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Most Influential TV Shows For You
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I also use to watch American Justice on A&E but that seem to have disappeared also.
Now I watch shit like Big Bang Theory and Naked Dating.
The Avengers, when I was in high school in the 60's I had a crush on Diana Rigg as Emma Peel.
Connections with James Burke, the best series of science documentaries ever. Burke would take one idea or theory and follow its development over centuries from the ancient times to the modern era. Fascinating stuff. His hour long documentary on the cam shaft, from ancient Egypt to the modern era, is the best science documentary I can remember. It took a gear we are familiar with and showed its application over several centuries. A real eye opener.
Monty Python, which taught us that anarchy is an important form of comedy. This was such a revolutionary show to those who had grown up thinking that comedy was a guy in a tuxedo telling mother in law jokes.
Here are some more clips of Diana Rigg as Emma Peel on the Avengers. I can't get enough of her. She was also a great Shakespearean actress.
Connections with James Burke, the best series of science documentaries ever. Burke would take one idea or theory and follow its development over centuries from the ancient times to the modern era. Fascinating stuff. His hour long documentary on the cam shaft, from ancient Egypt to the modern era, is the best science documentary I can remember. It took a gear we are familiar with and showed its application over several centuries. A real eye opener.
Monty Python, which taught us that anarchy is an important form of comedy. This was such a revolutionary show to those who had grown up thinking that comedy was a guy in a tuxedo telling mother in law jokes.
Here are some more clips of Diana Rigg as Emma Peel on the Avengers. I can't get enough of her. She was also a great Shakespearean actress.
* Barney Miller: Aside from a solid cast of regulars, the extras were fantastic. Thanks to Kodi I am enjoying them again. One of the funniest shows I have seen.
* Mash: A show that re-invented itself as the characters left and new ones came on board. It was fun at first and then became little more political in later seasons.
* All in the Family: Still hilarious to this day. Well written and ground breaking for what now appears to be a censored TV audience of that day.
* Two and a Half Men: Just all out fun as Charlie was a pig.
* Simpsons: From about season 2 - 7 as there were so many different writers.
* Dexter: A couple of the season sucked, but some of them were worth the viewing time.
* Shameless: The last couple of seasons have lacked the edge the others had.
Too many others to go on about...
Gotta love Kodi though, you can pretty much catch up on anything.
* Mash: A show that re-invented itself as the characters left and new ones came on board. It was fun at first and then became little more political in later seasons.
* All in the Family: Still hilarious to this day. Well written and ground breaking for what now appears to be a censored TV audience of that day.
* Two and a Half Men: Just all out fun as Charlie was a pig.
* Simpsons: From about season 2 - 7 as there were so many different writers.
* Dexter: A couple of the season sucked, but some of them were worth the viewing time.
* Shameless: The last couple of seasons have lacked the edge the others had.
Too many others to go on about...
Gotta love Kodi though, you can pretty much catch up on anything.
OK..difference between and influential and enjoyed.
As an immigrant baby boomer kid growing up in Toronto I hugely enjoyed The Three Stooges. But influence was more about learning about the values of North America: I envied Sky King, Rob Petrie, John Steed (British) and the Cartwright boys on the Ponderosa. What lives these people lived for a young boy growing up.
As an immigrant baby boomer kid growing up in Toronto I hugely enjoyed The Three Stooges. But influence was more about learning about the values of North America: I envied Sky King, Rob Petrie, John Steed (British) and the Cartwright boys on the Ponderosa. What lives these people lived for a young boy growing up.
I also have been watching since the Art Fleming days. Watching this week's shows has been unusually emotional, given that 4 day champ Cindy Stowell knew she was dying of cancer when she competed, and has passed away on Dec. 5, before her episodes aired. She donated all her winnings to cancer research. What a brave and smart woman she was. God bless her.
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I Claudius was okay but I preferred the earlier series on ancient Rome and remember staying up late to watch it on CBC way back when.
You're kidding right? I Claudius was rated X by the British Morality Board when it first came out, it was groundbreaking, Up Pompeii is just a spoof. In terms of influence it's nowhere.
Connections and Cosmos are two-thirds of the best documentary series of their day. The other was Bellamy on Botany but it seems to have disappeared without a trace. David Bellamy was warning about climate change long before it became fashionable. I can find his show nowhere.
Connections and Cosmos are two-thirds of the best documentary series of their day. The other was Bellamy on Botany but it seems to have disappeared without a trace. David Bellamy was warning about climate change long before it became fashionable. I can find his show nowhere.
Of course I was joking :frusty:
But there were many British "carry on" type series that were fun to watch, although now they seem so dated and absurd. Another that my brother and I liked was On The Buses
Bob Einstein (Super Dave) didn't do any writing for Curb Your Enthusiasm, but his list of writing credits is very long.
He is the creator of Bizarre and also wrote for The Smothers Brothers, Laugh In, Sony and Cher and Dick Van Dyke among others.
He is the creator of Bizarre and also wrote for The Smothers Brothers, Laugh In, Sony and Cher and Dick Van Dyke among others.
