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Is most of your classic TV viewing alone or with others, and are any of your friends or family as into it as you are? My experience is that it’s much easier to find people into classic film than tv. People might like it in theory, fondly recalling old shows they once watched, but I don’t find as...

Not a thread to disparage a show, but what is a well regarded or well loved show that you’ve not really seen much despite its popularity, or that you’ve tried to get into but can’t, or used to dislike but revised your opinion of? I’ll start it off with my 3 examples: I Love Lucy. Watched it...

Inspired by a post of Neal 1960's on the Defenders thread. There have been many discussions of "grail" series, but for this thread I thought it might be interesting to discuss in terms of what series you would be willing to pay what might seem an unreasonable amount for. If there was a...

Nine times out of 10, if I happen to be somewhere where a newer TV show is being played, it seems pretty dire, but there are exceptions. I’m curious, for those whose main interest is pre-1970 or at least pre-1980 TV, what more recent shows do you find yourself watching or collecting? If you are...

Shows that ended too early, that had at least one more good year left in them, or that never got a chance to resolve their storylines. The Invaders Lou Grant Coronet Blue Seinfeld - the final season had some of the best episodes of the entire series. Dragnet - would have been great to see how...