This is your thread to talk about classic television shows, the networks that air these shows, and watching tv via over-the-air broadcast with an antenna (aka free tv or OTA)
A classic show is defined as any 20th century show that was produced for broadcast television. Any shows produced by a cable network or internet service such as Netflix do not belong here.
I love trainspotting all the posters on the walls promoting what the labels were offering back then. whoever did the set dressing either had good taste or the luck of the draw was a lot of good artists. In the dj booth and the hallway just outside of it always had at least one cool thing
Juan Bell
so what's everyone watching today? I usually watch a lot of Match Game re-runs, Dick Cavett, Laugh-In, MASH, maybe Soap and Benson, maybe Night Court, maybe Drew Carrey, and then That 70s Show at night. On weekends Cozy does a block of Colombo, Rockford Files and Kojack that is comfy as hell
Adrian Gonzalez
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Colton Carter
bud nipping!
Kevin Gomez
I'm gonna git mah u-ni-form!
Hunter Taylor
Bailey>Jennifer
Landon Peterson
>Match Game re-runs I've been watching a lot of Tattletales here and there. such a weird concept for a show. It's like game-ifying the stories couples tell at a party, basically. But the guests are cool, a lot of times. Betty White, Shatner, and Jerry Stiller are all regular. The weirdest part is that they win on point totals, but giving them actual money makes no sense because they're all rich celebrities, so the way they get around it is to divide the audience into "rooting sections" for each couple and then the prize money is divided equally into the people assigned to that couple.
It's really strange but entertaining.
Nathaniel Walker
>Rockford Files >its an Angel episode
Eli Barnes
why not both?
Jaxson Watson
Jimmy, no. No! I'm not messing around with those gorillas. McClintock went around asking the wrong questions about these knuckle-draggers and now nobody knows where he is. I'm not gonna get stuffed into a dumpster on account of some doe-eyed broad came to you with a sob story, no way. nothing doing, and you'll tell her no if you know what's good for you, too. But while I'm here, how 'bout you spot me twenty--now, I got this action that's gonna pay off fifteen-to-one and you get a piece of it and everyone's happy. whaddya say, I'll cut you in for five percent? Ok, ten! what's the matter with us making a little easy bread instead of going on a suicide mission for some dame that's probably working that damsel-in-distress angle for something that's gonna put us in front of a grand-jury or worse!? Jimmy? Aw, c'mon, Jimmy! JIMMY!
She looked like the archetypal blonde bimbo of the time, but goddamn I would in a heartbeat.
Gabriel Brooks
Kojak. Because '70s police drama and procedure seems like aliens made it.
Eli Cook
Rockford's lawyer was hot
Blake Diaz
totally. I'm not into the bimbo look but Loni was really a cut above. In her public persona she seemed like a sport, too. Pretty self aware. I love how Jennifer was depicted in the writing and performance. She was the lowly receptionist but actually she was the most powerful person in the entire office.
Tyler Johnson
no thanksgiving would be complete without it
Carson Foster
What are some actually good old sitcoms?
Chase Allen
Head of the Class is on Antenna TV now but I keep forgetting to watch it. Is it any good?
Matthew Diaz
There was a running joke in the comic Zippy the Pinhead about how Loni Anderson's hair was an entity unto itself. It looks normal in your pic but on the show it was a helmet. As hot as she was, that monolithic thing on her head was pretty bizarre
Colton Kelly
huh, I watch that network a fair bit but haven't seen it on there yet. I remember watching it sometimes as a kid and liking it OK. It seemed like maybe it was more popular once the UK guy replaced Hessman. Billy something?
Anyhow, we oughta have live threads when it comes on seeing as how that where Dan get in the party van got his start
Christopher Perez
>'70s police drama and procedure seems like aliens made it. kek it really is in the uncanny valley, isn't it? the sidewalks and street traffic of manhattan are mostly deserted all the time and there's the well-known parking thing
Christopher Mitchell
Dick Cavett interviews are GOAT. Personal favorites are Coke Skeleton Bowie and Man Mountain Orson Welles.
I'm glad to see this thread and I hope it becomes a regular fixture
Benjamin Thomas
SHE WAS A HOOKAH
Dominic Robinson
thanks buddy.
Yeah, Cavett is something Decades started showing that I'd never seen before but it's great and it's the timeslot after Jeopardy when nothing else good is on so I've been watching it a lot.
He's an excellent host and asks the best questions but he gets under my skin with the self-depricating-to-a-fault, meandering, rambling tangent bit, though.
I don't follow sports but his interview with Willie Mays stood out to me. I knew he was a hall-of-famer but never knew anything else. He was extremely charismatic and down to earth in a ratio I've seldom seen. The Spike Lee interview was great, too.
Nicholas Peterson
I don't know nigga I don't watch old television I just shitpost about it.
>general >implying people here actually watch older television and movies
Much as I like lthe idea of this and as much as I like to watch old movies on TCM niggas on here only care about flavor of the month movie and watercooler conversation shows.
Bentley Williams
kek.
I love this guy, too. just the platonic ideal of a schlubby, sidekick henchman dude.
Angel Reed
I think the interview he did with Hitchcock was great.
Daniel Sanders
>Much as I like lthe idea of this and as much as I like to watch old movies on TCM niggas on here only care about flavor of the month movie and watercooler conversation shows.
yeah, we'll see. there was a thread that started off being about Night Court and basically turned into this format on it's own two days ago, which was really welcome to me, so I'm hoping that shows there's support for this idea. It was a nice long thread with a lot of anons. we'll see. That's why I'm including all the OTA stuff, since seemingly a lot of millenials don't know about it? That was a subtopic of that thread, too.
I tried to get it going yesterday and had the OP all made and when I hit post I got boned by the cloudflare error or whatever.
Nathaniel Adams
oh, yeah--the all-blue dinner party? that was a great interview
mostly I remember that Robin Givens was on it and then quickly married Mike Tyson and then quickly divorced him and the divorce settlement was going to be for half his money when she was barely married to him and everyone realized she was a total hooker.
Ian Barnes
The whole backstory for Johnny Fever was interesting from a writing standpoint, because you have a guy who was a washed-up DJ that no good stations wanted because he cursed over the air so he wound up on shit-ass WKRP. Except they couldn't write an actual curse because the show was governed by the same FCC standards, so they had to just heavily infer it with a word that is not actually a curse-word. A really strange piece of mental gymnastics for the writer and the viewer, but it was all understood back then. Man, we were repressed as fuck, over a decade after the Summer of Love, even. youtu.be/ieQaJTcEj74?t=11
I don't know about y'all, but I would be shitting my pants if I had to drive up the ramps at highway speeds and then immediately brake to not kill myself and everyone in the trailer every time I went to work.
Jackson Flores
That pilot episode was fucking kino and the show had a great soundtrack all around.
Cameron Collins
>you will never get to watch Sup Forums sperg out over Venus dancing with Andy's sister
Nathan Johnson
they really missed out on the potential of a Knight Rider/Highwayman crossover, tbpfwy.
soundtrack is GOAT
Aiden Gonzalez
my Baileyfu
Wyatt Edwards
Topic: Green Acres is actually Fellini crossed with populism: the sitcom.
Hi. friendly reminder that I was the biggest badass on the whole damn show
Evan Anderson
currently watching Laugh-in on Decades
Julian Reyes
2 episodes of M*A*S*H on MeTV now
Eli Morales
>black people will never look this dapper again
Dylan Young
oh, cool, it's the one where Hawkeye writes his will
Landon Reyes
the perfect menage Jennifer, Bailey, and Zeppelin.
Jackson Smith
The only current channel I watch is comet. I love the old b movies they play. I grew up watching broadcast tv, and pic related is the only old show I rewatch. I would rub coke all over my dick fuck her raw.
Jose Miller
Bailey was so cute
I watch a lot of Comet, too. It's a great channel. but it's more about movies than shows. It shows a lot of Stargate, tho, but I never got into it. Unfortunately, the tower for that channel is far from me, so I don't receive it well if the weather isn't perfect. sucks.
Benjamin Edwards
I saw every episode a million times in syndication as a kid, coupled with how dumb a show it is means I usually skip it these days. But I watched a marathon block of it a few weeks ago just for sheer comfy value, and it did not disappoint.
Adrian Long
she was hot, but Alice was the best overall character, followed by Mrs. Brady. Mr. Brady was cool, too. mostly the kids were boring but Peter was at least entertaining.
Lauren Bacall on Dick Cavett now on Decades
Kevin Bell
Frasier on Cozi, Three's Company on Antenna, Andy Griffith on MeTV now
Antenna seems to be the best evening line-up of all. Love Benson.
David Lewis
>Three's Company Man, I used to love this show as a kid due to the physical comedy/body language, particularly John Ritter but really everyone. Like right now, a guy just squirted mustard all over Jack. But all the jokes, the sexual inuendo--which was the whole point of the show--just went completely over my head. It's so weird to watch it now and "get it" even though it's totally vanilla and schlocky and pretty repressed, actually. But still fun and comfy.
Hudson Fisher
reminder that Chrissy's full name is Christmas Snow
Lincoln Bell
OK, let's do a thing about actors doing multiple shows. Not just same character/same universe stuff (but that's OK too) I mena like Erin Grey- Buck Rogers and Silver Spoons. Wasn't she on TJ Hooker, too? Dirk Bennedict - Battlestar Galactica and A-Team The Adamo guy on Galactica was also the lead on Bonanza Lt. Becker on Rockford Files played exactly the same role in The Last Boyscout (which isn't a show, I know)
