# TV show marathon you'd love to see? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536 "2006-01-05T06:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/21 "2006-01-05T17:24:39Z")
_The Gilmore Girls_ --I missed the first few seasons. _Monk_ I know they frequently have Monk Marathons on the USA channel, but I missed season 1. I guess I’m too cheap to buy the DVDs. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/22 "2006-01-05T17:27:45Z")
I’d like to see a marathon of what survives of news broadcasts from the 1950’s and 1960’s, across all three networks. It’ll never happen, but it certainly would be interesting if it did. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/23 "2006-01-05T17:28:21Z")
Oh, forgot one! _The Joy Of Painting_, with Bob Ross. I loved to watch him make an amazing picture in 25 minutes with a dab here and a swipe there and a few scrapes of the pallet knife. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/24 "2006-01-05T17:32:52Z")
_The Guiding Light_ - all 15,000 episodes. I’ve never seen the show so I need to catch up on what’s been happening. I’ll skip the first fifteen years’ worth of radio episodes though. ---
**Author:** ![Boggette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/25 "2006-01-05T17:39:30Z")
Mork and Mindy! ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/26 "2006-01-05T17:42:06Z")
**TWIN PEAKS** …both seasons including the pilot episode. I can’t believe season 2 is still not available ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/27 "2006-01-05T19:11:16Z")
Bravo used to do Twin Peaks marathons, and back in the “old” days of 15 years ago the Police Squad marathon on A&E was an almost monthly occurance. Taxi is problematic. I don’t now what print Nick at Night uses, if they show it at all, but when Taxi was being broadcast on TNN (right before it changed to Spike) they sliced the hell out of it. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were four whole minutes of syndie cuts. All the pacing was off and whole scenes disappeared. It really kind of tarnished the memory of my youth until I got the DVD set this Christmas and realized the show does actually hold up, if you play the whole thing. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/28 "2006-01-05T19:18:52Z")
**WKRP** and **Taxi** , of course. I own **Connections 1, 2 & 3** on tape, so all I really need is to Tivo a few episodes of **The Day The Universe Changed** , to fill the gaps in my collection. Like **Sampiro** , I’d like to see a marathon of “less-than-a-season” oddities, just for the weird factor. But what I’d really love to see is a **Firefly** marathon. All 7 seasons! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/29 "2006-01-05T19:56:06Z")
**That Was The Week That Was** (the American version) – Really biting political satire and Tom Lehrer songs, what’s not to love. **The Games** – Australian mockumentary about organizing (ha!) the Olympics. I have season 1 on DVD, no sign of season 2 ever being released. **Murder Most Horrid** – British anthology series with lots of grizzly deaths in every episode. A comedy. Includes the funniest moment in the entire history of television. Starring Dawn French. **Cosmos** – It’s been a while. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/30 "2006-01-05T20:20:31Z")
> [@](#): > > That Was The Week That Was (the American version) – Really biting political satire and Tom Lehrer songs, what’s not to love. I don’t think it’s ever been syndicated, VHSed, or DVDed, but they have several episodes on tape that you can watch at the Museum of the Moving Image/Museum of TV in New York City. I watched a couple there several years ago. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/31 "2006-01-05T20:42:04Z")
Absolutely Fabulous The Waltons Hill Street Blue Cop Rock (well it would be a mini-me mini marathon) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/32 "2006-01-05T21:23:07Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I don’t think it’s ever been syndicated, VHSed, or DVDed, but they have several episodes on tape that you can watch at the Museum of the Moving Image/Museum of TV in New York City. I watched a couple there several years ago. There was also a CD several years ago of collected moments from the series, cut together to sound like two episodes. I’ve been to the museum in New York, too, and watched the last episode, in which they just savaged NBC for cancelling them. Saturday Night Live thinks it’s biting and satirical, and once upon a time it was, but even then it couldn’t hold a candle to TW3. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/33 "2006-01-05T23:06:55Z")
M_A_S\*H. Not a marathon, but a local station just started running ER from the pilot episode. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/34 "2006-01-05T23:16:28Z")
A run of short lived shows that didn’t make it and will never be shown in syndication. Best of the West Whoops and reaching far back… Quark ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/35 "2006-01-05T23:48:28Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > **Cosmos** – It’s been a while. I did that last year-- got the DVDs out of the library and watched them all. That music is creepy and cool. I want a **Xena: Warrior Princess** marathon. I want to watch them all in order for once. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/36 "2006-01-06T00:03:35Z")
I’m havin’ a marathon tonight, my boys got me _Gilligans Island The Complete First Season_ for christmas and I’ve been too busy at work to watch it. Guess they DO know me. 🆒 Hey fishbicycle, it wasn’t just the amazing pictures Bob made, it was his naration…“just let that limb go where it wants, let it meander like a happy little limb…now lets put in some clouds, just let them be free and find thier own space…” He was watching the effects of Valium on TV…I miss Bob ☹ ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/37 "2006-01-06T00:18:36Z")
**Barney Miller Barney Miller Barney Miller** Also, bring **News Radiop** back to A&E. The **Gilmore Girls** is shown every day at 5 p.m. on ABC Family. I think they’re in the first season or so now. ---
**Author:** ![mikeargo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@mikeargo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeargo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/38 "2006-01-06T00:24:54Z")
\*\*The Odd Couple ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/39 "2006-01-06T00:28:52Z")
Space:1999 ---
**Author:** ![PaperBlob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@PaperBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperBlob)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536/40 "2006-01-06T00:41:47Z")
**The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.** **Invader Zim** Another vote for **Twin Peaks**. I missed it when it came out and haven’t been able to catch it yet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-marathon-youd-love-to-see/338536.md?page=3)