Ever watched a show years ago that you can't today? [Archive]

MIB41

Mar 20, '12, 10:39 AM

I use to be a fan of Grizzly Adams when I was a kid. But I recently saw an episode and immediately said to myself, "What was I thinking?" These days I would need courage in a bottle to sit through more than one episode of this. That way I could at least find humor in how a man reasons having a good time by provoking a wild grizzly bear. Somehow I doubt most have experienced this in the wild and walked away to talk about it. :muh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkOl6ptMGZQ

Have you shared a similar experience with a television show you use to like?

jessica

Mar 20, '12, 10:40 AM

If I mentioned the shows here I would be chased with pitchforks and knives!! LOL!!

HardyGirl

Mar 20, '12, 10:47 AM

Nope, not really. I can basically push cynicsm out the window and take my brain through the way-back machine and watch through the eyes of youth.

megoapesnut

Mar 20, '12, 10:49 AM

Probably Little House on The Prairie. Grizzly Adams would be right up there too.

MIB41

Mar 20, '12, 10:53 AM

Probably Little House on The Prairie.

That's right! OMIGOD. Is there any episode where they didn't cry "PA" ...:please_y: No wonder we were so d*mn sensitive in the 70's. Everyone was crying all the time!

Spawn67

Mar 20, '12, 11:11 AM

Yep.THE DUKES OF HAZZARD I thought was the be all end all as a kid. Now I can't even sit through it at all.

kingdom warrior

Mar 20, '12, 11:19 AM

I can't watch Welcome back kotter, Happy Days, Laverne ans Shirley, or many of the 80's and some 70's dramas i cringe and say how corny.....

I recently sat and rewatched the Walton's and I found I enjoyed that a lot because it had the morals and values i admire.....

kennermike

Mar 20, '12, 11:28 AM

Yep.THE DUKES OF HAZZARD I thought was the be all end all as a kid. Now I can't even sit through it at all.

you know I was thinking of the Dukes of Hazard havent watched any in years was thinking loved it as a kid but how would I react now

jimsmegos

Mar 20, '12, 11:39 AM

Sadly for me I have to point out "The Greatest American Hero". The pacing is so slow I just can't stand it. Great FX Exclusive, wonderful memory, not so wonderful modern entertainment.

4NDR01D

Mar 20, '12, 11:58 AM

Strangely, for a so called "nostalga-ist" like myself, I just can't watch 99% of the shows I used to. Movies are a different story for some odd reason, but TV just doesn't do it for me. I've tried Buck Rodgers and Battlestar Gallactica and just can't do it. I can't watch a full episode to see Cylons or Twiki or Daggit or anything that I liked and remember from being a kid. I can get that feeling out of toys but just not old TV shows and it kinda sucks.

Trappy Trek Freak

Mar 20, '12, 12:04 PM

I watch them and die laughing all the time, even TOS Trek some of it is so funny to me now. The best one is Andy Griffith just because Barney is so funny. There isn't one show that I watched as a kid that I wouldn't watch now. I still Love em.

Mikey

Mar 20, '12, 12:12 PM

Hmmm,

Three's Company

Laverne and Shirley

(All Kroft shows)

MASH

Alice

Sanford and Son

Quantum Leap

Family Matters

Laugh In

Carol Burnnet show

All in the Family

Trappy Trek Freak

Mar 20, '12, 1:35 PM

My wife and I have been watching Dallas, Andy, and Charlie's Angels, she won't watch Trek with me anymore she sleeps. Anyhow, Charlie's Angels you always know who the bad guy is because they always 9 times out of 10 drive the old blue Crown Vic Ford LOL.

kennermike

Mar 20, '12, 1:38 PM

Wow I cant Believe some of the retro shows that are being mentioned that's kinda sad .I think I have %100 lower tolarance for the new crap that out now

mazinz

Mar 20, '12, 1:46 PM

I can no longer watch the Chris Elliot show "Get a Life" that aired in the early 90's. I cannot believe just how bad and unfunny it is now as to when I somehow enjoyed it back then

spacecaps

Mar 20, '12, 1:54 PM

Compared to todays TV, which is like watching a 12 hour movie, most of the older shows are really bad. The stuff I've been watching on TV for a few years now is better that 99% of the movies I go see. I recently tried to watch Columbo on Netflix (a show that I loved as a kid) and couldn't believe how slow it was. Knight Rider had the same effect on me too but the one I couldn't watch at all was Fraggle Rock. After the them song, it's all down hill.

mazinz

Mar 20, '12, 2:22 PM

kennermike

Mar 20, '12, 2:59 PM

AHHH so it probably wont make you feel better knowing that I bought the complete box set for Fraggle Rock

you know Doug Ive never really seen this show?

