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Posted by: Suspicious Minds Nov 12 2010, 11:58 AM

As you might know from the off topic section that I have been buying complete TV DVD series sets and some complete series from Classic TV website.
These past weeks I have been watching old TV series like The Fugitive, Lost In Space, Incredible Hulk, Alias Smith and Jones, Steptoe and Son and The Rockford Files.
I just love watching old series from the 60's and 70's.
I think the TV programmes of today are not the same value of entertainment.
I have lots more favourites but you can't buy every series.
It's like I am reliving my TV history and I am enjoying watching these old series.
This morning I watched the first Incredible Hulk episodes.

What is your favourite TV oldies series?

Posted by: poormansgold Nov 12 2010, 03:50 PM

QUOTE (Suspicious Minds @ Nov 12 2010, 06:58 AM)

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Nov 12 2010, 04:29 PM

QUOTE (poormansgold @ Nov 12 2010, 05:50 PM)

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Nov 14 2010, 09:55 AM

Yesterday I watched the first episodes of the Rockford Files.
In the first episode there was a Billy Mumy ex Lost In Space star.
You would not recognise Billy Mumy as an adult.

Posted by: ALAN Nov 23 2010, 11:45 AM

You must get the complete Fawlty Towers set it's hysterical - best comedy show of ALL time - Elvis would have loved it

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Nov 27 2010, 03:30 PM

Today I got the To Serve Them All My Days DVD set.

I watched the first two episodes and to my surprise there was a young Nicholas Lyndhurst was in this series.
This series is just as good now as it was shown in the 70's.
John Duttine stars in this series.

Posted by: elvislady Nov 28 2010, 10:15 AM

I love the old ones....rising damp.. fawlty towers... steptoe and son...great classics i started watching the rerun of the old starsky and hutch... also i love the likely lads great series.


elvislady

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Dec 10 2010, 10:04 PM

I just watched the first two episodes of The Sweeney series.
My favourite UK cop series.
This is a Thames television series.
I was surprised to see they kept the commercial breaks without commercials.
I thought they would not include the breaks.
Why did they keep the breaks in?

Posted by: Antje Dec 13 2010, 08:08 AM

I'm really like the freggles and the muppets, I loved watching that when I was little, and also the perfect dutch tv serie's
Thomas en Senior
Q en Q
kunt u mij de weg naar hamelen vertellen

and one of my favorites is de Kris Pusaka



I bought it a while ago and I found it just as exiting as back then

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Dec 14 2010, 05:59 PM

I received the complete Dad's Army DVD series set this afternoon.

The set I got looks bigger than the set that is in Morrisons.
This set has the Christmas Specials and 3 surviving episodes of series 2.

Something to watch when I get time Christmas week.




Don't tell him your name Pike!

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Dec 30 2010, 09:44 AM

I watched the digitally remastered film of Capricorn One last night.
Just thinking if the Apollo 11 crew could have turned out like the Capricorn One film.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Dec 30 2010, 09:48 AM

QUOTE (Suspicious Minds @ Dec 14 2010, 06:59 PM)

I received the complete Dad's Army DVD series set this afternoon.

The set I got looks bigger than the set that is in Morrisons.
This set has the Christmas Specials and 3 surviving episodes of series 2.

Something to watch when I get time Christmas week.




Don't tell him your name Pike!

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Dec 30 2010, 04:26 PM

I just found the right unlocking number for my new Toshiba DVD player.
Now I can play all regions including USA/Canada Region 1.
This has made my day.

Posted by: pacer1965 Jan 6 2011, 01:10 PM

They don't seem to be much thought put into tv series today.

I use to watch Lost In Space,Rockford Files,The Six Million Dollar Man,Starsky And Hutch and The Hulk

Not forgetting Star Trek,Fawlty Towers and Steptoe and Son

Cannon and Ironside.. I will think of more I'm sure

Have to bring in a couple of children TV series I use to love watching Tomorrows People and Grange Hill

Love this topic,Frank

TCE
Lorraine

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Jan 6 2011, 04:17 PM

QUOTE (pacer1965 @ Jan 6 2011, 02:10 PM)

They don't seem to be much thought put into tv series today.

