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Doctor Who (1963-1966, 1966-1969)
Man In A Suitcase
Adam Adamant Lives!
1970's
Doctor Who (1970-1974)
The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin
The Professionals
Dad's Army
On The Busses
Porridge
Going Straight
The Twilight Zone
The Man From UNCLE
The Saint
1970s
Columbo
The Professionals
Dad's Army
Columbo (1968-2003) is my favourite TV series of all time though.
Actually...Since you brought it up…I think MASH is one of the few TV shows that actually improved every time they had to replace a major character. Wayne Rogers’ Trapper John was essentially the same character as Alan Alda’s Hawkeye Pierce…anything one said or did could have been voiced by the other and no one would have noticed the difference. Both great, dedicated doctors; both cynical, funny, anti-authority types, both alcoholic womanizers. Mike Farrell’s BJ Hunnicut brought a slightly different element to the mix: another great surgeon with a strong sense of humor and a quickly developing taste for moonshine, he was a dedicated family man who actually turned down the attentions of an attractive woman in one episode because he wanted to be faithful to his wife. When Frank Burns and Henry Blake left the show as well, their replacements were substantially more realistic (and to my mind, more believable) than the characters they replaced. Blake was something of a buffoon, too easy for Hawkeye to fool and therefore not really believable as a base commander. Henry Morgan’s Colonel Potter was far more realistic: he’d been around the block several times, knew how the Army worked AND knew how much he needed the talented surgeons under his command. Lenient up to a point, by-the-book when he needed to be -- the episode where the shared a bottle of cognac left to him as the “last man standing” from a group of soldiers who’d served in France during WWI was a touching tale that never could have been considered if Maclean Stevenson’s Henry Blake had remained with the show. Frank Burns was even more unrealistic: he was a whiner and a wimp, a pretend patriot that was never anything like a match for Pierce & MacIntyre/Hunnicut. David Ogden Stiers’ upper-class egotist, Charles Ermerson Winchester III, was a much stronger foil for our lead characters…and one that deserved the audience’s respect, which Burns never did. Even when Gary Burghoff’s Radar O’Reilly left the show, his position in the camp was taken by Jamie Farr’s pre-existing character, Corporal Klinger -- and the facetious cross-dressing Klinger was rendered more believable when the character was given the responsibilities that had been Radar’s. Every single time the show had to replace a major character, the show itself grew stronger -- and there aren’t very many network TV shows that can make that claim!
And Ironside!
The Incredible Hulk anyone? How's about Wonder Woman ?
Soap I thought the first season was tops. It was witty, fun and cutting edge. Some networks actually tried to keep it off the air back in 1977. A young Billy Chrystal playing gay Jody Dallas, his brother in the mob, his uncle cheating on his wife and one of his cousins a nymphomanic trying to seduce a young priest. Great stuff.
The later seasons not so...
Of course! Hulk had great stories & WW had Lynda.
I used to think that way about George Reeves as Superman...then Christopher Reeve as the same...then......... well there hasn't really been a great Superman since Christopher R IMHO. Let us know how you feel once you've seen B-Man vs.S-Man coming soon to a theater near you!
I loved Soap. As a kid, I thought Burt was one of the funniest guys around.
I agree as far as I am concerned there can be no more Superman since Christopher Reeve and Christian Bale broke the mold on Batman. I have no intention of seeing the new movie later this year. "Dawn of Justice" my ass.
Hey, DC NEEDS to get a Justice League film out there to soak up all those "Avengers" $$$. Ready or not, here comes the Sub-Ma...* oh, excuse me: "Aquaman!"
I was sitting there just sadden by the whole sorry affair while I noted the audience howling at the car chase, Kidd and Wint (especially the one who squealed)
It was a very surreal experience for a campy surreal film...and the one rank at the bottom with MR
It is lost 80% of its luster for me, I think.