Wednesday, March 4, 2015
This Could Be The Greatest Single Night Of Television Ever
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When I returned to Canada after five years of German TV, I was overwhelmed by all the selection and especially all the great programs perfected geared towards a twelve year old boy. Pamela Sue Martin fights Dracula, Then The Six Million Dollar Man fights a shark before a crazy spider woman creature movie?? I would have wet my pants at a night of entertainment like that and still would to this day. And the greatest things is I had nerdy friends who loved this kind of stuff too. This was appointment television before VCRs and the Internet. You watched it the first time and during the summer re-run or you lost you chance to see these gems forever. There was no such thing as binge watching. I regret none of the time I spent in my earliest Cave of Cool with my 13 inch black and white TV that I won selling newspaper subscriptions to the Winnipeg Free Press. I soon won my own BETA machine just as PAY TV movie channels came into fashion. I could create my first commercial free video library...only on BETA. Those were the best of times.
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5 comments:
Agreed and agreed.
ABC had great shows at that time, especially with Galactica, Hardy Boys, you name it.
Awesome. I just watched a Six-Million Dollar Man episode this morning. :)
That's right -- and if you visited someone and "their" program came on, you had to sit and watch it with them, because gawd knows they couldn't miss it!
It was a dark times...and then ROOTS came on TV and we all had to watch that...Dance Chicken George...DANCE!
Do you still have the Beta's? I wonder if you could convert them to DVD or digital
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