I used to love watching TV. Not anymore. I just don't enjoy the shows on these days. I think all the reality shows are crap. To me, there's not ten cents difference in any of them. I don't like the sitcoms on either. Most of them feature a dysfunctional family where the Dad is is always a clueless idiot. The mother is the only one in the family who has any sense. Reality? Far from it! They just don't make good shows like they used to when I was a kid. I mostly remember Friday night being the highlight of the week for great television viewing. CBS ruled Friday nights in the early to mid eighties. The Incredible Hulk started off the night at 8:00. I can do this day recite the opening monologue. Dr David Banner. Physician, Scientist, searching for a way to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans have. I loved that show. Remember whenever he would get angry he would turn to the Hulk? Today he could have signed up for some anger management classes or wrote himself a prescription for a mild sedative. Each episode would always feature David getting inv
olved in some kind of illegal activity or plot as he hitchhiked mindlessly around to town after town. He would end up working some menial job to make a few dollars, probably to pay for all the clothes and shoes he destroyed each time he would change into the Hulk. I never understood why he wouldn't quickly pull his shoes off and rip off his clothes whenever he felt "the change" coming on. There were always two metamorphoses each week. Usually the first one was David getting roughed up by the shady characters that were involved in that weeks shady deal David had gotten involved in. The second one was always near the end. David would turn to the Hulk and beat the daylights out of the bad guys and save the damsel in distress and end whatever plot of evil had been cooked up that episode. Great entertainment! Next up at 9:00 was The Dukes of Hazzard. Now I know a lot of you reading this are rolling your eyes but hey, this show was every young guys dream
show! Each week there were car chases, car crashes, dumb a&& cops, leggy cousin Daisy who always wore high heels and shorts that barely qualified as being shorts. Bo and Luke Duke and Daisey lived with their Uncle Jesse and like the The Incredible Hulk featured some kind of far fetched plot each week where the boys would get into trouble, usually trying to help out a neighbor or friend and save the day at the end of the show. The opening song and the narrating during the show was done by country Waylon Jennings. Bo and Luke would race around in the General Lee, their customized 1969 Dodge Charger. How cool was that when Dodge reintroduced the Charger and few years back. Whenever I see one I'm reminded of the General Lee. Roscoe P. Coltrane, the dimwitted sheriff , would always end up being in hot pursuit of the Duke boys or Daisy and he would usually crash and total the cop car. I couldn't figure out why Boss Hogg didn't fire that idiot just on reasons of totaling so many police cars. It certainly kept the town mechanic Cooter busy! Then to end the evening at 10:00 was the ongoing nighttime soap opera Dallas. Now that show featured a family that would make you feel good about yours! Sure, they had money but man o man did they have problems! The three sons, J.R, Bobby and Gary, were as different as night and day. J.R was a conniving, under the table dealing, wife abusing, sell his soul to the devil for a dollar, egotistical bad guy. Bobby on the other hand was kind and trusting. Gary stayed mostly out of the family business dealings and pursued other interests. They all lived under on roof at the Southfork ranch and mom and dad Jock and Miss Ellie tried to keep sanity among everyone but it just didn't happen. You almost needed to keep a journal to keep up with all the illegal business dealings and affairs going on each season. Dallas aired for thirteen seasons and always ended each season on some kind of big cliff hanger, the most famous one being when bad brother J.R gets shot in his office while working late. All that summer people wondered "Who shot J.R"? Articles were wrote about it. Gary Burbank recorded a song that asked the question. People wore shirts that said "I shot J.R". Finally when the next season started it was revealed that J.R's mistress Kristin Shepa
rd (who was played by the hot Mary Crosby) had done it. Those three shows were just Friday night! Other favorites of mine were Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man. From that was the spin off of the female version The Bionic Woman with Jaimie Sommers. Throw into the mix Gunsmoke, Wonder Woman, and The Waltons and that's why I don't like watching television today.
olved in some kind of illegal activity or plot as he hitchhiked mindlessly around to town after town. He would end up working some menial job to make a few dollars, probably to pay for all the clothes and shoes he destroyed each time he would change into the Hulk. I never understood why he wouldn't quickly pull his shoes off and rip off his clothes whenever he felt "the change" coming on. There were always two metamorphoses each week. Usually the first one was David getting roughed up by the shady characters that were involved in that weeks shady deal David had gotten involved in. The second one was always near the end. David would turn to the Hulk and beat the daylights out of the bad guys and save the damsel in distress and end whatever plot of evil had been cooked up that episode. Great entertainment! Next up at 9:00 was The Dukes of Hazzard. Now I know a lot of you reading this are rolling your eyes but hey, this show was every young guys dream
show! Each week there were car chases, car crashes, dumb a&& cops, leggy cousin Daisy who always wore high heels and shorts that barely qualified as being shorts. Bo and Luke Duke and Daisey lived with their Uncle Jesse and like the The Incredible Hulk featured some kind of far fetched plot each week where the boys would get into trouble, usually trying to help out a neighbor or friend and save the day at the end of the show. The opening song and the narrating during the show was done by country Waylon Jennings. Bo and Luke would race around in the General Lee, their customized 1969 Dodge Charger. How cool was that when Dodge reintroduced the Charger and few years back. Whenever I see one I'm reminded of the General Lee. Roscoe P. Coltrane, the dimwitted sheriff , would always end up being in hot pursuit of the Duke boys or Daisy and he would usually crash and total the cop car. I couldn't figure out why Boss Hogg didn't fire that idiot just on reasons of totaling so many police cars. It certainly kept the town mechanic Cooter busy! Then to end the evening at 10:00 was the ongoing nighttime soap opera Dallas. Now that show featured a family that would make you feel good about yours! Sure, they had money but man o man did they have problems! The three sons, J.R, Bobby and Gary, were as different as night and day. J.R was a conniving, under the table dealing, wife abusing, sell his soul to the devil for a dollar, egotistical bad guy. Bobby on the other hand was kind and trusting. Gary stayed mostly out of the family business dealings and pursued other interests. They all lived under on roof at the Southfork ranch and mom and dad Jock and Miss Ellie tried to keep sanity among everyone but it just didn't happen. You almost needed to keep a journal to keep up with all the illegal business dealings and affairs going on each season. Dallas aired for thirteen seasons and always ended each season on some kind of big cliff hanger, the most famous one being when bad brother J.R gets shot in his office while working late. All that summer people wondered "Who shot J.R"? Articles were wrote about it. Gary Burbank recorded a song that asked the question. People wore shirts that said "I shot J.R". Finally when the next season started it was revealed that J.R's mistress Kristin Shepa
rd (who was played by the hot Mary Crosby) had done it. Those three shows were just Friday night! Other favorites of mine were Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man. From that was the spin off of the female version The Bionic Woman with Jaimie Sommers. Throw into the mix Gunsmoke, Wonder Woman, and The Waltons and that's why I don't like watching television today.
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