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Retro Vision 254

Posted by michael from the nanoo-nanoo dept.
dncsky1530 writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports: It babysat generations, distracted countless teenagers from homework and, as Homer Simpson sagely observed about television, became our 'teacher, mother, secret lover'. Sure, the shows may have been ludicrous - think Webster, The A-Team, Charles In Charge - but they became part of our lives nonetheless. So what do you do when they end? Immortalise them online. At least, you do if you're a diehard fan - and there are plenty of them out there. Look up a show, any show, and the odds are there'll be at least one fan site, possibly with a tinny version of the soundtrack playing in the background and certainly with photos galore, plot lines, trivia as well as 'where are they now?' information on the actors."
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  • What...? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by clean_stoner ( 759658 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:43PM (#8565453) Journal

    What exactly is this story supposed to be about? Why is this newsworthy?

    • Just wait a while (Score:5, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:47PM (#8565477)
      Someday someone will come up with a fansite for Slashdot, remembering when it used to be about news for nerds, stuff that matters.

    • Re:What...? (Score:5, Funny)

      by identity0 ( 77976 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:48PM (#8565488) Journal
      "Hey, there's a Simpsons quote in it! I've never seen that on Slashdot before, it must be newsworthy!" - michael

    • Re:What...? (Score:2, Funny)

      by haydon4 ( 123439 )
      It's a living testimony to an entire generation of children with sub-standard social skills.

    • In other news... (Score:4, Funny)

      by Rexz ( 724700 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @11:50PM (#8565799)
      Internet contains 'web' 'pages' on various subjects.

    • Re:What...? (Score:3, Funny)

      by general_re ( 8883 )
      Why is this newsworthy?

      Because someday retro-80's fashions will be what the cool kids are wearing once again. It's just a matter of time, I figure. And then I'm calling my mother and sending her up to the attic for my old clothes, so that all those parachute pants and "Members Only" jackets and Izod shirts can command top dollar on eBay, as actual period garb. Remember, Youth Of Today, when that day comes, demand authenticity! Don't settle for cheap knockoffs of the classic originals!

  • It's not just for memories and trivia (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Savatte ( 111615 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:43PM (#8565455) Homepage Journal
    the popularity and fanaticism of family guy on the web contributed to it getting put back on the air.

  • Jump The Shark: Chronicling The Moments When TV Sh (Score:5, Informative)

    by myownkidney ( 761203 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:46PM (#8565471) Homepage
    Jump the shark [jumptheshark.com] site has info about hundreds and hundreds of TV shows, and the point at which they started going south.

    • Re:Jump The Shark: Chronicling The Moments When TV (Score:5, Informative)

      by quantax ( 12175 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:52PM (#8565519) Homepage
      For those who don't know, 'Jumping the Shark' is a reference to an episode in 'Happy Days' in which at the end of the show, the fonze is shown trying to water-ski a jump over a pool of sharks, in order to get more people to watch the following weeks episode which will show if he makes it. A reference to a show 'jumping the shark' means that whatever made that show unique and watchable is gone/going and thus the show must resort to gimmicks to keep it interesting.

  • i confess (Score:3, Insightful)

    by larry bagina ( 561269 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:46PM (#8565473) Journal
    i watched tv from the 80s. magnum pi, dukes of hazzard, a-team, et cetera. i liked it. i was young.

    However, watching old reruns on cable, i can't believe how bad some of them were. Magnum PI, stands the test of time (though the fight scenes seem corny), but for the rest, they seem stuck in the past. I've moved on.

  • Tv show research (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Stonan ( 202408 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:46PM (#8565474) Homepage
    http://www.tvtome.com/list/all.html

    Very extensive site for tv shows animated or otherwise includes episode lists & guides as well as all people accociated with them.

    It's not my site but one I consult regularly.

