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dncsky1530 writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports: It babysat generations, distracted countless teenagers from homework and, as Homer Simpson sagely observed about television, became our 'teacher, mother, secret lover'. Sure, the shows may have been ludicrous - think Webster, The A-Team, Charles In Charge - but they became part of our lives nonetheless. So what do you do when they end? Immortalise them online. At least, you do if you're a diehard fan - and there are plenty of them out there. Look up a show, any show, and the odds are there'll be at least one fan site, possibly with a tinny version of the soundtrack playing in the background and certainly with photos galore, plot lines, trivia as well as 'where are they now?' information on the actors."
and to think, people used to say the internet was for research!
David Hasselhoff + Talking car == quality.
Who is this Homer Simpson you speak of?
http://www.beyourowneviloverlord.tk
http://www.frozenchickenthrowing.tk
http://www.killercamel.tk
Worst story ever.
I have been pwned because my
What exactly is this story supposed to be about? Why is this newsworthy?
Sigs are for the weak.
the popularity and fanaticism of family guy on the web contributed to it getting put back on the air.
Yes, and soon we'll look back onto the present round of TV as "The good old days", just as our parents, and theirs before them.
Jump the shark site has info about hundreds and hundreds of TV shows, and the point at which they started going south.
Indefinitely Detained US Citizen
However, watching old reruns on cable, i can't believe how bad some of them were. Magnum PI, stands the test of time (though the fight scenes seem corny), but for the rest, they seem stuck in the past. I've moved on.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
http://www.tvtome.com/list/all.html
Very extensive site for tv shows animated or otherwise includes episode lists & guides as well as all people accociated with them.
It's not my site but one I consult regularly.
The GEEK shall inherit the earth...
We need the wisdom of Herman's Head now, more than ever.
- Comic Book Guy.
Someday someone will come up with a fansite for Slashdot, remembering when it used to be about news for nerds, stuff that matters.
...is that most of the TV shows I loved as a kid are best left as fond memories. Trying to watch even one episode of them again as an adult wasn't the enjoyable dose of nostalgia that I expected-- instead I was just sitting there thinking, 'Wow, this is so corny, how did I ever think this was a cool show?' I'm talking about stuff like CHiPs, Knight Rider, The Dukes of Hazzard, etc.
If "I Love the 80's" has given you the urge to set your TiVo to pick up a few episodes of some show they talked about, trust me-- ignore that urge.
jesus christ someone actually liked full house? are they blind and just read the scripts in brail or something? even bob saget had to admit he "sucked dick for coke" because of what the show did to him..
sad.
Is there an IMDB type site for TV yet? That would be a lot better than trying to find that "one fan site" for the old obscure show that you, and only you, loved. It would have to be tons bigger than IMDB, though.
...why the internet should be destroyed.
To answer the question "So what do you do when they end", one only needs to look at the ending of Truman Show.
People just find the remote and switch channel.
Funny enough though, Truman Show itself has plenty of fan sites immortalizing the show.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
I'm just waiting for jump the shark for websites. Then there can be retro fan sites about retro-tv sites. "Remember that A-team site..."
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Sure, I spent my early years watching Mister Rogers and Gi Joe. Then came Webster, the A-Team and Dukes of Hazard. Then came Gi joe and Transformers. Then came Duck Tales and Saved by the bell. Then came Porn and the Screensavers on Tech TV. Thank you for making me so messed up.
Methinks someone's waxing misty over the end of Friends.
You are not the customer.
One day, at a science fiction con, I was glancing across one of those large tables full of videotapes of, shall we say, dubious provenance, when I noticed, at the left edge of a box full of old TV shows, a tape labelled "AIR WOLF / THE A-TEAM".
I'm somewhat ashamed to say that my initial thought was, "That has got to be the worst bit of slash ever written."
Ludicrous?! A-team was a darn sight better than the crap on TV today. Young whippersnappers... Why, when I was your age we were lucky to have a color TV!
DRM 'manages access' in the same way that a prison 'manages freedom'
When TV actually had scripts & people that did acting for a living. None of this lame deserted on an island with people whom you have to team up with, then betray dittohead crap.
