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Sinister
08-01-2006, 11:53 AM
It has become a ritual of mine to watch my favorite sit-com of all-time, Frasier almost religiously when it comes on. Unfortunately, it plays on Lifetime right now and as anyone knows, this channel has original movies. It was an advert for one such Academy Award winner, that I saw Greg Evigan running hell-bent for leather after a car that was speeding away. Evigan, as you may or may not remember was the titular character for the 70's TV show BJ and The Bear, a program about a trucker with a chimp. If that fails to grab you the prospect about a man and his monkey, then I guess that nothing will. For me, I am totally mortified that this show was recalled to mind. Now, I am forced to create a thread to ask some of you what are shows you once revered now revile and are embarrased to admit you even gave it a second of your time? I'll post some more later, right now, I feel a strong sense of needing to go take a nice, long steaming shower to wash away the taint that has been left on me. Yet another sad case of a man being left alone with his monkey...
grapegrl
08-01-2006, 12:42 PM
Knight Rider, The Dukes of Hazzard, ALF, Punky Brewster, 21 Jump Street...the list goes on. Ugh...what can I say...it was the 80s, I was young! :p :o
slightlymad
08-01-2006, 12:55 PM
The 80's ah death itself can not redeam us from the things we did then.
threes company, dallas, falconcrest, whats happening...........
DeathTouch
08-01-2006, 01:57 PM
Grizzly Adams, Mork, Solid Gold, Flipper, Hee Haw(Grandparents made me watch), Generations(star Trek, I think that was 80's), Disney(Special that came on every week), Facts of Life, Different Strokes, Cosby show, Little House on the Prairie, MTV(My parents got a dish. Was able to see MTV before it ever aired.), Dukes of Hazzard.
Sinister
08-01-2006, 02:00 PM
Grape has a few on her list that i include on mine as well.

Good Times
Dukes of Hazzard
Knight Rider
The Brady Bunch
Hee Haw
The Waltons
Little House on the Prairie
Mayberry RFD
Batman
Who's the Boss?
Eight is Enough


I will add more as the nightmares reccur.
Da Weiner
08-01-2006, 02:34 PM
Alright - let's see:

Sonny & Cher
Emergency!
Dark Shadows
Wonder Woman
Little House on the Prairie
Solid Gold
MTV
Melrose Place
Hee Haw

These are a few that I am the least embarrassed to list
Da Weiner
08-01-2006, 02:52 PM
Well, not that I embarrassed myself enough, while I was sitting here a few more started to come to the surface:

Charlie's Angels
Bionic Woman
Murder She Wrote
Lavern & Shirley
Night Gallery
School House Rock
WKRP in Cinninati
Married with Children
Friday the 13th the Series
Starsky & Hutch
Three's Company

There, now it's time to put my head in the oven!
claymud
08-01-2006, 05:43 PM
Someone has to stick up for them... I'm sorry but the Duke Boys are still good in my book. I mean what other TV show gives you two guys who are out to fight the law in their amazinly done '69 Dodge Charger Showing impossiable to corrupt morals!

And how quikly you forget what the Dukes have done for us. I mean the Daisy Duke shorts... Not to mention the many places the General Lee has popped up. For Example...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNUUF4D23JA&search=Barenaked%20Ladies

C'mon, don't let some crappy movie ruin in your eyes what was once a wonderfuly awsome show.
feldjager
08-01-2006, 05:43 PM
damn everyone here is from my era!
RAXL
08-01-2006, 05:52 PM
Hey, EMERGENCY was a damn fine show!:cool:
DeathTouch
08-01-2006, 06:42 PM
man I forgot the hulk, Donny and Marie, The gong Show,Time Bandits, and boosem buddies(maybe spelled wrong)
Sinister
08-01-2006, 06:50 PM
Nothing wrong with Dark Shadows, Night Gallery, What's Happenin', Bosom Buddies (That's how you spell it DT) WKRP in Cinncinati, Married...With Children and I'm sorta iffy on Wonder Woman. Something about Lynda Carter in that suit...

Anyhow, I think you guys did a pretty fine job of nailing the rest. :devil:

Some others:

MadTV (completely unfunny)
Adam 12
The Adventures of Superman
I Love Lucy (Hell, ANY show with Lucille Ball)
Airwolf
Riptide
SWAT
DeathTouch
08-01-2006, 07:03 PM
The love boat, Love america style, A Team, HeadBangers Ball, Spiderman, Fantasy Island, 3 company.
claymud
08-01-2006, 07:37 PM
A-Team was a great show... until they started working for the goverment...
RAXL
08-01-2006, 07:55 PM
Airwolf ruled, until Jan Michael Vincent got fired.

Street Hawk was a classic. And The Highway man.
Let's see, with Knight Rider and Dukes of Hazard thrown in there, we got the Super Vehicles of the 80's. Helicopter, Motorcycle, Truck and Cars. If only there was something other than Hulk Hogan's Thunder in Paradise to get a super-boat from.:p
HibLaGrande
08-01-2006, 08:12 PM
The Greatest American Hero
Merlin
Automan

I have never really spent much time watching TV.
chances are If it wasn't Looney Toons or Tom and Jerry I wasn't watching it..... still the same today. :D
slightlymad
08-01-2006, 09:09 PM
ST Elswhere wasnt to bad.
Hauntiholik
08-01-2006, 09:44 PM
OMG! I'm going to have nightmares tonight! Here's the worst.....Manimal.
slightlymad
08-01-2006, 09:54 PM
beauty and the beast oh the horrible flash backs
DeathTouch
08-01-2006, 09:59 PM
You guys didn't see this one, because it was done in Chicago. But they had their own Elvria host. It was Son of Svengoolie in the 80's. It is now in Chicago again but only called Svengoolie. I was planning on buying another T-shirt from him again. He is on the right getting hit by a light ray by a giant rubber chicken. At the end of the show, he goes back into his coffin and everyone hits him with rubber chickens. And then they play the song, "You maybe right, I maybe cray..Oh, but it must be a Lunatic your are looking for."

http://www.wciu.com/whatsNewItem.asp?pub_id=788
grapegrl
08-01-2006, 10:41 PM
OMG! I'm going to have nightmares tonight! Here's the worst.....Manimal.

