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Old 07-17-2020, 12:49 PM
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Randolph Mantooth in every scene of the show always has a look on his face like he just POOPED HIS PANTS AGAIN !
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Randolph Mantooth in every scene of the show always has a look on his face like he just POOPED HIS PANTS AGAIN !
That's funny GH. I have HULU. I'll have to look tonight and see if I can find these old shows. I know they have a couple of channels that show old movies and TV shows I'm just not sure it's MeTV in my area or what it's called. I'm fairly new to HULU.
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Old 07-17-2020, 04:02 PM
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Emergency is on COZI TV at 12 noon and 1pm EDT M-F.
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Take note for any classic TV show shown on television these days. A good 10 minutes of one hours shows are chopped out in order to run the commercial times we have today. If you watch it on Cozi, or when it was on MeTV, TVLand or other channels, you sometimes miss key aspects of the show. When the show was made in the 70's, you had about 9 minutes of commercials. Today you have about 19 minutes of commercials.

Emergency! was on Netflix for a few years at full length until about a year ago. I have all the episodes on DVD, so the few times I've watched it on classic tv stations I've noticed the stuff that was missing.
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Watching the first episode of EMERGENCY! on MeTV.
Even in THIS episode, Randolph Mantooth has a look on his face that says "Yep, I just CRAPPED my pants AGAIN !"
How did this clown ever get cast for ANYTHING ???
Dawg-Crapp awful actor....
While I enjoyed EMERGENCY!, it wasn't exactly an accurate "portray-er" of model rocketry as a safe, educational hobby... My father never could get into the show (for the same reason Carl Sagan couldn't enjoy Star Trek), although he tried; being a Fire Chief, he couldn't get past the errors they portrayed, with the result that he couldn't "suspend his disbelief" and just enjoy the show.
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While I enjoyed EMERGENCY!, it wasn't exactly an accurate "portray-er" of model rocketry as a safe, educational hobby... My father never could get into the show (for the same reason Carl Sagan couldn't enjoy Star Trek), although he tried; being a Fire Chief, he couldn't get past the errors they portrayed, with the result that he couldn't "suspend his disbelief" and just enjoy the show.

As bad as it was, it was more accurate than today's shows. Chicago Fire's first episode showed them stabilizing a car hanging over a bridge with a strut that can only push on the car, not pull it back. And those horrible masks made so that you can see their whole faces....terrible! It only got worse, and it was purely a soap opera anyway, so I stopped watching it. Same goes for the knockoffs on the other channels.
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Take note for any classic TV show shown on television these days. A good 10 minutes of one hours shows are chopped out in order to run the commercial times we have today. If you watch it on Cozi, or when it was on MeTV, TVLand or other channels, you sometimes miss key aspects of the show. When the show was made in the 70's, you had about 9 minutes of commercials. Today you have about 19 minutes of commercials.

Emergency! was on Netflix for a few years at full length until about a year ago. I have all the episodes on DVD, so the few times I've watched it on classic tv stations I've noticed the stuff that was missing.
What jars me--and, I suspect, most ~35+ year-old viewers--about today's TV programs is that they film scenes with the assumption (probably correct, sadly) that most of the viewers have mosquito-like attention spans. You can really tell by watching a decades-old, long-running show (like a soap opera, such as "As the World Turns") that's still producing new episodes today. Now:

Back in the 1970s through the 1990s (when I saw it, because my late mother watched it), scenes lasted a good five minutes each before they changed. I happened to catch it relatively recently in a clinic waiting room on their wall TV, and the scenes were changing every 90 seconds or so! The result was that little dialogue--which is what creates the tension in a drama--was spoken. The original "Star Trek" episodes--and even the 1970s animated series, which was aimed specifically at kids--had long scenes with well-crafted, drama-generating dialogue.
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What jars me--and, I suspect, most ~35+ year-old viewers--about today's TV programs is that they film scenes with the assumption (probably correct, sadly) that most of the viewers have mosquito-like attention spans. You can really tell by watching a decades-old, long-running show (like a soap opera, such as "As the World Turns") that's still producing new episodes today. Now:

Back in the 1970s through the 1990s (when I saw it, because my late mother watched it), scenes lasted a good five minutes each before they changed. I happened to catch it relatively recently in a clinic waiting room on their wall TV, and the scenes were changing every 90 seconds or so! The result was that little dialogue--which is what creates the tension in a drama--was spoken. The original "Star Trek" episodes--and even the 1970s animated series, which was aimed specifically at kids--had long scenes with well-crafted, drama-generating dialogue.


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Emergency is on COZI TV at 12 noon and 1pm EDT M-F.
Cool ... COZI TV I have access to. I'll have to set my DVR to catch it during the week.
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If y'all want a fun/crappy police comedy/drama/satire from that era,
check out Sledge Hammer on YouTube. That was a fun show to
watch back in the day.
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