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Old 25 April 2019, 07:35 PM   #1
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I miss this era of TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XC3Hc-rAkk

No cussing just talent... just Dean puffing on a cigarette and booze. Dean Martin was my fathers fav show and always watched when he was in town. I remember watching this show with my father who was laughing so much he was in tears I think it was 1970ish . Ive noticed the millennials today dont find the humor from 50 years ago very funny.... but how i miss this era of TV.
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Old 25 April 2019, 08:59 PM   #2
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Things sure have changed. Some better, some not. I too, miss the “era of TV”.
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I agree, everything seemed a bit more innocent.
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Old 25 April 2019, 09:34 PM   #4
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Good thing is, with all the media options available these days, people can still watch the more traditional programming if they want to.
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I agree, everything seemed a bit more innocent.

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Old 25 April 2019, 10:04 PM   #6
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Things sure have changed. Some better, some not. I too, miss the “era of TV”.
Love your avatar ! I miss that era too
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Old 25 April 2019, 10:23 PM   #7
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XC3Hc-rAkk

No cussing just talent... just Dean puffing on a cigarette and booze. Dean Martin was my fathers fav show and always watched when he was in town. I remember watching this show with my father who was laughing so much he was in tears I think it was 1970ish . Ive noticed the millennials today dont find the humor from 50 years ago very funny.... but how i miss this era of TV.
"no cussing just talent" man you got it! let's see anyone come close to the level of rodney dangerfield or don rickles. no one nowadays will ever come close. the days of the ed sullivan and johnny carson shows are never coming back. to be fair letterman and conan did a good job tho.
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The Dean Martin roasts are perhaps some of the best television ever created.
Foster Brooks - what else can be said? Comedic genius and genuine fun.
Have to forego some of your current sensibilities given the time period it was on but wow is it funny.
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Old 26 April 2019, 03:05 AM   #9
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Different show.....I bought the entire MASH tv series......that was a show!
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Old 26 April 2019, 03:18 AM   #10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XC3Hc-rAkk

No cussing just talent... just Dean puffing on a cigarette and booze. Dean Martin was my fathers fav show and always watched when he was in town. I remember watching this show with my father who was laughing so much he was in tears I think it was 1970ish . Ive noticed the millennials today dont find the humor from 50 years ago very funny.... but how i miss this era of TV.

i dont think i have ever seen a millennial really laugh, i rarely see them even smile,

TV was so much better in the 70s and 80s, radio also,

its all a joke nowadays.
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Old 26 April 2019, 03:20 AM   #11
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Sometimes I watch the Rifleman on Saturday mornings and it makes me very nostalgic
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Old 26 April 2019, 04:24 PM   #13
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Old 26 April 2019, 06:41 PM   #14
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i dont think i have ever seen a millennial really laugh, i rarely see them even smile,
They're humorless because they were too young to remember the Cold War with it's threat of having a 15 minute warning before nuclear annihilation and music without autotune.

Therefore, they can't appreciate good times when they arrive and believe every molehill is a tremendous mountain which results in them being a grim, angsty bunch listening to boring music unable to shrug off the little hiccups in life without drama.

It must have been dreadfully super-serious being in college during the late 90s and 2000s attending save the world rallies and protesting this or that instead of rock concerts and keggers. So weird and what a waste.

They can be born with the luck of sound mind and body in the wealthiest, high standard of living countries of the world but it's like they aren't even happy to be alive.
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I understand the sentiment, but . . . .
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The TV.
Old family campfire.
Miss it, when we all gathered and laugh together and sometimes secretly cried.


