Well, ok, but can I still hate Lt. Cable for dumping poor Liat?
I don’t remember Lt. Cable “dumping” Liat. Lt. Cable was killed in combat, wasn’t he?
It was all in that kid’s head, anyway.
FWIIW this is 14 year old thread and Walloon hasn’t posted since 2010
St. Elsewhere installed its MRI in 1987 (Season 6.) It turned out to be improperly shielded, leading to TV sets flickering, beds shaking and other happenings one might associate with a Halloween episode.
Ain’t it funny how the world turns…
An Officer and a Gentleman
-or maybe not?
OH, and how a big deal it was for couples to live together w/o marriage, the whole premise to Three’s a Crowd!
So, how did your prediction turn out? 
My Dad was a doctor and a fairly senior staff member (basically someone like Dr. Westphall or Dr. Auschlander from “Elsewhere”) and even during the original run of the series, he would be gnashing his teeth, grimacing, and sometimes even groaning and guffawing out loud at the mispronounced medical jargon, the ridiculous “life or death” drama over what were routine medical procedures, and just what he viewed as the contrived and inept portrayal of what actual hospitals are like.
My dad also smoked up to the day he died in 1988. I recall going to the hospital with him and sitting in the doctor’s lounge, and just CLOUDS of cigarette smoke.
Recently, I watched a few episodes of “Twin Peaks” for the first time in, well, decades. Even though the show is supposed to be set in a sort of retro 50’s Americana town, all I could see was the gigantic, owl-rimmed glasses that Ben Horne, Madeleine, and the Log Lady all wore. Also, Agent Cooper’s incessant speaking into a tape recorder to tape messages for his secretary “Diane” back in D.C. seems hopelessly dated now. He could just call her on a phone now.
I’m feeling dated by saying this, but I was watching a DVD over the weekend of the show CHiPs.
Ponch and John were on their bikes and John said “The best things in life are free” and Ponch responds “FREE? We had to pay 25 cents to go over the bridge!”
Another thread reminded me of Chasing Amy recently. And the scene at the train station where Banky and Holden are going to go to a Con.
Banky has a bag full of porn mags. Now it would be just a cell phone full of it. Maybe a couple extra microSD cards. Not nearly as good for the visuals.
Holden is paged on a beeper by Alyssa. That’s right, paged. He then goes over to a pay phone to call her. Again, it’d be all cell phones now.
Most of that scene would be quite different if done today.
St. Elsewhere was all in that kid’s head, and so was every other show because that web site showed that they were all in the same universe. Even the real world is somehow inside that kid’s head. I don’t understand it totally but St. Elsewhere showed that the whole universe is fake. I stopped going to church.
I remember a Dragnet episode where, in the intro, Sgt. Friday says something like, “this is L.A., where some of these homes cost upwards of $100,000”.
mmm
Yes, he was – but after he dumped Liat. He sings, bitterly, about his own impossible-to-overcome racist background and family in “You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught.”
Emile returns safely from the mission and Nellie realizes how foolish her earlier concerns were. The kids sing Dites-Moi. The End.
Any show that heavily uses Freudian psychology to explain character’s actions. In the 50s/60s psychoanalysis was treated as holy writ, and now it’s considered in the same light as dowsing.
In a more specific note, I can’t imagine that the MASH episodes where they botch medical care for a bloodthirsty general or help out a South Korean trying to avoid army service would be done today. Can you imagine a show, a sitcom no less, where an Iraqi kid who didn’t want to fight ISIS was helped out by Army doctors? You’d be considered somewhere between insensitive to treasonous.
the waltons…i know it was the 30s but dads adding up the bills and complaining saying they need to go to bed earlier so they wouldn’t use so much
ma says thell try then says “oh by the way how much is the bill?”
pa says "1.75 that’s right a dollar seventy five for a month of electric
our average bill is 100-150 …
Zombies are never dated.
I re-watched Project Moonbase a while ago. It was an effort by Robert Heinlein nto make a hard SF TV show in the 1950s, only the producers took the footage, condensed it down into a single movie, and released it as a one-shot.
Technically, it’s pretty good. It’s a low-cost technically accuratye SF movie about the first trip to the moon, done in true von Braun fashion with a Space Station waystop (albeit a non-rotating one, so no artificial gravity.) and atomic rockets (a la rocket Ship Galileo, and other Heinlein offerings). There are lots of cute throwaway bits that aren’t explicitly commented on – the telephones with handsets not connected to the deskset with wires (they have antennas, like cordless phones from three decades later); people using different frames of reference on the space station (and there are signs: No Walking on the Walls). Even the fact that the President of the United States is a woman.
On the other hand, the human drama and interaction is appalling. Captain Breiteis is condescended to, and called “Bright Eyes” *. It’s pretty neat that the first human into space is female, but she has to put up with this kind of abuse.
The female columnist gets it even worse. She’s every prattling female ignoramus from every Heinlein story, only turned up to 11.
Anyone who’s ever defended Heinlein’s depiction of women in his works has to watch this at least once and try to avoid cringing.
That’s because Walloon is dead.
V the original was on El Rey over the weekend.
Damn, but the graphics were bad. I know it was cutting edge back in 1983, but it hasn’t aged well.
I’m always amazed by how primitive the credits were not too long ago, even in big-budget movies. Looking as if they were generated by the internal captioning system on a 1980s consumer video camera.