spacecaps

Mar 20, '12, 3:05 PM

AHHH so it probably wont make you feel better knowing that I bought the complete box set for Fraggle Rock

I bought it too. I just couldn't get rid of it fast enough.

cjefferys

Mar 20, '12, 3:20 PM

I can no longer watch the Chris Elliot show "Get a Life" that aired in the early 90's. I cannot believe just how bad and unfunny it is now as to when I somehow enjoyed it back then

I only have a few episodes on DVD, but they are still funny for me. I think the "Spewey" episode is as hilarious as it was for me when it first aired. Elliot has a different kind of humor though, so I can understand that many people don't get it. Maybe you "grew out" of his type of comedy?

toys2cool

Mar 20, '12, 3:23 PM

Dukes of hazzard , good times :yuk: , Charles in charge, Different world, facts of life,and way too many more :smiley1:

cjefferys

Mar 20, '12, 3:23 PM

Most of the Saturday morning cartoons I used to watch are completely unwatchable for me now. I haven't watched shows like Dukes of Hazzard, Little House, etc in years, but I really doubt that they'd hold up for me today. On the other hand, some SF shows like Star Trek TOS and the POTA live action series are still enjoyable to watch for me.

AJ Collector

Mar 20, '12, 4:23 PM

I still love them all, not as much, but still.....

thunderbolt

Mar 20, '12, 4:45 PM

I can't take the 70's cartoons I grew up on at all anymore, SUper Friends, Speed Buggy, Hong Kong Phooey, etc. But I love stuff from the 50's and 60s like Clutch Cargo, Jonny Quest, DC and Marvel 60's stuff, Yogi Bear Looney Tunes, etc.

Mikey

Mar 20, '12, 5:03 PM

I used to love The Hilarious House of Frightenstein but found it impossible to watch when I discovered some clips from it on youtube.

mazinz

Mar 20, '12, 6:50 PM

you know Doug Ive never really seen this show?

WOW!!!!

I bought it too. I just couldn't get rid of it fast enough.

HAHAHAHA

Thor

Mar 20, '12, 6:59 PM

Probably Little House on The Prairie. Grizzly Adams would be right up there too.

I totally agree. They play it on at least 3 channels in my area.

mego73

Mar 20, '12, 10:27 PM

For some reason my unconditional nostalgia sort of wanes with later 70's and 1980's stuff (unless it is good beyond nostalgia). But with the 60's early 70's things I watched as a kid I can still watch and love how my younger self took the limited animation and the limited effects and sometimes even the limited acting and directing and made it real regardless.

johnmiic

Mar 20, '12, 11:08 PM

Sadly for me I have to point out "The Greatest American Hero". The pacing is so slow I just can't stand it...

Y'know Jim, I don't have that problem until the 3rd season. I sort'a feel the writing is so good in the first 2 seasons I can sit and enjoy the Ralph-Bill-Pam banter for a bit before some action happens.

DocDrako

Mar 21, '12, 2:23 AM

Gilligan's Island.

:wall:

garagesale

Mar 21, '12, 6:01 AM

For me, the original Battlestar Galactica is painful to watch, but Star Trek TOS is not.

Watched Banana Splits a few years ago, and BOY is that cheezy. Esp. Danger Island!

JamesD

enyawd72

Mar 21, '12, 6:44 AM

I still love all my old favorites, especially Dukes of Hazzard. Boss Hogg and Roscoe were one of the great comedy teams IMO, and very underrated.

I still watch the A-Team, Knight Rider, The Incredible Hulk, BSG, Star Trek, ChiPs, Simon & Simon, The Hardy Boys, and about a dozen more whenever I can.

Toy Talk

Mar 21, '12, 8:19 AM

The A-Team. I used to love the show, but now I would rather give myself a vasectomy with a cement block than be forced to set through an entire episode.

Trappy Trek Freak

Mar 21, '12, 9:02 AM

The A-Team cracks me up, I watched BA and Murdoch make a land wind sail vehicle out of an Ambulance that had run out of gas with a pair of plyers, a srew driver, and a hammer while being hand cuffed together. They could build a complex machine but couldn't pick hand cuffs LMAO:smiley1:

MIB41

Mar 21, '12, 9:12 AM

I couldn't watch the A-Team then and it's even more unwatchable now. Dirk Benedict is the most obnoxious human being on this planet. Why that man has an ego with his resume is just beyond me.

enyawd72

Mar 21, '12, 9:17 AM

I couldn't watch the A-Team then and it's even more unwatchable now. Dirk Benedict is the most obnoxious human being on this planet. Why that man has an ego with his resume is just beyond me.