It's all about the quality of shows. Even if if a few of us didn't like them, you have to admit that TV back then was worth watching.
I haven't had a TV for almost 20 years...have I missed anything?
President ISES
(International Society for Elimination of Sigs)
For those who don't know, 'Jumping the Shark' is a reference to an episode in 'Happy Days' in which at the end of the show, the fonze is shown trying to water-ski a jump over a pool of sharks, in order to get more people to watch the following weeks episode which will show if he makes it. A reference to a show 'jumping the shark' means that whatever made that show unique and watchable is gone/going and thus the show must resort to gimmicks to keep it interesting.
"What can a thoughtful man hope for mankind on Earth, given the experience of the past million years? Nothing." -Bokonon
YOu guys really can't take a joke. Of course I know who Homer is and I watch TV
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For the 5 people in existence who haven't heard them, they're here
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I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
"ONCE EVERY CELEBRITY IN THE UNIVERSE MADE A GUEST APPEARANCE."
according to this comment
P.S. And if the new planet is teeming with intelligent life, have can you call it earth like????
Nothing to see here
Snpp.com Very extensive information on the Simpsons, reviews, ratings, transcripts, and any other information you could care to know about the show. Interesting to read the "did you notice?" part for each episode. Lots of information, and even info about episodes to come.
I read the article and thought, we know, we're nerds and fanboys. Maybe tomorrow we'll get a story posted about how some people have sort of online diaries that other people read and sometimes attract loads of readers, or that recently some dirty pictures have started appearing on the "Information Super Highway".
You call me a pedant? I prefer the term "correct"
Damn good thing this story was put on the front page of /. otherwise i would have never known about this "internet" that you speak of. ;)
Man, so much more to this world than I ever knew
who posted this story....
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
Hey, remember surfing over to Slash.... what was that place.... oh, yeah, Slashdot, that's it.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
Commander USA's Groovy Movies (IMDB) was a favorite, I remember seeing the crappy B movie that got made into Little Shop of Horrors.. another favorite was Higgins Boys and Gruber
meh
One site they forgot to mention was Digital Archive Project. They use a P2P community for the legal trading of cancelled shows. They're very good about removing things that go to video or are otherwise re-sold. It's kinda nice to see someone using P2P for something legal and worthwhile. Lots of animated series, comedy shows, and sci-fi/fantasy series. (the. Worth a click.
"Not all who wander are lost" -- JRR Tolkien
Called "Star Trek." I don't know if anyone else remembers it. Anyway, I was bored one day, and I did some searching on Google, and amazingly, there was a website for it! I was shocked... someone out there enjoyed the adventures of Captain Kirk and the Enterprise as much as I did!
Ya know, you sit back and watch reruns of "A-Team", "Knight Rider", "Greatest American Hero", etc (only when you're sick in bed, of course...) and go "holy crap, how in the hell did I watch this?" You laugh as bullets go flying everywhere and miss people, but cars explode. Or when you see the hood of the General Lee (Dukes of Hazzard for you kids that don't know) get crumpled to all hell from jumping over a dirt pile (huh?) but then it's all fixed as they speed down the road. I sure get a good laugh.
BUT...in 20 years when people look back at OUR shows, they're gonna think we're a bunch of morons. Ohhhhh..."American Idol" is amazing! Or today's "reality" shows like "I Married a 7'3" Midget" and such. THAT'S going to be scary...looking back at today's stuff. Egads...
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
There is no show in the 80s better than Transformers. Many shows were good, but this was by far the most original.
Not to mention this is the only show where guns really do damage. For example, nobody can hit a target in GIJOE. When the autobots fire a laser beam, decepticons really get it up the ass.
We live in a world where some people are literally obsessed with TV (Probably a fair deal of \.ers. People actually go home on Friday nights to make sure they catch the new episode of whatever. It's really sad when a website dedicated to saving the TV show Angel (http://www.renewangel.com/) is considered a charity! Maybe it is a great show (try not to laugh...) but honestly...that money could be used to...I don't know...fight cancer?
