TV/Movies Megathread

[HVC]

Honeymooners is from the 50s. If you've seen the Flintstones you've seen the honeymooners

[HVC]

On the flip side we don't get much brit shows (some are redone though) however,  I used to love Are You Being Served as a kid. Didn't get half the jokes, but I loved the gay guy and the old lady.

[Sheilbh]

Yeah that is the other odd thing - I'm always surprised with North Americans having knowledge of shows from 1970s British TV that I've never seen (normally because not politically correct, so not really broadcast here now). Like Are You Being Served or Benny Hill

As I say it's the weirdness of pre-streaming and what shows made it where. Like that English language sketch that Germans watch at New Year.

[HVC]

It was on TVO I think. Public broadcast. Probably really cheap

*edit* And you should watch it

[garbon]

Yeah my husband had never heard of Are You Being Served whereas I was like it was on PBS so one of the main things I knew about British television growing up.

[Barrister]

Only via The Simpsons, Family Guy etc:
All in the Family
Three's Company
Beverly Hillbillies
(Weirdly also Littlest Hobo too I think )

Not heard of:
Green Acres
Honeymooners
Bosom Buddies
Perfect Strangers
Laverne & Shirley

OK now I'm really curious - the Littlest Hobo crossed the pond?  That show was SO CHEAP, and so obvious CanCon fodder.  It was about a dog that had various adventures of the week.

Just to check - this show?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p8oeiVDcx4


Otherwise on the list - the Honeymooners is an absolute classic starring Jackie Gleason, but it goes way back to the 50s I think.  As mentioned it was an obvious inspiration for the Flintstones.  I remember a pretty explicit reference to it in the second episode of Futurama.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P84NiVGJsw

Green Acres was famous for starring Eva Gabor (sister to Zsa Zsa Gabor).  I don't think I've ever seen an episode, though the formula was pretty simple as I understand it - a wealthy NYC couple move to the country to start farming.

Laverne and Shirley was famous in it's time (It was actually a spin off from Happy Days).  Bosom Buddies and Perfect Strangers you aren't missing anything.

[Tonitrus]

Yeah, Perfect Strangers and Bosom Buddies (despite having Tom Hanks...before hitting it big) were pretty B-grade, even in their time.

Some shows are just one-season blips, or middling in ratings.  And only watch-too-much-tv nerd kids like myself remember.

I mean, who remembers Small Wonder, Mr. Belvedere, or that there was actually a Rambo saturday morning cartoon. 

[Tonitrus]

But speaking of British (kinda) TV shows...

I've heard good things about Slow Horses...but is it worth getting AppleTV for?

[frunk]

Yeah, Perfect Strangers and Bosom Buddies (despite having Tom Hanks...before hitting it big) were pretty B-grade, even in their time.

Some shows are just one-season blips, or middling in ratings.  And only watch-too-much-tv nerd kids like myself remember.

I mean, who remembers Small Wonder, Mr. Belvedere, or that there was actually a Rambo saturday morning cartoon. 

Then there are the shows that were cancelled way too quickly.

[crazy canuck]

Yeah that is the other odd thing - I'm always surprised with North Americans having knowledge of shows from 1970s British TV that I've never seen (normally because not politically correct, so not really broadcast here now). Like Are You Being Served or Benny Hill

As I say it's the weirdness of pre-streaming and what shows made it where. Like that English language sketch that Germans watch at New Year.

We got a lot of those shows on US PBS. My parents were convinced that it was all educational programming. But that is how I saw Benny Hill.

[Tonitrus]

I mostly learned Red Dwarf and Yes, Minister from our PBS. 

[Syt]

We got some of the 60s/70s shows in the late 80s/early 90s, ironically. When commercial stations in Germany really took off with 24/7 programming, but didn't the budget yet for loads of self-produced or current content, they put on old shows. MASH, Three's Company, Dragnet, CHiPs, I Dream of Jeannie, Mr Ed, Bewitched, and plenty more.

[Barrister]

I mostly learned Red Dwarf and Yes, Minister from our PBS. 

And I watched both of those shows via PBS via Canadian cable.

And I love them both. 

[Admiral Yi]

I mostly learned Red Dwarf and Yes, Minister from our PBS. 

That's kinda what I was thinking.  We had fringe Britshows on PBS and they had no equivalent.

[Syt]

Looking at a TV program from March 1990 (thanks, internet!) in Germany. Old shows on at the time were CHiPs, Family Affair (that show with Brian Keith and Sebastian Cabot), Marcus Welby, M.D., Love Boat, Happy Days, Wild Wild West, Star Trek TOS, Incredible Hulk, Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, Gunsmoke, Father Murphy, Gemini Man, Charlie's Angels, and more. There's more current shows, too, obviously, but either cheaply bought soaps, or reserved for prime time/later at night (LA Law was on at 10pm).

I recall that in the 80s we also had "Western von Gestern" on TV which showed 1930s/40s westerns and western serials with Lash LaRue or Gene Autrey. (you have a list here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_von_gestern German page, but has original titles). Though the most memorable character for us kids in elementary school was, of course, Fuzzy.



(Pronounced in a German fashion of course - "Footsie". Which is still something you might call a dope/weirdo. "Was bist Du für'n Fuzzy?" What kindo of weirdo are you?)