You know what's bad, Haunt? I was too ashamed to own up to watching Manimal myself. That's actually pretty funny...we were two out of the dozens of people who watched that show.
Hauntiholik
08-01-2006, 10:53 PM
...we were two out of the dozens of people who watched that show. Yeah, well back then I thought the Simon MacCorkindale was hot LOL!
roadkill
08-01-2006, 11:24 PM
But what about that all-time medial schlock show starring Chad Everett.

Medical Center

Or was that in the 70s?

Oh well - so many of the shows listed are a mixed bag of 70s and 80s shows does it really matter any more?
roadkill
08-01-2006, 11:26 PM
What's wrong with Time Bandits? That movie is awesome - riotously funny! Great Python-esque rip on creation.
HibLaGrande
08-02-2006, 05:50 AM
You guys didn't see this one, because it was done in Chicago. But they had their own Elvria host. It was Son of Svengoolie in the 80's. It is now in Chicago again but only called Svengoolie. I was planning on buying another T-shirt from him again. He is on the right getting hit by a light ray by a giant rubber chicken. At the end of the show, he goes back into his coffin and everyone hits him with rubber chickens. And then they play the song, "You maybe right, I maybe cray..Oh, but it must be a Lunatic your are looking for."

http://www.wciu.com/whatsNewItem.asp?pub_id=788

I watched Son of Svengoolie every Saturday... well every cloudy Saturday when the aerial would pick up Chicago :D
DeathTouch
08-02-2006, 06:02 AM
What's wrong with Time Bandits? That movie is awesome - riotously funny! Great Python-esque rip on creation.

I screwed up the show wasn't called time bandits. That was movie. But I can't remember for the life of me what this show was called. It had a boy and a guy in the tv show. Certain parts of time were screwed up so they had to figure out what happend and fix it before the end of the show. Damn it, I don't remember the name of the show.
DeathTouch
08-02-2006, 06:03 AM
I watched Son of Svengoolie every Saturday... well every cloudy Saturday when the aerial would pick up Chicago :D

My favorite was a skit they did on the dukes of Berwin. Now that was funny.
grapegrl
08-02-2006, 08:01 AM
I screwed up the show wasn't called time bandits. That was movie. But I can't remember for the life of me what this show was called. It had a boy and a guy in the tv show. Certain parts of time were screwed up so they had to figure out what happend and fix it before the end of the show. Damn it, I don't remember the name of the show.

That show was Voyagers! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:Hexum_Peluce.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Hexum Peluce.jpg" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ab/Hexum_Peluce.jpg/275px-Hexum_Peluce.jpg"@@AMEPARAM@@en/thumb/a/ab/Hexum_Peluce.jpg/275px-Hexum_Peluce.jpg, DT. It was actually a pretty cute little show. Jon-Erik Hexum, who played the time-traveling lead died in a tragic accident on the set of another TV series the year after this series aired.
Da Weiner
08-02-2006, 09:12 AM
Another one I loved to watch was "The Benny Hill Show"
DeathTouch
08-02-2006, 11:53 AM
That show was Voyagers! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyagers%21), DT. It was actually a pretty cute little show. Jon-Erik Hexum, who played the time-traveling lead died in a tragic accident on the set of another TV series the year after this series aired.

Yea, that was it grapegrl. Thank you. I couldn't think of it.

I think I have gone in a different direction of where Sinister wanted this thread to go. I think I have brought out names of series that I enjoyed more than hated.
Sinister
08-02-2006, 02:10 PM
Indeed you did, my friend, that's why I'm thinking about doing some moderatin' a little later on and make a new thread dedicating it to the shows we all like and moving some of the posts here to over there. No harm, no foul. :D
Hauntiholik
08-02-2006, 02:37 PM
hmmm what about V?
Oh no! I have the theme song suck in my head now.
DeathTouch
08-02-2006, 03:13 PM
What about Buck Rogers and Battlestar Gallaticia. Wait..I like those, but maybe you didn't.
grapegrl
08-02-2006, 03:17 PM
Indeed you did, my friend, that's why I'm thinking about doing some moderatin' a little later on and make a new thread dedicating it to the shows we all like and moving some of the posts here to over there. No harm, no foul. :D

I kind of saw this thread as a place to reveal our television viewing "guilty pleasures" since we watched these shows, but don't really want to own up to it. :p
Dr Morbius
08-02-2006, 03:40 PM
H.R Puff-n-Stuff. Need I say more?
DeathTouch
08-02-2006, 03:45 PM
H.R Puff-n-Stuff. Need I say more?

Wasn't that done in the 70's. You are a little off. Don't you mean Pee Wees Playhouse or New Zoo Review?
Lazario
08-02-2006, 03:55 PM
HR Puff N Stuff (at least the movie I saw) was a TV classic!

Anyway... I cringe a little at having watched Dawson's Creek, but every now and then I still do it. I'm a masochist, I guess.