#Old tv shows

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Octonauts fanart because the nostalgia hit me like a truck

Edit: I swear if anyone says that I “ruined a children’s show” by headcanoning Peso as aroace I will drop kick them to Queendom come

WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE THIS SO MUCH

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With the new Mario movie coming out and all the excitement over the trailer, I've just got to ask.

Did anybody elsw ever watch the old "super mario brothers super show" growing up? Because I did.

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Leonard Nimoy on Perry Mason and as Spock on Star Trek

George Takei on Perry Mason and a Sulu on Star Trek

Deforest Kelly on Perry Mason and as Dr. McCoy on Star Trek. And..... William Shatner just because I screwed up, and I don't know how to get rid of his photos. Thanks to @calliecat93 I tried to find the information that went with the first photo of Shatner to find out what years he played Perry, and I found it that I must have read it wrong so I changed the text. I didn't remember him playing Perry Mason. I'm a huge fan so I should've known better. Thanks @calliecat93 for bringing this to my attention. Much appreciated 😁

That's a lot of people from Star Trek who are also on Perry Mason. Who knew?

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Alyson Hannigan in Buffy - 1x09 (The Puppet Show) please if you save or use like or reblog

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Jojob's circus

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So in honour of the new “Beetlejuice” movie, and because I can’t find the TV show on any streaming services (which is SO wrong), I bought the complete “Beetlejuice” cartoon TV series on DVD. :)

I used to LOVE this show as a kid, so I’m so happy right now. (Also if it wasn’t for this cartoon, there would be no “Hotel Transylvania”, just sayin’)

[old-cinema-confessions]

Why hello there, ladies, gentlemen and the cool cats!

This is a blog dedicated to the confessions, chit-chats and dark secrets about everything related to the old movies and television - wherever it'd be Black & White or Technicolor, silent or talkies!

Just head over to the postman - oh, who am I kidding, silly me, not all of them are the chatterbox kind.

Go to the askbox and submit, if ya wish! It's alright to be shy, go undercover (make sure you double check if the confession is set as anonymous, if you wish so)!

That is all for now. I hope your day or night is goin' swell!

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DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER JANE AND THE DRAGON?

absolute banger of a theme song, ridiculously bad CGI, only 1 season. It had my 6 year old heart.

(and according to google my ship was semi-canon, google wouldn’t lie to me about something so important so therefore it is true :)

Also, [potential spoiler] I vaguely remember a plot point about the king not being the true king because he took over his brother’s role after the brother died? Did I make this up or did it actually happen in the show?? Wild for kids tv, may have to rewatch

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Funny what you hear...

A couple of days ago I found a TV series on YouTube that I haven't seen since 1973: "Jack The Ripper - Barlow & Watt Investigate".

It's an intriguing show, using two of the currently most popular TV policemen: they'd appeared in about three linked-but-separate crossover series, "Z Cars", "Softly Softly" and "Softly Softly Task Force".

However in this instance the crimes they're investigating, and the theories they're examining, are the notorious non-fictional Whitechapel murders.

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After about 50 years, watching this Is like seeing it for the very first time, and the very first episode contained the following exchange, which made me laugh a bit.

("Jack" is slang for a policeman, like "Bobby", "Peeler" or "cop", though I think Jack is more regionally North of England, where the Barlow and Watt characters originate.)

Barlow: "They had eight inspectors on the case." Watt: "And two Lancashire Jacks are worth how many from the south?" Barlow: "Well, at least we are Jacks. Starting with the evidence, and testing some theories. Not starting with the theory and selecting the evidence…"

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Why did I laugh?

It's because Barlow's final observation sums up Patricia Cornwell's infamous approach to her "Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper: Case Closed".

Like any detective-story writer, she started with her chosen perpetrator (artist Walter Sickert) then arranged the rest of the book to "prove" it was 'im wot dunnit.

It's a book crammed full of circumstantial evidence and leap-of-logic speculations such as "...while there is no evidence Sickert was in London on that date, there is no evidence that he wasn't".

Well, duh.

Cornwell goes after her target with such obsession that one reviewer - a lawyer - pointed out that if Sickert had been still alive, the book would have been Exhibit A in a case of malicious libel. (Another comment, however, suggested he would have revelled in such notoriety...)

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As for closing the Ripper case or providing solid proof of who he / she / they was or were, it won't happen; the speculation industry is worth too much money and new books, new names and new theories - or old stuff recycled - keep coming out, with the most recent in July of this year (2023).

The only names that really matter are Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, Anne "Annie" Chapman, Elizabeth "Long Liz" Stride, Catherine "Kate" Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly.

They were people, not just names to tick off a check-list.

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Unrelated edit lol

[dinosaurwithablog]

I love to look at the scenery in old shows like, yes, you guessed it, Perry Mason 😄 Everything was elegant and there was a splendor to it all!! I love that look very much. 😍

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[coffeeandbatboys]

Old shows I forgot were good.

M*A*S*H

The Andy Griffith Show

Lassie

Little House On The Prarie

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