Every windows user is a sadomasochist.
How did I manage to miss all of Family Guy during its first run? Was it the disturbing chin visualization that turned me off? Was it my prejudice against cheap tricks like talking dogs AND babies? Since the reruns I learned to love Family Guy for the very first time and find Stewie and Brian to be my favorite characters (along with that creepy old man)
"Young whippersnappers... Why, when I was your age we were lucky to have a color TV!"
Back in your day, everything was handcranked...even grandma.
Does it matter if shows go off the air? Does it matter if there are coutless fan sites put up by people trying to hold onto some insignificant part of their past in order to keep feeling young? Are TV shows just pale mirror images of those that came before or is there true innovation?
I guess the biggest question I put to you is this.
Have TV shows become a reflection of society or has society become a reflection of TV shows? Who is to blame for the crap in there and the crap out here?
Really, what else would it be?
The CB App. What's your 20?
Recently saw cable reruns of Land of Lost which was quite an influential show from my childhood. I was worried the cheesy production values would betray my found memories, but I've since developed a crushing addiction to copious amounts of hydroponics, and found the special effects really held up quite nicely after all those years.
When is Meow TV (the complete series) coming out on DVD?
I remember as a child, I did enjoy watching The Greatest American Hero. Thanks to P2P file sharing systems, I was able to watch the entire series including The Greatest American Heroine... and I fear I lost a few brain cells.
It's nice to know my TV wasn't screw nor am I nuts for thinking they mispelt Hinkley on the blackboard in the 2nd season, and the fact that they seemed to add in some car noise when ever they were about to say "Hinkley" rather then "Hankley. It gives me some comfort that my memory was correct, but I really had to force my self to continue watching this particular brand of cheese in the hopes of getting some enjoyment out of it. I failed.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
anyone remeber Chris whatshisname's Get a Life? funny show.
Herman's Head? weird show.
tv has had some really off the chart attempts at comedy. remember that show from the 80s with the robotic girl? oh wow, creepy!@#!$
This seems like the perfect time to mention the fact that under original copyright law, the television shows you remembered watching as a child would fall under the public domain at some point in your lifetime.
Music, television shows, movies -- all these are stolen from the public by excessive copyright terms. Copyright was supposed to encourage "content developers" to share the fruits of their labors so that the public could benefit from (and eventually take ownership of) their works.
Lately I keep thinking of a short bit of an Arthur C. Clark's "2061: Odyssey Three" in which Haywood Floyd remembers a bit of an old tune and considers asking his computer to help him to find the actual song. It strikes me as quite sad that because we seem to have forgotten the benefits of copyright expiration, it's likely that whatever old tunes I try to remember in 2061 will probably still be controlled as tightly as possible by the recording industry.
I feel like the media industries beat me up and stole my lunch money.
Somebody get that guy an ambulance!
...was for The Adventures of Li'l Bill & Hill and Friends. The best Saturday Morning Cartoon that ever wasn't.
Better not be callin' Mr. T. ludicrous, fool!
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Stepping out of the dark for a moment this is proably the best Airwolf soundtrack out there. Try the samples and you'll see.
Anyone else ever notice if you watched A LOT, as in mostly/only B&W TV you could learn to differentiate colors ? I will never forget the very first A-Team , maybe it was the pilot, Murdock was flying around in his Biplane, the interesting thing is I only had a B&W TV the next day at school a friend who knew I had a B&W in my room said hey chris what color was the plane ? Red I replie, how the hell did you know that he asked, uhhh I donno, so I started intentionally watching for this phenomena, 9 times out of 10 I could tell the color of something accuratley on a B&W TV. wierd......
Riptide Fan Page
From the site:
Welcome aboard the Riptide, home of the world-famous Riptide Detective Agency. Meet, from left to right, Murray Bozinsky, computer expert, inventer of the Roboz, Nick Ryder, pilot of the Screaming Mimi, an old Sikorsky helicopter with a big smile on its 'face', and Cody Allen, owner of the Riptide.
