This list is no particular order, nor is it comprehensive…..just some ideas….
1: SIMON AND SIMON
I am a Magnum P.I. addict. I'm aware it's terrible but I don't give a shit. It makes me feel good. Simon and Simon was a spinoff. That makes it good. I could watch it every day.
2: THUNDARR THE BARBARIAN
I was such an AD&D nerd. This show came out around then. I watched Dungeon and Dragons too but that show was fucking gay compared to this.
3: LAND OF THE LOST
Maybe I have a soft spot for this show because it was on the first time Kim Kerr let me see her vagina way back in grade 4. My Mom caught us cuz Kims panties were stuck in the couch cushions. Still, great show. Chaka, Eunoch, Grumpy, Marshall, Will and Holly…..
4: PLANET OF THE APES-The TV Series
This sucked but it was still great.
5: PLANET OF THE APES-The Animated Series
This is even better than the movies.
6: GET A LIFE
Before Chris Elliot was awful and then great again he did this. His Dad was on it too. So was Bill Murrays brother. The car from DAMNATION ALLEY played 'Paperboy 2000'
7: STAR BLAZERS
You can buy the series on Itunes. I did that. Totally worth it. This show was on at 7:30 every morning before school. My neighbour and I were in tears after Derek Wldstars brother dies. It deals with some pretty heavy subjects for a kid to deal with. Death, radiation poisoning, the environment, racism against blue people. An amazing series. I hope no one ever remakes this.
8: RIPTIDE
This was in the same vein as A-TEAM and SIMON AND SIMON. When I was a kid, one of the actors was in a movie they filmed by my house. I never got to meet him.
9: MAVERICK
I am a ROCKFORD FILES addict. Seriously. It's actually a problem. I wish Rocky was my Grandpa and Rockford was my Dad. Although sometimes I wish Lorne Green or Tommy Lee Jones was my Dad. I also have this fantasy that Beyonce and Jay Z are my parents. And that Fleetwood Mac and Heart are my Aunts and Uncles. Is that an overshare? Anyway, I used to be so addicted to TV I was only allowed an hour a day on weekdays and three hours on weekends. I would use up my hour on Superman and Captain Kangaroo monday to friday but on Saturday I'd be up at 5 so i could steal extra time. I remember watching the Star Trek cartoon and Doug Henning……later they had westerns on and I'd watch Maverick and HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL…..it was great!
10: CIRCLE SQUARE
This show was a Christian Puppet show. Horrible but classic. Canadian TV will soon be extinct because no one has archived shit. We deserve to be forgotten…..
