What Shows did you grow up Watching?

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  1. redarmy11 Registered Senior Member

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    Sometimes life starts to imitate itself.

    What's your favourite reality show?
     
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  3. Clown Banned Banned

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    There is no reality show. It's duplicity duplicating itself and putting it on display.

    But I love that English Chef Ramsey or something.
    An asshole.
     
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  5. pasquala Living on a Prayer Registered Senior Member

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    How about SOAP?
     
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  7. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Hmm, we did not have a television growing up (or at least I did not, the rest of the litter did have it longer), so we listened to the radio.

    My favorite shows were Hawa Mahal which was a short skit that came on in the evening, the news and of course the comedy shows (Santojan ki Mehfil comes to mind)

    When we finally did get television, it was a black and white rabbit ears (a Grundig, IIRC), and we watched it sparingly, mostly I love Lucy, Der Alte (a German detective series), Didi's comedy show (another German series), Il était une fois... l'homme (a French series translated in English), Fireball XL5 (I wish I was a spaceman, the fastest guy alive...). There was also a German game show between towns called Telematch, which was awesome, because it was so silly!

    In my teens, I recall watching Derrick, Captain Kirk in Star Trek and Spiderman (Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can...). Loads and loads of British television, Some mothers do have 'em, Are you being served?, Sorry, Fawlty Towers, To the Manor Born, Yes, Minister and the very excellent Mind Your Language. At that point, we stopped getting German and other European suff, which was a pity. I missed Telematch.

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    Somewhere around this time, we graduated to a color television, a NikiTasha, made in India woohoo, almost a decade after the black and white.

    We did start getting kungfu films from Asia instead. There was a channel that was on for a very short time, called HomeTV and they showed The blood stained intrigue (story of red and blue swords), Zu mountain saga, Brothers under the skin, Land of the condors, The other side of the horizon, Legend of the condor heroes, The hunter's prey.

    Around this time we started getting more American TV shows, like Three's Company, Different Strokes, Family Ties, The Wonder Years that I recall watching; much later cable TV came in (5 years later in our home than everyone else, of course

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    ) but it was mostly soaps and stuff that I barely followed like Dallas and Dynasty etc. I was in college at the time and had better things to do than watch television.

    There were lots of Indian shows that I watched, like Nukkad (the village square), Buniyaad (the foundation, a tory of a family torn apart by partition), Hum Log (We, the People; the travails of a middle class family with aspirations), Chunauti (the warning, an excellent series of how drugs can destroy young lives) and Ek Kahani (One Story). The last was an excellent dramatisation of short stories and plays from world literature dramatised in an Indian context. It was one of the best shows I have ever seen.

    I'm sure I've missed many.

    edit: there was a lot of Tom and Jerry, Top Cat and the Pink Panther at some point, across the black and white and colour television stage.

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  8. John99 Banned Banned

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    How did you watch all those shows with no t.v?
     
  9. superstring01 Moderator

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    Star Trek: The Next Generation
    Different Strokes
    Gimme' A Break
    Facts Of Life
    A Team
    St. Elsewhere
    MacGyver
    Mork & Mindy
    My Two Dads
    Mannimal
    Knight Rider
    Punky Brewster
    Miami Vice (ahem, Counte)
    Airwolf
    Cagny & Lacy
    Greatest American Hero
    Buck Rogers
    The Cosby Show
    Cheers
    Growing Pains
    Family Ties
    Mr. Belvedere
    Night Court
    Full House
    Small Wonder
    Soap
    Alf
    Three's Company
    Silver Spoons
    Empty Nest
    Too Close For Comfort
    All In The Family
    M.A.S.H.
    Happy Days

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  10. John99 Banned Banned

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    Threes Company *****
     
  11. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    We got a TV when I was eight, I think. Plus, I never actually watched any one show completely.
     
  12. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    :bravo: :roflmao:

    Almost forgot that one, it was one of my all time favorites!! Thanks for reminding me about it!

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  13. shorty_37 Go! Canada Go! Registered Senior Member

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    Yup I watched these ones too. How could I forget Threes Company I watched that one almost everyday afterschool.

    Cagney and Lacy, watched that too. It reminds me I forgot I also watched

    Hill Street Blues, remember that one?
    TAXI

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  14. John99 Banned Banned

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    Oh, sorry. Did you not like t.v or were the shows mediocre?
     
  15. shorty_37 Go! Canada Go! Registered Senior Member

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    Who's The Boss

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    Okay I need help with one. It was a Police Drama that came on at night. There was a short older guy kinda bald mustache.
    His partner was really tall, dark hair and kind of darker skinned. ?????????????????? It is driving me nuts, can't think of the name.
     
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  16. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Cannon?:shrug:
     
  17. shorty_37 Go! Canada Go! Registered Senior Member

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    No....OMG it's driving me nuts.
     
  18. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    It was just habitual at home not to have the TV on in the daytime; we did other things, with four of us at home, there was no dearth of options

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    . I don't think we ever turned on the TV until after 8 pm. Of course, its all changed now.
     
  19. Clown Banned Banned

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    Imprecise, SAM has put a lot of thinknig into what (s)he's been watching.
    Too bad it ends there.
     
  20. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    I have a great memory for incidental stuff. You don't want me reading your posts too carefully, I'll come back to haunt you.

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  21. Clown Banned Banned

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    I'm sure.

    Please don't. You might find ingredients for your future straw men....or, may the gods forbid, you might find truths.
     
  22. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Oh for heavens sake, not already!
     
  23. Clown Banned Banned

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    Already for what?
     

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