Sadly, this seems to be one of the few (or only?) Riptide fan sites around - most people don't even remember this series (it only lasted a few seasons, IIRC)...
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
Anyone remember Whiz kids? It lasted only one season but was the first television show to present geeks as a role model.
-Vercingetorix
"Necessitas non habet legem." -St. Augustine
> One of the funniest lines ever spoken.
okay, Mr. PostAtMinusOne. then explain it.
I'm the first to admit, the concept of the transformers was cool, but the TV show was not. I guess I was a touch too old to enjoy it as other did, but I couldn't look past the fact that it was simply the same plot over and over again. Good guys see the bad buys doing bad things. Good guys get ass whiped, then regroup, and whip the bad guys ass, followed by some post resolution joke, laugher, and the same thing all over agian.
I have a vague memeory of someone at one time robbing a bank with the Megatron Transformer, and after this all faux-guns sold in america were requried to have an orange tip to denote the fact they were toys.
Now if you were to talk about Starblasers, it at least had a story arc to follow, sub plots, as well as a representation of imperial Japan. Transformers was pretty low on the redeming quality scale... as with things like Thundercats and Voltron.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
If you thought the Dukes of Hazzard and Kight Rider were bad... it's a far cry from "Neighbours" and the Australian "Young Talent Time".
"Full House" is slow torture compared to "Young Talent Time".
There was a time for everything 80s... and that was in the 80s.
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A while back, a bunch of us, for whatever reason, were arguing what the Hamburgler used to say. Whether is was "robble robble", or "rabble rabble". We debated this for 5 minutes, no fooling. Just kept going on and on, until someone suggested, "Why don't you just find out at a Hamburgler fan site?".
After that sentence, we all just fell silent. It was an absolutely strange suggestion when you thought about it, but we also realized that they probably do exist.
And lo and behold, Google didn't just find one, it found about a dozen. We laughed, both at the idea of googling for it, and the sad truth that there are Hamburgler fansites out there.
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COP ROCK
Yes, Cop Rock, a show where the characters would break out into song at key moments. I believe only five episodes were shown before the show was fed to the shark. In fact, this show's concept was so bad it jumped before one single line of script was written. I seriously don't know what Bochco was thinking, as well as the execs who green-lighted this. What piece of blackmail did Bochco have on them to get this aired?
Anyway, if you can find some video of this (as well as Mexican wrestling movies from the 70s), you would be the king of Googling.
I just went looking for a few of my favorites from when I was a kid:
The Fantastic Journey: Weird adventures in the Bermuda Triangle
Ark II: Keeping technology alive in a post-apocalyptic Earth.
Run Joe Run: A german shepard who could put Lassie to shame
And we can't forget the pretty much forgotten Andy Griffith in space show, Salvage One: Using the trans-linear vector principle to build a rocket out of junkyard parts. (An early concept of Junkyard Wars?)
And a whole bunch of other shows from what used to be known as Cartoon Day (Back when cartoons were only on saturday morning, before Cartoon Network.)
Now here is a show... a reality tv show about fans of old tv shows have 20 days to put a website together, about one show, but none of them like the same show... first prize is the best of the A-Team DVD.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence you ever tried.
For a lot of classic shows you can find them on kazaa if the dvds not out yet (eventually every show ever will be avalible on dvd). I've got old Doctor Who episodes, Quantum Leap, every episode of Sliders, some A-Team eps, along with Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy and a few dozen other shows. And before anyone starts a flamewar, yes it is copyright infingment, but where else am i going to find Daria or Greg the Bunny or Roswell with the original soundtrack intact. It all evens out since i own the first 2 seasons of Farscape on DVD, both Family Guy sets, Chappelles Show, Clerks the Animated Series, Firefly, Cowboy Bebop (i do feel a little guilty because my cowboy bebop set is a bootleg, but i bought it from amazon, so i blame them.) and some others...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
What was that one show with the little girl who was really a robot and she always talked in a monotone? I want to say it was called Small Miracles or something like that. That was absolutely the worst sitcom that didn't get cancelled after one episode. No one could possibly provide a better example of totally horrific television.