I use to watch Lost In Space,Rockford Files,The Six Million Dollar Man,Starsky And Hutch and The Hulk

Not forgetting Star Trek,Fawlty Towers and Steptoe and Son

Cannon and Ironside.. I will think of more I'm sure

Have to bring in a couple of children TV series I use to love watching Tomorrows People and Grange Hill

Love this topic,Frank

TCE
Lorraine

Posted by: charlierogers Jan 13 2011, 02:46 AM

what are you watching now Frank??

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Jan 13 2011, 10:40 AM

QUOTE (charlierogers @ Jan 13 2011, 03:46 AM)

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Jan 22 2011, 07:35 PM

Yesterday I watched two episodes of the Basil Rathbone's, Sherlock Holmes.
The Voice of Terror and The Hound of The Baskervilles.
I like black and white full screen films.
The film quality is very good and clear to watch.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Jan 24 2011, 08:41 AM

Last night I watched 2 episodes of The Fugitive.
On the episode Home of The Haunted a young Billy Mumy is one of Kimble relatives.
This episode has Kimble visiting his father after 2 years on the run.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Feb 12 2011, 10:31 PM

I bought 2 more series today.
The High Chaparral Complete Series and The Baron Complete Series.
These are not official releases but are available to collectors.

Don't know why The Baron series ended.
Always liked the theme music.

Posted by: U.S. Male Feb 13 2011, 07:50 PM

Frank you're a man of my own tv taste, because I really enjoy watching those classic tv shows from the 50's, 60's, and 70's

I recently picked up the season 4 DVD set of Mr. Ed, plus Season 1 of The Rockford Files. I'm hoping they'll release the old Casey Jones tv series from the 1950's on DVD. I can remember as a kid watching those reruns on tv after school.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Feb 16 2011, 06:55 PM

I received my High Chapparal and The Baron DVD series order today.

I had to watch a few episodes of The High Chapparal as I missed this great series.
I am sure you recognise some of these characters of the High Chaparral.
Some of the first episodes were 30 minutes playing time.



Another great series from the 60's/70's was The Baron with Steve Forrest.
Don't know why this series was stopped.



I just watched an episode of The Baron tonight.
I think it's a American version of The Saint.
Similar sort of storylines.

Posted by: vegas 74 Feb 17 2011, 01:18 AM

QUOTE (Suspicious Minds @ Feb 12 2011, 10:31 PM)

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Feb 18 2011, 06:18 PM

Yesterday I watched some episodes of The Baron series.
The theme music has always been a favourite.
One of those catchy themes that stick in your mind.

I also been watching some of The High Chaparral series.
I always thought the theme music to this series was a cover of Telstar by The Tornados.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Feb 24 2011, 09:30 PM

Tonight I watched an Bonanza episode called the Dark Star.
I have always like the Bonanza theme music.
I like watching old TV series.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Feb 25 2011, 09:33 AM

This week on ITV 4 Batman and The Fall Guy have a re-run.
2 more of my favourite shows.
The tv programmes of today are nothing like the 60's and 70's.

Posted by: charlierogers Feb 26 2011, 03:27 AM

Think I have the dark star episode from Bonanza

- forgot the fall guy completely ......opps

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Feb 27 2011, 09:52 PM

Today I watched some of my favourite tv series.
2 episodes of Bonanza, 1 episode of Incredible Hulk and 2 episodes of The Fugitive.
A lot better than the rubbish on ITV and BBC today.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Mar 15 2011, 09:35 PM

Last week I started buying the Dallas DVD's.
Tonight I watched 2 episodes from the 1st season.
What a pleasure it was to watch this programme again.
On th 2nd episode Southfork had snow.
I thought Texas never had snow.
Don't know if was 1978 or 1979 winter they had snow.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Mar 27 2011, 10:43 AM

Last I watched the Dallas episode Bypass.
This was about Jock Ewing having a Bypass operation.
No sooner Jock had his bypass operation he let out to go home in a wheel chair just after his op.
I don't know how long a time passed between the operation and his going home time.
A bypass operation does not heal that quick.
Did the script writers get their facts right about this?
I understood bypass operation takes a long time to heal.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Apr 10 2011, 08:39 PM

The last few Saturday evenings I have been watching 2 episodes of Dallas.
Some of the early episodes I don't remember watching.
I was surprised on how short Lucy Ewing was, even she was a little raver.
Most of the Dallas DVD's I have now are on Region 2.

