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To help pass the time until we are back in action next weekend, I propose a thread of TV stuff that we loved but really is just embarrassing now. I'll kick off with the following small selection.
MASH - I think it is still watchable, with some good story lines. The wonder years - Still makes me guffaw, mainly because it is the era that I grew up in. Cheers and Taxi - loved them both but my god they haven't aged well and I find them generally very embarrassing and unfunny now. Frasier - excellent then, excellent now, could watch over and over. Yes Minister - same as Fraisier.
And here are some series that I loved but should be too embarrassed to admit to it. The golden girls, The love boat, TJ Hooker, Fantasy island and the eternally nauseating Happy days.
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TV that hasn't aged well on 19:55 - Sep 10 with 2939 views
More recent but I saw something on Reddit recently of people claiming The Inbetweeners would never be made today because of all the usual excuses by people who like to be outraged by things that don't exist.
Don't buy it myself. White Gold wasn't that dissimilar (same writers and actors for the most part...) and that was much more recent on Netflix.
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TV that hasn't aged well on 21:12 - Sep 10 with 2742 views
TV that hasn't aged well on 16:07 - Sep 10 by Pindarus
The Black and White Minstrel Show. Can't believe it staggered on till 1978 and there are still people around who think it was harmless fun and should be brought back.
TV that hasn't aged well on 16:07 - Sep 10 by Pindarus
The Black and White Minstrel Show. Can't believe it staggered on till 1978 and there are still people around who think it was harmless fun and should be brought back.
Well worth watching the David Harewood documentary on iPlayer about minstrelsy. Really gobsmacking to watch.
TV that hasn't aged well on 16:07 - Sep 10 by Pindarus
The Black and White Minstrel Show. Can't believe it staggered on till 1978 and there are still people around who think it was harmless fun and should be brought back.
A school mate of mine had a brother who was a B&W Minstrel. I thought it was odd then, let alone 50 years later.
TV that hasn't aged well on 11:54 - Sep 10 by loftboy
They are showing the 6 million dollar man on one of the obscure channels at the moment, definitely not as good as I remember.
I was going to say the Six million Dollar Man (really terrible acting)... and I caught an episode of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em the other day and it really was not funny and very slapstick. On the flip side Starsky and Hutch still holds up really well.
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TV that hasn't aged well on 09:12 - Sep 11 with 2213 views
TV that hasn't aged well on 20:45 - Sep 10 by slmrstid
More recent but I saw something on Reddit recently of people claiming The Inbetweeners would never be made today because of all the usual excuses by people who like to be outraged by things that don't exist.
Don't buy it myself. White Gold wasn't that dissimilar (same writers and actors for the most part...) and that was much more recent on Netflix.
You do often hear that alright, sometimes about programmes that would definitely be made today.
You also sometimes hear the phrase "you wouldn't get away with that today", which really leaves the obvious hint that if we were "getting away" with something then it probably wasn't a good idea in the first place.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Watched a few eipsodes of "Colombo" recently and they've aged really well, except for the flares!
On the other side, M*A*S*H was one of my favourite ever programmes, but watching it now, while the quickfire gags are still excellent the plots and are a bit preachy and clunky.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
TV that hasn't aged well on 01:42 - Sep 11 by SydneyRs
Shows such as Love thy Neighbour and til death do us part actually did quite a good job of making bigots look like idiots.
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Yeah, the two wives in 'Love thy neighbour" actually got on really well and constantly exposed their other halves as brain dead, racist dinosaurs. Then there was that character Jacko who more or less only had one line: "I'll 'ave an 'alf".
"Captain Scarlet" was very progressive. A black guy in a highly responsible role and the fighter jets flown exclusively by women, oh, and Mikel Arteta making his acting debut as Captain Black.
I always think there's potential for a fabulous spoof: - Angels Parsimony, Melancholy, Acrimony, Density and Ignominy - Captains Puce, Brown, Cream and Magnolia, Lieutenant Aubergine.
Enough!
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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TV that hasn't aged well on 10:43 - Sep 11 with 2064 views
I suppose comedy shows are more likely to age less well.
I started watching Minder (having been too young to watch it first time round) and while of course it has dated in some ways I think it still stands up pretty well - and of course is a great way to reminisce about West London back in the day!
Hill Street Blues is another series on my list to watch, having missed it first time round.
TV that hasn't aged well on 11:16 - Sep 11 by TheChef
I suppose comedy shows are more likely to age less well.
I started watching Minder (having been too young to watch it first time round) and while of course it has dated in some ways I think it still stands up pretty well - and of course is a great way to reminisce about West London back in the day!
Hill Street Blues is another series on my list to watch, having missed it first time round.
Minder is great.
Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?
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TV that hasn't aged well on 12:42 - Sep 11 with 1826 views
TV that hasn't aged well on 11:00 - Sep 11 by MrSheen
Surely room on the Spectrum roster for Captains Peach and Avocado, and Angels Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity?
Lieutenant Lilac is pleasingly alliterative, surely we can get that character included somehow?
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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TV that hasn't aged well on 13:08 - Sep 11 with 1755 views
TV that hasn't aged well on 09:12 - Sep 11 by BrianMcCarthy
You do often hear that alright, sometimes about programmes that would definitely be made today.
You also sometimes hear the phrase "you wouldn't get away with that today", which really leaves the obvious hint that if we were "getting away" with something then it probably wasn't a good idea in the first place.
"You wouldn't be able to make that today!" in a world where It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is in its 16th season
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TV that hasn't aged well on 13:12 - Sep 11 with 1748 views
TV that hasn't aged well on 06:51 - Sep 11 by DaBurgh
Well yeah I think that was the intention, but unfortunately I also think that a lot of idiots took the characters as roll models.
My dad knew Johnny Speight through golf who confirmed you were suppose to laugh at him not with him. Unfortunately as you rightly some chose to use him as a role model!
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TV that hasn't aged well on 13:21 - Sep 11 with 1730 views
As TheChef mentions - comedy is likely to age quicker than other types of show as so much of it is based on cultural touchpoints and references of the day. Not to go too psychology on it but interesting that a couple of the ones people have said have stayed strong like Frasier or Yes Minister are built on classic experiences and character archetypes - the middle class snob who can't relate to average people, the slightly inept government minister. I recently caught a season 4 episode of South Park and genuinely had to Google wtf was going on because I couldn't remember any of the references.
Drama wise, older stuff tends to be far more slow moving. Been rewatching Star Trek Deep Space 9 - it takes 2 season to introduce the primary antagonist, 4 to get the Klingons in, the main plot gets proper going in 5 and 6 & 7 are basically one long arc . The latest show Discovery by contrast, by midway in S3 the crew has fought and won a war with the Klingons, gone to the Mirror Universe and sorted that out, solved a time travel conundrum, defeated a universe killing AI, travelled 1,000 years into the future and refounded the Federation. It gives you whiplash!
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