Old shows that you enjoy?

[Voadam]

The last season of Tom Baker's run on Doctor Who on Tubi and the Animated Batman Series on HBO Max are in my current rotation of TV watching. I had forgotten how delightful a smart time lady companion Romana was. I am glad I can catch these old Who episodes and fill in the gaps from the ones I had seen on Netflix DVDs when I was going through everything they had. In Batman my next one is the episode where Harley Quinn breaks up with the Joker and joins forces with Poison Ivy, I really enjoyed the current Harley Quinn animated series and did not know it was entirely based off the premise of an old episode.

The 1979(?) Flash Gordon animated series was on the rotation for me as well before I ditched my amazon prime subscription this spring. I only got a few episodes in before I dropped prime but it stood up to my childhood memory much better than I was expecting. Fantastic four color fantasy adventure.

 

[the Jester]

I haven't made it through the whole thread yet, but has anyone else mentioned Airwolf, Misfits of Science, and Stingray?

 

[payn]

I haven't made it through the whole thread yet, but has anyone else mentioned Airwolf, Misfits of Science, and Stingray?

Or even

 

[Li Shenron]

A couple years ago, I re-watched Otherworld.

I thought nobody remembered that... I actually just rewatched a couple of episodes (from an old VHS! I am not sure they ever released this TV series on DVD/BRay) at a family re-union. The production and special FX are a bit sub-par, but I actually still think many of the episodes stories were pretty interesting. Generally speaking, I am quite fond of sci-fi and action failed/cancelled TV series of the 80s: I remember "Automan", "Manimal" and "Street Hawk" not lasting beyond one season.

Otherwise, I still like watching "The Twilight Zone" (80s version), which did last several years. Some episodes were a bit of a stinker, but most of them were nice, and some were gold.

 

[Sacrosanct]

There are a lot that I enjoy (being old myself). But I'll narrow it down to those I still go back an watch.

Do these count as old?

 

[Ryujin]

I thought nobody remembered that... I actually just rewatched a couple of episodes (from an old VHS! I am not sure they ever released this TV series on DVD/BRay) at a family re-union. The production and special FX are a bit sub-par, but I actually still think many of the episodes stories were pretty interesting. Generally speaking, I am quite fond of sci-fi and action failed/cancelled TV series of the 80s: I remember "Automan", "Manimal" and "Street Hawk" not lasting beyond one season.

Otherwise, I still like watching "The Twilight Zone" (80s version), which did last several years. Some episodes were a bit of a stinker, but most of them were nice, and some were gold.

Do you remember "Mann and Machine"?

 

[dragoner]

Heh, I just recently watched the old Kolchak TV series a few months ago. I'd never seen it, and never thought to watch it until @Ryujin, i think, mentioned it here several months ago.
I'm currently slowly making my way through the 1970s Japanese TV series Zatoichi.
A couple years ago, I re-watched Otherworld. It was hokey but fun, and pretty much exactly what I was expecting from a TV show barely remembered by a 1980s kid 40 years after the fact. I'm also vaguely curious to revisit the short-lived 1979 TV show Salvage 1 with Any Griffith, but I haven't quite mustered the courage.

I loved Otherworld when it came out, like with the memory audits on the androids.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Do you remember "Mann and Machine"?

Witchblade.... Yancy Butler was a badass...



On the subject of rewatching old stuff, I still say that Babylon 5 holds up to modern scrutiny as long as you choose to see the CGI as a stylistic choice. Some of the episodes are a bit corny, true, but in general the writing was good.

Oh, just remembered, I found the first season of China Beach on dvd a couple months ago at the Goodwill...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I haven't made it through the whole thread yet, but has anyone else mentioned Airwolf, Misfits of Science, and Stingray?

Stingray was my least favourite Gerry Anderson show. I think because they spent too much time on romance subplots which were not very interesting, at least at the age I was at the time.

 

[Dioltach]

Does anyone remember The Persuaders? Roger Moore and Tony Curtis as a pair of crime-fighting playboys. I saw it in the 1980s and adored it. I was probably about 10 or 12 at the time. I wonder whether it retains any of its charm.