I just finished binge-watching Spellbinder series 1 courtesy of YouTube. That was fun. I loved that show as a kid, and also haven’t actually gotten a change to watch any of it since I was a kid (& still enjoyed it). Also I had a crush on Zbych Trofimiuk. :o It was nice seeing some of the early episodes (including the 1st one) that I ever got to see before. Also the subtle analogies between Spellbinder rule and life under Communism in the Eastern Bloc when over my head when I was a kid; I assume that was courtesy of the Poles. I think I’ll take a break before stating on Land of the Dragon Lord; featuring a young Ryan Kwanten. So anybody else recently rediscover an old childhood favourite TV show? Did you still like it, or do you think it’s crap now?
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Just got the complete set of the old black and white Twilight Zone series. I am really enjoying them. It was a well done show. Some might find the dialogue a bit corny. But the acting was good. The stories good enough that you don’t really notice the old special effects tricks and such. Seeing actors perform near the start of their careers is fun. Thinking of all the roles they went on to.
I’ve recently watched a few episodes of Darkwing Duck, and found that it holds up very well.
Inspector Gadget, not so much. But I tired of that show the first time I saw a marathon of it, back when I was still a kid.
I have watched all the Star Trek series right from the first pilot with that other guy as captain.
Am finding long forgotten TV series and really enjoy watching them again.
There was some good stuff around in “the old days”, not many special effects computer graphics so the programs had to be well written and well acted.
Not so much of that around anymore.
From thisthread:
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This one won’t mean much to anyone else, but I remember watching “It Takes A Thief” when I was about eleven. Al Munday (the Robert Wagner character) was receiving his next assignment from a woman sitting at a park bench.
Why did this make such an impression on me at eleven years old? Because it was the first time I looked at a pretty woman and said, “yeah, that’s something interesting”.
I’ve been looking ever since.
I looked the episode up on Hulu a while back, and I have to say that my taste in women at eleven was spot-on. She was seriously attractive.
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We get the Decades channel. They run old series marathons on the weekend. Caught F-Troop, Vega$, Peter Gunn, TVarzan. They’re not all worth watching a lot of . I’ve seen all the original Perry Masons now on another classic channel, and I’ll always watch the Beverly Hillbillies, the epitome of the ensemble sitcom.
When I had a look at old Looney Tunes bits, I found that I’d forgotten how much in-between there is between favorite lines or gags.
And I liked Tiny Toons quite a bit when it ran, but I can’t watch more than a few seconds anymore. My best guess is that the pop culture references were fun to me at the time. And the self-awareness. Maybe Looney Tunes making a 1940 reference was interesting because it was novel and informative, and it’s nice to see something of what 1940 was like–but a 1992 reference, to someone who lived through it, is now like “Oh. A joke about Bill Clinton. Never heard one of those before.”
I liked the style/humor of Square One TV even though I was too old to learn anything from it, and when I looked back at that as an adult, it was still kind of fun.
When I was a kid, Nickelodeon had a series called The Third Eye that played sci-fi shows from the UK. Many of them were really engrossing, and I recently watched the full series of Into the Labyrinth and Children of the Stone.
It’s not great TV, but the acting is solid and Pamela Salem is lovely, lovely, lovely.
Pix or GTFO.
I bought the Cool McCool box set several years back and still haven’t gotten past the first few episodes. I definitely enjoyed it more when I was 6.
A local channel started rerunning the old '70’s Land of the Lost a few years ago, and it’s way more batshit crazy than I remember. It all made perfect sense when I was six.
Sock puppet dinosaurs and a toy boat. 
I really had the hots for Holly when I was twelve.
I watched those with my kids when they were first on. I think they had a plot generating program, since they were all pretty much the same.
I rewatched all of Have Gun, Will Travel and like them more than I did at 9. There were a lot of adult themes in it, and there was the added bonus of the DVD extras telling how Roddenberry reused bits and actors from the show. For instance, the Orion slave girl dance from the first Star Trek pilot was exactly the same as a gypsy dance from Have Gun.
We also watched all of Secret Agent/Danger Man - and doing so tells you exactly why Drake resigned.
We are just finishing up Star Trek TOS - funny how bad some of them were, but the good episodes stayed good. Next we will be watching The Twilight Zone episodes, just bought the box set. I would like to watch Northern Exposure and The Wonder Years, too, should I live long enough. (I know the last two aren’t exactly from childhood, but I can’t think of anything right now from my childhood it would be worth sitting through. )
The original Mission Impossible series ('66-'73) is a blast to watch again. It had to have had a huge budget for a television series back then.
I especially enjoyed “Gellerese”.
http://first2board.com/wanderlusty/2014/04/gellerese-language-cold-war-schadenfreude-enjoyment/
Wow, I haven’t thought about him in…a couple of decades. Was he the one who was constantly going after the arch villain Hugo Agogo, who was arrested at the end of every episode and was free again at the start of the next?
Noooooo, Hugo Agogo was on “Batfink.”
Not to be confused with Riff Raff.
“Your bullets cannot hurt me! My wings are like a shield of steel!”
Funny, I really associate Hugo Agogo with Cool McCool. Maybe there was some kind of combined show featuring both Batfink and McCool cartoons at one point. Or maybe I’m just confused.