I also have been watching some episodes of The Fugitive, Alias Smith and Jones, The Rockford Files and some of The Incredible Hulk series.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Apr 25 2011, 08:26 AM

You can't beat old TV series for pastime viewing.
I watched another 4 episodes of Dallas on Friday and Saturday.
Yesterday afternoon I watched 3 episodes of Bonanza.
I never get tired of hearing the Bonanza theme music.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds May 7 2011, 02:48 PM

This morning I received the Thunderbirds box set.
This is a book type of box.
At last I could read the titles is in English.
According to release date this was released in 1999.
I don't think it is digitally remastered.
I have not watched this series for awhile and thought the theme music was a little different.
Might be because it's not remastered and don't sound so loud.
I watched the first 2 episodes.
I always loved the theme music to this series.

Posted by: elvislady May 9 2011, 07:07 AM

QUOTE (Suspicious Minds @ May 7 2011, 03:48 PM)

Posted by: Suspicious Minds May 12 2011, 08:20 PM

This week I have been watching my favourite tv series.
Just some episodes of;
The Rockford Files,
The Incredible Hulk,
Alias Smith and Jones,
The High Chaparral,
The Fugitive,
Dallas,
and the Thunderbirds.

I just love watching old TV series.
Some have great theme music.

Posted by: charlierogers May 13 2011, 01:53 AM

Man would I ever like to watch a few of those episodes of High Chaparral

Posted by: Suspicious Minds May 13 2011, 09:45 AM

QUOTE (charlierogers @ May 13 2011, 02:53 AM)

Man would I ever like to watch a few of those episodes of High Chaparral

used to really like watching the guy in the top right hand corner

sounds like great viewing Frank

Posted by: Suspicious Minds May 24 2011, 10:38 AM

Today I received The Rockford Files Complete series plus movies set.
This is not a official release.
This is like the High Chaparral set recorded on Sky TV.
The quality is good so far and there is a menu for the episodes.
I know it's better to have original studio release but some are too expensive.
This set comes from MyOffer site and it took a week to receive this order.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds May 28 2011, 03:40 PM

This morning I received my order Sgt Bilko series.

This afternoon I watched the first DVD.
You can see this series is old but still fun to watch if you like this comedy.
I remember watching this late evening time.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Aug 26 2011, 11:10 AM

This is my TV series collection so far;




1. Alias Smith and Jones
2. A Family At War
3. Band of Brothers Series
4. Bonanza 1959
5. Bonanza Special
6. Columbo Series
7. Dad’s Army Series
8. Dallas Series
9. Hawaii 5-0
10. Incredible Hulk Series
11. Inspector Morse Series
12. Jeeves and Wooster Series
13. Lost In Space Series
14. Land of Giants
15. Miami Vice Season 1
16. Magnum PI Series
17. Sherlock Holmes Series 1
18. Sherlock Holmes Series 2
19. Sgt Bilko Series
20. Steptoe and Son Series
21. Thunderbirds
22. The Big Valley Box Set
23. The Baron Series
24. The Fugitive Series
25. The High Chaparral Series
26. The Rockford Files Series
27. The Sweeney Series
28. The Time Tunnel Series
29. To Serve Them All My Days


I have been watching some of my favourite tv series.
Some are from IOffer and some are official releases.
My regular must see lately are;

Alias Smith and Jones
Bonanza,
Columbo,
Dallas,
Hawaii 50,
Land of Giants,
Magnum PI,
The Fugitive,
The High Chaparral,
The Incredible Hulk,
The Rockford Files.


Can't wait to see the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts.

I wish I could start my old TV series channel, ha, ha.

Posted by: charlierogers Aug 26 2011, 11:56 AM

Definitely with you on these ones:

Bonanza
Columbo
Magnum PI
The High Chaparral
The Rockford Files

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Aug 26 2011, 08:37 PM

Tonight I watched 2 episodes of Dallas season 6.
Bobby takes charge of Ewing oil.
Cliff Barnes suffering in hospital because of JR.

Posted by: charlierogers Aug 27 2011, 11:13 AM

Sorry - Bobby's just not CEO material ..........where oh where is JR?

