# TV Binge Watch (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 4, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711 "2022-10-04T16:51:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 391
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7801 "2025-04-15T01:53:47Z")
**Classic 1960s TV Shows (any country or genre)** 1. Bewitched 2. The Flintstones ---
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**Classic 1960s TV Shows (any country or genre)** 1. Bewitched 2. The Flintstones 3. Star Trek ---
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**Classic 1960s TV Shows (any country or genre)** 1. Bewitched 2. The Flintstones 3. Star Trek 4. The Dick Van Dyke Show ---
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**Classic 1960s TV Shows (any country or genre)** 1. Bewitched 2. The Flintstones 3. Star Trek 4. The Dick Van Dyke Show 5. The Prisoner ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7805 "2025-04-15T03:39:34Z")
**Classic 1960s TV Shows (any country or genre)** 1. Bewitched 2. The Flintstones 3. Star Trek 4. The Dick Van Dyke Show 5. The Prisoner 6. My Three Sons ---
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**Classic 1960s TV Shows (any country or genre)** 1. Bewitched 2. The Flintstones 3. Star Trek 4. The Dick Van Dyke Show 5. The Prisoner 6. My Three Sons 7. Bonanza ---
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**Classic 1960s TV Shows (any country or genre)** 1. Bewitched 2. The Flintstones 3. Star Trek 4. The Dick Van Dyke Show 5. The Prisoner 6. My Three Sons 7. Bonanza 8. The Andy Griffith Show ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7808 "2025-04-15T12:30:48Z")
**Classic 1960s TV Shows (any country or genre)** 1. Bewitched 2. The Flintstones 3. Star Trek 4. The Dick Van Dyke Show 5. The Prisoner 6. My Three Sons 7. Bonanza 8. The Andy Griffith Show 9. The Mod Squad ---
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**Classic 1960s TV Shows (any country or genre)** 1. Bewitched 2. The Flintstones 3. Star Trek 4. The Dick Van Dyke Show 5. The Prisoner 6. My Three Sons 7. Bonanza 8. The Andy Griffith Show 9. The Mod Squad 10. Two of a Kind **Canadian TV shows (any genre)** 1. Murdoch Mysteries ---
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**Canadian TV shows (any genre)** 1. Murdoch Mysteries 2. Kim’s Convenience ---
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**Canadian TV shows (any genre)** 1. Murdoch Mysteries 2. Kim’s Convenience 3. Trailer Park Boys ---
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**Canadian TV shows (any genre)** 1. Murdoch Mysteries 2. Kim’s Convenience 3. Trailer Park Boys 4. Letterkenny ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7813 "2025-04-15T14:37:45Z")
**Canadian TV shows (any genre)** 1. Murdoch Mysteries 2. Kim’s Convenience 3. Trailer Park Boys 4. Letterkenny 5. Schitt’s Creek ---
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**Canadian TV shows (any genre)** 1. Murdoch Mysteries 2. Kim’s Convenience 3. Trailer Park Boys 4. Letterkenny 5. Schitt’s Creek 6. SCTV ---
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**Canadian TV shows (any genre)** 1. Murdoch Mysteries 2. Kim’s Convenience 3. Trailer Park Boys 4. Letterkenny 5. Schitt’s Creek 6. SCTV 7. You Can’t Do That on Television ---
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**Canadian TV shows (any genre)** 1. Murdoch Mysteries 2. Kim’s Convenience 3. Trailer Park Boys 4. Letterkenny 5. Schitt’s Creek 6. SCTV 7. You Can’t Do That on Television 8. Northwood ---
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**Canadian TV shows (any genre)** 1. Murdoch Mysteries 2. Kim’s Convenience 3. Trailer Park Boys 4. Letterkenny 5. Schitt’s Creek 6. SCTV 7. You Can’t Do That on Television 8. Northwood 9. Heartland ---
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**Canadian TV shows (any genre)** 1. Murdoch Mysteries 2. Kim’s Convenience 3. Trailer Park Boys 4. Letterkenny 5. Schitt’s Creek 6. SCTV 7. You Can’t Do That on Television 8. Northwood 9. Heartland 10. The Red Green Show pass ---
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**Shows that missed their moment** (shows that came out too early or too late to hit the mark) 1. _Cafe Americain_ In 1992, Valerie Bertinelli is still riding fame from _One Day at a Time,_ and plays a divorced American woman who reinvents herself by moving to Paris and getting a job in a cafe. It’s Obviously inspired by the recent sleeper hit _Shirley Valentine._ It throws caution to the wind, spoofing international characters before there were so many news channels and cable news feeds for people to watch, and uses subtitles to have people authentically speaking French sometimes, before opened-caption YouTube has conditioned people to accept that. Nearly every critic who praises the acting and writing criticizes the subtitles. This is also back when nearly anything not from the US appears on PBS, and that is a strike against it, I think. I liked it, though. Aired 18 eps. While reception was mixed, people seemed to be happy to see Bertinelli again. **Oh, as the OP, my proposal is that when adding to the list, a good explanation is given for each show’s inclusion, but the explanations are cut from list reproductions, so that each list has only the explanation of the bottom item.** ---
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**Shows that missed their moment** (shows that came out too early or too late to hit the mark) 1. _Cafe Americain_ 2. _Police Squad!_ Created by the writer-director team that made _Airplane!,_ this was a stone-faced parody that threw absolutely everything at the wall: sight gags, puns, wordplay, absurdism, non sequiturs, you name it. You couldn’t look away from the screen for more than a few seconds without missing a gag, and the fact that you had to pay such close attention was thought to be the chief reason it didn’t catch on, getting canceled after just six episodes. (That and the fact there was no laugh track, unheard of for any comedy other than MASH in 1982, though a laugh track would have completely ruined it.) Attention spans haven’t exactly gotten longer since then, but it’s easy to see a show like this becoming a hit today on a streamer like Hulu and getting a much longer run than it originally got. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711.md?page=390) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711.md?page=392)