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
I used to watch it religiously when I was 10. For those that remember, one of the main characters was a buddhist monk. I found myself strangely attracted to this feminine monk, but did my best to repress the thoughts. ;)
I was greatly relieved when I found out a few years later that the character was, in fact played by a woman and a great many other young boys had had the seem crisis of masculine identity.
In other news, a new media called "Internet" allows people to share information and interests with the entire world.
Film at 11.
You like your new Mac more than you like me, don't you, Dave? Dave? I asked...She said Yes.
Is there a way to mark a story "Off Topic"?
Is this story news for nerds, or stuff that matters? I can't figure it out.
There really isn't anything like the complete episodes of Small Wonder available online. You simply can't beat the internet.
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Internet contains 'web' 'pages' on various subjects.
with programs like dc++ and mIRC you can still find older shows as long as you are in the right channels. I have the firt 3 seasons of star trek : tos as well as a very large number of lost in space and doctor who. If its been syndicated in the last 5 years - its online.
We seldom regret saying too little but often regret saying too much.
during the 80s we started geting those (disco) music videos from us and europe. and the A team, of course [sic].
when i talked to people at the same age, i was shocked that they watched the same tv shows. we laughed at the things that were said and done on those silly shows. how on earth did we watch them and thought they were cool?
so ... this is happening in all parts of the world. except that we didn't have your shows! that's why having an internet site (or P2P network) with those shows is important so that i can understand what you folks are talking about.
i had to watch reruns of "family ties", "cheers", and the like (the list is long) to understand certain "cultural things".
now, is there an archive of david letterman? -- br
I was a Transformers and Knight Rider fan as a kid back in the 80's, but watching the reruns of Miami Vice now on FX, I can't help but wish I'd watched the show back then.
Sonny and Tubbs had it all - guns, girls, fast cars and exciting jobs. What more is there to life?
Sadly, I never realized how much I liked the Miami Vice/Scarface culture of the 80's until I played GTA: Vice City...
If all the Miami Vice eps were put on DVDs, I would happily buy them all.
Is Capitalism Good for the Poor?
Maybe your eyes were sensitive enough to detect the phase shift at the borders of coloured areas?
Thinking about the shows we have today it's hard to think which will have any kind of staying power so that it will be remembered 20 years for now. What's left these days after your remove the reality TV and the situational dramas (like CSI, CSI Miami, CSI etc). All these retro shows that everone remembers is about characters everyone liked, not about which jerk was voted off the island, or which no talent hack had their self esteem ripped to shreds by a british goon. We have the Simpsons, and Friends and a few others who fit this catagory, but we're quickly losing this genre of television. And what shows we do have are being brutally supressed. These past few weeks NBC pre-empted Scrubs (a genuinely funny and quirky show about doctors) for a two part special on Princess Diana. Her death was tragic yes, but it was 5 freaking years ago; get over it already. I may get flamed for that comment, but plenty of people die who don't get nearly as much publicity as her. Mother Teresa died at the same time, and nobody gave a damn. It's just a testament to the shallowness of the TV media.
What do you do when one of your favorite show ends?
That's a good god-damn question.
I'd like to hear from some Quantum Leap fans after they were left with their mouths gaping open, speechless after watching the last episode, thinking to themselves simultaneously, "WTF?!"
Sure, some people change the channel. But there are times where you're just left ALL SORTS of screwed up, not knowing what the hell just happened.
...but I stopped watching television regularly at the ripe old age of 18.
I got a summer job in the woods. When I came back home after three months and sat down in front of a television I simply could not believe that people could watch such inane drivel. I lasted 15 minutes.
It was nearly ten years later that I actually bought a television set, and that so I could watch movies on HBO. I no longer even have cable. Once in a while at a friends house I will see what is on the tube today and as far as I can tell, it hasn't improved.
I know, I know... How will I ever function in society without having seen a single episode of 'St. Elsewhere', 'E.R', or 'Survivor'?
A.
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Maybe it's just me, but I don't think the A-Team was "ludicrous"... maybe an unintentional comedy of sorts, but at least had a better sense of humor than McGyver, for example.
