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Captain Video!!
Here's the description :
Considered the first Sci-Fi TV show; it ran on the Dumont Network from 1949 to 1955. Done a shoestring budget and performed live, note the flubbed lines and rinky-dink special effects. You may notice that the show is awkwardly padded out with stock footage from an old western movie which has nothing to do with the rest of the show. The theme music was however better than the tinny organ usually used for live TV and radio at the time. A wildly popular show aimed at kids it spawned a slew of merch like like lunchboxes, toys etc. and was later spun into a movie serial with a bigger budget and a different cast.
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Now I've never really had the inclination to look into "Single Working Girl" sitcoms. But I actually really enjoyed this show.
So I'll going to do some research as to what else is available
Here's the wiki on the show
Rhoda is an American television sitcom, starring Valerie Harper, which aired 109 episodes over five seasons, from 1974 to 1978.[1] The show was a spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which Harper between the years 1970 and 1974 had played the role of Rhoda Morgenstern, a spunky, weight-conscious, flamboyantly fashioned Jewish neighbor and native New Yorker in the role of Mary Richards' best friend. After four seasons, Rhoda left Minneapolis and returned to her original hometown of New York City. The series is noted for breaking two television records, and was the winner of two Golden Globes and two Emmy Awards.
Rhoda was filmed Friday evenings in front of a live studio audience at CBS Studio Center, Stage 14 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California.
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In this world there sure is NOT many people that were funnier than Lucy Ball !
Here is an episode of the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. (Note: It's not the I love Lucy show)
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I'm currently watching The Twilight Zone which ran from 1959 to 1964. The series was resurrected in the 1980s onwards but I haven't watched those yet. TTZ is still entertaining now, although the odd episode is a bit cheezy.
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This is the original pilot episode which began the series.
doo do doo do, doo do doo do...
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(Nov 25, 2013, 13:45 pm)Spud17 Wrote: I'm currently watching The Twilight Zone which ran from 1959 to 1964. The series was resurrected in the 1980s onwards but I haven't watched those yet. TTZ is still entertaining now, although the odd episode is a bit cheezy.
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The Twilight Zone is truely a classic and an incrediable show!
Have you seen the Saint?
The Saint was an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the UK on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It centred on the Leslie Charteris literary character Simon Templar, played by Roger Moore as a suave and sophisticated Robin Hood-like adventurer. The character may be nicknamed The Saint because the initial letters of his name (ST) are also an abbreviation for the word saint. When taking on an American persona, he would often use the name Sebastian Tombs.
As a result of the strong performance in the US of the first two black-and-white series in first-run syndication, NBC picked up the show as a summer replacement in its evening schedule in 1966. The programme therefore ended its run with both trans-Atlantic prime time scheduling and colour episodes. It also proved popular beyond the UK and US, eventually airing in over 60 countries, and made a profit in excess of £350m for ITC.[2][3][4] With almost 120 episodes, the programme is exceeded only by The Avengers as the most productive show of its genre produced in the UK.
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saint_%28TV_series%29
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I have seen the show but couldn't get into it because I can't stand Roger Moore. Despite the show being british, the youtube vid won't play in my country. 
The Outer Limits ran from 1963-1965 (later revived), is comparable to The Twilight Zone but is more sci-fi-y.
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TPB torrent for complete season 1 (32 episodes) http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3994545/T...er_Limits_[TOS]_(Season_1_-_DVDrips_-_complete)
TPB torrent link for Complete Season 2 (17 episodes)
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I never thought there would be anyone that enjoyed the Outer limits besides me!
Ok this show is Old American Barn Dance
The Old American Barn Dance is an American country music television series carried by the DuMont Television Network from July 5 to September 13, 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Am...Barn_Dance
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The Jack Benny show !
This episode has Humphry Bogart as special guest !
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Now this is a television show that I really got into! Voyage to tbe Bottom of the sea!
Irwin Allen produced a lot of really great and cool TV shows. And if you ask me this show has got to be one of his bests!
