What older TV series have aged the best/worst when watched in reruns?

I have, and I still like it. Robotech’s story kind of wears on me now. Thundercats still works for me, but I haven’t seen Beastwars in a couple of decades - may have to check that out. I still find the old Dungeons and Dragons cartoons to be watchable, too :slight_smile:

So you’re posting from the future, I take it? Beast Wars premiered in 1995 and ended in 2000.

Well, I am posting from the future (now, as compared to your post), but that’s irrelevant. But, obviosuly, I had Beast Wars confused with another show - now I will proceed to go mad trying to figure out what it was…

OK - not so hard to find. Don’t ask me why I had it confused with Beast Wars - I was 10 at the time.

Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light

I did find some useful resources while trying to solve the mystery:

Whatever happened to Hawk the Slayer? It was the first made-for-cable production I ever saw.

Andy Griffith
Everybody Loves Raymond
Cosby
Golden Girls
Hee Haw

This.

Plus I swear one of my son’s friends is the incarnation of Eddie Haskell which shows that those types of personalities transcend time no matter what decade.

**Roseanne **has aged wonderfully. I was very young when that show debuted and now that I have kids of my own it’s even funnier. Almost makes me sad that Roseanne ended up being such a nutbag.

Golden Girls is still a riot.

The Dukes of Hazzard has NOT aged well. I’ve watched a few syndicated episodes for the nostalgic factor and for the life of me I can’t figure out why I was so obsessed with that show.

I’d say The Prisioner is an example of a show that has aged well - it has more fans now then when it was released. A modern re-make was attempted and most people thought the 60s original was better - a symptom of a show that has aged well.

Certainly, it is filled with '60s touches (and in parts, '60s silliness), but that is part of its charm.

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Catherine Bach in a mid-drift and cut-offs.

I see Mission: Impossible mentioned. I used to watch that when I was a kid and really liked it, but I never see re-runs of it to see how it’s held up. Amazon has all 7 seasons on DVD listed with generally positive reviews. Might be something to snag up with winter coming on.

didn’t watch remake.

the issue for me is the amount of suspension of disbelief needed, as a young viewer the show was suspenseful, as an older viewer his choice of actions have no reasonable cause, he flawlessly picks correct actions with no evident clues as to why he would do that. more wizard than wit.

Heh, “as a young viewer … as an older viewer …” - that’s more an issue of you being aged then the series. :smiley:

By ‘aged’, I tend to think ‘doesn’t hold the intended audience’s attention or interest as much as it did back then’.

Younger viewers find the Rebellion-Because-I’m-An-Individual motif just as compelling today as they did in the '60s. Or at least, I did when I watched it in the late '80s … and people still like it now, for many of the same reasons.

I’ve watched Way of The Warrior through Little Green Men this week so far. I think I like it better than TNG.

I’m also mixed on TOS. The City on the Edge of Forever holds up for me, but most of them don’t. I think it’s because they set it in the past and it didn’t have that cheesy 60’s futuristic look. The TOS movies don’t have that problem after the first one though.

Speaking of Robotech…probably best just to skip the Americanized hodge-podge of three different series and go right to the Japanese Macross source. The story flows better and still continues (in related sequel form…some good, some utterly terrible) today. Macross Zero is a fairly good back story (with good animation) of Roy Fokker.

Ummmmm except that I was an 8-year old girl.

So was my little sister, and black as well. She totally wanted to grow up to be as hot as Daisy.

TOS worked best when it was being dark and hugely depressing (“Charlie X,” “City on the Edge of Forever”) or consciously ridiculous (“A Piece of the Action.”) Similarly, in terms of overall quality, the show had no middle ground: it was either great or awful.

Eh, it’s pretty easy to tell from the characters (& audience’s) reaction.

the show had eye appeal to both boys and girls.

Some things age cyclically as well. The Monkees were popular in the 1960s, outselling The Beatles some months.

Ten years later they were “the what-kees? Oh I remember them, vaguely…” and couldn’t get arrested. No interest in a reunion.

Ten years after that the show became more reruns than it’d been in 20 years. The band reformed (well, 3/4 of it) to make some easy money on the county fair circuits and ended up selling out bigger arenas than they had in 1966. Kids who weren’t born when the show was on and their parents were vying for tickets.

Ten years after that they still performed occasionally but on the county fair circuit.

A dozen years after that (today) they’re “the what-kees?” again.

Perhaps when they’re all 80 they’ll do a Tony Bennett Unplugged style comeback.