(11-01-2012, 02:11 PM)Spudgun17 Wrote: Ali - total lols to you hating Deborah Morgan from tv show 'Dexter', and for finding her creepy
I think she's fucking awesome and cool as fuck. Man, you would so not like me if you knew me in real life... i swear like frig, and like Morgan, if someone pisses me off or gets right in my face, i react.
You know, I don't know that it is necessarily true that just because two people have wildly different tastes in TV shows or movies means they won't like each other. I really don't know for sure. But what do I know?
Anyway, I find that I am spending an awful lot of time recently watching older TV shows. I have found that some of the older TV shows from the 50s and 60s are surprisingly good and hold up awfully well.
As a a matter of fact, you would not believe just how often some of the plots from those shows have been recycled and used again in todays' shows. It is really quite strange just how often that happens.
Some of the best of those shows include: Maverick (a smart Western with James Garner and Jack Kelly and Roger Moore.
Created by Roy Huggins. With Jack Kelly, James Garner, Roger Moore, Lane Chandler. Bret and Bart Maverick are well-dressed gamblers who migrate from town to town always looking for a good game.
The Rockford Files - my most favorite detecive series ever. It contains about 100 great episodes - most are romantic adventures and action shows. But some are also hilarious comedies - especially those with Stuart Margolin playing Angel. If you get ahold of any of these, I strongly recommend that you especially watch the ones with Stuart Margolin. What a hoot!
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Fabulous Documentaries
There are some wonderful documentaries available that purport to educate people on all kinds of subjects about the physical world we live in. I suppose it takes a certain kind of mind to enjoy these shows and most people would consider them to be boring and stuffy minds but I find these topics to be just fascinating and they are presented in these documentaries in a truly enjoyable and fascinating way. They include, among other things:
Connections - a magnificent British show about the history of technology. This series will keep you entertained for weeks and weeks.
Life in Cold Blood - about reptiles and amphibians
The following shows are all wonderful. Strangely enough, they also all happen to be British:
Nature's Great Events
Power of the Planet
Trials of Life
And, there are many many more of these. Most are produced by the BBC and I have found that I can easily spends days and days watching and learning from these series.
Life on Earth
Life in Nature
The Mechanical Universe
If you were like me, when it came to Physics maybe you never paid all that much attention in high school and university but now, you would love to understand some of the great and important work done by the giants of Physics like: Newton, Einstien and some of the other greats.
Well, this series (from a famous Californian university) contains close to 100 seminars and lectures for the Physics university student from about 1st and 2nd years. If you are interested in some of the pivotal moments of Physics and some of the great experiments performed by famous physicists such as Milliken, Gallileo, Keppler, etc. this series explains them all. These shows are far more entertaining than you would expect. They are also educational but that does not necessarily mean they are boring or stuffy.
This series also covers many key areas of Physics - including Electricity and Magnetism, Molecular and Atomic theory, Quantum Mechanics and Relativity.
It is amazingly informative and I truly loved it.
I have found many more of these and if anyone wants to know more, just post here and I will try to update this list and tell you about more of these educational, documentaries re the scientific world.
(This post was last modified: 11-28-2012, 12:58 AM by
AliShibaz.)