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Aug 28 2011, 06:19 PM

QUOTE (charlierogers @ Aug 27 2011, 12:13 PM)

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Aug 28 2011, 06:22 PM

This morning I watched 2 episodes of Land of Giants.
This afternoon I watched 2 episodes of Alias Smith and Jones.
You can't beat old TV series.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Aug 28 2011, 08:08 PM

Tonight I watched 2 episodes of The Fugitive from season 2.
Always loved this series because each episode had a good story.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Sep 4 2011, 08:58 AM

QUOTE (Suspicious Minds @ Aug 26 2011, 12:10 PM)

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Nov 4 2011, 12:22 PM

1. Alias Smith and Jones
2. A Family At War
3. Batman
4. Blue Thunder
5. Band of Brothers
6. Columbo
7. Cagney and Lacey
8. Dad’s Army
9. Dallas
10. Hawaii 50
11. Incredible Hulk
12. Inspector Morse
13. Jeeves and Wooster
14. Lost In Space
15. Land of Giants
16. Miami Vice Season 1
17. Magnum PI
18. Sherlock Holmes 1
19. Sherlock Holmes 2
20. Sgt Bilko
21. Steptoe and Son
22. Thunderbirds
23. The Big Valley
24. The Baron
25. The Fugitive
26. The High Chaparral
27. The Rockford Files
28. The Sweeney
29. The Time Tunnel
30. To Serve Them All My Days


I am spoilt for choice on what I am going to watch with my series collection.
My recent purchases are Blue Thunder and Cagney and Lacey.
Blue Thunder was a free bonus.
Blue Thunder is similar to Airwolf series.
Both feature technical helicopters.
It's good to watch Cagney and Lacey again after all these years.
You can't beat old TV series favourites.

My Time Tunnel series order is still on the way, so the seller says.
If I get this order I would think twice before watching this set because of this order problem.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Nov 11 2011, 09:44 PM

One of my favourite police series is A Touch of Frost.
I see it is available as a complete series set 1-15.
The price is too much for my blood at the moment.
I love to buy this complete set at a lowish price after Christmas maybe.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Nov 28 2011, 08:27 AM

I was watching The Fugitive series last night and noticed it was in colour.
I also noticed I was missing about 25 episodes from no 71 to 95.
I emailed this seller and told him/her the episodes were missing.
To my surprise the seller said they would replace missing DVD's.
I bought this 5 months ago and did not think I would get replacements.



I decided to buy The Time Tunnel DVD as it was £14.95 with free postage from The Hut.
No luck with The Time Tunnel DVD set from iOffer.
I told that seller I was disappointed with this order.
Apparently there was a fault with DVD's.
The seller said I could choose another set.
I picked The Untouchables or Harry O series.
Hope they turn up.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Dec 3 2011, 09:23 PM

This evening I watched the first Time Tunnel series DVD.
You get every episode but it's not like when you watched it on TV in the past.
You don't get the start of the next episode on the same episode. If you understand.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Jan 26 2012, 04:15 PM

I was watching The Fugitive series and I noticed some episodes were missing.
I bought this set months ago. I asked the seller if I could have the missing episodes.
Today I received 2 DVD's.
I am going to start watching this series again now it's complete.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Feb 8 2012, 08:20 AM

Yesterday I received The Untouchables DVD set from iOffer.
I have not seen the early episodes before.
I knew Robert Stack was the star as Elliot Ness.
Last night I watched the first 2 episodes and you could see it was old tv series.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Feb 14 2012, 03:17 PM

Today I received the Branded series.
For a black and white series the picture quality is very good.
This series is on 6 DVD's.
There is a bonus DVD The Rifleman.
Branded is a Chuck Connors series.
I remember watching the first episodes but not knowing why the series was cut short.

Posted by: Suspicious Minds Feb 14 2012, 03:28 PM

My series collection so far.

1. Alias Smith and Jones
2. A Family At War
3. Bonanza
4. Batman
5. Branded
6. Band of Brothers
7. Columbo
8. Cagney and Lacey
9. Dad’s Army
10. Dallas
11. Hawaii 50
12. Incredible Hulk
13. Inspector Morse
14. Jeeves and Wooster
15. Lost In Space
16. Land of Giants
17. Miami Vice Season 1
18. Magnum PI
19. Planet of The Apes
20. Sherlock Holmes 1
21. Sherlock Holmes 2
22. Sgt Bilko
23. Steptoe and Son
24. Starsky and Hutch
25. Thunderbirds
26. The Big Valley
27. The Baron
28. The Fugitive
29. The High Chaparral
30. The Professionals
31. The Rockford Files
32. The Sweeney
33. The Time Tunnel
34. The Untouchables
35. To Serve Them All My Days
36. Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea