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What Shows did you grow up Watching?
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Hey, I used to watch "the young ones" too, and "the goodies". I was only really thinking of children's television. We could be here for a while if I was to cover everything.
I've considered getting a tattoo of a tv on my arm.
I know it's the in thing to denounce television, but please show me a child who doesn't watch tv and doesn't suck, I've never ever come across it.
Children whose parents deny them telivision will be losers for ever, social losers. Oh they'll probably get some fantastic career, sure, but they won't ever be liked by other human beings, they won't even be able to like themselves.
There's nothing sadder than the exceptionally sucessfull dude who can't buy a person to genuinely give a shit about him.
I've considered getting a tattoo of a tv on my arm.
I know it's the in thing to denounce television, but please show me a child who doesn't watch tv and doesn't suck, I've never ever come across it.
Children whose parents deny them telivision will be losers for ever, social losers. Oh they'll probably get some fantastic career, sure, but they won't ever be liked by other human beings, they won't even be able to like themselves.
There's nothing sadder than the exceptionally sucessfull dude who can't buy a person to genuinely give a shit about him.
listeria_m
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Nice pictures guys!
Its the same old shows that you guys have been watching- Airwolf,Remington Steele,Kinght RIDER,Flash Gordon, Superman, Batman,The Transformers,the dukes of hazard oh so many more!
Its the same old shows that you guys have been watching- Airwolf,Remington Steele,Kinght RIDER,Flash Gordon, Superman, Batman,The Transformers,the dukes of hazard oh so many more!
Creeptology
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the old moomins show(puppets not cartoon) used to scare me. I remember being in a friends house when I was about 5 and his sister was watching an episode where they where out after dark and it was sinister. I never liked it due to that experience. I think it was this one http://www.thechestnut.com/moomins-2.htm
What's the deal with groke, oh man it was creepy. Almost as disturbing as watership down, my mum made me watch it at an early age, it was horrific.
What's the deal with groke, oh man it was creepy. Almost as disturbing as watership down, my mum made me watch it at an early age, it was horrific.
Fraggle Rocker
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Santa Barbara is often acknowledged as the best soap opera ever produced in America, and I know that internationally it was one of the most popular American shows ever. A. Martinez said he could walk down any street in America and there was a good chance no one would know who he was, but the first time he went to Europe he was mobbed by fans everywhere he went. It had real drama, not just melodrama, and it was very well written. One of the many things that elevated it above most TV fare was that characters who were supposed to be educated talked like it. On most TV shows you hear doctors and lawyers say dumb shit like, "Just between you and I, Sally's baby needs to lay down now."
My favorite star was Nancy Lee Grahn, who played Julia Lockridge/Capwell. She's on General Hospital now and still gets some good lines.
I was a kid in the 1950s when there wasn't much on TV for kids. "Crusader Rabbit," a black-and-white cartoon, a few puppet shows like Howdy Doody and "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" and a couple of really hokey sci-fi programs, "Tom Corbett: Space Cadet" and "Space Patrol." We watched "I Love Lucy," Milton Berle, Groucho Marx, Lawrence Welk, George Burns & Gracie Allen, and the interchangeable sitcoms that started popping up. Eventually Ed Sullivan and Disneyland appeared.
But frankly I find a lot of good stuff on TV these days. We all have different tastes but there are hundreds of channels so it's not hard for any person to discover ten really good shows every week, and how much TV do you want to watch? I like "Breaking Bad," "The Riches," "Kyle XY," "South Park," "Spongebob Squarepants" and "The Daily Show," none of which are on the regular network channels. And there are several shows on the networks that are as good as anything in the past. "Lost," "24," "Ugly Betty," "Dancing with the Stars.
Obviously I am convinced that "Fraggle Rock" was the best program ever shown on TV, but there were others like "Dinosaurs!" and the Muppet Show. Oh wait, those were made by Jim Henson too.
But there have been a lot of fabulous Saturday morning childrens' shows that my wife and I taped and watched at night. "Pee-Wee's Playhouse," "Hey Vern It's Ernest," "Rugrats," "Ren and Stimpy," "Doug," "Muppet Babies" (can't get away from those Muppets), and some outrageous late-night cartoons like "Duckman" and "The Boondocks" (not to mention South Park, surely one of the top ten TV shows ever made).And the fantasy and sci-fi. With today's technology, the occasional good story really shines. "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Babylon Five," "Angel," "Farscape," "Stargate SG-1," "Highlander," "Witchblade," "Dark Angel."
Frankly I get much more out of TV now than I did 50-55 years ago.
Like Sam, I remember radio because when we moved to Arizona they didn't have TV yet. The Jack Benny Program, Henry Aldritch, Beulah, the Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly, and lots of music although rock and roll was a couple of years off so most of it was pretty tame.
Fraggle Rocker
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South Park is strictly for adults!!! As for books, life is too short to read non-fiction.
