Old TV series

[MISSDem]

I purchased the first three seasons of Gunsmoke and have been watching. Although I cannot call myself a "western lover" I am enjoying them so much. Anyone else like old tv shows?

[hamsterjill]

1. I love the old westerns!

I grew up on them. When I was about six, I had a HUGE crush on Peter Brown and William Smith who starred as Texas Rangers on the series "Laredo"!!! Also enjoyed the High Chaparral, the Wild Wild West, Palladin and Bonanza.

[Graybeard]

15. Have Gun, Will Travel

Started watching on Netflix then bought the boxed set. Good scripts, some by pre-Star Trek Gene Roddenberry. Good directing, some by Andrew McLaglen, Ida Lupino. And theme music by Bernard Herrmann. Top notch all the way.

[FSogol]

2. Not a fan of old tv (or new tv), but loved the old radio broadcasts

of Gunsmoke. It was one of the highlights of old time radio.

[monmouth]

8. Go to www.live365.com. They have all of the old shows, some from

the '30s and '40s. I love them.

[FSogol]

9. Yup, good website. I have (or have listened) to the Gunsmoke episodes.

Also a fan of

Fort Laramie
Jack Benny
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
Lux Theater
Bob and Ray

[monmouth]

11. Oh, my favs too and especially the one with Dick Powell. Love those shows..n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I liked TV better in the '50s and '60s than all this crap they have today.

[Tunkamerica]

13. What a refreshingly unique perspective.

Old good. New bad. I bet you like the music of the 50's and 60's way more than the crap they have today. And the movies. And the girls didn't dress like tramps. And people were nicer. And rainbows were brighter. And the snow tasted like cotton candy.

[Mojambo]

16. All someone has to do to disprove the "tv was good then and sucks now" is watch

an episode of the A-Team and then an episode of Breaking Bad.

Television is only getting better.

[wyldwolf]

19. Premium cable channel shows are forcing networks to create better quality offerings

[Speck Tater]

4. The only "western" (before "Deadwood") that I cared for was "Kung Fu". nt

[jobendorfer]

17. Can you imagine trying to sell Kung Fu today?

Network guy: "What's the premise?"

Writer: "Well, the show is about deconstructing modern america's myths about itself, by turning the established
Western format upside down and showing 1880s America through the eyes of a half-American, half-Chinese Ch'an
Buddhist monk, who often communes with the spirit of his beloved dead teacher."

I hear rumors that the original creator (Howard Spielmann) is trying to get a "reboot" series back on the air.

J.

[rurallib]

5. Gunsmoke was probably the first to develop their characters

and move away from the old 'shoot-'em-up" format.
As for me (an old fart) I loved old shows like Burns and Allen and Jack Benny and of course The Twilight Zone.

[FSogol]

10. It you liked Gunsmoke on the radio, try "Fort Laramie." It was produced by the same folks.

Also a big fan of Jack Benny.

[asjr]

6. Wasn't Rawhide the serial Clint Eastwood

played Rowdy Yates?

[Marnie]

12. Yes

[hlthe2b]

7. I do...Someone recently gave me some DVD's

of the old Virginian series, some old Bonanzas, a couple seasons of Gunsmoke and a few other old series before they moved back overseas... They are sort of addictive. Anyone remember the Virginian? It was the first full color series to be in a 90 minute format. That means every single episode was the equivalent of a modern movie. Beautiful scenery too. Today's tv "stars" don't know how easy they have it...;)

[Kashka-Kat]

Me - I dont have a TV! Just finished Route 66 - that was fun. Now starting on Mad Men Season 1-

Love that late-50s/early 60s thing! One interesting thing about Route 66 is that it was filmed on location in various places around the country -roads, scenery, towns as just don't exist anymore. Kind of a sanitized squaresville version of the beat generation - and some REALLY HOKEY scripts - but that's half the fun. Every once in a while an exceptionally good script, like Todd accidentally tripping out on some unidentified psychedelic drug. Another one about black jazz musicians reuniting at a singer's deathbed for one last jam - that was very nice.

[Kashka-Kat]

14. Me - I dont have a TV! Just finished Route 66 - that was fun. Now starting on Mad Men Season 1-

Love that late-50s/early 60s thing! One interesting thing about Route 66 is that it was filmed on location in various places around the country -roads, scenery, towns as they just don't exist anymore. Kind of a sanitized squaresville version of the beat generation - and some REALLY HOKEY scripts - but that's half the fun. Every once in a while an exceptionally good script, like Todd accidentally tripping out on some unidentified psychedelic drug. Another one about black jazz musicians reuniting at a singer's deathbed for one last jam - that was very nice.

[wyldwolf]

18. I've introduced my six year old daughter to Little House on the Prairie

... she really enjoys it.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. I liked the early series of horror, science fiction and the weird

Science Fiction Theater, The Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcok Presents, Thriller, The Twilight Zone, Way Out, One Step Beyond, Night Gallery. Way Out was a replacement series for The Twilight Zone in the summer and had some of the most creative stuff I can remember seeing on TV as a kid. I wish they could rebroadcast it. An episode in the horror anthology series Thriller starring William Shatner called The Hungry Glass was so scary that kids all across America had trouble sleeping at night for days after it aired. The theme music for One Step Beyond sent chills down my spine as a kid and still does.

[Graybeard]

21. John Newland was a great host on One Step Beyond.

He always introduced the show with some example of how the story was based on a true incident. I remember one when he showed a book that was written 14 years before the Titanic tragedy that was about a super unsinkable ship that hit an iceberg. In the book the ship was named the "Titan".