The Wonder Years
Last of the Summer Wine
Porridge

Morecambe and Wise
The Two Ronnies

Cinemax After Dark

Get Smart.

Which I discovered is now on DVD.

Which also means there's something my mom can get me for Chanukkah (she always asks me what I want, I always say "nothing")

The Muppet Show.

burun wrote:Get Smart.

Which I discovered is now on DVD.

Which also means there's something my mom can get me for Chanukkah (she always asks me what I want, I always say "nothing")

The Muppet Show.

Yeah, I was going to mention "Get Smart".

I think "Get Smart" was actually a take-off on "The Avengers". I think Mel Brooks did a bit of the writing for the show.

"Missed me by that much".

I loved the cone of silence and the shoe phone.

Mark Hansen wrote:I think Mel Brooks did a bit of the writing for the show.

Mel Brooks and Buck Henry.

Super obvious choice from anyone with a UK 70s/80s childhood - anything from Smallfilms/Oliver Postgate but especially Bagpuss and The Clangers, totally magical and immersive worlds, I felt the loneliness of outer space during the opening narration of the Clangers. I’m less concerned with Ivor The Engine but I do recall watching it at 5.35 on very dark Autumnal evenings and have a nostalgic fondness for it. That pre-news slot was also home to Paddington - here in French! Sacrilege! and Roobarb and Custard which are both delightful in their own very different ways. (A misguided playground rumour had it that Jimi Hendrix played the R&C opening theme!)

cjh wrote:Bagpuss

This would have creeped me out as a kid!

Kyle Motor wrote:Dukes of Hazzard. Can't help it, its too good.

Rog wrote:They even had a Friday, late night, horror host.
Uncle...something. He had a plush stuffed shark, Sharky,
that he used as a makeshift ventriloquist dummy.
If anyone remembers his name, please let me know.

Oh man, that reminds me of Chiller Theater out of Green Bay, hosted by Ned The Dead. They played all sorts of terrible old horror movies, even Ed Wood stuff like Glen Or Glenda. I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and guess that those HiFi fellas were fans of Chiller Theater.

I have mentioned Ned the Dead to Rog many a time. I remember watching him when I was a wee lad. He is still on and whenever I am up North on a Saturday night I always find myself ending my night with some Chiller Theatre. The sad thing is is that I can pick his voice up on the various radio shows and commercials he is on. He got cancelled a long time back but re-emerged (sp? tmidgett) to my joy when I realized the wonders of marijuana. It is my arguement that in the late eighties and early nineties Ned the Dead was taken off of the air because to many coke heads wanted to dance to C&C Music Factory.

LAVERNE & SHIRLEY...

glynnisjohns wrote:Friday The 13th the series.

Me too, weirdly.