Now, thinking of ludicrous examples of 80s TV shows, "Small Wonder" popped into my head. I will forever curse the author of this article for that... but he has a point. Sure, enough, there was a fan site for "Small Wonder".
However, some jewels remain improperly exploited. The lack of an "Sledge Hammer" DVD is a crime against humanity. The show was proud of its own ludicrousness, and was the best spoof of the 80s TV shows in general. I can only imagine it died because on an unhealthy lack of cynicism in previous generations, and a lack of the awareness of its existence in the current ones.
Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4, everything else follows...
I thought it was a reference to the fact that a shows popularity peaks and then plummets, producing a graph with respect to time that looks like a shark's fin.
I guess it's a whole lot cooler if it's a double entendre...
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Anyone else remember this show? It was on for one season ('82-'83), set in 1939 or so in the Pacific. Had a guy with a seaplane and a dog, Nazis, and a bar called the "Golden Monkey".
I've found a few sites about it, but I have yet to meet anyone besides the site operators that remembers this show. It was probably horrible, but as a 9 year old I have fond memories of it.
Ah, wasted youth.....
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
I think the best sitcoms from my youth were Beverly Hillbillies and Get Smart. Yes, I know they were corny, but sometimes they were hilarious. And that lead-in of Agent 86 walking down that long hallway is truly classic.
Then again, I haven't watched a sitcom since the 60s. Either they don't make 'em like they used to, or I grew up.
I watch Brit Hume on Fox News
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned YesterdayLand yet. This website documented cultural artifacts such as toys, fashions, televion, and games by the decade going back to about 1900. Though they went bankrupt some time ago, the site is still accessable in some form through Archive.org's Wayback Machine. The site was a wealth of information with an active community; it is always disappointing to see sites like this go under.
remember that, it was one of the coolest Showes ever until one of the seasons then went to shit.. anyone know where you can get episodes of it... kinda like a mymacgyver.tk for airwolf
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
It's sad to me that You Can't Do That On Television, along with the other 80's Nickelodeon shows that I grew up watching, will probably never be shown again.
My roommate claims that the full house link has a popup that gave him the startpage virus. Just FYI...
Of course, me using moz, I didn't notice it.
http://fly.to/fullhouse
Most folk'll never lose a toe, and then again some folk'll...
I haven't laughed this hard in years. Seriously, I had to do it. I googled. Now I truly regret it.
I'm the first to admit, the concept of the transformers was cool, but the TV show was not.
No. Transformers(TM) are not cool, were never cool, and never will be cool.
They're hideous chunks of cheap-assed made-in-$INSERT_THIRD_WORLD_MANUFACTURING_HELLHOLE _DU_JOUR plastic crap that all the kids with mucous running down their noses in endless streams clamored to have.
My big resentment is not that all my 1980s peers had them. As a kid who was *always* into electronics, I was always building or playing with something involving - you guessed it - transformers. Note that's not Transformers(TM), that's transformers.
You can't *imagine* how many times I wanted to beat someone over the head with precious iron laminates for telling me that the object in my hand was *not* a transformer.
To add insult to injury, one of my aunts gave me a Transformer(TM) for Christmas one year. Since it couldn't be returned for something more useful than some silly "Let's pretend that we're going to kick some Decepticon ass" garbage, I certainly enjoyed pounding it in the school yard with a 5lb chunk of Hammond.
"Wanna see which is the most powerful transformer of them all", I asked as children cried about the impending destruction of the effluence they all wanted.
That plastic crap didn't stand a chance against those strong silicon-iron laminates. It kinda smeared into them, like lipstick into a brick. I still have that transformer, and it still bears a silver and red streak.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
we were talking at work about crappy tv and I remembered an episode of happy days, plot was similar to a step by step show,they just happened to show the repeats a couple of days apart.
I used tv tome to check it out, season 1 episode 20 (Daddy's girl) was an almost an exact ripoff of season 2 episode 29(fonzie get's married) of happy days.I think they even ripped off some of the dialogue.
