TV shows we miss

[BuzzinSATX]

Justified

I miss Justified as well, but it sure ended well!


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[titsonritz]

All in the Family
Seinfeld
Taxi
Married with Children
The real Saturday Night Live

[SteyrAUG]

ALL of them, thankfully I have most of them on DVD box sets.

Some are hard to complete like Mystery Science Theater 3000, some have poor transfers like Married with Children and some have goofy music replacing the original like Tour of Duty (the opening just isn't the same without Paint it Black).

Thankfully some like Miami Vice, Magnum PI, Wild Wild West, Batman, The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables, Baa Baa Black Sheep and too many others to list are glorious. Btw, both Firefly the series and the film Serenity are both available with fantastic transfers. I can go days, sometimes weeks without watching what it actually on tv.

The only thing not available is Saturday Night Live for the years when Lorne Michaels wasn't the producer (1980-1985) and honestly that was some of the best years even with a slow start. The show was more comedy than political satire and when they did political satire, at least it was funny and not blatant propaganda. Seriously Chevy Chase was never really that funny doing the falling down bit as Gerald Ford. Might have been funny once, after that it was just stupid and you were hoping for a new episode of the Mr. Bill Show.

To me the Dick Ebersol years (1981–1985) will always be among the best but because Michaels is threatened by them we'll never see them on DVD. I have the first the first five seasons on DVD for the Belushi moments and other actual comedy. I have no interest in most of the stuff that happened once Michaels came back. There was some great stuff from time to time and Phil Hartman was hilarious, but if they aren't going to put Seasons 6-11 on DVD I'm not buying any other seasons.

[chadbag]

I know at least some of these were mentioned but

A-Team
Knight Rider
Emergency
Rat Patrol
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Hogan's Heros
China Beach

ETA:

UFO (British series about alien invaders and the group intercepting them)

[utahjeepr]

UFO (British series about alien invaders and the group intercepting them)

I hope it was better than Torchwood

[Alex V]

X Files. Miss that show! Cigarette Smoking Man was my hero!

100%. Still my all time favorite show. I just re-watched the original 9 seasons along with the first movie in chronological order on Hulu. Good times.

[markm]

TAXI and Barney Miller.

[Five_Point_Five_Six]

I also kind of miss the old 90s era La Femme Nikita series. I watched it when I was a teenager and remember the oppressive, paranoid atmosphere and cold brutality of many of the characters. Made an impression on me although it does seem like the sort of show that might not hold up if I were to watch it now.

My wife and I both watched it as teens in the 90s as well, and we watched the series together a few years ago. It's hard for me to say that it doesn't hold up, because if you go into it acknowledging the fact it's a 90s era cable channel series, I'd say it holds up. If you try to compare it to anything that we consider great modern television, you'll be disappointed.

[TBAR_94]

I’m not a sci-fi nerd by any means, but I really enjoyed Babylon 5. It just came out on HBO Max, and I really enjoyed rewatching it.

[SteyrAUG]

My wife and I both watched it as teens in the 90s as well, and we watched the series together a few years ago. It's hard for me to say that it doesn't hold up, because if you go into it acknowledging the fact it's a 90s era cable channel series, I'd say it holds up. If you try to compare it to anything that we consider great modern television, you'll be disappointed.

Along with that one, First Wave.