  • One thing I've discovered... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:47PM (#8565481)
    ...is that most of the TV shows I loved as a kid are best left as fond memories. Trying to watch even one episode of them again as an adult wasn't the enjoyable dose of nostalgia that I expected-- instead I was just sitting there thinking, 'Wow, this is so corny, how did I ever think this was a cool show?' I'm talking about stuff like CHiPs, Knight Rider, The Dukes of Hazzard, etc.

    If "I Love the 80's" has given you the urge to set your TiVo to pick up a few episodes of some show they talked about, trust me-- ignore that urge.
    • That, my young apprentice, is why they created the concept of a "remake". Take the example of Battlestar Galactica - Old: boring, fights almost never happen, silly robots. New: Fights happen every 3 seconds. Robots now look like foxy women -- and they're incredibly horny. Changing tastes for changing demographics.... :)
    • Best example I had of this was watching 'Flash Gordon' the second time. The first time, when I was nine or whatever, it was amazing. The second time I was so embarassed that I told my friends it was good!
    • ...is that most of the TV shows I loved as a kid are best left as fond memories.

      Well, I was thinking that they'd be better left as Ate My Balls [yahoo.com] websites, but sure, memories would work too... Whatever floats your boat.
    • Yeah, but the A-Team is still awesome.

      The Dukes of Hazzard, though. Wow, I feel shame for ever liking that show.

  • um nice example (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward

    '"Full House still lives in the hearts of many and, therefore, the show will live forever. As long as there are people who like the show, they will keep it alive in their hearts and in their thoughts and that's why I started Full House Forever."'

    jesus christ someone actually liked full house? are they blind and just read the scripts in brail or something? even bob saget had to admit he "sucked dick for coke [imdb.com]" because of what the show did to him..

    sad.

  • Alternate article title (Score:5, Funny)

    by nametaken ( 610866 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:48PM (#8565486)
    ...why the internet should be destroyed.

  • Truman Show (Score:4, Interesting)

    by fembots ( 753724 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:48PM (#8565487) Homepage
    To answer the question "So what do you do when they end", one only needs to look at the ending of Truman Show.

    People just find the remote and switch channel.

    Funny enough though, Truman Show itself has plenty of fan sites immortalizing the show.

  • Jump the shark (Score:3, Interesting)

    by challahc ( 745267 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:49PM (#8565499)
    I'm just waiting for jump the shark for websites. Then there can be retro fan sites about retro-tv sites. "Remember that A-team site..."

  • thank you Mister Rogers and Gi joe (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:49PM (#8565501)
    Sure, I spent my early years watching Mister Rogers and Gi Joe. Then came Webster, the A-Team and Dukes of Hazard. Then came Gi joe and Transformers. Then came Duck Tales and Saved by the bell. Then came Porn and the Screensavers on Tech TV. Thank you for making me so messed up.
    • Cartoon Network was playing GI Joe late Saturday nights for awhile. I remember thinking it was kinda corny but still fun as a kid. The "still fun" must have worn off somewhere in the last 15 years. It was just incredibly bad.

      I came across a site with Transformers episodes once. I was able to watch a few of those. I liked Transformers a bit better that GI joe as kid..might have had something to do with it. I loved the way Transformers could ravage several conservation laws at least 20 times an episod
  • Was I supposed to post a link to my Gilmore Girls fan site?

    Methinks someone's waxing misty over the end of Friends.

  • Retro Mental Images (Score:4, Funny)

    by Ray Radlein ( 711289 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:50PM (#8565505) Homepage
    One day, at a science fiction con, I was glancing across one of those large tables full of videotapes of, shall we say, dubious provenance, when I noticed, at the left edge of a box full of old TV shows, a tape labelled "AIR WOLF / THE A-TEAM".

    I'm somewhat ashamed to say that my initial thought was, "That has got to be the worst bit of slash ever written."

  • Ludicrous?! A-team was a darn sight better than the crap on TV today. Young whippersnappers... Why, when I was your age we were lucky to have a color TV!
    • I don't know of anyone, assuming we are talking 1980-1985 (too lazy to look up when a-team aired) who didn't own a color tv. I have to admit, I had a drug store $99 B&W for my room at the time, which I used for saturday morning cartoons and such. While B&W TVs were still sold, they seemed more common in the sub 14inch size.