The plot as told by wikipedia
The new, state of the art nuclear submarine Seaview is on diving trials in the Arctic Ocean. The Seaview is designed and built by scientist and engineering genius Admiral Harriman Nelson (USN-Ret) (Walter Pidgeon). Captain Lee Crane (Robert Sterling) is the Seaview's Commanding Officer. One of the on-board observers is Dr. Susan Hiller (Joan Fontaine), studying crew-related stress. The mission includes being out of radio contact for 96 hours while under the Arctic ice cap, but the ice begins to crack and melt, with boulder-size pieces crashing into the ocean around the submarine. Surfacing, they discover fire burning in the sky. After the rescue of a scientist and his dog at Ice Floe Delta, Miguel Alvarez (Michael Ansara), the sub receives radio contact from Mission Director Inspector Bergan at the Bureau of Marine Exploration. He advises that a meteor shower pierced the Van Allen radiation belt causing it to catch fire, resulting in a world-threatening increase in heat all across the Earth. Nelson's on-board friend and scientist, retired Commodore Lucius Emery (Peter Lorre) concurs that it is possible. Bergan informs Nelson that the President wants him at a UN Emergency Scientific Meeting as soon as possible.
Nelson and Commodore Emery calculate a plan to end the catastrophe. The USOS Seaview arrives in New York Harbor in two days. At the meeting Nelson informs the UN that according to their calculations, if the heat increase is not stopped, it will become irreversible and Earth has "a life expectancy of about three weeks." The Admiral and the Commodore have come up with a plan to extinguish the Skyfire. He proposes firing a nuclear missile at the burning belt from the best calculated location, the Marianas. Nelson posits that when fired at the right place and time, 1600 hours on August 29, the nuclear explosion should overwhelm and extinguish the flames, away into space, essentially "amputating" the belt from the Earth. The Seaview has the capability to fire the missile.
However, the Admiral's plan is rejected by the chief scientist and head delegate, Emilio Zucco (Henry Daniell) of Vienna. His reasons are that he knows the composition of gases in the belt and he believes the Skyfire will burn itself out at 173 degrees. Zucco's plan is to let the Skyfire do just that and he feels the Admiral's plan is too risky. Nelson claims that Zucco's burn-out point, however, is beyond that date and time if the current rise rate is maintained. But at Zucco's urging, Nelson and Emery are shouted down and the plan is rejected. Despite the rejection, the Admiral and the Commodore quickly leave the proceedings, advising that his only authorization will be from the President himself.
It is a race against the clock as the Seaview speeds to reach the proper firing position, above the trench in the Marianas in the Pacific. During this time Nelson and Crane agree on tapping the Rio-to-London telephone cable to try to eventually reach the President. However, an unsuccessful attempt on the Admiral's life makes it clear that there is a saboteur on board. But the confusion over who the saboteur might be revolves around rescued scientist Miguel Alvarez, who has become a religious zealot regarding the catastrophe, and Dr. Hiller, who secretly admires Dr Zucco's plan. Other obstacles present themselves: a minefield and a near-mutiny. And Crane himself begins to doubt the Admiral's tactics and reasoning. During the telephone cable attempt, Crane and Alvarez battle a giant squid. Although the London cable connection is made, Nelson is told there's been no contact with the States for 35 hours. Also, a hostile submarine follows the Seaview deep into the Mariana Trench, but implodes before it can destroy the Seaview.
Near the end of the film the saboteur is revealed to be Dr. Hiller. Captain Crane happens by as she exits the ship's "Off Limits" Nuclear Reactor core, looking rather ill. She has been exposed to a fatal dose of radiation: her detector badge is deep red. Walking over the submarine's shark tank, she falls in during a struggle with the Captain, and is killed by a shark. The Admiral learns that temperatures are rising faster than expected. He realizes that Zucco's belief that the Skyfire will burn itself out is in error.
At the end, Seaview reaches the Marianas. There, in spite of the threats and objections of Alvarez, Seaview launches a missile toward the belt and it explodes the burning flames outward, saving the world.
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ahhh Starlost.... a canadian cinematic classic!
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