Laugh-In, maybe? I don’t have cable, so I don’t know if this gets re-run. I don’t hear people saying “Sock it to me” or “You bet your sweet bippy” these days.
Well, except that Ruth Buzzi is still a household name if your household demographics skew old enough. And Goldie Hawn is a megastar. And Lily Tomlin is still famous enough to be recognized by most people. And the Emmys this year had an onstage reunion of some of the cast.
Huh? “Isis” is on DVD. Honest. I have it - the complete series. Not bootlegs, an official release. I don’t know why I seem to have lost the ability to hide links behind text, but here’s a link: http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Isis-Complete-JoAnna-Cameron/dp/B000QQDEZG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1225210192&sr=1-1
I notice that its only been out for about a year. The last time I checked the fan sites about the show was several years ago, so I guess one of them finally got Hallmark to release it from their clutches.
Magnum was rerun on A&E for a while but they stopped a few years ago. However, there’s going to be a movie next year, with Matthew McConaughey rumored to be taking the lead role. Tom Selleck has said he’d disown it. As will I.
For the OP: How about NYPD Blue? Big out of the gate, some decent “naked butt” controversy, then it stayed on too long, and Sipowicz having everyone in his life die turned into a joke / meme…and now it’s seemed to have vanished completely. Plus, they seem to have replaced it in syndication with some form of Law & Order.
Moonlighting was very big and did wondrous things for the careers of Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis, but it did not seem to make serious inroads into the public cultural consciousness*.
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*If there is any such thing.
Batman (TV series 1966-1968) … the hottest show at the time. Same Bat Channel, Same Bat Time! Now a faint memory and only brought to mind because of the Batman movie franchise.
You’re not serious? Everyone knows what the original Batman was like if only to contrast it to the modern films and the cartoon series.
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Fridays. Not even available on DVD.
Do you eat it? No no nooooo no!
Do you drink it? No no nooooo no!
Do you smoke it? Yes yes yesssss yes!
So true. I always said that a good indicator of when a Generation Xer or Yer begins to feel “old” is when they can no longer relate to that year’s group of Real World Housemates. For me, I could really identify with the San Francisco group, but not London. That means I became “old” around 1994-1995. I can’t even name the Real World cities in order anymore: New York, LA, San Francisco, London, Miami … uhh, someplace else hip like Seattle or Portland or whatever, I guess.
[OP back again]
There were any number of very late 60’s/early 70’s films which (even as a tween) I recall as getting tons of press at the time of their release. Stuff like Jesus Christ Superstar, The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon (tons more but IMDb’s search engine sucks) really have no pop culture weight or visibility at all anymore, while others of the same time period are still touchstones to this day (Patton, The Godfather, Deliverance). The 60’s were weird I guess.
Ooh, ooh…The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd! My Dad and I LOVED that show!
I think with The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon, their apparent lack of present-day of visibility has a lot to do with the fortunes of their director, Peter Bogdanovich. For a time in the early 70s, Bogdanovich was the hottest director in Hollywood after he helmed a string of critically-acclaimed and financially successful movies. Then his touch suddenly went cold and, aside from 1985’s Mask, he has not directed a successful film since. As a result, his 70s movies don’t get as much play today as the earlier works of his “New Hollywood” contemporaries like Coppola, Scorsese or Spielberg.
Also, in the case of The Last Picture Show, another reason it doesn’t seem to be a still-popular old favorite like Patton or The Godfather is that it’s unremittingly depressing. The B-W cinematography, while perfectly matching the movie’s tone, only makes it even more bleak. No matter how good they are, people tend not to repeatedly view downer movies.
Eerie, Indiana.