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  GO_GET_GONE_GIRL (gogogirl) 5-Doyen Username: gogogirl Post Number: 272 Registered: 5-2004 |
Greetings All, LOL - what about your favorite dramatic series - whether they be - Detective - Police - Army - Western - Medical - Soap - General - and etc type shows? One of my all time favorite programs is "The Waltons." I love that show - and have been checking it out in early mornings if I'm up by then. There have been few and far between TV shows that seemed more real than the Waltons. All of the cast were wonderful actors. Another of my fave shows was "Peyton Place." LOL! That one for sure was the first Soap type show I watched and kept up with. Ryan O'Neal - Mia Farrow & Barbara Parkins fit those parts. I loved the movie Summer Place when it came out. My parents took me to see it on the base. That movie reminds me of Peyton Place a little. LOL! I used to like to watch Perry Mason as it pertains to the courtroom drama type shows. That one is a classic. Later I loved Matlock & Diagnosis Murder - Murder She Wrote - and a couple of others. I used to like Knots Landing and Dallas. LOL! The first link is out of the UK. If you click on TV USA - on the left - and then go down to the Titles - one has to look for shows based on the first letter of the title and where the show one is looking for will fall in order. For Instance under - "The People's Choice to Planet of the Apes" is where you'll find a writeup concerning a particular show. It is an interesting site - indeed. Peyton Place will be on that link. All of the links are like that - to include the Sitcoms and all. What are some of your favorite drama type TV shows and which ones are Memorable TV for you? http://www.memorabletv.com/ind ex.html http://www.ebonyshowcase.org/c lassicvideos.htm | ||
Richard Felstead (felstead2001) 4-Laureate Username: felstead2001 Post Number: 88 Registered: 4-2004 |
Great thread. :-)) For me is had to be Hill Street Blues, one of the first cop shows that not only had a superb theme tune by Mike Post, but it was so well written and the charachters were so well fleshed out, that you really did care about what happened to them. And one more...........Star Trek ( the original series ) which according to a recent poll, has been voted the most popular show of all time, and who am I to argue with that. :-)) | ||
DyvaNaye (westside314) 6-Zenith Username: westside314 Post Number: 738 Registered: 4-2004 |
Man, look!... STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO - I WISH they would put this series on DVD.... TOMA - the prelude to BARETTA THE UNTOUCHABLES - 'a Desilu Production'...Robert Stack was the JOINT! 'Rico,...Youngblood...let's roll...' THE MOTHERS-IN LAW - Eve Arden was *too funny*... THAT GIRL - Quintenssential New York Woman... MY THREE SONS - quit playing, how many of us did not impersonate that theme 'toe-tapping'? MEDICAL CENTER - Chad Everett - the bomb. Remember the episode with Robert Reed playing the 1st male on tv to get a sex-change?! That show was way ahead of its time...and Robert Reed was trying to tell us something then...RIP... EMERGENCY! - The show should come back on for the music alone... Barnaby Jones - although you never saw him throughout the show ...until the end....Old Buddy Ebsen was the bomb...even though they should not have made that 95 year old man run around shooting that gun like that... Cannon - Williams Conrad Who would have EVER thought he was the brother of... Wild WILD West - (continued from above) - ROBERT CONRAD...man those pants fit good. A cowboy ELVIS PRESLEY... Mission Impossible - oh heck yeah...this and a bowl of Cheerios... Mod Squad - I want to see this because I dont think I ever understood the premise of this all show...all we knew was that the *Black man* was on the show...lol.... ALL the AFRICAN AMERICAN SHOWS: Especially- That's My Mama What's Happening Clifton Davis/Melba Moore show Flip Wilson - the ENTIRE EPISODES Richard Pryor show I got a few more...Ill be back... | ||
Charise (mistrivia1) 5-Doyen Username: mistrivia1 Post Number: 372 Registered: 4-2004 |
