Old shows that you enjoy?

[nyvinter]

I have either seen, or at least heard of most of those, but "Sandbaggers" is a new one on me. You did, however, remind me of "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin."

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - title sequence

Beautiful intro to the 70s TV show. Please see my interpretation of this in my videos...

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Sandbaggers was the number one inspiration for Greg Rucka's Queen & Country comic — a bit less cold war than the Sandbaggers tv show obviously. Both highly recommended.

 

[nyvinter]

Callan. Edward Woodward as a spy who shouldn't be out in the field because he's already broken as heck. And yet his bosses keep using him. Unfortunately a lot of episodes are missing.

 

[Ryujin]

Married...With Children

Which took it to ridiculous levels. I still want a Ferguson.

 

[Ulfgeir]

Well some of my favourites have already been mentioned...

Babylon 5
Firefly
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

I also thought Captain Powers and the Soldiers of Future was quite interesting back then, even if it was VERY cheesy.

Here are some others that I really liked:

La Femme Nikita. A pity only season 1 came out on DVD.

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Jim Henson's Storyteller

Space: Above & Beyond

Once upon a time: Space
Also loved the original one with history.

For mini-series
The Spyship

 

[trappedslider]

ohh space above and beyond

 

[Doc_Klueless]

Mannix. Love Mannix.

 

[Ryujin]

Well some of my favourites have already been mentioned...

Babylon 5
Firefly
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

I also thought Captain Powers and the Soldiers of Future was quite interesting back then, even if it was VERY cheesy.

Here are some others that I really liked:

La Femme Nikita. A pity only season 1 came out on DVD.


CI5 - The professionals


Jim Henson's Storyteller


Space: Above & Beyond


Once upon a time: Space
Also loved the original one with history.

For mini-series
The Spyship

"Space: Above and Beyond" had a huge following, but seemingly not huge enough for Fox. It was a really good show, even considering the usual tendency for improbably attractive "soldiers."

Mannix. Love Mannix.

Same, as well as any of those action adventure police/PI series from the same time. And there was also the NBC Tuesday mystery movies; Columbo, McMillan and Wife, McCloud...

 

[trappedslider]

"Space: Above and Beyond" had a huge following, but seemingly not huge enough for Fox. It was a really good show, even considering the usual tendency for improbably attractive "soldiers."

yeah and ending on a cliff hanger One of the things that sucks is some shows when they got put on DVD didn't include auto play for the next episode.

EDIT: I lost track of sliders when it moved from fox to syfy but i did catch up on how it went from getting home to fighting interdimensional lizards.

 

[Ryujin]

yeah and ending on a cliff hanger One of the things that sucks is some shows when they got put on DVD didn't include auto play for the next episode.

EDIT: I lost track of sliders when it moved from fox to syfy but i did catch up on how it went from getting home to fighting interdimensional lizards.

I pretty much dropped it after they swapped O'Connells and the lizard thing was a bit much. Loved it before that, though.

 

[nyvinter]

Max Headroom has aged surprisingly well — the channel 4 movie more so than the tv-show.

And while I personally don't consider it old, Farscape is 25 years or so now. Still amazing.

(A friend and I are currently rewatching Homicide: Life In the Streets. Recommended if you haven't as it deal with a lot of things in a pretty realistic way. Like forced confessions and families affected by homicide. The Robin Williams episode in second season in particular.)