I knew that the writing on step by step was crap but didn't think they had to resort to plagarism,especially the first season. wonder how many others doing this?
... The Hall of Broken Memories!
Dedicated to cataloging all of the hideous and obscene fanfic and fanart that ruins all of our cherished nostalgic childhood memories.
Powerpuff Girls, check. Electra-Woman and Dyna-Girl, check. Rainbow Brite, check. Those are almost obvious. My Little Pony, perhaps less so.
On the other hand, Mighty Mouse or Care Bears slashfic takes a certain je ne sais quoi to create; and Gummi Bears or Knight Rider slash indicates someone, somewhere, is operating from an entirely different playbook: but slash based on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying? Or Whose Line Is It Anyway? Someone, somewhere, is just going down a long checklist, doing these one at a time; I just know it.
On the other hand, the existence of The Chronicles of Narnia slash could only have been predicted by H. P. Lovecraft himself.
And then he would have gone mad.
When content producers exploit not only the now practically perpetual copyrights, but start denying fair use as well with the DMCA even on abandonware, it's nothing less than mind control, especially when it comes to childhood memories. Since adult stability is rooted in childhood stability, those of us fortunate enough to have had happy childhoods are unable to legally recall our them, speak about them in many cases, and relate to those of our own generation (or children, for that matter).
Since I was raised in an era of 70-year copyrights, I wasn't too bothered by them. But now with the proposition of perpetual copyrights and DMCA, I am very selective about what I will watch and what software I will use, because I know that by doing so my psyche will be altered and I generally want the ability to reflect back upon my experiences in the future. Before I allow myself to go to a movie (the few times that I do), I ask myself the question, "am I willing to never see this movie again after today?" because I do not want to be held in blackmail by the content producer.
A 17 year monopoly should be more than enough. That would allow, for example, those in their 30's to reflect upon and relive their childhood as they themselves are likely at a stage of life of starting to raise children or gaining significant responsibility in a career.
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Good Karma-whoring!
Well, one of the purposes of the web is that of preserving memories (and history), regardless of the source. :)
Since we are on Slashdot, however, and Sci-Fi is one of the hot topics, I will just mention Star Maidens and Raumpatrouille Orion. Surely bad TV, but I am glad I can prove to myself those weird and indistinct memories are real after all!...
Another difference is that today I still enjoy that same classic anime while most of the American series have turned into utter tripe over the years...
Uh, anybody got any old "Hey Dude" episodes online? Huh, huh, huh?
"So what do you do when they end? Immortalise them online."
I'm glad to see more and more of them immortalized in Nick at Nite, etc. I've compared the reruns (not just my memory of them) with the new shows, and usually prefer the former. They had 52 minute hours, unlike today's 44 minutes. So they were heavily censored. Most of what's on today that would have been censored then is gratuitous.
As for the "Why is this newsworthy" whining: STUFF FOR NERDS. I'm a MacGyver fan. You can't get much nerdier.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com
I don't doubt that there are better programs now, and that some of the shows we watched in years of old were junk, but every so often it is just great to come across something that you loved and makes you feel warm and fuzzy once again. And while not of the Eighties, the tales of Noggin the Nog (a cartoon character that had a flying long boat and a friendly dragon), and subsequently finding sites to recapture the magic of this show, have made it clear to me that these fan sites of old shows are a good thing.
TV Guide has reasonably good episode guides for most shows, all in one place. Check out:
http://www.tvguide.com/tv/showguide/
When you click on a show, there are links in the left sidebar to each season, which then contains summaries of every episode.
DiscDividers tabbed plastic CD dividers: divider cards f
You know the internet has gone too far when you get multiple hits for the show Aliens in the Family.
Mmm...pudding
Great show. I'm not sure how the reruns ended up on the Hallmark Channel (?) but Tivo found 'em. God bless you Tivo and your shiny metallic casing and little red light...
So long, michael. Don't let the door hit you...
A few tools modded you up, no doubt from the same "KILL YUOR TV!!!1" crowd.
gg... btr luck nex tm
Just hauling luggage at airports.