Go-Get-Gone-Girl, you done started it again!!!!! I love you for it, though-LOL I love your list, but girl,no you DIDN'T go there on the WALTONS-LOL! That was me,my sister & my mother! At the end GOODNIGHT John-Boy, etc,etc  What about Apple's Way(was on for about 2 seasons/similar to Walton's with Ronny Cox as the dad) Richard: Hill St. Blues was a pretty good show/some more good theme music Star Trek, who didn't watch that one! One of my mother's favorites, too. DyvaNaye- All I can say is you must have been the twin I never knew, because what you listed was all that & plate of BARBEQUE/SIDE OF CORNBREAD!! TOMA-say what!!!! Yes it was pre-Baretta, but Baretta was also the bomb! Medical Center, Emergency, That Girl, I am fiending for some of this old stuff right NOW!!! Now you know I was a Mod Squad freak, the theme song, Oh my GOD!(remember the episode when Link lost his memory?) Get Christie Love(Freeze, Sugah!!! I miss her) The Rookies The White Shadow(A cast full of characters-LOL) Police Story(remember the episode with Smokey in uniform) Tenafly(James McEachin as the smart detective) Banacek There are others but that's it for NOW!! This is FUN!!!!!!!!!!! P.S. Dyva- I used to be scared on the intro of Mod Squad, Why???, because they would be running and I was wondering who was chasing them, made me want to run too-LOL!!!!!! | ||
Soul Sister (soul_sister) 6-Zenith Username: soul_sister Post Number: 1302 Registered: 4-2004 |
Hey Bama Girl! "ROOTS", need I say more? S.S. | ||
Charise (mistrivia1) 5-Doyen Username: mistrivia1 Post Number: 375 Registered: 4-2004 |
Soul Sister, Yes!!!! That is definitely one that I would have to add, I remember watching that every evening for the whole week it aired. Only thing that was bad was that going to school the next day, the black kids were fired up and taking it out on the white kids. That made me feel bad, because it wasn't their fault, it was just an unfortunate part of history. Many memorable scenes from this historic drama. The scene where Kunta & Fiddler are sitting next to the tree talking and Fiddler dies, When Kizzy is sold off, both of those made me cry and still do when I watch it. One of the funny scenes is when Sandy Duncan's character(I forget her name) comes back home to visit,(they had grown up together) Kizzy sees her on the side of the road and Duncan's character acts like she doesn't know Kizzy at all, just wants her to fetch her water. Well Kizzy added some flavor to that water. ILMBO,because old girl was guzzling that water like she never had any before-LOL. P.S. That drama had a lot of stars in it and the majority of them are now gone! | ||
DyvaNaye (westside314) 6-Zenith Username: westside314 Post Number: 750 Registered: 4-2004 |
Charise: Yeah, Toma turned into Baretta, many people do not know that...Tony Musante got booted for Robert Blake, a better known actor when they decided to make it 'street-hip'... Yeah girl, they need to bring those classics back! I would probably stay home more often. LOL! PS- I have a pilot episode of *Get Christie Love* on DVD...good stuff! | ||
GO_GET_GONE_GIRL (gogogirl) 5-Doyen Username: gogogirl Post Number: 284 Registered: 5-2004 |
Hey All, You all have named some good ones. LOL DyvaNaye - I also liked The Streets of San Francisco - although maybe not as much as you. How about Hawaii Five-O? "Book 'em Danno." LOL! I have been watching McMillian & Wife - McCloud and I forgot the other one on the Hallmark channel at 8:00 p.m.. I also used to like Barnaby Jones. LOL! Charise - LOL - I love the Waltons. John Walton is a great writer - and of course much of that show was based on true stories of his childhood. The walking around barefoot days. LOL! (Message edited by gogogirl on August 17, 2004) | ||
Charise (mistrivia1) 5-Doyen Username: mistrivia1 Post Number: 389 Registered: 4-2004 |
Dyva, I remember when talking to some people about old tv shows(at work) and I would ask them do they remember Toma and they would look at me like "what is that?" I liked it even though it was not on long, but I can't remember the theme music for it. I too have Get Christie Love on vhs and dvd. I bought the vhs about 6 or 7 years ago, and when I watched it, I just smiled, because she was a bad sister and pretty, It broke my heart when I heard the news that she passed 3 yrs ago. GoGGG- I hear ya, The Walton's was good as was Little House On The Praire. | ||
Richard Felstead (felstead2001) 4-Laureate Username: felstead2001 Post Number: 92 Registered: 4-2004 |
Oh my god !!!!!! Roots. I watched that when it first aired in the UK many, many years ago now. I was delighted to see it had been re-released on DVD about a year and a half ago, and just had to buy it. Sally ( my fiance ) and I, watched one episode per night, and we were moved to tears ( again ) The acting still holds up under scrutiny, and it's amazing to see how well the story transfered to the small screen. So much of it I remembered, but there was so much of it I had forgotten. Great to see stuff like this available on DVD at last. :-)) | ||
DyvaNaye (westside314) 6-Zenith Username: westside314 Post Number: 752 Registered: 4-2004 |
I love Hawaii 5-O (thanks to them, that street term became VERY popular in the hood...lol...)It still comes on the Hallmark channel for those of us who use Direct TV. I remember the days of trying to get in WHT cable on a coat hanger. LOL. |
