#old tv shows

[guess-i-do-art]

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

[lexisnotasimp]

Muppets wallpaper I made!

[succubuschic]

[wanderingmind867]

DC had three Superhero shows in three consecutive decades: Superman in the 50s, Batman in the 60s and Wonder Woman in the 70s. I've only seen the 60s Batman show (so far), but I kind of want to see a crossover comic between all three of these shows. I can only imagine it'd be really cool to witness something like that. Because they're all somewhat different shows, but they all bring something to the table. And you know...if the crossover comic somehow also managed to work in a reference to the 70s Hulk show, that'd be pretty cool too. Because I've heard good things about that show too. So you know... I think these classic superhero shows of the 50s-70s may legitimately be better than some of the live action stuff now. But that's just me.

[krisrisk]

I just looked up Twilight Zone episodes on Youtube and found a completely different show with a similar genre/topic??? "One Step Beyond"?? From the 1950s??

[babykotek]

Jojob's circus

[nostalgc]

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

[scottishaccentsareawesome]

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’)

[ahsokalegend]

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

[petermorwood]

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.

*****

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…"

*****

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...)

*****

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.

[saveme-storybrooke-potc]

I didn't think I needed to explain this but I guess I will.

BECK, B E C K, he is a BAD BOYFRIEND. throughout the show he had shown Jade that he doesn't care about her. he laughs at her insecurities, lets other girls hit on him (because he's too pussy to tell them to back off), and he only went back to her BECASUE HE WAS BORED. we are shown in the pilot episode that he has no respect for his girlfriend, he should have told Tori to BACK OFF but he didn't.

This post wasn't ABOUT Tori but I will address her too, (unfortunately). Tori is at fault in the pilot episode, yes Jade was a jerk to be dumping coffee on Tori's head but that WAS NOT for no reason. If you walked into class and saw this

you would be mad too. I'm not saying that dumping coffee on her was an appropriate thing to do in class during an improv exercise but it makes sense. HOWEVER, Tori kissing Beck was inappropriate as well. during that exercise the two already fought, Tori already one because she aggravated Jade enough that Jade's only focus was trying to one up Tori (and not punch her in the face), and with that she was out. But Tori thought that kissing Beck in an improv exercise (where saying no is not allowed) would be a good idea. That was wrong. again, Beck could be at fault with that (he is) but again, in improv once a prompt is thrown at you, YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT.

We then see in the following episode where they learn stage fighting how when thinking that Beck was in trouble, Tori ran to him and tried to "save" him (even though she is 10 times smaller than the stunts man) again, this annoyed Jade, and Tori continues to argue with her, and PRETEND (because she show swepped it under the rug) that she doesn't know WHY Jade doesn't like her, even though she continues to pick fights with her.

This was also the only time we see Beck act like he gave a shit about his girlfriend but in order for that to happen Jade had to pretend that Tori (the girl HE kissed) hurt her.

I can make an actual more thought out post about this but my main point in my original post was that Beck was/is a shitty boyfriend and Tori had an awful introduction as a protagonist. I can even make a post on how Jade wasn't always an awful friend to Tori because she helped Tori out a lot throughout this show just as much (if not more) than Tori helped her out.

[wanderingmind867]

The 60s was a weird time for TV shows. So many sitcoms about outcasts and weirdos. The Addams Family and The Munsters are two shows about eccentric oddball families who often seem more loving and kind than the people around them. The Beverly Hillbillies was a show about some poor southerners who got rich, and brought their backwoods styles to LA. Was it stereotypical? Maybe. But it was again about outsiders obliviously having fun in an environment where people hate them.

Then there was shows like Bewitched, I dream of Jeannie and My Favourite Martian. In these shows, we get magical or extraterrestrial beings who try to live normal lives on earth, but almost always foul it up due to some kind of misunderstanding. I think all of these shows came from similar roots, and I kind of wish I had the ideas and skills to imagine a real crossover event involving all of these shows. A tribute to 60s television, delivered (presumably) in fanfic or graphic novel format.

Oh! Maybe Batman '66 and the other superhero/spy shows can be the lynchpin, and then we'd tie in all the sitcoms and other types of shows. I think I'm onto something, in a weird sort of way. Maybe we could go back and make stories like this for every decade. Just all out of a drive to see how many things we can shove together. Can we mix Star Trek, Gunsmoke, Batman '66, The Munsters, The Addams Family, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Lost in Space, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched and Gilligan's Island together? Well, I would like to imagine there's a way we could do it. It might be hard (and it might involve a ton of blink and you miss it camoes), but I think you could write a story blending all of it together.

[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. 😍

[babykotek]

[ggswaywardgifrepository]

I really need to finish watching Checkmate. Doug McClure is attractive, the show is charming, and this exchange makes me fucking lol.

My man. Jed. Why are you trying to mix it up with the hobos and when you're supposed to be undercover? (The terminology is not intended as an insult, trust. The man with the guitar--a very young Harry Dean Stanton--literally just finished singing the line, "Hallelujah, I'm a bum" Don't @ me.)