I somehow think that this is a vision of the future thought up by those guys in their spare time
I watched Speed Racer almost every day after school (late '70s early '80s). Before that, my mom would kick us kids outside to fend for ourselves - so we would go to the lake and fish, or grab a glove and ball and go play some pickup baseball at the elementary school.
Most of the time I was too busy doing things to sit down and watch TV. I also read alot and when I recieved my first computer as a Christmas present, I spent any time I would have spent in front of the TV writing programs. MTV came along when cable TV came out - but my parents never got cable while I was living with them.
Then I graduated HS and joined the military - and spent the next 4 years too damn busy to watch much (cold warrior) - was stationed in England and spent some time watching 'Benny Hill' reruns - at that time there was no cable in Englad - so you only had 3 or 4 channels to choose from. Again, I spent time reading - and was involved with a band, and recording music - and running around to clubs and pubs...not much time to sit infront of a boob-tube.
After that...well, more of the same...
Fast forward to today: I watch TV irregularly - mostly the History Channel - and then particular shows that interest me (Lee Ermy's military Q&A show is of particular interest to me), and sometimes catch 'King of the Hill' and 'The Simpsons' during dinner time. Most of my time is spent on my computer - either playing MMOGs or doing work (programming, writing, reading forums). I also continue to read paper books - histories, technical, novels....
Lodragan Draoidh
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. - Mark Twain
... as are all /. articles regarding cyber culture and 'geek culture' in general.
:)
Thanx!
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stop doing voice-overs and split-screens during
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Nevermind that you suspended belief for about a half an hour each of these came on. These shows were cool...even if....
A 70's Dodge Charger was never capable of those jumps
The Semi used in Knight Rider looked normal on the outside, but was a large garage once they switched inside.
That they tried the SAME crap with TKR (Team Knight Rider) in the late ninety's.
That the A Team could never get caught by the best army in the world.
We watched them anyway. The best parts of the A Team were the Plan or gadget of the week and how they figured out hoe to get BA on the plane. Making a armored vehicle out of a late model sedan or just doign the simple stuff to stay alive it was all good, if not terribly believable.
The BEST shows though live on. Star Trek. If you sit and watch the original, the effects look cheesy as hell yet the story still works. Try that on Knight Rider. The effects were still cheesy, yet it was popular and in som eplaces far more then in the US. I remember when Baywatch had more viewers in Europe then they did in all of the US. Thats what kept that syndicated piece of junk around far longer then needed. Well, that and Pam Anderson's Boobs.
Gorkman
You don't need to conceal what the _network_ is sharing, just _where_ it's at. In my mind, Freenet, or Freenet+ (tm) will completely conceal your identity and what you have, while a master (distributed, of course) directory will allways list the current contents. Bits of encrypted files will be stored throughout the network. Perfect for stifling over-litigious corporations that won't sell you the content you want, but prohibit any distribution.
...which is true, but still doesn't solve fact that preserving content isn't one of Freenet's design goals. Popular content spreads around, but content which isn't used eventually goes away.
Freenet's design duplicates highly used data, which should reduce the average amount of traffic required to actually retrieve it. However, it is not (and likely will never be) intended to store content permanently, which means that no matter how well Freenet works at its intended goals, there will still be content which will cease to exist because nobody has requested it while every node in existence has the Paris Hilton video cached in its local store.
Freenet is a great project which in theory should do incredibly well for its intended goals. It may also work reasonably well for allowing you to access some artistic content. However, as long as the U.S. Government lets the RIAA and friends keep the keys to the storage shed that used to be called "public domain", using Freenet to distribute copyrighted content will be treating the symptom, not the disease.
Somebody get that guy an ambulance!
Offtopic? Gah, some of these moderators need to have Cheetarah's pole broken off in their ass.
There is no "phase shift" to speak of on a B&W telly. The colour signal "piggybacks" the monochrome one and is totally ignored by a TV incapable of showing it. The TV itself has only one pigment on its phosphor.
I'd say "lucky guess" would be closer, unless he saw some publicity photos in a magazine and forgot about them.