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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 1, 2017 7:06:06 GMT -5
You guys really take me back. No Internet. Just the one TV. Well, we actually had two -- the big one in the family room and a small one in the master bedroom (my parents' room). If I couldn't watch what I wanted in the family room, I just used the other TV in the master bedroom. The problem was that the second TV wasn't as good. I had to always fiddle with the rabbit ears -- yeah, back when we had to worry about good reception -- as well as the color adjustments (e.g., tint, brightness) which were NEVER perfect. I watched all the sports championship games on that small TV -- NBA titles, NCAA basketball championships, bowl games, NFL. Lying on my parents' bed with ice cream and chocolate chip cookies. Those were the days. You had color? I do remember watching football games and asking my dad if we were rooting for the white team or the black team -- because of course those were the only jersey colors on our black and white TV. We did eventually get a color TV, sometime in the 70s. The total screen area was quite a bit smaller than the monitor of the computer I'm typing this on.
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 1, 2017 15:10:33 GMT -5
Big events on TV were the movie "premiere" nights where the networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) who secured television broadcast rights to certain movies from Hollywood studios aired those movies for the first time on TV. Sometimes, they took a long time (i.e., many many years) before the studios that owned the films gave television rights. See, e.g., Disney. So, you couldn't even watch a movie of your choice unless: (1) a theater showed it, or (2) one of the networks broadcast it. You'd go years in between viewings. It was torture.
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Post by gnu2vball on Sept 1, 2017 16:59:17 GMT -5
Big events on TV were the movie "premiere" nights where the networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) who secured television broadcast rights to certain movies from Hollywood studios aired those movies for the first time on TV. Sometimes, they took a long time (i.e., many many years) before the studios that owned the films gave television rights. See, e.g., Disney. So, you couldn't even watch a movie of your choice unless: (1) a theater showed it, or (2) one of the networks broadcast it. You'd go years in between viewings. It was torture. Next, you'll being explaining the working arrangements inherent in Hollywood's studio system.
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 1, 2017 17:41:48 GMT -5
I should create a youtube channel about what it's like to grow up in the 1970s. I'm sure it'll go gangbusters.
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 1, 2017 17:45:23 GMT -5
Big events on TV were the movie "premiere" nights where the networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) who secured television broadcast rights to certain movies from Hollywood studios aired those movies for the first time on TV. Sometimes, they took a long time (i.e., many many years) before the studios that owned the films gave television rights. See, e.g., Disney. So, you couldn't even watch a movie of your choice unless: (1) a theater showed it, or (2) one of the networks broadcast it. You'd go years in between viewings. It was torture. Next, you'll being explaining the working arrangements inherent in Hollywood's studio system. Honestly, if I created a slideshow on this very topic and made an offer to one of the cruise liners, they'd hire me to do a series of lectures. At the very least, I'd get a free trip w/ complimentary dining room access. The cruise demographic would lap this up. I know because I've been on several cruises and they love having guest lecturers whose topic caters to their mostly age 50+ passengers.
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Post by gnu2vball on Sept 1, 2017 19:35:16 GMT -5
Next, you'll being explaining the working arrangements inherent in Hollywood's studio system. Honestly, if I created a slideshow on this very topic and made an offer to one of the cruise liners, they'd hire me to do a series of lectures. At the very least, I'd get a free trip w/ complimentary dining room access. The cruise demographic would lap this up. I know because I've been on several cruises and they love having guest lecturers whose topic caters to their mostly age 50+ passengers. Maybe you should try hooking up with TCM?
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Post by azvb on Sept 1, 2017 23:34:02 GMT -5
We ever missed The Fugitive. Bonanza was a family favorite. Get Smart, I Dream of Jeannie, Perry Mason, Bewitched, Hazel, Patty Duke Show. #imold
I remember we went to a friend's house to watch the World Television Premier of The Music Man. They had a color TV. Pretty exciting stuff
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 2, 2017 2:00:06 GMT -5
In the 1970s and part of 1980s, I never experienced a good color TV -- at home or at friends' homes. We were always fiddling with the fine adjustments. Never perfect.
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Post by gnu2vball on Sept 2, 2017 11:00:38 GMT -5
In the 1970s and part of 1980s, I never experienced a good color TV -- at home or at friends' homes. We were always fiddling with the fine adjustments. Never perfect. I thought all (Caucasian--and let's face it, that's about all there were) stars had magenta skin. Lorne Greene comes to mind.
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Post by volleylearner on Sept 4, 2017 19:58:10 GMT -5
Finished Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. Really enjoyed it. Very rare for me to like a fictional TV series that is less than 20 years old--probably can count them on one hand.
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Post by bigdfromla on Sept 17, 2017 2:23:35 GMT -5
I just saw the show "Running Wild with Bear Grylls" for the first time. I guess he takes a guest on an overnight hiking trip in the wilderness. In this show the guest was Vanessa Hudgens and they were at the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. It is a beautiful place that I have been to many times, in the vicinity of Yosemite, Mammoth Lakes and Sequoia/Kings Canyon. I have to say that Vanessa Hudgens is amazingly beautiful!! There she was in hiking clothes, no hair done or makeup and she was absolutely stunning...a natural beauty!! Between her and the scenery it was quite a sight!!
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 17, 2017 12:16:53 GMT -5
I just saw the show "Running Wild with Bear Grylls" for the first time. I guess he takes a guest on an overnight hiking trip in the wilderness. In this show the guest was Vanessa Hudgens and they were at the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. It is a beautiful place that I have been to many times, in the vicinity of Yosemite, Mammoth Lakes and Sequoia/Kings Canyon. I have to say that Vanessa Hudgens is amazingly beautiful!! There she was in hiking clothes, no hair done or makeup and she was absolutely stunning...a natural beauty!! Between her and the scenery it was quite a sight!! Who's Vanessa Hudgens?
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Post by gnu2vball on Sept 17, 2017 13:34:14 GMT -5
Angela Lansbury's mother.
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Post by future on Sept 22, 2017 9:02:09 GMT -5
I enjoy this show very much. The Peaky Blinders were a criminal gang based in Birmingham, England, during the late 19th century and, to a lesser extent, in the early 20th. They were one of many urban youth gangs in the era. The BBC television drama series called Peaky Blinders, starring Cillian Murphy, premiered in October 2013. It follows a single gang based in post-First World War Birmingham's Small Heath area. Its second series aired in and its third in May 2016. Production has commenced on the fourth series, expected to be aired in early 2018.Many of the scenes for the show were shot at the Black Country Living Museum. The show is available through Netflix and is listed as a "Netflix Original series".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2018 20:55:16 GMT -5
I've started Mr. Robot. I hope it gets better. It's a mess through 3 episodes, but I do see potential. I hope I'm not watching a Fight Club reboot. Ha! I knew it. Not exactly Luke and Darth, but I still saw it coming. How the heck am I supposed to remember what happened 1.5 years ago? Watching Season 2, but I barely remember Season 1. I wonder if Better Call Saul is available. Forget what's going on there, too.
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