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And I feel similarly about certain dramas and action series; when I put on any Man From U.N.C.L.E. episode (only could finish one go of it [the B/W first one, 1964-65]), it was so slowly-paced that 50 min. felt like 3-4 hrs. (by comparison, The Streets of San Francisco and Emergency! from the...

Not only that, but I think all this is why I don't think I'll ever want Bonanza or Gunsmoke on DVD (influential Westerns though they were for the Peacock Network and Tiffany Network respectively); I don't think I'd want to be seeing episodes where it takes near to an hour for something to happen...

Dallas on CBS (and TNT) being the former, and Emergency! on NBC being the latter.

It might have been-- not many ads did that (I think I may have seen ads from old back issues of Broadcasting magazine that had similar logos [like Paramount's Blue Mtn., etc.]).

This page of TV Guide advertisements from Oct. '84: http://flashbak.com/october-1984-tv-adverts-miami-vice-to-knight-rider-in-the-halloween-season-of-84-366668/ Also, did you notice that Columbia Pictures Television (the studio behind T.J. Hooker) advertised itself there?

Here's something else that I think was pretty good about T.J. Hooker: at least one of its TV Guide promos (this one from '84, promoting the show on KTVX Channel 4 [ABC in Salt Lake City, UT]) had the 80s Torch Lady of Columbia Pictures (the logo then for that studio) as a logo for Columbia...

Many Aaron Spelling series (even the ones he did w/Leonard Goldberg, whether independently or alongside Columbia Pictures Television) don't hold up all that well for me; T.J. Hooker (which he and Leonard did w/CPT) had a remarkable opening title track, and also a great end title track, but it...

That's what I did too-- anything and everything from the 80s, I bought, mainly to see if I could enjoy what was on during my childhood. A few things, I did indeed enjoy (Hardcastle and McCormick and Riptide, among them), but most have not held up all that well (but how was I to know how they...

I think he and Barnaby Jones were like that (I may be incorrect about that, though).

Same way on The Streets of San Francisco on ABC-- the investigations of Lt. Mike Stone and Insp. Steve Keller (and Insp. Dan Robbins in the fifth and final go, 1976-77) go practically anywhere in the Bay Area (San Francisco, Oakland, and pretty much anywhere else in that region).

Never thought of such things in that way! It just came across as the standard-issue medical drama to me (the hospital portions did), and IMO, is the only Jack Webb series (even though Robert A. Cinader was the EP for most of the run) that I will actually come back to and enjoy random episodes...

You're not alone in that one-- I had gotten that first go at 2nd and Charles (a video and book-trading dealership in Greenville that was formerly Books-A-Million) when I was there with my nephew; I couldn't get past just the pilot and one or two other episodes on that first go.

How does Emergency! make you cringe? I've seen just about all of it (outside of the TV movies [the pilot, and The Final Rescues]), and I have found nothing to cringe about.

I guess ABC wanted you to pay attention to real-life people doing such a thing, and not so much to fiction.

I did a similar thing on Emergency!-- started with the second go (1972-73), and stayed with it until the end of the last one (1976-77). After that, I went back to the first one (early 1972) and saw the season episodes of it, and IMO, it wasn't all that badly acted; it just wasn't the great show...

NBC to me had two other shows like that, namely The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and I Spy.

I feel the same way about that 1983-87 NBC action/adventure series The A-Team-- the difference is that I had the first go of it solo at one time, and then got the all-in-one much later. For a while, I was going at a pretty good clip, having seen the second and third gos of it (fall 1983-85)...

Very true-- it's all a matter of having the right ingredients in the right mix, stirred at the right temperature (so to speak). If the recipe's good, you'll get something entirely enjoyable; if one part of it is off, that is far less likely.

What is it about them that you dislike?

It's not bad, the occasional outing every now and then on the original CBS series-- you're right about that. However, I have the all-in-one of the 80s and 90s NBC long-form movies, and I find it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to get into those (reasons unknown). Personally, I might...

Appreciate that! Also, this is why I am the way I am about what others have in their DVD collections-- if you enjoy it, more power to you (and I personally believe that the contents of any one person's DVD collection represent what that person believes are the shows/movies that such person...

Same boat to you-- quite a few classic dramas and action series have appealed quite a bit to me on DVD (most notably Emergency!).

How much of Bonanza do you have on DVD?

Per I Love Lucy, I had at one time had the first two gos of that, because I wanted to see why that hit 50s CBS comedy had (and still has) the reputation it has; I did see through those first two gos, but after that, decided I wanted nothing more to do with it. My nephew Eli, on the other hand...

I feel that way about Little House on the Prairie, that hit 1974-83 NBC Western adventure w/the late Michael Landon, et al.-- I have never enjoyed it, and have always thought it overrated, simply because the setting of it (out in the middle of nowhere) is one that has worked for me in only two...

You bet-- one for me is the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon; when I was a boy, I couldn't get enough of it (both in syndication and on CBS); nowadays, it doesn't have the same magic for me as it did then (and I have given my copy of the all-in-one to my great-niece and great-nephew to...

How do you mean, "the lead and the leaning"?

I felt the same way about Cannon-- I had VEI's condensed all-in-one of that 1971-76 CBS mystery/action series w/the late, great William Conrad in the title role, and for some reason (I think it was because it was set and filmed out in the middle of nowhere, among other things), I never could get...

I can answer those two of the three parts of your query-- the former is The Fugitive (that 1963-67 ABC mystery/adventure series w/the late David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble); I don't know what it is about it, but one 50-min. outing of that hit 60s ABC series feels like a boring 3-hr. movie...