Vintage television shows 1980 and older
#1
Well I started a music thread and a film thread on more or less the same theme. So why not a television one?

Now check out this vintage scifi show
The Starlost!



Discovering that the destruction of the Earth will happen in the future, humanity builds a multi-generational starship called "The ARK" which was around 80 kilometres (50 mi) wide and 320 kilometres (200 mi) long. The ship contains dozens of isolated biospheres, each kilometres across and housing people of different cultures. Early in the voyage an unexplained disaster struck with the ARK suffering damage and the command crew killed. The ARK had some kind of automatic damage control and disaster systems which sealed off each biosphere and kept the inhabitants alive, even though the command crew had died off.

Centuries later, a young man, Devon (Keir Dullea), a resident of Cypress Corners, a biosphere with an Amish-like culture, discovers that his world is far larger and more mysterious than he had realized. Considered an outcast because of his questioning of the way things are, especially his refusal to accept the arranged marriage of Rachel (Gay Rowan), the girl Devon loves and who loves him, and his friend Garth (Robin Ward), Devon discovers that the Cypress Corners Elders have been deliberately manipulating the local computer terminal (which they call "The Voice of The Creator"). Pursued by the congregation for attacking the Elders and stealing the computer cassette on which the Elders have recorded their orders, Devon escapes into the service areas of the ship and uncovers its fate by accessing a computer data station that explains the purpose of the ARK and hints at its problems. Devon then returns to Cypress Corners to tell his fellow biosphere-dwellers about what he has learned, but is put on trial for heresy and condemned to death by stoning. Helped to escape on the night before his execution by Garth, Devon convinces Rachel to come with him and Garth pursues them to bring Rachel back; when Rachel refuses to return with him, Garth joins her and Devon. After making their way to the bridge, they have found that it had been damaged and its control systems made in-operative, the crew killed (a few skeletal bodies are lying there) and the ARK is on a collision course with a Class G star similar to the Sun. Devon, Rachel and Garth realize the only hope to save The ARK (and the colonists onboard) is to find the backup bridge and reactivate the navigation and propulsion systems. Occasionally, they are aided by the ARK's partially functioning computer systems portrayed by William Osler (1933-2008).
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#2
I just discovered this TV show and it's strangly addictive.



Ok first I have to tell everyone who's not a lover of old films, TV and music who Nat King Cole is.

His wiki page say's :
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer and musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. He was widely noted for his soft, baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres.

Cole was one of the first African Americans to host a television variety show, The Nat King Cole Show, and has maintained worldwide popularity since his death from lung cancer in February 1965.

Second I'll post the wik page on the TV show :
What's My Line? is a panel game show which originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, with several international versions and subsequent U.S. revivals. The game tasks celebrity panelists with questioning contestants in order to determine their occupations. It is the longest-running U.S. primetime network television game-show (51st show). Moderated by John Charles Daly and with panelists Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, and Bennett Cerf, What's My Line? won three Emmy Awards for "Best Quiz or Audience Participation Show" in 1952, 1953, and 1958 and the Golden Globe for Best TV Show in 1962.[1][2]

After its cancellation by CBS in 1967, it returned in syndication as a daily production which ran from 1968 until 1975. There have been several international versions, radio versions, and a live stage version.

In 2013, TV Guide ranked it #9 in its list of the 60 greatest game shows ever
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#3
Worzel Gummidge (1979-1981)

Worzel Gummidge was a scarecrow that could come to life on Scatterbrook Farm. Worzel spent more time trying to win the affections of Aunt Sally than actually protecting the farm from crows. Aunt Sally was a fairground doll who Worzel fell in love with. He also befriended John and Susan, two children who often had to cover up after him and help him get out of trouble. Worzel had a collection of interchangeable heads; each suiting a particular occasion or allowing him to perform a certain task. More often than not Worzel's plans and adventures ended in mishap for all involved.


Wanderly Wagon (1967-1982)

Wanderly Wagon was an Irish children's television series which aired on RTÉ from Saturday 30 September 1967[1] until 1982. Wanderly Wagon followed human and puppet characters as they travelled around Ireland visiting interesting locations, rescuing Princesses and generally doing good. The original premise of the show expanded to follow the characters to magical lands of Irish mythology, and into outer space.

Don Lennox and Jim O'Hare came up with the idea of Wanderly Wagon when Lennox was giving O'Hare a lift home from work. O'Hare was recalling a recent family holiday spent on a horse drawn caravan in County Cork. Lennox became the first producer [1] of Wanderly Wagon and O'Hare designed the wagon, the flying Sweet shop and the show's costumes.

Various episodes were written by Neil Jordan, Carolyn Swift, Pat Ingoldsby, Martin Duffy and Frank Kelly, who also played several characters on the show.

The Wagon itself could fly. Using chroma key special effects, the Wagon was shown hovering in midair, landing in various magical lands, and even traveling underwater. The original wagon used in the series can now be seen in The Little Museum of Dublin on St. Stephen's Green in Dublin.