      I don't remember A-team being that remarkable, only the fact that Mr. T seemed to gain popularity for some odd reason... and continue to spy him on 1010-987 comercials.

    • Re:A-Team rocked! (Score:5, Funny)

      by Brandybuck ( 704397 ) on Monday March 15, 2004 @12:56AM (#8566081) Homepage Journal
      I remember once getting bored and channel surfing. This was before the days of remote controls, so I surfed the old fashioned way by turning the dial.

      Anyway, I stumbled across this bouncer competition. It's not every day that you get to see a televised competition of big ugly dudes hoisting drunks out the saloon door. I can't remember if this was the nationals or internationals. Anyway, this especially ugly dude named "Mr. T" won.

      That was his fifteen minutes of fame. But that was too short for him, so he stretched that fifteen minutes into half a decade. First he fights Sylvester Stallone in Rocky. Very cheesy. I was thinking, "Hey, your fifteen minutes are over!" Then he shows up on A-Team. Come on! This guy couldn't act his way out of a paper bag!

      His career finally stuttered, stalled, and crashed into Florida swampland after a particularly atrocious Barbara Walters interview.

      Epilogue: I thought the ghost of Mr. T had been laid to rest. But I was wrong. An CS professor with a bad sense of humour was describing an algorithm to my class, when he suddenly jabbed his pointer at the chalkboard, right at a meta-variable, and loudly announced: "I pity da foo!"

  • TV or not TV (Score:3, Interesting)

    by howhardcanitbetocrea ( 671190 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:52PM (#8565516)
    I haven't had a TV for almost 20 years...have I missed anything?
  • I read the article and thought, we know, we're nerds and fanboys. Maybe tomorrow we'll get a story posted about how some people have sort of online diaries that other people read and sometimes attract loads of readers, or that recently some dirty pictures have started appearing on the "Information Super Highway".

  • Damn good thing (Score:4, Funny)

    by Spytap ( 143526 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:56PM (#8565537)
    Damn good thing this story was put on the front page of /. otherwise i would have never known about this "internet" that you speak of.
    Man, so much more to this world than I ever knew ;)

  • I pity the fool (Score:5, Funny)

    by doormat ( 63648 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:56PM (#8565541) Homepage Journal
    who posted this story....
  • Hey, remember surfing over to Slash.... what was that place.... oh, yeah, Slashdot, that's it.

  • Commander USA's Groovy Movies [yahoo.com] (IMDB [imdb.com]) was a favorite, I remember seeing the crappy B movie that got made into Little Shop of Horrors.. another favorite was Higgins Boys and Gruber [imdb.com]

  • Another good site for cancelled comedies/toons (Score:5, Informative)

    by wynterwynd ( 265580 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:58PM (#8565549)
    One site they forgot to mention was Digital Archive Project [dapcentral.org]. They use a P2P community for the legal trading of cancelled shows. They're very good about removing things that go to video or are otherwise re-sold. It's kinda nice to see someone using P2P for something legal and worthwhile. Lots of animated series, comedy shows, and sci-fi/fantasy series. (the. Worth a click.

  • Bad 80s is much better than bad 2000s (Score:5, Insightful)

    by chia_monkey ( 593501 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @10:59PM (#8565556) Journal
    Ya know, you sit back and watch reruns of "A-Team", "Knight Rider", "Greatest American Hero", etc (only when you're sick in bed, of course...) and go "holy crap, how in the hell did I watch this?" You laugh as bullets go flying everywhere and miss people, but cars explode. Or when you see the hood of the General Lee (Dukes of Hazzard for you kids that don't know) get crumpled to all hell from jumping over a dirt pile (huh?) but then it's all fixed as they speed down the road. I sure get a good laugh.

