I know this has nothing whatsoever to do with layoffs, and I risk this being censored. However, things here have become a little bit stale on our segment of this site with the constant complaints, and I’m hoping to, maybe?, have some memories jogged and lift some (old-timers) spirits.
I saw a show tonight that reminded me of 1970s television, back in the good old days when I was a kid in NYC, and stations such as WWOR, on Channel 9, and WPIX, Channel 11, were in their heyday.
I can still vividly recall a frightened middle-of-the-night weekend viewing of Night of the Living Dead on WOR, when everyone in my house was asleep, as I watched on a black and white TV a movie that scared me so much that I went into the room where my sisters were sleeping to watch the end of it, so that I would not be alone.
I loved so many shows then, such as:
Twilight Zone
One Step Beyond
Creature Feature
Chiller Theater
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Kolchak, The Night Stalker
And later shows:
Tales From the Darkside
Tales From the Crypt
Monsters
Amazing Stories
Goose Bumps…
I also loved the zany 1960s shows, Get Smart, F-Troop, Batman, Gilligan’s Island, Monkees, and, into the 70’s, Mission Impossible, Brady Bunch.
It was a “Golden Age” but, when one’s caught up in it, they unfortunately fail to appreciate it.
I suppose it was the same a generation earlier when The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy were at the top of the charts, and later when All In The Family, Three’s Company, 24, The X-Files, Seinfeld rightfully started to resonate some years later.
Netflix, IMHO, has been doing an admirable job maintaining quality since the mantle’s been passed to them, though they sometimes go way way off the rails in trying to cover every single possible inclusive base.
For you folks in tbe greater NYC area, you remember the WPIX call-in PIX thing where callers yelled PIX, PIX, PIX, as a gaming-type video was on the screen?