Rediscovering old tv shows

[luvflorida]

I happened to have the TVLand channel on a few weeks ago, and I am now hooked on reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond. When the show originally aired I remember watching a few episodes, but never really liked the show. Not sure why, but I just couldn't get into it. Now, I find it very, very funny.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I lost my dad in 2004 and my mom in 2008, and I see a lot of them in Frank and Marie. Though not quite as intense as them, God love them!

My younger daughter recently got hooked on Lost. In the past few weeks, she has watched every episode. All six seasons! She really got caught up in the series!

Any series that you've discovered or rediscovered in reruns? I've also been watching MASH reruns, but I also watched the series when it originally aired.

 

[texasthumper]

One of our channels just changed to a format which shows paid programming in the daytime and old tv shows in the evening. They run Alfred Hitchcock Presents on the weekends and I love that show. It's the half-hour format series which I haven't seen in years, and it features actors and actresses from the 50's. The last one I saw starred John Forsythe and Cloris Leachman! Can't wait to see more!

 

[DMass]

The two I like now that I never watched before are NCIS and Bones.
Emily Deschanel is hot!

 

[LiberalPrincess]

There is a channel called Sleuth, and the other day they had a Charlie's Angels marathon. It was totally entertaining!

We also just got the dvd set of the old Electric Company series from PBS. It is really good, and so much better than so many of the kids shows that are on these days!

 

[HonnyDipp]

I've been watching an hour of Sanford & Sons on TV Land in the evenings. I also watch old episodes of Three Stooges with my DS8 on AMC Sunday mornings. And I can't forget old episodes of the Andy Griffith Show! They take me back!

 

[elgerber]

The Wonder years just starting airing again last week. And while I am not rediscovering it (I know every episode practically by heart) but I am now sharing it with my daughter, which is just awesome!! She watched her first episode of Happy Days last night, fun!!!

 

[Glynis]

My kids have just discovered "The Brady Bunch" and "Little House on the Prairie." I love to watch "The Andy Griffith Show", "Bonanza", and "Gunsmoke". I also just started re-watching "Bewitched" on TVLand. Boy that Samantha reminds me of my aunt Martha!

 

[ckay87]

For me, getting "into" and enjoying a tv show WHILE it is on TV takes a level of commitment that I don't usually have for a TV show. I have maybe 2 or 3 that I watch, but it takes thought and planning to remember to sit down with them every week (keep in mind that we don't have a great DVR). And for me, as I bet it is with a lot of people, you really have to watch a show on a regular basis to get into it....to get attached to the characters and to understand the humorous references from week to week. This is the reason that it's so much better to watch shows in syndication, as you're describing. Those are typically on just about every day, so you can catch them more frequently. And even better....on Netflix or DVD. Makes them easier to understand, follow, and appreciate than the once/week routine of a regular show.

 

[Monte Cristo]

I think the channel here is called Universal HD, but they have remastered epsiodes of TJ Hooker and Charlie's Angels. Great shows. I am still watching Knight Rider and the A Team on Retro TV (very bad quality) and Three's Company on TV Land. Lastly, Dukes of Hazard has reappeard on CMT and I've been watching those.

There is very little on tv today that I watch and like.

 

[ForTheLoveofDisney]

We just started watching Better Off Ted. That's a great show and I'm sad to hear that it only lasted the two seasons.

Also, really like the series Rome on HBO and it turns out, THAT was only on for two seasons.

 

[ForTheLoveofDisney]

For me, getting "into" and enjoying a tv show WHILE it is on TV takes a level of commitment that I don't usually have for a TV show. I have maybe 2 or 3 that I watch, but it takes thought and planning to remember to sit down with them every week (keep in mind that we don't have a great DVR). And for me, as I bet it is with a lot of people, you really have to watch a show on a regular basis to get into it....to get attached to the characters and to understand the humorous references from week to week. This is the reason that it's so much better to watch shows in syndication, as you're describing. Those are typically on just about every day, so you can catch them more frequently. And even better....on Netflix or DVD. Makes them easier to understand, follow, and appreciate than the once/week routine of a regular show.

