Gott'a be the weirdest damn kids show I ever saw. That "Freddy the Flute" yappin in that kids pocket was scary.
My Ex & I were doing the Santa thing one Eve & they had a Puff-a-Palooza on all night (on Nick) for the parents staying up assembling bikes & stuff. We were laughing so hard we almost didn't get to bed before she woke up.......
Puffinstuff was one of my favourites as a kid as well, how about the Banana Splits, sounding like the Monkees.
Bruno
"Shhhhhaving cream, be nice and clean
shave every day and you'll always look keen."
I don't know about all time, but one of the best current US series is "Grey's Anatomy." It's a hospital ensemble drama following a small group of first-year (well, I guess they'll be second year now?) surgical interns as they deal with medical and personal crises. The premise is pretty tired, but it has some of the most consistently excellent screenwriting, directing, and acting on TV. The cast is top notch; titular character Ellen Pompeo and adulterous love interest Patrick Dempsey get much of the limelight, but the rest of the cast fill in the show and make it sing -- particularly the sardonic Sandra Oh and sheepish T.R. Knight, both of whom "occupy" their characters with the deftness and ease of actors decades their seniors. Two opposable digits way up!
Another sleeper show that I loved in its day was a college comedy called "Undeclared." The writing and acting were surprisingly good there, too. My favorite episode featured Will Farrell playing the drug-fried derelict genius character who becomes a permanent college-town fixture -- always down for a slice of pie, a quick bowl or two, and back-door deals to write your term papers. I'll have to see if that's out on DVD; it was really clever.
I can't really have one favorite TV show of all time....I don't like most television but when I do come across a show, I really get into it. The four that stand out to me are Star Trek TNG, The X-Files, Firefly and Carnivale. Firefly and Carnivale both deserved much longer runs than they got. It's almost criminal that Firefly only lasted half a season!
If you want to have a great time for around 25 dollars, with a space drama melded with a western that will keep you on the edge of your seat the entire time, buy Firefly off amazon
With The Grain wrote:Seinfeld and cheers for me and Johnny you're right about the cast of Everbody loves Raymod, the parents are hilarious
I swear that they were living in my house growing up, cause the Mom IS my mom... same clothes same hair same backhanded compliments.... everyone in my family swears they were spying on our house growing up.... and the Dad is as funny as anything!
ScottS wrote:There are so many, but I'd feel remiss if I didn't point out the the
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" moment on WKRP gets my vote for funniest sitcom moment of all time.
Ahh, Les Nessman. Good stuff.
BTW, Bailey wins hands down as the show hottie.
Bailey Quarters... now she was WAY hotter than that Loni Anderson chick!
ScottS wrote:There are so many, but I'd feel remiss if I didn't point out the the
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" moment on WKRP gets my vote for funniest sitcom moment of all time.
Aah, Les Nessman. Good stuff.
BTW, Bailey wins hands down as the show hottie.
Bailey Quarters... now she was WAY hotter than that Loni Anderson chick!
Perhaps it's a sign of impending maturity or something, but realising that Bailey was hotter that Jennifer (Lonnie Anderson) was a common occurrence among my cohorts.
I remember, when I was 16, driving down to a local drugstore and buying a poster of a very scantily clad Lonnie, and sheepishly hanging it in my room. My mother was scandalized. My father grudginly appreciative. The sad thing was, there was no poster sold of Bailey Quarters!
WKRP was (besides Magnum, PI) one of the all time greats...
WKRP was one of the reasons I became a DJ! Those were the days!
Randy
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." J. B. Books
"Emergency" had a continuity problem. They would leave in a Ford and return in a Dodge, or just the opposite. I guess those guys really were miracle workers!
Randy
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." J. B. Books
I liked "Gunsmoke" and more recently have enjoyed "Bordertown" (1989-1991) ... in the latter the characters had similar relationships to those of "Gunsmoke" and the show was always wholesome entertainment.
I also liked "Star Trek: Enterprise" because Jolene Blalock was in it.
"Emergency" had a continuity problem. They would leave in a Ford and return in a Dodge, or just the opposite. I guess those guys really were miracle workers!
Randy
I loved this show when I was a little kid. I spose if I watched it now it'd look completely different.
I sent letters to them and they sent me autographed pictures, although they might have been just printed, now that I think of it. I still have them . . . somewhere . . .
Current Favorites
HOUSE M.D.
Boston Legal
Alias
Dead Zone
Monk
The 4400
Peter
"Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd
His skin was pale and his eye was odd,
he shaved the faces of gentlemen who never
there after were heard of again. He trod a path
that few have trod, did Sweeney Todd,
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