The series developed a tradition of transmitting a Christmas Day show from a Dublin children's hospital every year.


The wombles (1973-1975)

The Wombles is a stop motion animated British television series made in 1973–1975.

After the first Wombles book, published in 1968, was featured on the BBC children's television programme Jackanory,[3] the BBC commissioned producer FilmFair to create a television series of the books. The series was produced by Graham Clutterbuck and directed by Ivor Wood using stop-motion. The characters were all voiced by actor Bernard Cribbins. Sets and model making were by Barry Leith. Two series of 30 five minute episodes were produced, with the first series airing in 1973, animated by Ivor Wood, and the second in 1975, animated by Barry Leith. In all, sixty episodes were produced.

The original television series was regularly screened for many years. After FilmFair was acquired by the Canadian company Cinar Films in 1996, a new series of episodes was created, with a number of new Womble characters. In the UK, the series was purchased by ITV.


Dad's Army (1968-1977)

Dad's Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television from 1968 to 1977. The sitcom ran for 9 series and 80 episodes in total, plus a radio version based on the television scripts, a feature film and a stage show. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers and is still repeated worldwide.

The Home Guard consisted of local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, either owing to age or by being in professions that were exempt from conscription (Dad's Army deals almost exclusively with the former), and as such the series mainly featured older British actors, including Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Arnold Ridley and John Laurie. Among relative youngsters in the regular cast were Ian Lavender, Clive Dunn (who played the elderly Jones), Frank Williams, James Beck (who died suddenly during production of the programme's sixth series in 1973) and Bill Pertwee.

In 2004, Dad's Army was voted into fourth place in a BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It had been placed 13th in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 and voted for by industry professionals. The series has influenced popular culture in the United Kingdom, with the series' catchphrases and characters being well known. It highlighted a hitherto forgotten aspect of defence during the Second World War. The Radio Times magazine listed Captain Mainwaring's "You stupid boy!" among the 25 greatest put-downs on TV.

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#4
Thank you so much for that heads up on Dad's Army! I loved it

Now here's another oldie but goodie

ON THE BUSES

On the Buses is an English sitcom created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1973. The writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife were for the BBC, but the corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential in a bus depot as a setting. The comedy partnership turned to a friend, Frank Muir, Head of Entertainment at London Weekend Television, who loved the idea; the show was accepted and despite a poor critical reception became a hit with viewers

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#5
There has got to be something wrong in a person's head to actually like the next TV show. Unfortunately I have to admit that there's something wrong going on in my head because I like the next TV show.

Singalong with Mitch Miller


Miller was one of the most influential people in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s, both as the head of A&R at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist with an NBC television series, Sing Along with Mitch. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in the early 1930s, Miller began his musical career as an accomplished player of the oboe and English horn, and recorded several highly regarded classical albums featuring his instrumental work, but he is best remembered as a conductor, choral director, television performer and recording executive.
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#6
That 'Has anybody seen my gal?' song is totally stuck in my head and I can't get it out! I just know that one day I'll be stuck climbing on a mountain or something and that song is going to haunt me. Big Grin

One tv show that just about makes the limit for this thread is the 13-part tv series Hammer House of Horror, which came out in 1980 and terrified children and adults alike, particularly 'The house that bled to death.' This is horror from another age but was seen as being quite adult when it came out, apparently. Classic horror at its best.



^^that's episode 12 and is mild compared to some of the other episodes.

Wiki

TPB torrent for the complete collection.

in-depth review
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(Nov 15, 2013, 06:50 am)Spud17 Wrote: That 'Has anybody seen my gal?' song is totally stuck in my head and I can't get it out! I just know that one day I'll be stuck climbing on a mountain or something and that song is going to haunt me. Big Grin

One tv show that just about makes the limit for this thread is the 13-part tv series Hammer House of Horror, which came out in 1980 and terrified children and adults alike, particularly 'The house that bled to death.' This is horror from another age but was seen as being quite adult when it came out, apparently. Classic horror at its best.

I'm glad to share the love and thanks for the hook up on the show ! I'm a wimp and I must confess to being scared. (girlfriend laughed)

Now check out this show.
It's called the Honeymooners

The Honeymooners is an American sitcom, based on a recurring 1951–55 sketch of the same name. It originally aired on the DuMont network's Cavalcade of Stars and subsequently on the CBS network's The Jackie Gleason Show, which was filmed before a live audience. It debuted as a half-hour series on October 1, 1955. Although initially a ratings success—becoming the #2 show in the United States its first season.

The Honeymooners was one of the first U.S. television shows to portray working-class married couples in a grittier non-idyllic manner living in a run down Brooklyn apartment complex

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#8
I almost broke a rib laughing so hard from this next show.

The George Burns and Gracie Allen show
Episode : Teenage Space Girls
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#9
I just found out that this show existed! (Love it!)

Friday the 13th the series

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#10
I just absolutely LOVE this show!! And fortunately Youtube is filled with lots of episodes!

The Dick Van Dyke show !!

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