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Bolkonskij Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023	on: March 20, 2024, 15:18 Totally off-topic, no Mac relation whatsoever! BUT - given many of us are from the "Golden TV times", why not put up a thread sharing our memories? I'll start with a few scenes that have stuck with me throughout the decades. Interestingly, most of the stuff is from my young adulthood, which really tells you how our brain works. Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan The moment when Khan and his genetical-engineered folks put that parasite worm into Chekov's ear and put the helmet on. Woah, talk about goosebumps! I watched this scene exactly one time, during the late 80's, and never since then again. Creepy! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Growing Pains (for youngsters: an easy-going 80's US-Sitcom) The family is watching old records of the kids when they were little. They debate the need to add an individual song to go along with the videos. Mike, the oldest son, is asked to choose a nice song for his sister - and he picks "She's a maniac" (by Michael Sembello). Siblings' love! :-D It's been 30 years, but every time I've hear this song somewhere, I chuckle remembering the scene :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Koyaanisqatsi (yeah, had to the Google the name to get it right) My first total surreal experience with movies. Apparently the title is from a native American language and means something like "life out of balance" but it could also mean "movie out of balance" because of how strange this experience was. Did some of you guys watch it back then and found it as bizarre, too? I guess there are even stranger ones out there but this one kind of buried the art noveau documentary genre for me. Not sure how it would work on someone who hasn't seen it in this day and age, but it was some new experience back then. What about you guys? What TV moments survive in your brain to this day?

cballero 1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever	Reply #1 on: March 20, 2024, 20:04 Gosh, you're going to start a huge rabbit trail with this one, Bolkonskij, lol, and yes.. the brain's a beautiful machine indeed! Oh well, I'll byte I'm game!! My first one's a pilot of a very old yet highly creative SciFi series that only got six episodes made in the early 80s called 'The Phoenix' as often happens with new shows, this one's one of those that didn't make it.. (modern browser link) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=513tgON6XaU

wove 1024 MB Posts: 1363	Reply #2 on: March 20, 2024, 22:04 Now I feel bad here I am living in the midst of TV culture and I never watched TV. I did of course see TV, anytime you went to someone's house to visit they would invariably have the "idiot" box turned on. So you never got to really visit, you just set like a bump watching commercials interspersed with with goofy skits. I think TV went a long way to just conditioning modern society to always assume it is someone's job to keep them entertained. Wasn't "The Wrath of Khan" a movie? I seem to distinctly recall watching it in a theater.

MTT 256 MB Posts: 394 SSW7 Oldtimer	Reply #3 on: March 21, 2024, 00:16 Good grief, I'm so old I can recall watching early episodes of Coronation Street and Dr Who... My faves while growing up: Diver Dan, Joe 90, Stingray, Fireball XL5, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Mr Magoo, George of the Jungle, The Munsters, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Monkees, The Beatles (cartoon series), The Avengers, Twilight Zone, Prisoner, The Fugitive (TV series) The Alfred Hitchcock Half Hour (later Alfred Hitchcock Presents), C'mon (NZ music show), The Untouchables, Blake's 7, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, The Telegoons. And I guess a bunch of others I can't recall offhand. As a young adult, having left home I went without a TV for about a decade... But I did have radio. One radio show that I recall making a lasting impression on me were the BBC episodes of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This was before it was produced for TV. [Edit] how did I forget from the above; Monty Python's Flying Circus - Spam and the Spam song, the Lumberjack song, "Nudge nudge", and the Dead Parrot skit.
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ShinobiKenobi 256 MB Posts: 362 System 7 fan	Reply #4 on: March 21, 2024, 08:56 Are we supposed to share every tv memory? Cuz I have so many. I started out watching Scooby Doo in the early 1980s. Then I got into He-Man, Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, DuckTales, GI-Joe, jeez, I could go on and on. But those were my favorite cartoons from back then. I also liked Knight Rider, MacGyver, CHiPS, then in the '90s, I got super hooked on The X-Files, as the internet and connectivity became more common and paranoia and interests in the paranormal flourished. That was my favorite all-time TV show. I loved Mulder's friends, the geeks known as the Lone Gunmen. The Fluke worm man episode really scared me as a young teenager lol. My favorite movies were Terminator 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Back to the Future, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and more. The 1980s and 1990s really had some really good movies and TV shows.

