Was It Better Times Back Then?

[rightwinger]

Simpler or just more basic? Those 5 TV stations had more stuff on than 30 channels do now. It was GOOD programming, original ideas, comedy, variety shows not reality TV, and they only showed things ONCE.

Are you fucking kidding me? Television in the 1970's was largely CRAP!

And, no, frankly, all you really had on most of these channels were reruns of stuff that was cancelled in the 1950's and 1960's. It's how Star Trek got so popular.

Using a slide rule rather than an electronic calculator that just gives you the answer, watching The Big Valley and Perry Mason over 'America Can Dance' and 'Cops,' and having to actually find and research in books, understanding and putting things in your own words rather than clicking, copying and pasting and having everything right at your fingertips BUILT CHARACTER.

No, it just took longer. Heck, in my previous career, I had to do math pretty much all day. I'd never get anything done without a calculator and a computer spreadsheet.

70s had some amazing shows

All in the Family
MASH
Taxi
Barney Miller
Rockford Files
Columbo

And the debut of Saturday Night Live and Sesame Street

 

[Freiheit]

I would go back to the fifties for the music and the cars if I could take the net and central ac with me.

 

[JoeB131]

You would be In jail if you grew up today ..


I wish I grew up in the 1950s...

Put downt he bottle, buddy. It's 6 AM.

 

[JoeB131]

You ARE fucked in the head, admit it! The 1970s was perhaps the greatest epic period of television, including many pioneering and cutting edge programs including:

MASH
All In The Family
Happy Days
The Rockford Files
Taxi
Saturday Night Live
Hawaii Five-O
Kung Fu
Gunsmoke
Bonanza
Kolchak The Night Stalker
The Streets of San Francisco
Monty Python
Laugh-In and
Space: 1999

Okay. Space 1999 was crap. Kolchak got cancelled after one season. Kung Fu was crap. So were most of the rest of them.

 

[rightwinger]

You ARE fucked in the head, admit it! The 1970s was perhaps the greatest epic period of television, including many pioneering and cutting edge programs including:

MASH
All In The Family
Happy Days
The Rockford Files
Taxi
Saturday Night Live
Hawaii Five-O
Kung Fu
Gunsmoke
Bonanza
Kolchak The Night Stalker
The Streets of San Francisco
Monty Python
Laugh-In and
Space: 1999

Okay. Space 1999 was crap. Kolchak got cancelled after one season. Kung Fu was crap. So were most of the rest of them.

MASH, All in the Family, Rockford, Taxi are classics and have held up well over time

Saturday Night Live and Sesame Street are still going strong after 40 years

 

[toobfreak]

You ARE fucked in the head, admit it! The 1970s was perhaps the greatest epic period of television, including many pioneering and cutting edge programs including:

MASH
All In The Family
Happy Days
The Rockford Files
Taxi
Saturday Night Live
Hawaii Five-O
Kung Fu
Gunsmoke
Bonanza
Kolchak The Night Stalker
The Streets of San Francisco
Monty Python
Laugh-In and
Space: 1999

Okay. Space 1999 was crap. Kolchak got cancelled after one season. Kung Fu was crap. So were most of the rest of them.

Star Trek was almost cancelled after one season. Proves nothing. These shows were so bad that is why they are STILL on TV being shown as reruns more than 40 years after their inception! Joe you obviously don't have the ability to tell the difference between good and bad, and things you simply do not like.

 

[Votto]

Really? How? When I was a kid we had a million things to do. We came home from school excited and energized. Now all the kids I see come home quiet, demoralized, tired-looking, go in their houses, lock the doors and get back on their cellphones and social media living in an unreal world while their parents worry they might get a pimple.

Actually, I remember being bored most days after school. At least after puberty when playing outside wasn't all that anymore.

Of course, I grew up in Chicago before Global Warming and we used to actually have winters.

Well if the murder rate stays about the same in Chicago the depopulation should help curb all the global warming.

Keep up the good work.

 

[Votto]

No question kids had more freedom

I got home from school, got on my bike and was gone till dinner. During the summer we were gone all day.
Sports were pickup games with whatever kids showed up. We made up the rules to accommodate
In the summer, I went camping with my friends. Not backyard camping, we would grab our tents and sleeping bags and go to a nearby creek or nearby mountain

Oh dear, another regressive trying to turn back the clock.

I thought you were a Progressive?

 

[Windparadox]

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Now a days, kids are glued to their phones and online computer games.

 

[ptbw forever]

No question kids had more freedom

I got home from school, got on my bike and was gone till dinner. During the summer we were gone all day.
Sports were pickup games with whatever kids showed up. We made up the rules to accommodate
In the summer, I went camping with my friends. Not backyard camping, we would grab our tents and sleeping bags and go to a nearby creek or nearby mountain

So why do you insist on destroying such a society today?

 

[ptbw forever]

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Now a days, kids are glued to their phones and online computer games.

Maybe because modern society sucks and “progressives” are entirely to blame.

 

[ptbw forever]

Simpler or just more basic? Those 5 TV stations had more stuff on than 30 channels do now. It was GOOD programming, original ideas, comedy, variety shows not reality TV, and they only showed things ONCE.

Are you fucking kidding me? Television in the 1970's was largely CRAP!

And, no, frankly, all you really had on most of these channels were reruns of stuff that was cancelled in the 1950's and 1960's. It's how Star Trek got so popular.

Using a slide rule rather than an electronic calculator that just gives you the answer, watching The Big Valley and Perry Mason over 'America Can Dance' and 'Cops,' and having to actually find and research in books, understanding and putting things in your own words rather than clicking, copying and pasting and having everything right at your fingertips BUILT CHARACTER.

No, it just took longer. Heck, in my previous career, I had to do math pretty much all day. I'd never get anything done without a calculator and a computer spreadsheet.

The 70s was a goldmine of television entertainment compared to the shit we have today.

 

[longknife]

At my age, I've learned that you cannot turn back the clock. You accept what is and do your best to deal with it. I love reruns and watch them avidly. That is only because so much of what is produced today is pure garbage.

 

[rightwinger]

No question kids had more freedom

I got home from school, got on my bike and was gone till dinner. During the summer we were gone all day.
Sports were pickup games with whatever kids showed up. We made up the rules to accommodate
In the summer, I went camping with my friends. Not backyard camping, we would grab our tents and sleeping bags and go to a nearby creek or nearby mountain

So why do you insist on destroying such a society today?

No idea what you are babbling about