I don’t know about you, but I’m freezing my brass monkeys off in here, as this polar vortex (read: simply “winter” when I was a kid) whips through the Great American Midwest. So I thought a stroll through some appropriately chilly vintage TV might be just what the Eskimo ordered (save it—Mt. McKinley is back, bitches!).
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‘Korg: 70,000 B.C.’: Live action Hanna-Barbera adventure is all about the hunt!
‘Magnum, P.I.’ (Season 1): Beaches, beauties, & the private eye of the ’80s
Funny the things a grown man will do for a living.
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‘Ripcord’ (Season 1): Stuck on a mountaintop? These men can help
Hey…where do we pull the chute on this entire new world, man?
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‘The Beasts are On the Streets’ (1978): Hanna-Barbera’s family-friendly disaster flick
Well…if everything else seems to be a disaster right now, it couldn’t hurt to watch some disaster flicks, now could it?
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‘Flipper’ (Season 1): ’60s favorite still loaded with family-friendly adventure
Just curious: are they masking the dolphins yet? Or has President Grampa Bumbles allowed them to be free again?
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‘Matt Houston’ (Season 1): Fun, breezy entry in the 80s P.I. craze
“Better cock your pistols.”
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‘The Fall Guy’ (Season 1): Perfectly executed high-concept TV
Well, I’m not the kind to kiss and tell,
But I’ve been seen with Farrah.
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‘Secret Agent’: England’s Danger Man thrills viewers the world over
Please. If the question is: “What’s the best TV spy series ever produced?” I don’t want to hear something like Mission: Impossible or The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (even though I love those two), and I certainly don’t want pallid, morally-equivalent, p.c.-obsessed examples from the last 20 years or so (you can keep your limp hand-wringing lectures to yourself, thank you).
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‘The Rookies’ (Season 1): ’70s police actioner holds up well today
Looking out the window (and ducking), it’s probably a good time to revisit the first season of The Rookies, one of the best-remembered cop shows from the “golden age” of network TV police series (Sony put out a DVD set for this a few years ago…and it’s worth some bucks now).
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‘Scarecrow and Mrs. King’ (Season 1): Fun, Romantic, Reagan-era spy adventure
A few years ago, Warner Bros. released Scarecrow and Mrs. King: The Complete First Season, a 5-disc, 21-episode collection of the 1983-1984 premier season of the light, charming action/adventure comedy/romance series starring Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner.
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‘Simon & Simon’ (Season 1): Breezy detective series survives early 80s
Don’t you miss the 80s? Don’t they seem like an incredibly free time now?
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‘The Rat Patrol’: Uncomplicated, vintage-TV action thrills
Well…at the very least, the toys were cool.
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‘Wanted: Dead or Alive’: Steve McQueen’s hit Western leads to big-screen stardom
As a warm-up, you might say, to our commitment here at Drunk TV—and believe me: “commitment” is the correct word—
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‘Charlie’s Angels’ (Season 4): We wanted Shelley Hack – but got Tiffany Welles instead
Hack attack smacks Angels off-track with thwack to Nielsen nut sack!
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‘Charlie’s Angels’ (Season 3): Will difficult Kate Jackson survive the season?
Business is getting done in this third season of Charlie’s Angels, courtesy of Mill Creek Entertainment’s classy Blu-ray Complete Series set.
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‘Charlie’s Angels’ (Season 2): Sexy Cheryl Ladd joins squad as Farrah moves on
They’ve apparently 86’d the nipples.
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‘Honey West’: Action heroine far better than 60s audiences thought
‘M Squad’: Lurid, late ’50s actioner forever packs a punch
A wonderfully lurid, pulpy TV actioner.
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‘Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die’ (1994): Disappointing reunion film not up to standard
I knew it, I knew it. The minute I start making friends….
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