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Explosionface posted:All I want in life is for Project G.e.e.K.e.R to be acknowledged enough for a decent resolution upload to exist. That one always hit a good spot for me. And Bump in the Night. Mr.Bumpy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-0RJBVHdvc&list=PLLhOnau-tupRT66Q2-lYGwjpHIFQ-fb1K
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Botsmaster had a banging theme song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfwdiEByea0
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[quote="Nebakenezzer" post="538450755"] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reU_IfkN9_A So, some of you may know when broadcast TV peaked as far as cultural dominance goes: the late 1970s and the early 1980s. Cable hadn't made enough inroads to seriously nibble away at market share, and video tape was similarly not big enough. One year, the networks across the board raised ad rates 50%. The paradox about this era is that nearly all the TV it produced was really lovely. Maybe this was a product of having a captive audience, or maybe this was a product of trends in programming? Or drugs. Could be drugs. Whatever the cause, the whole era is notable for strange TV shows that were at the same time painfully generic. Above is an example: Laverne & Shirley, popular comedy spinoff from Happy Days (itself inspired by American Graffiti [1973]) got an animated spin off where Laverne & Shirley join the Army? And are bossed around by a tiny pig Sergent? The shame here is not that it happened, but that the results are so anodyne and dull. Similarly: the cocaine era could do baffling things when it came to mid season replacements. This youtube channel is a guy cutting together trailers of new TV shows from earlier periods. Mid-season 1979 is for some reason especially cursed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfGZOmcR-nU The Ropers is in there [you may not believe the show's logo, I certainly don't] A friend called this out as the worst, IE most uninteresting, promo - apparently one of the girls is a famous housewife?Also McLean Stephenson definitely sounds like a fake Canadian Prime Minister This is such a lovely premise I'd almost call it intriguing, and I think the narrator is the VA who was Winnie the Pooh? Mrs. Windslow and son: this is a sitcom about a single mom. Considering Dan Quayle was bitching about Murphy Brown being a single mom a decade later, it says something that being a single mom was, by itself, seen as enough of a premise PRESENTING: Susan Anton - It's a talk show with a radiant blonde; opening is pictures of radiant blonde throughout her life. A show that could have been a big hit with the true crime crowd: A show called Whonunnit?, hosted by three newspaper columnists, where every week they watch a play IN FRONT OF A LIVE STUDIO AUDIANCE and decide who the murderer is. This is pretty weird by modern standards, but the first production we see, called "A High Price for Oil" appears to be 1930s racist. It's followed up by a show called "Real People", which is all about real people. Despite being parody levels boring it was one of three shows here to get renewed. Oh and it's hosted by the real people people The Dukes of Hazzard and BJ and the Bear [what, Any Which Way But Loose (1978) was pretty good against all odds, you kids] I was in high school when those aired and remember a terrifying amount of them
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50's Sleaze, 60's Ease & 70's Cheese From London https://www.youtube.com/@sSleazesEasesCheeseFromLondon is all about weird-rear end British TV from those decades.
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Double Post, but whatever... Let's talk about one of my all-time favorite weird series. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/The_Champions_titlecard.jpg This is a Lew Grade ITC production from 1968, the height of British Spy-Fi (I'll probably do a post on Adam Adamant sometime as well). Synopsis: Three agents from the United Nations agency 'Nemesis' are sent on a spy mission into China where they are searching for evidence of biowar research. They are escaping by plane when they are shot down by PLA forces, and then rescued by the residents of 'Shangri-La' who are psychically evolved humans who also evolve the three to do good works in the outside world. They eventually get back to Europe and continue fighting 'evil' around the world (or wherever in England was subbing for around the world for a particular shoot. Their boss, Tremayne, has no clue about their pseudo-telepathy, augmented senses, or enhanced strength, endurance and speed and is just happy that these three get the job done. Cast: Stuart Damon as the American Pilot, Craig Stirling  William Gaunt as the former SOE Agent Richard Barrett  Alexandra Bastedo as Sharon Macready MD  Anthony Nicholls as Tremayne  So, who did they fight? Nazis...lots and lots of Nazis. The Chinese were also a large part of their rogues gallery as well, but they went after organized crime on occasion, mad science, rogue nuclear states, counter assassination, subverting dictatorships...the usual stuff. Why does Humbug like this show? It was so much drat fun. The actors are having a blast, the new-agey superpowers were cool, and punching Nazis is always good. Only 30 episodes were made, but most of them are here -- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw6gg897HVfu237LwSzqBcWYWqOFRor9c The first episode is here -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwF-NdMbLpw
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Club Against the Preponderance of Evil Regardless, right? I remember watching that when it aired. EDIT: Civilian Authority for the Protection of Everybody, Regardless. bananas Humbug Scoolbus fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Apr 11, 2024 |
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I saw that thing and thought I was going mad.
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The only real competitor for SNL was an ABC series called Fridays, which had Michael Richards, Mark Blankfield, Melanie Chartoff, Larry David, and Rich Hall in its repertory cast. It ran from 80-82 and had some killer bands as its musical guests, like AC/DC, Devo, The Clash, Dire Straits, Warren Zevon, and the Stray Cats among others. First Episode with Boz Scaggs as the musical guest... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtjJBxo-68I Playlist with a lot more episodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtjJBxo-68I&list=PLPC9Lmc1Dqoagckm3yAn3g71UWb4nHQuj
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Seeing that old Automan intro reminded me of the Martin Kove one-season series Hard Time on Planet Earth. Written and created by Jim and John Thomas who wrote 'Predator', it was a bout an extremely violent alien war hero, that is stripped of lot of his abilities and sent to a backwater low-tech planet called Earth with a robotic warden called 'Control Unit' until he could moderate his rage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls0Idqi5WxA First episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa4h-nMHxaY
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