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Old 27 April 2019, 01:49 AM   #17
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Different show.....I bought the entire MASH tv series......that was a show!
Hated it as a kid. Now I can watch M*A*S*H marathons all day long.
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Old 27 April 2019, 02:02 AM   #18
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Hated it as a kid. Now I can watch M*A*S*H marathons all day long.
Same with me.
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Old 27 April 2019, 02:03 AM   #19
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XC3Hc-rAkk

No cussing just talent... just Dean puffing on a cigarette and booze. Dean Martin was my fathers fav show and always watched when he was in town. I remember watching this show with my father who was laughing so much he was in tears I think it was 1970ish . Ive noticed the millennials today dont find the humor from 50 years ago very funny.... but how i miss this era of TV.
I miss a lot of how things were 40 years ago. In fact everyday I spend time wondering what has happened with society. I bunch of cellar dwellers don't like how things are and want to change things.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XC3Hc-rAkk

No cussing just talent... just Dean puffing on a cigarette and booze. Dean Martin was my fathers fav show and always watched when he was in town. I remember watching this show with my father who was laughing so much he was in tears I think it was 1970ish . Ive noticed the millennials today dont find the humor from 50 years ago very funny.... but how i miss this era of TV.
Humor rarely ages well from generation to generation.

As for Dean Martin, his shtick was a lovable drunk that smoked like a chimney. So basically a philandering alcoholic that smoked so much he eventually died of lung cancer. Perhaps not so funny now.
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Old 28 April 2019, 07:24 AM   #21
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Binge watching what I consider one of the greatest American TV shows

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Old 28 April 2019, 07:35 AM   #22
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Interestingly MASH was actually a protest of the Vietnam war but disguised instead as the Korean War, due to the division in the country by the Vietnam war.

Also these days it probably never would have made it due to it's poor ratings the first year. But back then they allowed shows more latitude to find an audience.
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Interestingly MASH was actually a protest of the Vietnam war but disguised instead as the Korean War, due to the division in the country by the Vietnam war.

Also these days it probably never would have made it due to it's poor ratings the first year. But back then they allowed shows more latitude to find an audience.
The TV Show was adapted from a movie in 1970 which was adapted from a book written by Richard Hooker (a pen name) a Korean War MASH surgeon. The TV show might have evolved into a broader anti war sentiment, as the show went on for years, but the book did not originally intend to cover the Vietnam conflict philosophically.
Like many, I thought it was a great show in it's early years, though it kind of faded for me in the later years.
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Old 28 April 2019, 08:53 AM   #25
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we watched 'em all as kids

hawaii five o
starsky and hutch
dallas
kojak
chips
taxi

the list goes on and on, plus lots of decent british stuff

our t.v is now a wasteland of silly irrelevance, with masses of propaganda thrown in, I cant speak for yours.
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I find a lot of TV shows besides having an agenda of some sort, have nothing uplifting about them. The dramas have people who focus on their emotional pain and anguish, and even when they try to rise above it, it's short term before the next pain and anguish sets in. I have young adult children in their 30's and 20's, I try to focus on silly, stupid and irreverent, with a medium size dose of reality thrown in. Life's too short to focus on the heartache that many today believe is surely just around the corner.
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Old 28 April 2019, 09:24 AM   #27
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we used to have brilliant dramas, comedy, cop shows, game shows, even the news and weather was better to watch,

never believe it when you are told modern or change is always better,

there was one brilliant show called 'ashes to ashes' about ten years ago, it was a retro type police show with the main character from the present living in the 1970s and witnessing what things were like back then.
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Old 28 April 2019, 09:44 AM   #28
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we watched 'em all as kids

hawaii five o
starsky and hutch
dallas
kojak
chips
taxi

the list goes on and on, plus lots of decent british stuff

our t.v is now a wasteland of silly irrelevance, with masses of propaganda thrown in, I cant speak for yours.
Very true. I watch re-runs of shows that are decades old, as what is currently playing amounts to rubbish.
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Some of the ones i miss the most..

- Happy Days
- Three Company
- Different strokes
- Mork & Mindy
- Charlie's Angels
- Charles in Charge
- MacGyver
- Knight Rider
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I remember a thanksgiving with several families (people used to do that long ago) and MASH came on after dinner, I remember then, (although I was very young) how from young to older, everyone enjoyed it and laughed.

Nothing like that now.
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