What TV shows will you drop the remote for?

I enjoy watching TV but recently, okay for the last five years or so, I have not really watched much purposeful TV simply because I have been busy until I go to bed. What I mean by purposeful TV is I sit down to watch a show, I make plans to do so. While there are some shows I really enjoy I have not found any that cause me to make plans to watch.
Because of this the TV I do watch is sporadic at best. Currently I find the nature shows Blue Planet and Planet Earth pretty good. I use to greatly enjoy Top Gear but the new version, especially Chris Evans, is pretty poor when compared to the old show. If I happen to be awake I like Archer too, for some odd reason, along with Robot Chicken.

 

Seasons 1-4 of Sanford and Son.

 

Hogans Heroes.

 

Don't think there was such a concept, before Remotes?

 

Sure there was- if you had a kid in the room!

"Change the channel, Timmy!".

 

When I was a teen, (late 60s) we had tv with a remote control that changed channels by pushing air through a tube; you pushed a plunger and the channel moved one channel. As there were only 4 channels to watch you had to push a few extra times to get through the blank channels.

 

There's only one show I watch as the OP described: Grimm. And I think it's been cancelled after the next season.

 

Probably Sanford and Son. You know it's going to be good.

 

Well, you know it's going to be good if it's the first 4 or so seasons. If it's one of those episodes where Fred is gone or came back and stopped caring, then watch out....

 

I still like those, too.

 

I'll keep them on if I happen to catch them, but I don't watch them on the DVD set.

 

Have watched it from the start.
ending, final season will debut 1/6/17

 

• Dragonball Z Kai
• The Amazing World Of Gumball
• Love, American Style
• Moral Orel (especially the Season Three episodes, when the show got really good)
• Good Eats (when it features a food I'm interested in)
• How It's Made
• The entire Animated DC Universe (Batman - The Animated Series, Superman - The Animated Series, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, Batman Beyond, and The Zeta Project).

There are a few that I did but don't any more...because I have them on DVD so I can see them uncut anytime that I want)

• Bleach
• Young Justice
• Green Lantern - The Animated Series
• Doctor Who
• Star Trek - The Next Generation
• Doctor Who
• The Big O (watched the first episode and half-way through I knew I'd watch the entire series. Watched the second episode and at the end I knew I'd buy the entire series as soon as it was released on video).
• Teen Titans Go!
• Reboot
• Gargoyles

 

Been waiting for that. Too bad it's over, although I'm not sure where to take it next.

 

Not sure either.

 

You're missing a great revival of TV shows spurned on by HBO, Netflix, etc. there's a lot of great stuff out there...

 

The Mindy Project...so many great fat jokes.

 

I'm also missing them as I haven't had a pay channel ie HBO ect in at least 20 years.

 

Porridge
The inbetweeners
The office (UK)
Father Ted

 

Well get on it dude! Seriously, you can stream some of these on HBO online, etc. and it's pretty inexpensive that way. Game of thrones and other shows including Westworld make them worthwhile.

Myke mentioned that he hadn't watched Tv in years as well and there some terrific shows in now...some are cheap of course but competiton has improved the quality of many networks.

 

Time-Life infomercials

 

Supergirl or Once Upon A Time

 

Don't watch stuff on a computer screen and inexpensive means you pay something.

 

Um, you can watch it on your TV with Roku, Apple TV or a Blu-Ray player with wifi. Don't have to watch it on a Computer screen. Yes, You pay something but $7 or 8 a month (I think that's how much I pay) for Netflix but that translates to, what, 23 cents a day?

 

Rather not. I retired early because of savings like that here and there over the years. . I do have free Netflix through my oppo. Use it once in a blue moon.