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Post by Albertabuck on Mar 2, 2021 14:27:13 GMT -6
Speaking of Kirk Douglas, another one of my top picks...
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Post by northernfarmer on Mar 2, 2021 15:13:57 GMT -6
Green Acres was another one that I never had the opportunity to watch, but fortunately did see Gilligan's Island and the Beverly Hillbillies ( I have a lunch bucket with a picture of the hicks in their truck on the front, that's an amusing item ). One show that I probably had mentioned in the past and was newer then these shows was the Six Million Dollar Man, that was a show which drew in adults as well as children. Gunsmoke another one I really liked although as I realized more recently it was the later ones with Festus I had been seeing as a kid. Bonanza was a show that I really didn't see much of as it was mostly before my time in memory that it was aired here anyway but dad often referred to it.
Kirk Douglas, most definitely one of the actors as well as the others listed I liked. Spartacus was quite the movie.
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Post by cptusa on Mar 2, 2021 20:19:19 GMT -6
Dukes of Hazzard, A Team, Night Rider, Airwolf, Walker Texas Ranger, The Fall Guy... shows now blow.
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Post by northernfarmer on Mar 2, 2021 20:40:13 GMT -6
I think this added to my interest in watching Fall Guy, would have watched it anyway but it certainly added to the show 
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Post by kevlar on Mar 2, 2021 21:23:22 GMT -6
Most of those shows were before my time, but remember watching The Beverly Hillbillies, one that still gives me a chuckle is Three's Company, was pretty risky for it's day, but pretty mild compared to most stuff today. Cheers, Night Court, and Married With Children were always good, and watching them now makes me wonder how my parents let me watch those as they were pretty raunchy! About the only show worth watching in the last ten years was Corner Gas, even my young kids laugh at it. I can't believe people watch some of the garbage on now, so, so horrible.
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Post by northernfarmer on Mar 2, 2021 21:42:57 GMT -6
Indeed Threes Company was also one of my favourites at the time, I don't believe my parents even had a clue what it was about as neither of them ever watched it that I was aware of. I know one of the neighbour kids said his parents never let him watch it due to more then likely the theme and the way the girls dressed.
Other shows perhaps not listed yet was the Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Sanford and Son, All in the Family ( I called it Archie Bunker for obvious reasons ! ) , oh and Bizarre the Canadian comedy show as that was a whacked one !.
Although it came along a lot later, the series The Wonder Years is one I liked as well.
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Post by meskie on Mar 2, 2021 21:50:10 GMT -6
I must not have watched much tv/movies as I haven’t seen half the ones you guys talk about. Could have been the two channels we got and sometimes 3 if you count the French CBC that we got every once and a while.
Bugs bunny and the flinstones are a couple of my favorite cartoons. My kids also really like watching them
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Post by northernfarmer on Mar 2, 2021 22:00:25 GMT -6
I must not have watched much tv/movies as I haven’t seen half the ones you guys talk about. Could have been the two channels we got and sometimes 3 if you count the French CBC that we got every once and a while. Bugs bunny and the flinstones are a couple of my favorite cartoons. My kids also really like watching them I only had two channels as well, CBC and CTV but they may have played shows here that they never played in some other parts of Canada for all I know. Certainly the Flintstones as a kid and Bugs Bunny Road Runner hour were right up there as far as cartoons went.
Canadian shows like Mr Dressup, The Friendly Giant ( Canadian and US collaboration ), and the US version of Sesame Street back in the day of Mr Hoopers store and none of that french and Canadian bullshit content they messed it all up with as time went on.
Another show which was a children's show but very out there in a sense was H.R Pufnstuf created in 1969-1970 , as a younger child watching that I have to say some of that was scary and nightmarish even though its laughable as an adult to watch. I don't expect that was a well known or remembered children's series.
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Post by kevlar on Mar 2, 2021 22:19:55 GMT -6
Another one I just thought of that messed with a persons mind was The Twilight Zone. The earlier version ,the black and white one, was better than the later one.
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Post by northernfarmer on Mar 2, 2021 22:37:03 GMT -6
I was forgetting about the space shows, there was a certain variety of them over the years although the series that stuck with me the most was the original Star Trek although I would have seen a bit of Lost in Space and some of these shows took a while to get to Canada or they had reruns of them, certainly in the case of Star Trek. And again much later relative to them was Space 1999 and Buck Rogers ( oh yes, the Buck Rogers babes ! ).
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Post by Albertabuck on Mar 2, 2021 22:54:15 GMT -6
Was just on my way upstairs and stopped by my desk to post this one I thought of earlier today, entire series is classic, I loved every episode...I found the credits of season one but its kind of a poor video so chose season two as shows everyone when they was still young lol. Back in the day, being close to Edmonton we got that new station in the mid 70s called ITV, channel 13 owned by Allercom Communications out of Edmonton which become todays Global. They sure added some different stuff to the usual CTV and CBC lines. SCTV was actually filmed and produced right in Edmonton for the first several seasons, and in one early episode, there was a segment that was filmed on main street in Devon, which was always pretty cool seeing John Candy walking down a very familiar sidewalk! I miss John, he was one of a kind.
In the final years, filming switched to Toronto.
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Post by nvw on Mar 2, 2021 23:48:30 GMT -6
I was an avid SCTV watcher John Candy was one of a kind, they were all good on that show.
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Post by cptusa on Mar 3, 2021 2:41:35 GMT -6
Unsolved Mysteries always intrigued me as well.
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Post by Bigtalk on Mar 3, 2021 16:15:54 GMT -6
Another movie I saw on the big screen, as a kid, was 'Jaws', some time in the mid/late '70's. Scared the crap out of me! I was afraid to go in the water for a while after that.
One I missed seeing on the big screen at the time (late '70's), but which got a lot of viewers talking was 'Close encounters of the third kind'. It had quite an effect on people, as it raised a few questions.
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They're currently showing re-runs of Knight Rider, A-team, Six million Dollar Man, McGyver, Mission Impossible and Bionic woman on TV here.
I thought 'The six million dollar man' was pretty cool as a kid, but having seen it again recently, I see that is not the case. It was woefully lame.
A-team is not much better.
I remember watching the original 'Dukes of hazard'. It was a weekly ritual for me, as was 'Knight Rider.'
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Post by northernfarmer on Mar 3, 2021 16:51:06 GMT -6
Jaws was indeed one of those scary ones and I wasn't sure how many they made after the original but see its four in all, I may not have seen them all.
Another movie on that similar theme was Piranha as it had its own freak going on and looks like it was shown in 1978 but there are other movies after that with the same or similar name but it was the original that I would have seen.
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