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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI think it's time to time-travel via TV... watch some "Friends"
what other series do you suggest?
Will & Grace
How I Met Your Mother
ohhhhh...you want OLDER?
*M*A*S*H*
That 70's show
Three's company
Laverne & shirley
Initech
(100,063 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,925 posts)check out the 'phone'......
MacKasey
(986 posts)On ME tv
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)and REALLY time travel. It's streaming on HBO Max.
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)i could never get into dr who...my kids love it but ya...
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Doctor Who isn't for everyone, but the 10th Doctor is something special. I've never laughed or CRIED as hard as when I watched Rose and him gallivant across time and space.
David Tennant is such a wonderful actor.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)I've been working my way through the Classic Doctor Who on Britbox. I'm up to Season 16 - I think that is about three or four years into the Tom Baker episodes.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Christopher Eccleston. He was only the Doctor for one year, and a very good incarnation, but then the real great stuff begins with David and the 10th Doctor. HBO Max begins with the 9 Doctor and calls it season 1.
Btw, IMHO, you will not miss anything if you skip from Tom Baker to Christopher.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Started watching it on Georgia Public TV back in the early 1970s when they started by airing the original first season with William Hartnell. I've watched every doctor up to Peter Capaldi, but sort of lost the plot with him (not his fault, I liked his Doctor) - had a lot of shit go down in real life in 2017 and 2018.
I'll keep working my way through the classics. Maybe by the time I finish those, the "new" series will be on something other than HBO.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)When it first aired, I tried to get into him, but was so distraught with the "demise" of the 11th Doctor that I had some prejudice against his character.
That has faded and I will enjoy getting back into being a Whovian again.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Then we had two deaths in the family (my mother and my mother in law), I had a aortic valve replacement and a kidney removed. By the time I was able to consistently watch again, the series had moved on and I wanted to go back to the older episodes to catch up. Not that Doctor Who episodes rely on previous ones for consistency outside the current series, of course.
And then when the female Doctor was introduced we were in the UK and they were half way through the series so that really messed me up. I figure at this point I'm four or five years behind.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Wifey just had a tumor removed from her kidney in December so I feel ya. This was just after fighting Lymphoma for 18 months prior.
Hope things are better for you now.
Yeah, I know Capaldi was not the first OLD Doctor, but we had been fed a diet of young vigorous characters for so long that it was difficult for me to transition.
Good luck!!!
csziggy
(34,136 posts)We'd hoped to just resection my kidney but the location of the tumor was such that they had to remove it. The good thing was that it was caught early so little to no chance that the cancer might spread.
Things are getting better. Both mother's houses have been cleared, one sold, the other is on the market. So we have more time and less stress now.
Hey, you want an old Doctor, Hartnell defined that! But yeah, after Tenant and Smith, Capaldi took a little getting used to.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)but great Doctors, nurses and science saved her life. I will forever be grateful for them.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)But I hope I can go a long, long time before having to see most of them again. I had sixteen major operations since 2001. I want to have at least one decade without any serious health issues before I die.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,975 posts)Still on season 1, so I'm in 1958.
CurtEastPoint
(18,639 posts)Ocelot II
(115,674 posts)I hate sitcoms, old or new, but I loved the Twilight Zone and Night Gallery.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,174 posts)Beatlelvr
(618 posts)I loved I Married Joan. Also Our Miss Brooks, Car 54, the Honeymooners, Gale Storm Show, the Phil Silvers Show, Your Show of Shows, and for something a bit intellectual...Jack Paar.
But all time fav of course I Love Lucy. I can watch those old shows, know the next line, and laugh anyway. (TV was a great baby sitter in the 50s and 60s.)
madamesilverspurs
(15,800 posts)Also, "Brooklyn Bridge" (which ended after way too short a run, in my humble opinion).
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Generic Brad
(14,274 posts)I watched that on Hulu a while back. It was definitely a time capsule.
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)Thanks for reminding me of it 😊
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Time travel back to a time traveling show.
I did just start watching the series on the Roku Channel. Free, but with ads.
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)Used to have a crush on Scott bakula 🥰