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Friday, May 27, 2011 | 6:30am
SOUND OFF: What TV Show from your Past Would You Bring Back?
As Oprah signs off we’re left looking around. What happened to all the good TV Programming?
@Oprah #Television
This week we lost one of the most iconic shows of a generation. Oprah signed off for the final time Wednesday to the tune of a 13.3 rating the highest in some 17 years according to Neilsen. No one will cry for Oprah however. She’s going out on top or relatively close to it, recently was influential in getting the first black President elected, has a magazine, an entire TV network and has to weigh rather than count her money.
But what does it mean for television. We’ve seen the death if not evolution of the print industry, a drum I’ve beaten to death over the years on the Nation. But it would seem TV has fallen victim to a similar fate. Gone are the great programs we used to build our days around. Today On-Demand, TiVo and YouTube make appointment viewing a thing of the past. Instead we’re relegated to short clips of mildly entertaining content viewed on our laptops or tablets married with mindless reality shows when we do get a chance to watch television.
Will our kids laugh at us one day when we tell them how great the Cosby Show or Oprah used to be? Lets get nostalgic for a second. SOUND OFF: If you could revitalize ONE television show from days gone by which would it be?
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Bonanza
Great, now you’ve got me nostalgic for all of my favorite shows.
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Great shows that never failed to entertain… Hogan’s Heroes… Wild Wild West… Man From Uncle, Fantasy Island (but only when Barbi Benton was on).
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Shows that died too soon… Pushing Daisies, Joan of Arcadia, When Things Were Rotten
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Best of 70’s jiggle-vision (and if you’re too young to have lived through TV in the late 1970’s, you missed out)… Battle of the Network Stars, Three’s Company (early seasons)… Chips
I can remember three’s company and chips. Fantasy Island and Hogans heroes I certainly only saw on rerun.
I’d Bring back In Living Color.
I’d bring back the Wayan Brothers…. aye pop was a fool… i’d bring back Martin… Pam and Gina both had donks and Martin kept you laughing the whole time…
The Cosby Show. Postive model for the Black Family. Not to mention Rudy is looking RIIIIGHT!!!!!!!
Fresh Prince of Bel Air any day
thunder cats
Good Times … Sanford and Son (with John Witherspoon as Fred)… The Jeffersons… Diff’rent Strokes … Three’s Company (with Kat Williams, Monique, and Gabriele Union and George Lopez as the landlord))
He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe. PEACE!!!
Beavis & Butthead, In Living Color or some kind of minority sketch comedy, hell I’ll even take MadTV back, a current version of What’s Happening!! I loved that show.
There r 4 off the dome I would want back that r realistically possible 4 the right price.
Martin…that shit was the bomb I still watch it on DVD
Chappelle Show…innovative
Living Color…open doors 4 Dave Chappelle.
Reno 911…THAT was funny ass show.
Old School shows….Video Soul with Donnie Simpson or at least play the reruns
Yo!! MTV Raps that will 4ever be the shit.
Glad 2 c the Nation back up and running Juan was worried the Feds came and got u.
I would like to see them bring back Martin, Sandford & Son, What’s Heppening, The Jefferson’s & all tho it just ended a couple yrs ago….The Wire should come back too
A-Team, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Airwolf, Knight Rider, Macgyver, Bonanza, The Rifleman, Big Valley, Gilligan’s Island, Flipper, I Dream of Jeannie, Walker Texas Ranger, Young Riders, Family Matters, Home Improvement, Time Trax, Early Edition, Dr. Quinn, Touched by an Angel, Rin Tin Tin, Zorro, Star Trek in all it’s forms, Tour of Duty, Greatest American Hero, Beauty and the Beast, Little House on the Prairie, Crusoe, Terminator: The Sarah Chronicles, and on, and on.
All those and far more run circles around ANYTHING on TV today. I don’t bother to watch TV anymore.