Old shows that you enjoy?

[nyvinter]

"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."

It's a bit like when Showtime decided to cancel Odyssey 5 because "we're not interested in science fiction right now" despite it was their number one show ratingswise.

 

[trappedslider]

(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.)

I tried to get back into that, since i enjoy Law and Order but I couldn't handle the way they filmed it. I do know abut the single episode that's just in the interrogation room

 

[Richards]

Here's another one I just thought of; we used to watch it on our PBS station many years back.

Blakes 7
It had early Doctor Who-like levels of special effects (due to the same reason: budget constraints), but excellent characters, concepts, and imaginative writing, even if almost every planet they went down to looked remarkably like the same gravel quarry. And it had one of the most famous series ending scenes in science fiction history.

I'm basing a new PC in an upcoming D&D campaign on a character from this show: Kerr Avon.

Johnathan

 

[Ulfgeir]

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.)

Homicide: Life in the Streets, is that the rather gritty show that took place in Baltimore? If,so I liked it. Also was a fan of E.R. Back in the days.

 

[jian]

Deep Space 9, obviously. Though I personally don’t think that should count, because I’m going to count “stuff that was first on TV when I was a child.” So instead, I’ll promote these two, which first aired in the U.K. 1980-2 (I was 5-7 years old) and which I remember watching when they were first broadcast in England.

Star Fleet was the U.K. adaptation of X-Bomber, a Japanese puppet show and my first introduction to the tropes of sci-fi anime. It was awesome. The Brian May theme helped.


Huckleberry Finn and His Friends was a Canadian-German production and mostly filmed in and around Vancouver, where I now live, especially at the Burnaby Village Museum and on the Samson V paddlewheeler (which I can just about see from my window, it’s a museum now).

 

[nyvinter]

Homicide: Life in the Streets, is that the rather gritty show that took place in Baltimore? If,so I liked it. Also was a fan of E.R. Back in the days.

Yes. And shares a lot of people with the later show in the same city, the Wire.

 

[Mercurius]

Depends what you mean by old, but I still re-watch Seinfeld and the Office - the two peaks of sitcom comedy, imo.

The Twilight Zone is always great. I still love the X-Files, but more the idea and the Scully-Mulder chemistry (best in TV history?), less so the execution.

 

[Tonguez]

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

As an AI talking head its almost prophetic!