Yes, according to DH. Apparently we own it. (I have no idea what media comes into my home. I just see the shelves continue to sag under the weight of boxed sets.)
Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Oct 29, 2009 8:02:35 am PDT #15895 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
P.M. Marc - Oct 29, 2009 8:06:59 am PDT #15896 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My high school TV viewing was slightly more me, less Parentals: Trek (TNG), ENG (was that high school or was it college? I think it was high school), Kids in the Hall, The Red Green Show, Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Doctor Who (which was a constant from the fourth doctor to the seventh, frankly, and I'm shocked I left it off list the first), Are You Being Served?, that one with the old dudes with antique stores, Twin Peaks, Lovejoy, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Beverly Hills 90210, QVC (I loved him first, you Mike Rowe come latelys! This one time, with this neon wall sign of a rainbow and clouds? OMG, he cracked me up. "Turn it on, sunny. Turn it off, cloudy!"), National Finals Rodeo, the nightly horse racing recap show (local), Bombshelter Video, 120 Minutes, Liquid Television.
Wow. I watched a lot of TV.
I think I just didn't sleep.
Sue - Oct 29, 2009 8:08:51 am PDT #15897 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Wow, what did you use?? The newspaper? ESTVP?
There was a supplement that came with the newspaper. And, until I was 12 or so, we only had 3 channels. After that, we only still had 12 channels, so there wasn't that much to remember.
javachik - Oct 29, 2009 8:09:50 am PDT #15898 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Gotcha.
Jessica - Oct 29, 2009 8:10:47 am PDT #15899 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Doctor Who (which was a constant from the fourth doctor to the seventh, frankly, and I'm shocked I left it off list the first), Are You Being Served?
I can't believe I forgot about the late-night BBC-via-PBS shows! I watched all of these except Blackadder, which wasn't on my local station's British rotation.
P.M. Marc - Oct 29, 2009 8:14:35 am PDT #15900 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I can't believe I forgot about the late-night BBC-via-PBS shows! I watched all of these except Blackadder, which wasn't on my local station's British rotation.
I left a few off, like Waiting for God (which I can't remember when I watched again), and that one with Judi Dench. OH! Yes, Minister. I was a HUGE Yes, Minister fan.
Pretty much anything with Penelope Keith was on my to watch list.
Jessica - Oct 29, 2009 8:16:07 am PDT #15901 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
We also got Chef! which I loved almost as much as Red Dwarf.
§ ita § - Oct 29, 2009 8:25:05 am PDT #15902 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
that one with Judi Dench
The one with her and her husband? I loved that.
I can't remember the TV shows I watched. I think I've blocked out much of my childhood. There are the obvious ones like Dr. Who and Robin of Sherwood (now, that was talked about at school all the time. We were obsessive--my one foray into RPF and my reason for running screaming from it) and stuff that maybe I shouldn't have been watching like Tenko, but I loved anyway. Bergerac and The Professionals...lots of sports, random American imports like A Team and Dynasty. And kids shows I can't remember properly. Like one with aspidistra aliens. And game shows, like the one with the cards, or Countdown which was absolutely brilliant--I don't know if it's still in force, but there was a British moratorium on the amount of luck you could depend on in a game show, so they were much more effort driven, and you ended up with Mastermind and The Krypton Factor instead of Wheel of Fortune.
I'd recreate it all via DVD if I could. I miss UK programming a lot.
P.M. Marc - Oct 29, 2009 8:26:55 am PDT #15903 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
We also got Chef! which I loved almost as much as Red Dwarf.
Oh, yes!
The one with her and her husband? I loved that.
I think so.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 29, 2009 8:27:00 am PDT #15904 of 30001
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
P.M. Marcontell, your growing-up TV schedule was remarkably similar to mine. I was all about the US TV from teens onwards. Star Trek, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Northern Exposure. I saved up babysitting money when I was 15 and bought myself a little TV for my bedroom, and would watch X-Files when it aired at some ridiculous hour like 11.30pm. And then be unable to sleep from the fear of things climbing out of drains and coming to get me.
Despite the American telly obsession, I did also watch the more cult-ish British TV, particularly Red Dwarf. Doctor Who was earlier - it finished for its loooong break when I was a kid - my father had it on a lot during the Davison/Baker/McCoy years. There was actual hiding behind sofas from Daleks, as I recall.
I was a HUGE Yes, Minister fan.
Never got into that until recently. We have Yes, Minister marathons at a friend's house, with much wine.