You mean his character or in real life? I never met the guy, but I always found Face funny...my favorite episode was when he impersonated Dr. Pepper.

LOL...still makes me laugh just thinking about it.

Mikey

Mar 21, '12, 9:29 AM

When I met Dirk Benedict about 10 years ago he was like the nicest celeb ever... He came off as a very "regular guy" in real life ...

kennermike

Mar 21, '12, 11:30 AM

I watched the entire Season 2 1983-84 of the A-team about 2 weeks ago and it rocked!:wink:

kennermike

Mar 21, '12, 11:32 AM

When I met Dirk Benedict about 10 years ago he was like the nicest celeb ever... He came off as a very "regular guy" in real life ...

He came as a guest acting coach at the Beverly Hills Playhouse Drama School when I attended in the late 90's he's the greatest

Gorn Captain

Mar 21, '12, 12:56 PM

When I see a show like Magnum PI now, I can't help but wonder: did I want that every week?

Gorn Captain

Mar 21, '12, 12:59 PM

I couldn't watch the A-Team then and it's even more unwatchable now. Dirk Benedict is the most obnoxious human being on this planet. Why that man has an ego with his resume is just beyond me.

He's been to Belgium three times now (his son lives in Belgium), and at every show he was really great. He charged me $25 for signing two items, which seems really fair.
Maybe you caught him on a bad day?

MIB41

Mar 21, '12, 1:59 PM

He's been to Belgium three times now (his son lives in Belgium), and at every show he was really great. He charged me $25 for signing two items, which seems really fair.
Maybe you caught him on a bad day?

It was TWO DAYS! :sarky: He was a guest at Wonderfest. He was just so full of himself, he was hard to manage. But yes, $25.00 for two signings is impossibly cheap. You did good! And I am glad you had a different experience. But on this particular weekend he wasn't fit to be in public. He was difficult to assist and was not particularly nice to fans. Celebs like him, you pretty much stand back and hope they don't implode during the show. He was a character. All of us on the staff kept looking at each other with the expression, "He didn't just say that..." :sarky: It was that kind of weekend. I couldn't tell if he was a celeb or an escaped nutcase. :smiley1:

kennermike

Mar 21, '12, 3:38 PM

It was TWO DAYS! :sarky: He was a guest at Wonderfest. He was just so full of himself, he was hard to manage. But yes, $25.00 for two signings is impossibly cheap. You did good! And I am glad you had a different experience. But on this particular weekend he wasn't fit to be in public. He was difficult to assist and was not particularly nice to fans. Celebs like him, you pretty much stand back and hope they don't implode during the show. He was a character. All of us on the staff kept looking at each other with the expression, "He didn't just say that..." :sarky: It was that kind of weekend. I couldn't tell if he was a celeb or an escaped nutcase. :smiley1:

oh come on Tom???:juggleyes_y::googly::terror:
:smiley1:

The Toyroom

Mar 21, '12, 5:39 PM

Chico and the Man...

aquatroy

Mar 21, '12, 9:19 PM

Three's Company is annoying.
Good Times is just awful.

Gorn Captain

Mar 22, '12, 5:54 AM

It was TWO DAYS! :sarky: He was a guest at Wonderfest. He was just so full of himself, he was hard to manage. But yes, $25.00 for two signings is impossibly cheap. You did good! And I am glad you had a different experience.

I bought one item from him, we talked a bit, and he spotted I still had another item under my arm. He said "I'll do that one for free", which was nice.
But every day is different. When I met Peter Mayhew (Chewie), he was grumpy and rude. I showed him a piece of paper with my name on it (Rik), and he misspelled it on the photo (Rick). I politely pointed it out, and he just scratched out the C, leaving a big smudge on a $40 photo. He only replaced the photo after I said I was disappointed. Come on, how much does a photo print cost anyway?
I guess we all have off days.
I remember that David Carradine wouldn't even look at me.
Me: "Hi, you are my childhood hero!"
Carradine: "Grunt". Slides photo back at me without looking up.

MIB41

Mar 22, '12, 6:27 AM

I bought one item from him, we talked a bit, and he spotted I still had another item under my arm. He said "I'll do that one for free", which was nice.
But every day is different. When I met Peter Mayhew (Chewie), he was grumpy and rude. I showed him a piece of paper with my name on it (Rik), and he misspelled it on the photo (Rick). I politely pointed it out, and he just scratched out the C, leaving a big smudge on a $40 photo. He only replaced the photo after I said I was disappointed. Come on, how much does a photo print cost anyway?
I guess we all have off days.
I remember that David Carradine wouldn't even look at me.
Me: "Hi, you are my childhood hero!"
Carradine: "Grunt". Slides photo back at me without looking up.

