Members flemtone Posted March 23, 2008 Members Share Posted March 23, 2008 Barney MillerWKRP in CincinnatiTaxiHill St. Blues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super 8 Posted March 23, 2008 Members Share Posted March 23, 2008 WKRP in Cincinnati I understand WKRP has been released on DVD but due to all the licensing issues they've had to replace all of the music with generic noname tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted March 23, 2008 Members Share Posted March 23, 2008 Married with ChildrenSimpsons60 minutesNo surprise all these showed on Sunday.. The main night of TV watching for me Uhh...I do believe "The Simpsons" is much more synonymous with the 1990s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted March 23, 2008 Members Share Posted March 23, 2008 My List: Diff'rent StokesThe A TeamKnight Rider (the new one sucks so hard, no light can escape it).The Greatest American Hero(Aw heck, anything produced by Stephen J. Cannell...)That's Incredible!Amazing StoriesNight CourtAlfAlien NationBJ And The Bear(!)Sheriff LoboThe Dukes of Hazzard I also dug the NBC miniseries "V." Man, NBC had it goin on back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brandenburg Posted March 24, 2008 Members Share Posted March 24, 2008 My List: Diff'rent StokesThe A TeamKnight Rider (the new one sucks so hard, no light can escape it).The Greatest American Hero(Aw heck, anything produced by Stephen J. Cannell...)That's Incredible!Amazing StoriesNight CourtAlfAlien NationBJ And The Bear(!)Sheriff LoboThe Dukes of HazzardI also dug the NBC miniseries "V." Man, NBC had it goin on back in the day. I remember watching "V",.... Alien Nation kicked ass.. Greatest American Hero was kool too..also... Who didn't watch knight rider and the A-team in the 80's LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brandenburg Posted March 24, 2008 Members Share Posted March 24, 2008 Uhh...I do believe "The Simpsons" is much more synonymous with the 1990s. HMM..Perhaps, but not to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted March 24, 2008 Members Share Posted March 24, 2008 I understand WKRP has been released on DVD but due to all the licensing issues they've had to replace all of the music with generic noname tracks. This reminds of that strange phenomenon in "teen" movies of the 1960's--- I KNOW you know what I'm talking about---- in which a roomful of kids are rockin' out to music... It's supposed to be "code" or a "stand-in" for modern rock 'n' roll, but in actuality it sounds like a kind of "lite jazz", replete with Harmon-muted trumpets, never any vocals. In REAL life, those teens would be dancing to the Stones/Beatles/Doors/Turtles/Steppenwolf, et.al, but in these movies they're grooving to this curious lite jazz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted March 24, 2008 Members Share Posted March 24, 2008 HMM..Perhaps, but not to me The first "Simpsons" episode was on December 17, 1989. So there wasn't much days left in the '80s since its debut. Unless you're talking about the shorts that were part of "The Tracey Ullman Show" which started in 1987, but "The Simpsons" wasn't yet its own show. The Simpsons, though it still lasts today, will always be regarded as a 1990s show: Do The Bartman, President George H.W. Bush making a comment how "Americans should be more like the Waltons than The Simpsons" as well as all that "Simpsons" merchandise in the early '90s: Burger King promo toys, dolls and the arcade game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brandenburg Posted March 24, 2008 Members Share Posted March 24, 2008 your trying to educate the already quite informed I can use WIKI also and did btw before I made that post. Its not quite what I said but in my mind how i said and I quote:) HMM..Perhaps, but not to me As I said too me... You are of course right from a technical standpoint.. just not from the way I was thinking LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Geoff Grace Posted March 24, 2008 Members Share Posted March 24, 2008 I practically gave up TV when I started college in 1976; and I gigged five nights a week throughout the eighties, so I watched very little live television then. But my television habits changed dramatically when I bought my first VCR in 1986, and I probably watched more TV -- time-shifted or otherwise -- in the late '80s than at any other point in my life. Hill Street Blues easily tops my list. I also watched the rest of NBC's Thursday night lineup, and particularly enjoyed Cosby. Other than NBC's Thursday shows, I also watched MTV, David Letterman, Washington Week In Review, St. Elsewhere, and Star Trek, The Next Generation. Best, Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members T. Alan Smith Posted March 24, 2008 Members Share Posted March 24, 2008 Anyone want to give props to Salvage One? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mudcat007 Posted March 24, 2008 Members Share Posted March 24, 2008 ...Night Flight (See my avatar. Such a bold show. The closest thing we have to Night Flight now is probably Adult Swim)... Beat me to it! Absolutely my favorite TV show of the 80's. I especially liked the "New Wave Theater" segments. Another favorite was The Young Ones. I had a group of college buddies who made a point to get togehter and watch it every Sunday night on MTV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted March 25, 2008 Author Members Share Posted March 25, 2008 the great american hero... loved that too, thanks for remindind me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted March 25, 2008 Members Share Posted March 25, 2008 Now that you guys remind me, I did come home from gigging at around midnight, whereupon I'd watch the re-airing of Letterman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super 8 Posted March 25, 2008 Members Share Posted March 25, 2008 Beat me to it! Absolutely my favorite TV show of the 80's. I especially liked the "New Wave Theater" segments. New Wave Theatre, Some Bizarre Show, Video Art, films you were likely to see nowhere else. That show had it all. Where else could you catch Einsturzende Neubauten, Phillip Glass, and Grand Master Flash on one episode? That show influenced me like nothing had before or since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted March 25, 2008 Moderators Share Posted March 25, 2008 Another favorite was The Young Ones. I had a group of college buddies who made a point to get togehter and watch it every Sunday night on MTV. The Young Ones!!! Vivian!!! Rick!!! Neil!!! Who else? I watched them all on video tape. As I mentioned, I was gigging, but we made it a point to have someone gather all the episodes and we watched them all at once. I loved the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mudcat007 Posted March 25, 2008 Members Share Posted March 25, 2008 The Young Ones!!! Vivian!!! Rick!!! Neil!!! Who else? I watched them all on video tape. As I mentioned, I was gigging, but we made it a point to have someone gather all the episodes and we watched them all at once. I loved the show. My most vivid memory was the episode where Motorhead played "the Ace of Spades" in their living room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted March 25, 2008 Moderators Share Posted March 25, 2008 My most vivid memory was the episode where Motorhead played "the Ace of Spades" in their living room. Hell yeah. Lemmy!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pk1fan Posted March 25, 2008 Members Share Posted March 25, 2008 Anyone want to give props to Salvage One? Great Show ! What about "Stingray" (drove a vette of course ) and "Sonny Spoon" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted March 25, 2008 Members Share Posted March 25, 2008 In recent years, I have caught up with old 1980's episodes of MAMA'S FAMILY. I love Vicki Lawrence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nat whilk II Posted March 25, 2008 Members Share Posted March 25, 2008 The Prisoner was a great show, but the rerun era don't count. You could hardly find a more quintessentially 60s series than the Prisoner. nat whilk ii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Brandenburg Posted March 25, 2008 Members Share Posted March 25, 2008 Richard dean Anderson kicks ass.. But I liked him better in stargate SG1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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