TV shows

[TokenLiberal]

It's time to see if y'all have taste (Marvel fans beware). What are your favorite TV shows?

[NobodySpecial268]

It has been years since watching a television show. The remake of Battlestar Galactica is the last one I recall really liking. The touch of the ship's doctor smoking like a chimney was amusing. I remember over on ATS in the UFO forum, Battlestar Galactica was sometimes suggested as the reason for UFOs and humanity's children were coming home. - I loved the UFO forum mostly for wild ideas such as that.

In the 1990s, the Australian TV station SBS would run an anime episode once a week. Neon Genesis Evangelion was one I really liked. Ol' Gendo Ikari was a most wonderful villain. The Japanese usually include a flaw in their heroes and heroines, and no one is perfect. A lot of psychological flaws are there on the surface. Even in the fluffy anime, the main girl might address herself in the third person manner by using her own name rather than the word "I". Little details that make the characters interesting, you don't know if she is a nutcase or just a good girl who had a troubled childhood. Sooner or later, when she reaches for the kitchen knife, you may find out.

Of course back in the 1960s and 1970s the American imports were favourites at the time. 'Gilligan's Island' and 'Get Smart', along with 'F Troop' were high on the not to be missed list. I must admit that I miss the B grade scifi and horror movies. 'Forbidden Planet' and 'The Creature from the Black Lagoon' were my favourites.

[FCD]

TV shows in general, or comic book themed TV shows (whether cartoons or otherwise)? Additionally, are you asking current favorites or past (like in as a kid)?

Current is easy for me to answer. We haven't turned on the television in our house (except to watch the SuperBowl) in over 3 years. Not turned it one even once. So, I have no current favorite TV programs, and generally no use for television programming at all. I've even been tempted to get rid of the TV to make space for maybe some more nice western themed artwork (i.e. C.M. Russell and/or Frederic Remington type works).

As a kid, many moons ago...hmmmmm...that's a tough one, because I have two very different chapters of my younger years. There's the period from 1 to about 10, and the period from 10 onward to adulthood.

Chapter 1 (Ages 1 to 10) - (I'll try to go from youngest age to older) - Shows like Captain Kangaroo, Bozo the Clown, Electric Company. Then in later years, shows like Gilligan's Island, The Munsters, 3-Stooges, Batman, Emergency, Adam-12, Lost in Space, The 4:30 Movie (which was just a long list of B Movies on at 4:30pm every day. Movies like Creature from the Black Lagoon, Godzilla (et.al) , Mothra, War of the Gargantuans, Frankenstein, Dracula, etc.). Those, and B western movies. My other area of interest was WWII movies (I was a WWII history buff at a very young age).

Chapter 2 (ages 10+) - For me, this was in the 70's, and we had moved to a remote area of Wyoming. There was only one TV station which we only barely received, and it only broadcast from about 8am to 10pm, then went off-air. There was also no such thing as cable TV then either. So, my go-to shows were Gigantor (primarily because the Black & White animation was hilarious) and Speed-Racer (both cartoons). Later, my go-to programs were The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, M.A.S.H., Hawaii Five-O and Golden Girls (the last two primarily because that was what the rest of the family watched and we only had one TV). We didn't get cable until I was in my late teens, so then pretty much all I watched was HBO (movies and sports) and MTV. Most of my time was spent outdoors in my later teens.

In my first couple years of college, I pretty much watched CNN and MTV almost exclusively. I was a news junkie (back when there was actually more true 'journalism' and not pure propaganda) and a music enthusiast.

Now days, if I watch any programming at all it is a constant quest to find all sides of current events amidst the relentless tidal wave of propaganda being spewed out by the MSM (all of them, both right and left) in a constant crusade to get to the 'truth' and a sense of 'balance' without bias. That, in an of itself, is a chore and not something I am always able to achieve. Other than that, I mainly watch informational videos on developments in science, technology, mathematics and physics (which is my educational background).

Edit - We didn't get our first color TV until I was about 15. Color TV had been around for a while but our B&W TV worked just fine and it was all I knew.

And, just for the record, for anyone wondering if the Wyoming chapter was a hardship; on the contrary, it was without a doubt the absolute best time of my life, and I'd go back to that same lifestyle in a NY second given the opportunity (even at my much older age).