Bolkonskij Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023	Reply #5 on: March 21, 2024, 10:03 I agree, but what are your memorable moments? The ones you still remember decades after? Including movies that one might have seen at the cinema. What actual scenes do you still remember and have a personal anecdote with?

cballero 1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever	Reply #6 on: March 21, 2024, 15:41 @Wove: you are correct, but it's actually all three! A bit of trivia on The Wrath of Khan and lead antagonist: Star Trek's second film, arguably the most remembered and voted by many ST fans as the best of that film series (as you, I certainly remember watching it, and for me right before my birthday in '82!) it's actually a sequel to an outstanding '67 Star Trek episode called 'Dark Seed', starring Ricardo Montalbán, nicknamed 'Latin Lover' for being quite the charmer and gift of gab; he lived in the U.S. but returned home to care for his mom until MGM wooed him back to the U.S. from the Mexican film industry, working with all the major studios where he fiercely fought to upscale the Latin image in Hollywood; he married Loretta Young's sister Georgiana. I first knew of him from Fantasy Island with his sidekick, Tattoo; I absolutely loved that series! The film became such a cult classic, Saturday Night Live made a skit a few years later starring Will Shatner called 'The Restaurant Enterprise', a must-see hoot with the legendary Dana Carvey reprising Khan's role: (modern browser link) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPgavT5am4 And I'm totally with Bolkonskij, that was a terrific 80s pick!!! And I just realized why I shared the pilot of 'The Phoenix'! Judson Scott, the lead in that show, co-starred with Montalbán as his right-hand man in the Wrath of Khan; oddly enough, I even recall that Judson's never even listed in the film's credits!

snes1423 256 MB Posts: 458 A Man born of Mechina	Reply #7 on: March 23, 2024, 16:05 BeetleJuice saw it in 5th grade for halloween cant believe they are making a sequel after 36 years

Bolkonskij Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023	Reply #8 on: May 22, 2024, 09:56 To continue this thread ... The wife and I are grabbing all the quality 1980's U.S. TV series we can. American TV was clearly ahead of the game back then. Lately, we've acquired the first two seasons of "Hill Street Blues" on DVD. Which isn't that easy, since it was never popular / released here in Germany. Anyway, this is a surprisingly good police drama and I love the 80's flair to it. Really the "first modern TV series" as they call it, with actors not playing in front of a fixed camera but actors playing in a room and a camera following the action as if you were in that room with them. (as seen later in TV drama series like Emergency Room and the like) Also, the characters in the series are more than just "cardboard cut-outs" as portraying in a lot of old tv series. Anyway, each episode in the 1st season starts with the morning roll call in the police station, held by Sgt. Phil Esterhaus (played by the magnificient but long dead Michael Conrad - R.I.P.). At the end of each roll call where he adressed all the cops in the room he'd always raise his finger and say "Let's be careful out there". That's such a memorable moment the wife and I agree we won't forget, despite being 40 years late watching the 1st season of Hill Street Blues :-D (has somebody else watched it? How did you like it? I heard it was quiet a success in the U.S. and in some other countries e.g. Portugal.... 1984 Usenet is full of discussions, mostly arguing over in what city it takes place :-) ))
Last Edit: May 22, 2024, 10:16 by Bolkonskij
snes1423 256 MB Posts: 458 A Man born of Mechina	Reply #9 on: May 22, 2024, 14:39 Just saw that certain people are setting up book exchange boxes but with VHS tapes called "free blockbuster" or similar

Bolkonskij Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023	Reply #10 on: February 14, 2026, 12:54 Yesterday, the wife and I started watching the 90's US sitcom "Seinfeld" which some of you may remember. Right in the pilot episode, what is there lurking on a desk behind Jerry? http://revontulet.org/2026/02/14/c34e3ad07b5243e28d427a7c22e7f449.jpg The whole desk setup is sending strong 90's vibes! :-)

mac-cellar 128 MB Posts: 176 Gotta love System 7	Reply #11 on: February 20, 2026, 18:13 Quote from: Bolkonskij Yesterday, the wife and I started watching the 90's US sitcom "Seinfeld" which some of you may remember. Right in the pilot episode, what is there lurking on a desk behind Jerry? I watch Seinfeld re-runs here in the US often. I had forgotten about Jerry's desktop Macs until watching an episode just recently. He had a few different Macs on the desk throughout the show's run. I think there was even a Powerbook Duo in a Duo Dock at one point. One of my favorite shows. I hope you and your wife enjoy it, Bolkonskij.

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