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Cosby isn't as funny as Mark Day.
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I wish they would air Untamed World again , excellent theme music , great footage of critters from all over . I haven't seen it in ages .
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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's 'Not only but also'. It had great stuff like the 'Alan a Dale' song. I heard the BBC has lost most of the shows though.
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I also miss Beast Wars. Oh, and MST3K.
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Here's an odd one I'll admit to. It took 12 years for Ally McBeal to finally hit DVD, which I just noticed it did. I netflixed the first season because I remember liking the little bit I saw of it when it was on.
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Through a fairly convoluted chain of a cousin, his friends and returning to Australia we recently acquired a huge collection of unwanted DVDs. I started watching the Sopranos, it's much better than I remember.
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daftbeaker wrote:Through a fairly convoluted chain of a cousin, his friends and returning to Australia we recently acquired a huge collection of unwanted DVDs. I started watching the Sopranos, it's much better than I remember.
It was an excellent series. The scenes with the analyst were great. That's one of the fascinating things about US TV, everyone has an analyst...even the mafia.
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I just saw the last episode of Lost. It wasn't bad. Obviously it couldn't tie up all the things it started, but it was entertaining and didn't suck.
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Like Ark, I'm reviewing UFO material. In that I'm watching some 1st season episodes of the X-Files. I have to say, I don't remember the special effects being this hokey on the X-Files. I'm thinking (hoping?) that the later seasons got a bigger budget.
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Perhaps modern special effects have spoilt you for the older stuff?
Now that I've discovered a channel that seems to be dedicated to old programmes, I've also discovered that they aren't nearly as good as I remembered them as being.
Except for Fawlty Towers, of course.
Now that I've discovered a channel that seems to be dedicated to old programmes, I've also discovered that they aren't nearly as good as I remembered them as being.

Except for Fawlty Towers, of course.

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I don't think so. I grew up watching Doctor Who on PBS, and then when I went back years later and watched them on DVD, the special effects looked pretty much the way I remember them. However, I am pretty sure that I wasn't watching the X-Files until about season 3, and it took a couple seasons before it became an "it" show, so it would make sense that the effects got better.
Although you do bring up a good idea for people to post on: shows that you fondly remember, only to rewatch them years later and you realize they suck. For me, that would have to be the Thundercats. As a wee lad, I obsessively watched that show. Then as a teenager, I watched an episode on Cartoon Network, and I was just like, "Was I really so stupid that I found this crap riveting?" By contrast, then and now I still like the original transformers cartoons.
Although you do bring up a good idea for people to post on: shows that you fondly remember, only to rewatch them years later and you realize they suck. For me, that would have to be the Thundercats. As a wee lad, I obsessively watched that show. Then as a teenager, I watched an episode on Cartoon Network, and I was just like, "Was I really so stupid that I found this crap riveting?" By contrast, then and now I still like the original transformers cartoons.
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I googled Thundercats. It made me think of this card game
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gronank wrote:I googled Thundercats. It made me think of this card game
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Green Wing. I'd forgotten just how funny it is
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