Did you get "It Aint Half Hot Mum" ? - if you did, Sorry
Mind you we got Mahabarat to make up for it (it was great on mushrooms tho
You reminded me of three other Indian series. I mostly skipped the Mahabharata and Ramayana since I was already familiar with all the stories (unlike now, when I was younger, it was tedious for me to watch a movie or drama when I already knew what was going to happen. My dad of course, used it to great advantage when he wanted to watch something other than what I was watching
). However I enjoyed immensely, three other series, Chanakya, a marvelous tale of the Indian Machiavelli; the Discovery of India a dramatised history of India as written by Jawaharlal Nehru in letters to his daughter during imprisonment and Mahayagya, or the great ritual, in which one of my all time faves Rohini Hattangady played a ruthless, ambitious woman in the cut throat world of Indian politics.
The radio was a very integral part of our lives, everyone in my family was a regular listener. We had a giant wooden antique radio that we constantly fiddled with, trying to get All India Radio, Radio Ceylon, BBC world news. I remember waking up to the signature tune of All India radio (I used to find it irritating then but it has warm memories for me now).
After coming back from school, we'd do chores and listen to the radio. Ameen Sayani on Radio Ceylon, hosting Binaca Geet Mala , which was a request program that played songs from Indian movies. Callers wrote in postcards (no irritating phone rings) and the radio jockey (though they were not called that then) in his own soft, conversational style, read out the requested messages and added his own little tidbits and trivia about the song or the singer or the composer or the movie. Jimmy Bharucha did the English programs.
I remember they used to dramatise childrens graphic novels on the radio on Sunday afternoons. (Chunnu padhta Diamond Comics, Munni padhti Diamond Comics, Mazedaar hain Diamond Comics... Chunnu reads Diamond comics, Munni reads Diamond comics, entertaining these Diamond comics). And the Bournvita Quiz contest. Seems really far away, now, a completely different world. If you went on the bus, you'd see people with radios stuck to their ears (I remember the little green one my dad had, for cricket matches), humming along with the songs, sometimes many of us in the bus would spontaneously start singing.
People don't do stuff like that anymore.
Fraggle Rocker
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Squeep squeep, squop squop, doodly wop wop.Dance your cares away
Worries for another day
Let the music play
Down at Fraggle Rock...
We started calling them "disc jockeys" during WWII. Before that they were just "announcers."
The march of technology. Railroads began bringing an entire nation together as a single community, and radio made them even closer. President Roosevelt used to hold "fireside chats" and he was in every American's parlor. (Without that pesky wheelchair, of course.) Radio was the ultimate in the mass-production technology of the Industrial Era: it manufactured people who all heard the same ideas.
Today's post-industrial technology is a force for diversity, individuality, and the creation of virtual communities that transcend nation-states. Instead of listening to the same speeches and songs as a hundred million other Americans, I'm having a conversation with people from all over the world, finding out about things we have in common despite our different cultures. I call that advancing civilization.
Wow dude, it's a weird necro, esp from you.
i watched them but in reruns.
X Files, Cartoon shows, some of the old Doordarshan shows like Fauji (Indian National television broadcasting station ... the only TV station at the time ), off course Mahabharat, Ramayan (I was fascinated by the display of weapons, now that I think about it, graphics back then were mundane), watched Discovery and History a lot back then, Discovery of India (On Doordarshan again) was pretty decent as SAM said ...
Star Trek Original etc. But loads of X Files ... reruns reruns =)
Don't really know what growing up means, been here for half a decade in states, its been "real" growing up as well ... Here its NCIS, House MD, ER and loads and loads of other shows on History, Tennis channel, Discovery, Science channel ... TV is fun
Rick
), off course Mahabharat, Ramayan (I was fascinated by the display of weapons, now that I think about it, graphics back then were mundane), watched Discovery and History a lot back then, Discovery of India (On Doordarshan again) was pretty decent as SAM said ...Star Trek Original etc. But loads of X Files ... reruns reruns =)
Don't really know what growing up means, been here for half a decade in states, its been "real" growing up as well
... Here its NCIS, House MD, ER and loads and loads of other shows on History, Tennis channel, Discovery, Science channel ... TV is fun Rick
SAM,
On chunnu, Ameen Sayani (i dont know if thats the correct spelling) and other shows on radio, yea tell me about ... I remember radio too, mostly because my folks were crazy about radio during "early" days of afternoon programming on DD ... remember when they only had shows in evening? =)
Hard to believe we've got so many channels on cable these days.
On chunnu, Ameen Sayani (i dont know if thats the correct spelling) and other shows on radio, yea tell me about ... I remember radio too, mostly because my folks were crazy about radio during "early" days of afternoon programming on DD ... remember when they only had shows in evening? =)
Hard to believe we've got so many channels on cable these days.