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don't be dull, be fannish ([personal profile] katikat) wrote2008-02-06 09:02 am

Old TV shows...

Lately, I've been watching mostly old TV shows like Hardcastle & McCormick or Scarecrow and Mrs King and Riptide last night. Awesome, awesome stuff. Back then, there didn't have to be any long arcs, characters brooding etc. It was simple fun!

And another thing that I adore - the man touching! Back then, in the 70s and early 80s, men could touch, really touch, on TV without the viewers and TPTBs going ape-shit about them behaving "like homos" *rolls eyes*

Especially in Riptide you get a lot of man-touching between Nick and Cody. And they live together. On a boat... *giddy* Okay, so I have a one-track mind but these two are like Jim and Blair from The Sentinel but in Riptide, it's not the superhero and his sidekick - not that I minded it in TS because I really adored Blair being the trouble-magnet in 90% of eps, woo! - but more the relationship of two equal, butt-kicking, handsome men. Oh, and then there's Murray of course :P

Oh, and since I managed to get my hands on some eps of Scarecrow and Mrs King - thank you, eMule - I'm enjoying that TV show too! They really really need to release this series on DVD! I would be among the first ones to buy it because Amanda rocks my socks and I adore that she solves crimes with simple common sense, one normal human being among master spies who over-think just about everything! I love characters like that and I think that's why I like Sheriff Carter from Eureka so much - he's the only guy with his common sense intact in a town full of nutjobs, really :D

[identity profile] castalie.livejournal.com 2008-02-06 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think I ever watched Hardcastle & McCormick but I was a big fan of Scarecrow and Mrs King and Riptide when I was a kid. I remember watching those shows with my mom, who liked them a lot, too.

And they live together.

And don't they actually sleep in the same room, too? That is, for Nick and Cody, IIRC? Living on a boat is just awesome, there're such little space :-)

[identity profile] katikat.livejournal.com 2008-02-06 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
I love Hardcastle & McCormick! They have such a great father-son relationship! They would do anything for each other. It's a really good series.

I'm not sure now if they sleep in one room or not... Maybe not in the beginning but after Murray moves in, I think they have to squeeze in together :P Oh, I like squeezing :D

[identity profile] suzvoy.livejournal.com 2008-02-06 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
They ABSOLUTELY need to bring Scarecrow & Mrs King out on DVD! If you haven't already, go vote for it at tvshowsondvd.com :D

[identity profile] katikat.livejournal.com 2008-02-06 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I just don't get why they didn't put it out on DVD yet! I mean, are there legal problems or what? I mean, less popular shows are out, even the ones that lasted only one season! And such an amazing show not! *grumbles*

[identity profile] suzvoy.livejournal.com 2008-02-06 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know! The entire fandom is confused.