    BUT...in 20 years when people look back at OUR shows, they're gonna think we're a bunch of morons. Ohhhhh..."American Idol" is amazing! Or today's "reality" shows like "I Married a 7'3" Midget" and such. THAT'S going to be scary...looking back at today's stuff. Egads...
    • The thing is, these shows from the 80s that you speak of weren't bad for their time. A-Team and Knight Rider kicked ass, and lots of people watched them.
      Reality shows won't be the ones being re-run in the future, shows like Friends, X-Files, Seinfeld will be. Shows that people might be interested in 20 years down the road.

      • Re:Bad 80s is much better than bad 2000s (Score:4, Insightful)

        by zakezuke ( 229119 ) on Monday March 15, 2004 @12:02AM (#8565847)
        these shows from the 80s that you speak of weren't bad for their time. A-Team and Knight Rider kicked ass, and lots of people watched them

        No, they were pretty bad for their time period. The only reason people watched them was

        1. There was nothing better on
        2. Everyone didn't have cable to find something better.

        Knight Rider, a show who's ad campain said to dial some 800 number inder to get details why the KI3000 is better then the Dukes of Hazzard car. What's worse is this marketing attempt has been sited as a good use for an 800 number.

        I'll give you Friends... that ranks up there in three's company in my book, popular enough to have a few spinoffs, and likely to be shown just for it's cheeze value.

        X-files, while I didn't typicaly watch it, had some some decent writing.

        Seinfeld is harder to judge, but I rank it much higher then a-team, air wolf, or knight rider.

    • We can learn a valuable lesson from this, and that is...

      TV sucks.

  • There is no show in the 80s better than Transformers. Many shows were good, but this was by far the most original.

    Not to mention this is the only show where guns really do damage. For example, nobody can hit a target in GIJOE. When the autobots fire a laser beam, decepticons really get it up the ass.
    • I'm the first to admit, the concept of the transformers was cool, but the TV show was not. I guess I was a touch too old to enjoy it as other did, but I couldn't look past the fact that it was simply the same plot over and over again. Good guys see the bad buys doing bad things. Good guys get ass whiped, then regroup, and whip the bad guys ass, followed by some post resolution joke, laugher, and the same thing all over agian.

      I have a vague memeory of someone at one time robbing a bank with the Megatron

      • I'm the first to admit, the concept of the transformers was cool, but the TV show was not.

        No. Transformers(TM) are not cool, were never cool, and never will be cool.

        They're hideous chunks of cheap-assed made-in-$INSERT_THIRD_WORLD_MANUFACTURING_HELLHOLE _DU_JOUR plastic crap that all the kids with mucous running down their noses in endless streams clamored to have.

        My big resentment is not that all my 1980s peers had them. As a kid who was *always* into electronics, I was always building or playing wit

    • There is no show in the 80s better than Transformers.

      Sounds like a challenge! Hmm... my favorite 80s tv show is still The Misfits of Science.
      • Heh. I wrote a fairly complete Misfits of Science website - it's still sitting on my hard drive. I really need to nab a domain and toss it up online. Character, episode, actor synopsi, pretty typical fan site. It was a short lived show, so it's pretty easy to run through the whole thing.

        I still love the Indiana Jones/Big City interleave opening of one ep. Some really great stuff, pretty uneven but typical of 80s shows.

        --
        Evan

    • Re:Buy Transformers DVD (Score:5, Interesting)

      by dmaxwell ( 43234 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @11:57PM (#8565821)
      When the autobots fire a laser beam, decepticons really get it up the ass.

      It still severely lacked in the fatality department. The Autobots and Decepticons must have been piloting non-lethal weaponry for UN peacekeepers. If it was really necessary for the plot, someone would be knocked down with a smoking hole in him until the next scene. Otherwise the consequences were "Hey! That really scorched my paint!" or something.

      The movie had some fatality it but only characters from the old line of toys bought it in the first twenty minutes. I think the idea was you were supposed to throw your dead Transformers in the trash and go buy some new ones. Well, Starscream died a bit later but they trot his ghost back out in afternoon programming so you could go buy Starscream again.

