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Which old TV show gives you the warm and fuzzies?
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:20 pm
by Skronk_Archive
M*A*S*H and the Twilight Zone. I don't watch much tv, but I'll catch these two whenever I can.
Which old TV show gives you the warm and fuzzies?
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:20 pm
by Wheely_Archive
WKRP end credits song:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/sounds/wkrpincincinnatiending.wav
Regarding WKRP re-runs, the way I understand it is there were/are massive problems licensing some of the music they used to play, which explains why there's no massive box set.
EDIT: (i looked it up)
Music licensing
The show was one of the earliest to use extensively contemporary music by big groups and artists of the time such as Foreigner, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Queen, The Eagles, Styx, Supertramp, Elvis Presley, The Kinks, Jerry Lee Lewis, Deep Purple, Blondie, KISS, Joe Walsh, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Doors and Talking Heads to name a few . The songs were often tied into the plot of the episode. Music licensing deals cut at the time of production were for a limited amount of time (approximately ten years). In addition, the show was videotaped rather than filmed because it was cheaper to get the rights to rock songs for a taped show.[citation needed] Once the licenses expired, later syndicated versions of the show did not feature the music as first broadcast, but rather generic "sound-alikes" by studio musicians in order to avoid paying additional royalties. In some cases (when the music was playing in the background of a dialogue scene), some of the characters' lines had to be redubbed by sound-alike actors. This was evident in all prints of the show issued since the early 1990s, which included its brief late-1990s run on Nick at Nite.
As a result, production on a WKRP DVD was delayed for years because of the expense of procuring music licenses. It was feared that fans would reject edited versions. Sales of first-season DVD sets of Roseanne and The Cosby Show suggested that viewers prefer original, uncut episodes. However, as was done with many other television series, the DVD release of WKRP in Cincinnati - Season One has much of the music replaced by generic substitutes. In addition, some scenes have been cut or truncated and voice overs used to avoid using unlicensed musical content.[7]
Which old TV show gives you the warm and fuzzies?
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:31 pm
by John George Peppers_Archive
Ty Webb wrote:Damn. WKRP. I wish reruns were still on somewhere. I've got 700 fucking channels and no WKRP reruns? RIP-OFF!
Hello Jennifer.
Which old TV show gives you the warm and fuzzies?
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:37 pm
by okra_Archive
This reads like a who's who of my early television years.
Barney Miller, WKRP, SWAT, Starsky & Hutch, Muppet Show, Johnny Quest... The Munsters...
I still need to learn that bass line from Barney Miller.
Which old TV show gives you the warm and fuzzies?
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:08 pm
by The Code is Almighty_Archive
The Fall Guy. I vaguely remember it being something I loved when I was around six years old.
When I was 18-19 I found an old cassette tape and decided to play it on the way to work. It turned out to be a recording of me at 6 singing along to the Fall Guy's opening song.
Hott times.
Which old TV show gives you the warm and fuzzies?
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:48 pm
by Colonel Panic_Archive
Which old TV show gives you the warm and fuzzies?
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:27 pm
by ubercat_Archive
Wow. I forgot Taxi. I must be high or something. Oh. Yeah. I'm not stoned. K. Sec...
...did I mention that I love TAXI. I'm a Kaufman nut. OK. Just a nut then.
Sanford & Son. Oh man. What a great show. Poor Red. He went through such hell for that show...
Which old TV show gives you the warm and fuzzies?
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:34 pm
by Minotaur029_Archive
Taxi, The Simpsons (the kick-ass years), Early SNL through Joe Piscopo/Eddie Murphy/Tim Kazurinsky(<-kidding!)-era, then the SNL early '90s era (it was practically two different shows), SCTV, Magnum p.i., Sesame Street, Dragnet, Get Smart...
...there's probably more.
Which old TV show gives you the warm and fuzzies?
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:10 pm
by stewie_Archive
The Brits are quite absent from this thread. What's wrong, Englishers?
Think shows like Coupling are better than "Open University lab #243 - Fluid Mechanics"?
Which old TV show gives you the warm and fuzzies?
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:23 pm
by The MayorofRockNRoll_Archive
I wanted to say- and there would be a ring of truth to it- that old tv really just depressed me and creeped me out, like I couldn't believe how much life I'd fucked away suckling the cathode tyt.
However...yeah, Welcome Back Kotter. I'd catch it on syndication in my adolescence and think "y'know...fuck...this show was funny."
Yes...early SNL, and The Twilight Zone. I remember being a tot and liking the Twilight Zone simply for all the weird twist endings. Then, late last year, I was hanging out with a girl who had cable (and fed me) and there was a TZ marathon on the Sci-Fi channel. Sure, some of them were eye-rolling, groaning hokum, but the ones that weren't I'd come to appreciate as well crafted filmmaking.
What else was there...oh yeah, nobody's mentioned Night Flight yet.