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Have you guys/gals ever watched a rerun of a show you used to LUV but find it really hokey now? I'm thinking about "Friends" at the moment. I used to watch it all the time when it aired but, I dunno, it's hard to watch now. Any other shows?.....

Sorta.

The hokey part I don't mind so much, it's the black and white part that bothers me nowadays.

hockey is gooood.

I agree on Friends. Seinfeld, on the other hand, remains just as classic for me. I only compare the two because they were such ratings kings for their timeslots for so long.

The Simpsons sure wore off, too. Sometimes shows are ruined just by being on the air for too long.

Knight Rider and The Dukes of Hazzard.

As a child of the 80's, those were *my* shows. I loved them both, and have fond memories of plopping down on the living room floor with my Matchbox cars and watching them. Good stuff.

A year or so ago I discovered that both were in syndication on TNT or something. Set up the DVR to start recording them. So disappointed. I couldn't believe how bad they were. The acting, the stunts, the plots, everything. Just... sad.

On the other hand, I did recently watch a bunch of old Night Court reruns, and found myself moderately entertained. I remember occasionally watching that as a kid/young adult and thinking it was funny, though obviously I didn't get a lot of the jokes. I get the jokes now, and actually think it is/was a pretty good sitcom. So that held up really well. For me, anyway.

...it was worth watching just to see Markie Post!

The Dukes of Hazard, good one, I tried watching that recently and couldn't believe that it was so popular at one time and how could we forget the A-Team? (I've tried to)

Check out this tv site . If you scroll down the left side you can see lists of all the TV shows from different decades. It's ammazing how many of these shows I (vaguely) remember, mostly from the mid 70's on up, for me anyway.

One of ABC's local over the air channels is called Retro TV. All it broadcasts is old shows like Night Rider, A Team, Emergency, Incredible Hulk, and even some old classic western shows. In addition, the commercials and news clips are from back in the 80's, pretty cool.

The other night they showed some old news sports footage from 85, the year I graduated. Our girls team was playing for the State Championship that year. It was interesting seeing all the BIG feathered hair again.

Unless you are stuck in Ontario with the leafs who have sucked for the last, oh, 40 years or so and with league management that doesn't seem to like people with buckets of money that want to bring competitive hockey back to the province!!!

Now that I'm done with my rant...

Lost in space. I can't believe that I chose that over Star Trek, which was hokey, but not god awful.

I’ve only found one class of shows I use to love and now may not. Those are the ones like “Land of the Giants” & “I Dream of Jeannie.” Watching it later I realized the appeal back then was the outfit’s worn by the female characters.

In some cases I’ve gone back to old show I hated and found I really liked them later. The early Dr. Who episodes are the best example of this.


I’ve noticed that only bugs me when I watch on regular TV and the commercials are in colour but the show is B/W.

I’ve actually been surprised a couple times by shows I never knew were in colour until I started collecting the DVDs. I never realized that last seasons of “Combat!” were in colour.

One thing I don’t think I picked up on when originally watching a lot of older shows was how much they reused the same stock footage for certain scenes.