  • TV sucks lives...Millions and counting... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Bl33d4merican ( 723119 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @11:00PM (#8565563)
    We live in a world where some people are literally obsessed with TV (Probably a fair deal of \.ers. People actually go home on Friday nights to make sure they catch the new episode of whatever. It's really sad when a website dedicated to saving the TV show Angel (http://www.renewangel.com/) is considered a charity! Maybe it is a great show (try not to laugh...) but honestly...that money could be used to...I don't know...fight cancer?
  • Just last night, my girlfriend asked me what my name would have been if I could have chosen it. Without a pause, I answered, "Steve Austin."

    Really, what else would it be?

  • When is Meow TV [meowtv.com] (the complete series) coming out on DVD?
  • I remember as a child, I did enjoy watching The Greatest American Hero. Thanks to P2P file sharing systems, I was able to watch the entire series including The Greatest American Heroine... and I fear I lost a few brain cells.

    It's nice to know my TV wasn't screw nor am I nuts for thinking they mispelt Hinkley on the blackboard in the 2nd season, and the fact that they seemed to add in some car noise when ever they were about to say "Hinkley" rather then "Hankley. It gives me some comfort that my memory wa

  • In Soviet Russia... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by hankaholic ( 32239 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @11:08PM (#8565594)
    This seems like the perfect time to mention the fact that under original copyright law, the television shows you remembered watching as a child would fall under the public domain at some point in your lifetime.

    Music, television shows, movies -- all these are stolen from the public by excessive copyright terms. Copyright was supposed to encourage "content developers" to share the fruits of their labors so that the public could benefit from (and eventually take ownership of) their works.

    Lately I keep thinking of a short bit of an Arthur C. Clark's "2061: Odyssey Three" in which Haywood Floyd remembers a bit of an old tune and considers asking his computer to help him to find the actual song. It strikes me as quite sad that because we seem to have forgotten the benefits of copyright expiration, it's likely that whatever old tunes I try to remember in 2061 will probably still be controlled as tightly as possible by the recording industry.

    I feel like the media industries beat me up and stole my lunch money.
  • Better not be callin' Mr. T. ludicrous, fool!
  • Anyone else ever notice if you watched A LOT, as in mostly/only B&W TV you could learn to differentiate colors ? I will never forget the very first A-Team , maybe it was the pilot, Murdock was flying around in his Biplane, the interesting thing is I only had a B&W TV the next day at school a friend who knew I had a B&W in my room said hey chris what color was the plane ? Red I replie, how the hell did you know that he asked, uhhh I donno, so I started intentionally watching for this phenomena, 9

  • Who can forget "Riptide"? (Score:3)

    by cr0sh ( 43134 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @11:12PM (#8565620) Homepage
    Hey, alongside Magnum P.I. and Miami Vice - what about "Riptide" for old 80's TV?

    Riptide Fan Page [aol.com]

    From the site:

    Welcome aboard the Riptide, home of the world-famous Riptide Detective Agency. Meet, from left to right, Murray Bozinsky, computer expert, inventer of the Roboz, Nick Ryder, pilot of the Screaming Mimi, an old Sikorsky helicopter with a big smile on its 'face', and Cody Allen, owner of the Riptide.

    Sadly, this seems to be one of the few (or only?) Riptide fan sites around - most people don't even remember this series (it only lasted a few seasons, IIRC)...

    • The only thing that made it remotely watchable was the "you know what I mean Vern" guy hatch a new get rich quick scheme every week. One week he was going to separate gold from seawater by putting a plugged in toaster into it. Crazy shit.

      I can't believe I remembered that.
  • Anyone remember Whiz kids? It lasted only one season but was the first television show to present geeks as a role model.
    • Yes, I remember that show, and ended caling up WCCO(our affiliate) to ask why it wasn't on. I ended up talking to a security guard who couldn't help.

      I would kill for episodes of that show to see again. I would be in early 80s heaven. That's my drug.
    • Whiz kids I remember... specificly I remember the reporter or whatnot had a laptop which he jacked into the handset line of a standard telephone, rather then the wall line. It seemed odd to me, but the Tandy 300 I believe had an acustic coupler attachment which might have permited you to do just that. It's hard to say.

      I also remember the relationship between the lead geek and the younger sister, and how she always tried to get him into trouble, yet he always took accountability for anytime she did wrong.

  • Comment removed (Score:5, Insightful)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @11:16PM (#8565634)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • That's nothing... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Magus311X ( 5823 ) on Sunday March 14, 2004 @11:17PM (#8565641)
    A while back, a bunch of us, for whatever reason, were arguing what the Hamburgler used to say. Whether is was "robble robble", or "rabble rabble". We debated this for 5 minutes, no fooling. Just kept going on and on, until someone suggested, "Why don't you just find out at a Hamburgler fan site?".

    After that sentence, we all just fell silent. It was an absolutely strange suggestion when you thought about it, but we also realized that they probably do exist.

    And lo and behold, Google didn't just find one, it found about a dozen. We laughed, both at the idea of googling for it, and the sad truth that there are Hamburgler fansites out there.

    ----- ----
    • A while back, a bunch of us, for whatever reason, were arguing what the Hamburgler used to say. Whether is was "robble robble", or "rabble rabble". We debated this for 5 minutes, no fooling. Just kept going on and on, until someone suggested, "Why don't you just find out at a Hamburgler fan site?"

      And lo and behold, Google didn't just find one, it found about a dozen.

      So don't keep us waiting... which one was it?
    • And lo and behold, Google didn't just find one, it found about a dozen. We laughed, both at the idea of googling for it, and the sad truth that there are Hamburgler fansites out there.

      Well...which was it?! Was it "robble robble" or "rabble rabble"?

  • COP ROCK

    Yes, Cop Rock, a show where the characters would break out into song at key moments. I believe only five episodes were shown before the show was fed to the shark. In fact, this show's concept was so bad it jumped before one single line of script was written. I seriously don't know what Bochco was thinking, as well as the execs who green-lighted this. What piece of blackmail did Bochco have on them to get this aired?

    Anyway, if you can find some video of this (as well as Mexican wrestling movies fr
  • I just went looking for a few of my favorites from when I was a kid:

    The Fantastic Journey [xmoppet.org]: Weird adventures in the Bermuda Triangle

    Ark II [geocities.com]: Keeping technology alive in a post-apocalyptic Earth.

    Run Joe Run [70slivekidvid.com]: A german shepard who could put Lassie to shame

    And we can't forget the pretty much forgotten Andy Griffith in space show, Salvage One [geocities.com]: Using the trans-linear vector principle to build a rocket out of junkyard parts. (An early concept of Junkyard Wars?)

    And a whole bunch of other shows from what used

  • Hell... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Cyno01 ( 573917 ) <Cyno01@hotmail.com> on Sunday March 14, 2004 @11:23PM (#8565671) Homepage
    For a lot of classic shows you can find them on kazaa if the dvds not out yet (eventually every show ever will be avalible on dvd). I've got old Doctor Who episodes, Quantum Leap, every episode of Sliders, some A-Team eps, along with Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy and a few dozen other shows. And before anyone starts a flamewar, yes it is copyright infingment, but where else am i going to find Daria or Greg the Bunny or Roswell with the original soundtrack intact. It all evens out since i own the first 2 seasons of Farscape on DVD, both Family Guy sets, Chappelles Show, Clerks the Animated Series, Firefly, Cowboy Bebop (i do feel a little guilty because my cowboy bebop set is a bootleg, but i bought it from amazon [amazon.com], so i blame them.) and some others...
    • I've got old Doctor Who episodes, Quantum Leap, every episode of Sliders, some A-Team eps, along with Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy and a few dozen other shows

      I have had issues getting doctor who via kazza. Not that I wasn't able to get some, I just can't seem to get all the ones I want in a specific story. Problem being doctor who is a pretty massive set to carry, and popular enough to be annoying to share.

      But I have to thank kazza kindly for having a shared copy of the first episode of Firefly no
  • In other news, a new media called "Internet" allows people to share information and interests with the entire world.

    Film at 11.

  • There really isn't anything like the complete episodes of Small Wonder [hispeed.com] available online. You simply can't beat the internet.
    • I think this is something else best left forgotten. There is a piece of me that remembers moving away from a small town that only had 3 VHF stations to a town that had 6 VHF stations which included the new fox network. I'm thinking this was 1985, and the fox network was too bad for words.... but it was something to watch after all and i had seen all ABC, NBC, and CBS had to offer.

      Then I made friends and didn't tune to fox until the simpsons.

  • Quantum Leap (Score:2, Interesting)

    by darkitecture ( 627408 )
    What do you do when one of your favorite show ends?

    That's a good god-damn question.

    I'd like to hear from some Quantum Leap fans after they were left with their mouths gaping open, speechless after watching the last episode, thinking to themselves simultaneously, "WTF?!"

    Sure, some people change the channel. But there are times where you're just left ALL SORTS of screwed up, not knowing what the hell just happened.

  • ...but I stopped watching television regularly at the ripe old age of 18.

    I got a summer job in the woods. When I came back home after three months and sat down in front of a television I simply could not believe that people could watch such inane drivel. I lasted 15 minutes.

    It was nearly ten years later that I actually bought a television set, and that so I could watch movies on HBO. I no longer even have cable. Once in a while at a friends house I will see what is on the tube today and as far as I ca
  • Maybe it's just me, but I don't think the A-Team was "ludicrous"... maybe an unintentional comedy of sorts, but at least had a better sense of humor than McGyver, for example.

    Now, thinking of ludicrous examples of 80s TV shows, "Small Wonder" popped into my head. I will forever curse the author of this article for that... but he has a point. Sure, enough, there was a fan site for "Small Wonder".

    However, some jewels remain improperly exploited. The lack of an "Sledge Hammer" DVD is a crime against humanity
  • Anyone else remember this show? It was on for one season ('82-'83), set in 1939 or so in the Pacific. Had a guy with a seaplane and a dog, Nazis, and a bar called the "Golden Monkey".

    I've found a few sites about it, but I have yet to meet anyone besides the site operators that remembers this show. It was probably horrible, but as a 9 year old I have fond memories of it.

    Ah, wasted youth.....
  • I think the best sitcoms from my youth were Beverly Hillbillies and Get Smart. Yes, I know they were corny, but sometimes they were hilarious. And that lead-in of Agent 86 walking down that long hallway is truly classic.

    Then again, I haven't watched a sitcom since the 60s. Either they don't make 'em like they used to, or I grew up.
  • remember that, it was one of the coolest Showes ever until one of the seasons then went to shit.. anyone know where you can get episodes of it... kinda like a mymacgyver.tk for airwolf
  • It's sad to me that You Can't Do That On Television [ycdtotv.com], along with the other 80's Nickelodeon shows that I grew up watching, will probably never be shown again.
  • My roommate claims that the full house link has a popup that gave him the startpage virus. Just FYI...

    Of course, me using moz, I didn't notice it.

    http://fly.to/fullhouse
  • ... The Hall of Broken Memories! [codehappy.net]

    Dedicated to cataloging all of the hideous and obscene fanfic and fanart that ruins all of our cherished nostalgic childhood memories.

    Powerpuff Girls, check. Electra-Woman and Dyna-Girl, check. Rainbow Brite, check. Those are almost obvious. My Little Pony, perhaps less so.

    On the other hand, Mighty Mouse or Care Bears slashfic takes a certain je ne sais quoi to create; and Gummi Bears or Knight Rider slash indicates someone, somewhere, is operating from an entirely

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