Your absolutely right Gorn. I've had experiences where I met the same actors on two different occasions, and the experiences were polar opposites of one another. So that does certainly happen. But I'm very glad you had a positive experience. It's always disappointing to me when I see celebs treat fans badly. For many of these individuals, it's the last means they have to make a buck off their name. And because they have fans that relish the shows they made decades ago, they can still ride that wave of popularity on the cheap without having to "lower" themselves to work real jobs like the rest of us. I often find their overbearing ego's ironic, since it's based in an industry that kicked them out long ago. And in the convention experience, it's always the television stars, that seem to have this displacement the most. You would think some of them would find a grounded perspective through the years and appreciate the fact anyone would ask for an autograph. :yeah:

spacecaps

Mar 22, '12, 9:01 AM

When I met Peter Mayhew (Chewie), he was grumpy and rude.

I would love to be lucky enough to be part of something where people pay me to sign my name years later on a photo. It's amazing how so many of these "celebrities" hate doing this kind of stuff. I didn't have a problem with Peter Mayhew. I thought he was kind of entertaining but a few of the Star Wars guys were interesting. Anthony Daniels was pompous. My friend brought him a cel of Legolas from the Bakshi cartoon to sign (he did the voice) and he went off in a rant about how he would never work for Bakshi again because of what a terrible person he was. We didn't think he was going to sign the photo at first but he eventually did.

Billy Dee Williams was not happy to be signing either. A lot of fans were bringing cans of Colt 45's and when I got up to him I asked if he was having fun and he didn't even bother to look up at me when he said "Not at all."

Phil Brown (Uncle Owen) was one of the coolest guys I ever met but he only signed his name. His wife would write the inscription and she wasn't Aunt Beru.

In the few times I met David Prowse, he always came off as bitter and disgruntled and Kenny Baker was an unbelievable jerk.

I also met Brad Dourif once and didn't realize he was Chucky until I got up to his table and saw the photos. I was there because he was in LOTR and Alien Resurection. When I said that I didn't know he was Chucky I couldn't tell if he was upset because I did not know this or if it was because I said that the doll looked liked him. Either way he was genuinely ticked off and way more intense than he should have been.

MIB41

Mar 22, '12, 9:34 AM

David Prowse is another fella who should appreciate his lot in Life. Back in 1993 I attended a convention called Lextrek in Lexington. Star Wars was not particularly big at that time because Jedi had been out of circulation since '84 and there didn't appear to be any news about another chapter at that point. The promoters literally had to get on the intercom and ask people to come over to his table for an autograph. Everyone was standing at Walter Koenig and Mark Goodard's tables. Now I do understand the convention experience is not exactly the most proud way to earn income from artists who had higher ambitions. But in my eyes, if your going to partake, then at least respect the people that are there to see you. If you can't do it without being rude, then find something else to do for a living. Like Spacecaps said...I would love to reach the end of my career where I am sitting back signing autographs, telling my side of stories, and getting a round of applause for simply being alive. Given the alternative of being a greeter at Walmart, I would say these people got it pretty good. With their limited resumes, it's not like they could get a good job under the best of economies.

Earth 2 Chris

Mar 22, '12, 9:43 AM

My son is excited that many former Power Rangers actors will be at the comic convention in Lexington this weekend. I hope and pray they aren't rude ******s to my son. It will crush him. I think I may prepare him for the possibility.

I have luckily had pretty good experiences with all the celebrities I have met, including Prowse (who I spent the day with as a gopher when he visited our comic shop) and Adam West, who are notoriously rude. I got autographs from Billy Dee Williams and Kenny Baker for a friend and they were also pleasant. My luck will eventually run out.:biggrin:

Chris

MIB41

Mar 22, '12, 9:46 AM

Earth 2 Chris

Mar 22, '12, 10:05 AM

Thanks Tom. I believe you can, too!!!

Chris

kennermike

Mar 22, '12, 3:04 PM

Three's Company is annoying.
Good Times is just awful.

Threes Company?? thats just wrong on so many levels!

Thor

Mar 22, '12, 8:07 PM

It's hard to watch the later episodes of Lost in Space. They took the camp too far.

aquatroy

Mar 22, '12, 8:27 PM

Threes Company?? thats just wrong on so many levels!

Your right. I'm probably being to harsh. It's just that there's that one episode where Mr. Roper/Furley is standing in another room/by an open window and listens in as Jack, Janet, Crissy/Cindy/Terri are having a discussion filled with double entendre. I hate that episode.