Things you miss from old tv shows that you don’t see anymore?

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  1. John B Good

    John B Good Forum Hall Of Fame

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    Murdoch is still being made. But I get your point.
     
  2. bmasters9

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    I appreciate that agreement! BTW, here's, IMO, a great example of the way things used to be, from an ABC show called Ripley's Believe It Or Not!, from a 1983 broadcast of that same show (Columbia Pictures Television 80s Torch Lady at the end of it):

     
  3. The Wanderer

    The Wanderer Seeker of Truth

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    Who can name every actor in this photo?

    I'll start you off - That's John Russell to the right.
     
  4. GroovyVinylDood

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    Quality.
     
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  5. DaveySR

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    Is that Jeffrey Hunter immediately to the left of Garner?
     
  6. The Wanderer

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  7. Lightworker

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    Men who talk/act like men. Too much soy milk out there now I guess.
     
  8. Daryl M

    Daryl M Senior Member

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    I loathe continuing story-lines. The writers just seem to be making it up
    as they go along. Give me a fresh story every week.
     
  9. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    I wish TV sitcoms would return to using more than two or three sets, and used more physical acting instead of just dialogue. An old-fashioned laugh track would be a nice change over using a studio audience.

    For dramas, i'm also tired of continuing stories. I understand a network wants to keep an audience, but if a show can't retain an audience with a strong ensemble and stories, maybe it shouldn't be on the air.
     
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  10. Ghostworld

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    TV stars who look like real people, like Roy! He co-hosted the Mickey Mouse Club for three years. Can you imagine seeing a mug like that today on TV?

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  11. Bingo Bongo

    Bingo Bongo Music gives me Eargasms

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    Archie Bunker from "All In The Family". Nowadays you cant say anything like he did on TV.
     
  12. GregM

    GregM The expanding man

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    Prior to Sopranos we were missing pacing, humor, unpredictability, multidimensionality, and several other things that not even old TV shows could achieve. After that there was a tremendous leap forward in shows that took many of them beyond what was possible even in movies.
     
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  13. P(orF)

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    Johnny Carson
    Jackie Gleason
    Red Skelton
    Dean Martin
    Rowan and Martin
     
  14. bmasters9

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    That's pretty much how it's been w/The Streets of San Francisco, for one-- outside of that "Thrill Killers" fifth-and-final-season two-parter, which I haven't made it to yet, every show I've seen on DVD of that 1972-77 ABC police/detective series has been a single story.
     
  15. The Panda

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    Hearing the words, "This has been a Filmways presentation, Darling"
     
  16. bmasters9

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    Or, on QM shows, "(name of show), a Quinn Martin Production...starring (names of cast members)...with guest stars (insert where applicable)...tonight's episode, (episode name)."

    This wasn't on all QM shows all the time, though-- Cannon (w/the late, great William Conrad as Frank Cannon) didn't have the spoken QM credit until the fifth and final go of that one (1975-76).

    Here's an example, from a third-season episode of The Streets of San Francisco called "Mister Nobody," OAD 12/19/74 on ABC:

     
  17. The Panda

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    And the way they spoke the title so ominously, like one of the plagues of Egypt: "Tonight's episode: Death Walks Behind Us"
     
  18. genesim

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    Sorry can't agree with this or the last sentence especially. While I admit there is a lot of crap quality movies, the best of the best, TV shows aren't even close.
     
  19. the pope ondine

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    one more thing.....................


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  20. forthlin

    forthlin Member Chris & Vickie Cyber Support Team

    Mr Ed: A Neighilist.
     
  21. anti PC.

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  22. GregM

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    I can make an argument that shows like Sopranos, GoT, The Wire and to a lesser extent Breaking Bad are close and because they have a dozen or more hours over the course of a season, they can surpass what is possible with even a trilogy of good movies. Prior to 2000 I would have agreed with you. But the quality of writing, acting and directing in HBO shows in particular meets or exceeds that of most films. Heck, take even a not-so-serious show like Entourage for example. The pacing and humor of the show was far better than the movie turned out to be.
     
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  23. KevinP

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    I could care less about wholesomeness and language. But I miss themes sung by the characters.

    But I also think tv these days has a lot that we would have envied in the day. Shows like Happy Days and Lavern and Shirley and dozens of others running on fumes and not being cancelled; short, tight seasons instead of long, sprawling ones with unrelated episodes and little continuity; story arcs in general, although some shows had them (Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres did to some extent)...
     
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  24. All Rights

    All Rights Senior Member

    Dancing Sticks
     
  25. cboldman

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    Theme songs that tell you everything you need to know about the premise of the show.
     
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