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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2022 15:25:07 GMT -5
I watched the UFO episode “The Dalotek Affair” earlier tonight. SHADO clashed with private corporation Dalotek, who were conducing research on the Moon. SHADO suspected that Dalotek may have inadvertently been affecting SHADO’s communications, leading to blackouts. At one point, Straker utters words that now seem prophetic. He shouts, “Private corporations do not belong on the Moon!”  Given the news nowadays, with various private entities expressing interest in exploration/habitation of the Moon, his words seem apt nowadays… |
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2022 7:06:07 GMT -5
Mister T is 70 today. Happy Birthday to him.  Wasn’t it scientifically proven years ago that The A-Team is the United States’ greatest show ever?! |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 22, 2022 18:58:58 GMT -5
Mister T is 70 today. Happy Birthday to him. Wasn’t it scientifically proven years ago that The A-Team is the United States’ greatest show ever?! Not while The Wild Wild West exists. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 22, 2022 19:54:48 GMT -5
Mister T is 70 today. Happy Birthday to him. Wasn’t it scientifically proven years ago that The A-Team is the United States’ greatest show ever?! Ummmm…no! It might crack the top 250,000 though. |
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Post by Confessor on May 24, 2022 5:42:30 GMT -5
By coincidence, I re-watched Rocky III last night, which obviously features a legendary Mr. T performance as boxer Clubber Lang. It's also where Mr. T first uttered his immortal catch-phrase, "I pity the fool!" As for The A-Team, I thought it was just about the best TV show I'd ever seen when I was 11 or 12. However, having tried to re-watch a few episodes in the past year or so on the ForcesTV channel, I can categorically state that it is, in fact, laughably acted, badly written bollocks. Of course, you could argue that if it appealed to 12-year-old me so much then it was probably doing a rather excellent job of targeting its target demographic, but still... |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2022 5:51:53 GMT -5
But The A-Team made me the man I am today. It taught me that anything is possible. It taught me that I could make anything, that even if I only have two bolts, a screwdriver and a tin can, I can make an armoured vehicle. It taught me to stand up to the slimeballs of the world. It taught me that a plan could always come together, however chaotic.
The series is a better template for success in the world than any business seminar…
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 24, 2022 9:12:43 GMT -5
(...) The series is a better template for success in the world than any business seminar… That's probably true, but being better than a business seminar is a pretty low bar to clear. |
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Post by berkley on May 24, 2022 15:15:53 GMT -5
I never watched the A-team, probably because I was already in my early 20s by the time it aired and thus not part of the target audience, which, as Confessor mentioned, was presumably around 8 or 10 years younger. I did like George Peppard and the guy from Battlestar Galactica, and even Mr. T from the Rocky movie, but that didn't seem to be enough to get me to watch. If there had been something else to attract me, like a science fiction or perhaps horror premise to the show, I might have given it more of a chance.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2022 16:09:41 GMT -5
Science fiction or horror? Now you’re talking. The A-Team VS robots, or the A-Team VS Bigfoot, would have appealed to me!
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Post by codystarbuck on May 24, 2022 21:36:59 GMT -5
I was in high school, when it started, but college for the bulk of its existence. It made GI JOE look like a documentary, when it came to weapons fire.
I like Peppard in other things, and he had moments, in this, and Dirk Benedict was always fun to watch (even in that horrible....horrible Body Slam movie, with Roddy Piper); but, about a half dozen episodes were all I could take, of this. I even enjoyed The Master more, and it was nearly as ludicrous (though Sho Kosugi helped it).
T was fine in Rocky III (Hulkster was just laughably bad; but, it made him a star), though Stallone was smart enough to dole him out in small doses.
I first saw Mr T in a worked World's Toughest Bouncer contest. The whole competition was a performance and T was set up to be the star and win. It was no surprise that he ended up in a pro wrestling ring, for Wrestlemania I, since he had never had a real professional fight.
When I was 10, I watched reruns of The Wild Wild West and Mission Impossible, watched regular episodes of Columbo and Starsky & Hutch and thought they were the greatest. They still hold up 40 years later (Starsky & Hutch are a bit shaky; but Huggy Bear still rules!). Columbo was always fun to watch and is filled with great writing and performances.
For dumb action shows, I preferred SWAT, though I tried watching that a few years back and I definitely wondered what I was thinking, then.
Baa Baa Black Sheep still holds up, though the T-6 Texans for Zeroes and some of the stock battle footage don't hold up so well. The haircuts never did; but, it was the 70s. Robert Conrad had enough charisma to get you to sit through even the worst of his shows. I tuned in weekly for A Man Called Sloane, which was pretty bargain basement spy fare; but, it got by on the strength of Conrad, Dan O'Herlihy and Ji-Tu Kumbuka, as Torque.
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Post by berkley on May 24, 2022 22:45:32 GMT -5
I never got into Starsky and Hutch either, not sure why, since I think I watched most of the popular US cop shows that were shown on one of our two Canadian tv channels back then. Maybe I tried it and didn't like it for some reason, but I can't remember anything in particular that turned me off. Maybe I'll have to give it a try next time I'm doing some 1970s stuff.
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Post by MWGallaher on May 25, 2022 6:28:34 GMT -5
I caught the pilot episode of Bewitched last night for the first time--I don't remember ever seeing it in all the years I'd catch it when it was broadcast on network or in syndication. I didn't realize that the nose-twitching was a later addition to the show, or that Samantha was initially an inexperienced witch capable only of minor magical feats.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 25, 2022 18:11:51 GMT -5
I never got into Starsky and Hutch either, not sure why, since I think I watched most of the popular US cop shows that were shown on one of our two Canadian tv channels back then. Maybe I tried it and didn't like it for some reason, but I can't remember anything in particular that turned me off. Maybe I'll have to give it a try next time I'm doing some 1970s stuff. I only watched the first two seasons and I don't recall that it was must-see, in our house. Rookies was pretty regular, as was Adam-12, when I was younger. We watched Streets of San Francisco; but, I don't recall it well, since I never saw it in syndication. I recall bits and pieces of Adam-12 and Emergency better. Starsky & Hutch was fine, with more action in those first two seasons. Plots were a bit repetitive; but, there was a lot of action and car chases, to show off the Gran Torino. We couldn't easily tune in CBS and missed a lot of their shows, unless we were at relatives (only time I got to see Carol Burnette or the Mary Tyler Moore and Bob Newhart Shows was when we visited my grandparents). Mostly ABC and NBC shows, since the affiliates were closer and the signals stronger. We got a new tv, later, and it had a better antenna; but, the signal was still weaker. Some of my friends had antennas on their houses and could get better signals. We couldn't stretch to that expense. We didn't have a color tv until I was in late junior high or high school and picked up one that a homeowner was leaving behind, while my mother was listing their house. That was sometime between 1979 and 1982. |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2022 7:43:41 GMT -5
Airwolf is the second greatest TV show of all time after The A-Team (with The Fall Guy being the third greatest), so I am envious of this:
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2022 10:24:13 GMT -5
Airwolf is the second greatest TV show of all time after The A-Team (with The Fall Guy being the third greatest), so I am envious of this: Airwolf was great, really loved that series. You have excellent taste in shows my friend! Magnum P.I. and Simon and Simon were some other staples for me back then. |
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