Question of the Day | 05/26/2008 12:00 am

What television show do you miss the most?

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I miss West Wing. It was so good for so long. I’m tempted by “24”, but don’t watch it because I just plumb don’t approve of the violence in our culture, let alone on TV, especially of the ‘24’ hour kind. Surprizingly, Mark does not do well with violent TV programs either. He has a TV in his quarters and watches cartoons and family shows. The Disney Channel is his favorite. Interesting. I think he learns about behaviour with these shows. I remember when I was a young wife and mother of two small ones. The kid’s father was getting credits he needed to go to UC at the local community college. We did not have a television, so every Friday night we would pick up the kids and the ironing and go to my folks house for dinner and several hours of ironing and watching those old, old shows. Twas, other than the kids, our entertainment for the week.

By Jenny Oops on 05/26/2008 1:03 am

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Lily- you reminded me that ours was the first television set in the neighborhood. I’d broken my leg and was in a hip cast for six months, flat on my back in bed (my poor mom!). So my dad bought a tube -really just a big, probably radioactive, TV tube- and built a cabinet for it and put it in my bedroom. When the first live programs started in late afternoon, all the kids in the neighborhood showed up to “visit” me. When I finally had a walking cast and went back to school, one of my friends said, “your broken leg was the best thing that ever happened to me. I’d never have gotten to watch TV otherwise.”

By Maurine H on 05/26/2008 1:28 am

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The first TV set, -unforgotten memory. My family bought the first White-Black TV when I was 3 in 1980s, it was rare and expensive which could cost many years of salaries of the whole family. So everyday, there were many people to come to see what it was and what it could do. There were only 3 channels, and it played only few hours one day. But people still waited beside it to see what it showed. The development of technology and economy in China is huge, and when I was 5 years old, our family had the Color TV; When I was 13, my parents limited the time I was in front of the TV which could affect my study; When I was in the University, LCD TV had been in my family and there are over 50 channels to choose including the HONGKONG programes and Discovery Channel. Now, we could see the TV program on the Internet, and comment the news in the BBS, and we also could see ABC, CNN and TNT channel to see what is happening in the world and the sports events LIVE. TV set changed the world, to make the world close.

By lin si on 05/26/2008 9:39 pm

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None. I haven’t watched television for about 10 years. The only thing I can think of that I might have missed is something on Masterpiece Theater.

By Emma Pathey on 05/26/2008 1:18 am

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Masterpiece Theatre was also a big deal for me. The story line was always about a young girl/woman that was subject to the “era” and the corsets that bound her body. The underlying plot and secret message of many of the Masterpiece Theatre programs was about the female sex showing great strength and will over coming her ”lot” in life. I was 8 years old lookin’ at Masterpiece Theatre.

By Liza D 08 .... beta on 05/26/2008 1:41 am

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How could I forget Masterpiece Theatre! Frank you idiot lol

By Frank Peterson on 05/26/2008 7:58 am

Emma P, I love the hat avatar.

By Liza D 08 .... beta on 05/26/2008 1:55 am

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Emma Henry the VIII on Masterpiece, I Claudius, Brideshead Revisited, Elizabeth -yes yes yes

By Frannie Em on 05/26/2008 2:00 am

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Oh, Frannie–––loved Brideshead which brought to mind The Jewel in the Crown.

By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 05/26/2008 8:16 am

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Phyllis Yes - The Jewel in the Crown. I waited every week for that one. Loved it.

By Frannie Em on 05/26/2008 12:08 pm

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omg, yes I loved listening to Alistar Cook’s introductions of each show. Loved Anthony Edwards in Brideshead. great series.. I miss frazier, carol burnett, the jackie Gleason show, and will and Grace to name a few! Will and grace, Mash, just to name a few

By DL L on 05/27/2008 8:18 pm

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I loved Brideshead which has been remade and should be released shortly. I loved Upstairs, Downstairs, Good Neighbors, and Monty Python - Fridays on PBS when I was growing up.

By LeAnne Gault on 05/30/2008 10:35 am

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Lily I know I know —In a job I had there was a really weird political situation going on and a lot of dissembling. I was powerless to do anything about it. I remembered Claudius and just hung low until the right moment when I could expose the BS. I recounted it to my father and told him ‘sometimes it’s better to follow Claudius’. I remember the look in his eyes of recognition of my aptitude regarding the situation. But Claudius - the incredible writing - just too much. I read the book as well.

By Frannie Em on 05/26/2008 12:15 pm

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Don’t forget Bonanza and The Virginian! Bonanza was kewl because in the opening of the show the map was set on fire. That had an impact on me … burning old maps and forging forward towards my own property that could be found by using coordinates on global scale. The Virginian was very important because Barbara Stanwyck was the owner of the ranch. She was tuff and it was all business with her. A follow up to Lou Grant … I was impressed with the idea of Billie. This character named Billie was one of the first female newspaper women I had ever seen since Hilde in His Girl Friday.

By Liza D 08 .... beta on 05/26/2008 1:27 am

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Lisa D: Barbara Stanwyck was the head of the ranch on The Big Valley, not The Virginian, as I recall. But both shows were great. I loved the old Westerns - Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Wild, Wild West, et al.

By James the Game on 05/26/2008 8:45 am