Same swamp. Same kid. Same bear. Same fun.
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‘Gentle Ben’ (Season 1): Sweet, simple, expertly-done family television
When you’re knock knock knockin’ on heaven’s door, you can bet your ass you don’t watch challenging TV while you’re trying to make it through the night—you want familiarity. You want plots you can follow. You want some nice scenery. You want to see a bear eat a kid.
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‘Sergeant Preston of the Yukon’ (Season 1): Primitive production is pure fun for nostalgic TV fans
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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