That bad thing with this, and I am just as you describe in regards to the level of commitment so no pointing fingers from me , is that when the viewers aren't there, they'll not renew the show and take it off the air. Then when I do come along and find it in syndication, I'm disappointed that there aren't that many episodes. I think to myself, "This is a GREAT show why did it only last two seasons"?? But it's because people, like myself, can't give the commitment when it's on weely.

 

[Geoff_M]

I found the boxed set of the first two seasons of WKRP on DVD last year at a great price and bought it. Our 15 year old son loved it. "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!" is now part of his favorite quotes list!

 

[Becky2005]

I found the boxed set of the first two seasons of WKRP on DVD last year at a great price and bought it. Our 15 year old son loved it. "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!" is now part of his favorite quotes list!

My husband throws that line out there every so often.

What is REALLY funny, is that pretty much everything my DH says is a quote from something...probably the only family I know of that can talk in quotes all day long.

Reminds me when High School Musical was big and one of my daughter's friends told her "No one just breaks out in random songs in the middle of conversations" he was saying how fake it was-- Ummm...he doesn't know our family. It doesn't take much to have a show tune come out (either from a musical or a theme song from a TV show).

The only problem with this is you get VERY weird looks when your preschooler is singing the theme to Gilligan's Island and the teachers may not know it OR you are at work and do a quote from Hogan's Heros and the "kids" (who are all in their 20's & 30's) you work with have no clue what the heck you are talking about...I tend to do the "I know N-O-T-H-I-N-G" line from Schultz. I have gotten "she's insane" looks and then trying to explaining just makes matters worse.

We have a lot of older shows on DVD's or on the computer so my kids watch them and get hooked, then are all excited about it and they try to tell their friends...gets interesting (OR they want to be one of the characters for Halloween!!).

 

[Mrs. Charming]

I'm hooked on The Nanny! lol

 

[Owlpost23]

I personally think that whoever decided to put old TV shows on DVDs should be awarded our nation's highest honor.There's just nothing better than carving out a chunk of time and watching episodes back to back to back! Just feels like such a luxury-and no commercials,either!

 

[PUZZLDY5]

Not to long ago my DH was channel surfing and found an "Alice" mini marathon. We watched them all.

 

[elgerber]

I found the boxed set of the first two seasons of WKRP on DVD last year at a great price and bought it. Our 15 year old son loved it. "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!" is now part of his favorite quotes list!

 

[MIGrandma]

I wish there were lots more older shows on TV. I would love to see Mama's Family again, but I think they quit showing that one as I haven't found it in a long time. I do watch Roseanne quite a bit, later at night, and always enjoy that one. Wish I could find old shows like Family Affair, Gidget, The Flying Nun, Love American Style, Perry Mason, The Rifleman, The Monroes, Flamingo Road.

And I wish they would have variety shows like The Ed Sullivan Show, The Barbara Mandrell Show, Glen Campbell's Good Time Hour, Hee Haw, Donny & Marie, etc.

So many oldies but goodies that just can't be found anymore.

 

[Becky2005]

Not to long ago my DH was channel surfing and found an "Alice" mini marathon. We watched them all.

Loved that show! If you watch the movie "Stick It" "Flo" plays a judge at the end -- I wasn't really watching it when all of a sudden I heard her distinctive voice. I did a "wait a minute, I know that voice" type of thing and then went and looked it up. Sure enough it was her.

 

[luvflorida]

And I wish they would have variety shows like The Ed Sullivan Show, The Barbara Mandrell Show, Glen Campbell's Good Time Hour, Hee Haw, Donny & Marie, etc.

I loved watching the variety shows! The Carol Burnett Show was one of my very favorite shows. Dean Martin, Flip Wilson...oh, those were fun, entertaining shows!

I started a thread around Christmastime last year, about how much I miss the old Christmas variety specials- Andy Williams, The King Family, Bing Crosby, etc. I loved them!