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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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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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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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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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Different show.....I bought the entire MASH tv series......that was a show!
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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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Sometimes I watch the Rifleman on Saturday mornings and it makes me very nostalgic
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Get off my lawn!!!
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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. Cheers |
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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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Binge watching what I consider one of the greatest American TV shows
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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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But there would be no nudity
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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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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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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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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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