mine: The Andy Griffith Show
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howard.schumann — 11 years ago(February 27, 2015 11:04 PM)
It's a Man's World
1962-63 directed by Peter Tewksbury, Hal Todd and Lamont Johnson was my favorite TV show of the 60s and maybe ever. Four struggling young men living unsupervised on a houseboat called The Elephant in Ohio does not sound like the ingredients for a successful television series. If you judge success by ratings and longevity, the series was a failure. It lasted only one year and 19 episodes, but when it was canceled by NBC, the cancellation caused the biggest protest that TV land had ever seen.
According to writer Kerry Prechter, NBC received thousands of letters protesting the show's cancellation. Fans sent elegiac poems and accused the network of implicit censorship. One writer asked the NBC executive Walter D. Scott, ''When a sprig of green appears in the wasteland, must you run out and chop it down?
Unlike the typical TV idealized teen drama about upper-class twits living in the suburbs, it was a comedy/drama that was far ahead of its time in dealing with real issues in the transition from adolescence to adulthood in an honest and intelligent way, including those of adolescent sexuality.
James Brooks, director of Terms of Endearment, said that the show ''felt utterly real, and you believed every minute of it, it had a sense of purpose, and you get how good the characters are. It's as though Tewksbury gave everybody a license to have integrity.'' ''I think, he said, it was singular, something that was there and was gone. It was so much a personal way of seeing life that no one else could have repeated it.''
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armanmarok — 10 years ago(September 15, 2015 04:09 AM)
The Outer Limits
My Top 100 Favorite Films:
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raymond_chandler — 10 years ago(September 18, 2015 01:01 PM)
It is very difficult for me to go against
Star Trek
, but
The Fugitive
absolutely enthralled me. I would go down into the basement and throw myself around like I was Kimble fighting off the bad guys. The One-Armed Man is one of the most brilliant TV concepts ever, but the real genius was that he almost never appeared in the first three B&W seasons (only 4 eps out of 90!). Best TV show ever, and one of the most influential. The Theme music still thrills me to the max.
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AlexisKuttmeov — 10 years ago(November 29, 2015 03:04 AM)
Comedy: Green Acres, Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, Get Smart
Sci-Fi: Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits
But Green Acres is my favorite because the comedy was surreal and the cast was great.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility
