriousness, reality TV has put the serious screws to scripted TV. I guess all the good writers are now writing for those unscripted reality shows. | |
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hmm I guess its just me but I remember a lot of those shows being unbearably cheesy, even worse than the bunts from todays era. | |
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I will give people... that music & movies may have had a high heyday....
But T.V? forgive me but i think T.V has been in it's golden age since the 90's!
Don't get me wrong the classica are well... classic
Grant it there is still shit on t.v, but the quality of so many shows just now is amazing.
Mad Men Dexter Breaking Bad Curb Your Enthusiasm Fringe Shameless The Walking Deas
And lots of other great one's...
Hel in just the last decade and a half we had
The Sopranos The Wire(My all time favorite) Six Feet Under The Shield Nip/Tuck Rescue Me Buffy Angel OZ Damages
I think those shows pushed boundaries & story telling way more then a lot of classic shows did
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, but from the 90's you had shows that where more daring, that showed more. Had more character devolpment & where risky in the stoires, designs, language etc.
TV has become better do to competition and it has become worse at the same time. We have trash TV reality shows and well written and acted scripted shows in which 1 show can build an entire network's image.
I would agree with most of Gun's list.
I would add Seinfeld, Rosanne, Will and Grace, Frasier, and Friends to the great list of comedies. Great comedies are not really available on the air right now. There may be some good ones, but not in the ranks of truly great yet. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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Comedy
Hogans Heros Alice WKRP in Cincinnati Brady Bunch One Day At A Time Bewitched Gililgan's Island Partridge Family Married With Children My three sons Hazel Mchale's Navy Welcome Back Kotter Family Ties Night Court Cheers Frazier Facts of Life Who's The Boss Mash Get Smart I dream of Jeanie
Sci-Fi
Star Trek Buck Rogers Land of the Giants Land of the lost Space 1999 Battlestar Galactica The Invaders The Time Tunnel V Lost in Space Batman Wonder Woman [Edited 10/5/12 23:08pm] |
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