favourite T.V series list of all time

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JTA

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Quote from: Mountainshield on May 27, 2014, 10:13:19 AM
I just wanted to point out the funfact about Mayhem, I do feel little sorry for Vikernes though even though he is a murderer he did serve his time in prison and I do not agree with his views, the left will not be satisfied until they have crucified him as an example of what happens to people that dares to exercise their freedom of speech.

Back to music, when you are drunk waving your head around like a retard all black metal sound the same to me  :tounge:

Ol' Varg got out of prison not too long ago and released a few albums. I'm a big fan of Filosofem and was happy to hear his music go in that direction. I thought Belus was great despite what most people say. I'm not really digging the stuff after Belus though.

Shame he torched that beautiful stave church. At least he made up for it by releasing Filosofem... I figure that's almost an even trade in terms of Norwegian cultural contributions to the world. I think he's living in France now.

Mountainshield

Quote from: JTA on May 27, 2014, 02:25:56 PM
Ol' Varg got out of prison not too long ago and released a few albums. I'm a big fan of Filosofem and was happy to hear his music go in that direction. I thought Belus was great despite what most people say. I'm not really digging the stuff after Belus though.

Shame he torched that beautiful stave church. At least he made up for it by releasing Filosofem... I figure that's almost an even trade in terms of Norwegian cultural contributions to the world. I think he's living in France now.

I have to disagree as the Church is a irreplacable beautifull heritage from our ancestors whereas a music album is just contemporary art, but for foreigners I can understand your sentiment, but just imagine someone burning down i.e Independence Hall in America. He is living in France now but was arrested by the French authorities for hate speech, either execute the man for murder or relase him and leave him alone, this constant persecution is just the left using him as an example.

JTA

Quote from: Mountainshield on May 28, 2014, 12:11:48 AM
I have to disagree as the Church is a irreplacable beautifull heritage from our ancestors whereas a music album is just contemporary art, but for foreigners I can understand your sentiment, but just imagine someone burning down i.e Independence Hall in America. He is living in France now but was arrested by the French authorities for hate speech, either execute the man for murder or relase him and leave him alone, this constant persecution is just the left using him as an example.

Just messing with you man... those old stave churches are bad ass. Being a big history buff myself it's disappointing that it was burnt down.

kit saginaw

Honey West... starring Anne Francis, and her beauty-mark.  She's a hot 20-something playgirl, who's father owns a detective-agency. -Or owned.  She takes-over after he goes belly-up.  Too bad the show was on the same path, because it had potential if Four Star didn't bring a male 'partner' in.  Independent women need men to 'help' them, nag them, and keep them out of trouble.  Ugh. 

West was a good badgirl, which was the allure of the show for me.  She knew martial-arts, could handle a gun, and had a pet leopard.  Having a male partner involved in the plots was dumb.  The producers should've just brought in Amos Burke (Gene Barry) occasionally, if they wanted sexually-charged banter.  It sucked that the episodes only 30-minutes, while good badboy; Burke's Law's were 60... both solving identical crime-plots.  Oh well, even though Francis was in a gown way more than a bikini, she never made it seem that way... :wink:

   

kit saginaw

1956-62, The Bell Telephone Science Series... starring Dr. Frank Baxter.  A fascinating concoction of animation, photography, symphonics, and good-natured sparring between humans and cartoon-guests.  No matter your age, the shows treat you like you have a brain.  There's never a wasted moment, as factual-explanations and conjecture follow a logical scientific flow to a solid conclusion.  There's also a linguistic-episode thrown in, as Baxter butts-in on Alice's Through The Looking-Glass adventures.  Baxter has a unique delivery-style, and will mix-in God whenever he feels like it, to emphasize a certain point.   

The 'magic screen' concept provides a metaphysical dimension to the goings-on.  In a couple episodes, it's actually depicted as Baxter's assistant's (whoever is providing comic-relief/audience mcguffin-ery) mind.  Then there's a secondary 'magic screen' which supplies functionary data-images, when somebody picks-up a microphone and says:  " Roll clip, " or whatever.

They do discuss a form of global warming circa 1958, in the context of mankind may expect the unexpected, since Swedish meteorologists had just discovered 'upper-air masses' in the 1930's, and WW2 delayed their study.

I'd rate the series as 8.8 out of 10, highly re-watchable.

   

justme

Deeper questions have often been the offspring of former answers.  knowledge, Wisdom and understanding demands it to be so.

kit saginaw

from 1963, The Littlest Hobo... starring a german-shepherd named London.  -Not the 70's schlock redux.

The perfect fictional animal-series.  Sort of a canine Route 66.  But if you expand the POV a bit, it's like a canine Twilight Zone.  The dog enters a town, discovers a human with a dilemma, and ends-up solving it via a logical string of situational occurrences that don't involve sappy human-characteristics.  More closer to those of an angelic Puck; the spryte from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The scripts are fast-paced, but low production-values diminish the show's impact

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kit saginaw


kit saginaw

Tightrope, 1959...  Only lasted one season, but wow... it has aged beautifully, dialogue-wise.  There's more original one-liners, pickup-lines, and tuffguy-slang than a Raymond Chandler thesaurus.  It stars Mike Connors has a nameless undercover-cop working for a nameless undercover crime-busting agency... and each episode takes place in a nameless city.  That's about it.

The show's gimmicks were Connors hiding a .38 in a back-holster that no frisker ever finds, and the stories end with Connors' planned escape, as he narrates:  " Only one man got away... ", followed by a street-scene of him walking, smoking a cigarette, and philosophisizing  about whatever.  This series blows Mannix away.


quiller

Quote from: kit saginaw on November 22, 2015, 04:33:46 AM
Tightrope, 1959...  Only lasted one season, but wow... it has aged beautifully, dialogue-wise.  There's more original one-liners, pickup-lines, and tuffguy-slang than a Raymond Chandler thesaurus.  It stars Mike Connors has a nameless undercover-cop working for a nameless undercover crime-busting agency... and each episode takes place in a nameless city.  That's about it.

The show's gimmicks were Connors hiding a .38 in a back-holster that no frisker ever finds, and the stories end with Connors' planned escape, as he narrates:  " Only one man got away... ", followed by a street-scene of him walking, smoking a cigarette, and philosophisizing  about whatever.  This series blows Mannix away.

The cop's name (in the credits, anyway) was Nick. Cheesy theme music even for B&W full-screen. This episode was written and directed by the producers. Fittingly, it's titled "Getaway Day."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj7jfOoly5I

quiller


Dori

I've had several over time. 

My current one is "Fargo", which probably means I need a shrink.   :scared:

The danger to America is not Barack Obama but the citizens capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.

quiller

Quote from: Dori on November 22, 2015, 07:16:07 AM
I've had several over time. 

My current one is "Fargo", which probably means I need a shrink.   :scared:
I'm waiting for Season 2 on DVD. Strange but good. Probably healthier than a sustained diet of Nurse Jackie Pillpopper, or Dexter Dice-'n'-Slice.

kalash

Big bang theory
Sharp's rifles
Only fools and horses
Good night sweetheart
Are you being served?
Black Adder
Red dwarf
My hero

I can watch these over and over.

Dori

Quote from: quiller on November 22, 2015, 07:56:01 AM
I'm waiting for Season 2 on DVD. Strange but good. Probably healthier than a sustained diet of Nurse Jackie Pillpopper, or Dexter Dice-'n'-Slice.

I'm not a fan of dice-n-slice, but I find the characters interesting.  I know some people from MN and they say that's how the people are.   :lol:

Another one I like is the Jesse Stone series.  They're kinda strange too. 
The danger to America is not Barack Obama but the citizens capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.