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Location: Iowa | I do not enjoy watching regular tv and really haven't for the last 10 or so years. However, I do like movies. We recently joined Netflix and it's pretty amazing at what you can find on there!!!
We just finished watching (it has taken a couple of weeks) the whole first season of Little House on the Prairie. Good grief!!!! If that was shown today, Michael Landon would probably be receiving so much hate mail and flak for the amount of involvement that entire series had surrounding the Lord and His son Jesus! It's awesome!!
I truly think America could do w/ having them re-run that entire series on network tv. It espouses a strong relationship w/ God, hardwork, charity, helping neighbors out of the kindness of your heart, hardwork, true friendships, hardwork, family responsibility, acountability, hardwork, and chasing a dream of independence.
And here is the best part. I've watched a few shows now from back in the 70's and early 80's. I thought they were great in my younger days, but now.............. well cheesy comes to mind. Little House isn't. It's still just as good as I remembered it. The costumes still look authentic after all of these years and the dialogue is still fantastic.
I personally believe that it would be great to see programing like this again.
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Location: Farther right every day! | Sorry Alan, I hated that one......read the books as a wee child and didn't think they did a very good job, but you are right. As a whole, it would do us good to have shows like that.......
My son grew up without TV, but we watched tons of John Wayne movies and the like. Now we are without it again, and I must say, I really miss Fox News.
Now, when Kinsey watches shows online or previously on TV, I spend half my time discussing the moral aspects of what is wrong with the thinking of the characters.
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BHW Jr. Cougar of the Year
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Location: Noobville, Texas | One of my all time favorite shows! Micheal Landon's hair did get quite big in the last years of the show, though. It was the 80's, it couldn't be helped. lol I still watch it whenever I get a chance and I've seen them all multiple times.
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Location: Farther right every day! | PS
Happy Birthday
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BHW Jr. Cougar of the Year
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Location: Noobville, Texas | kmcsunshine - 2/4/2010 8:55 AM PS
Happy Birthday
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be! | T-Zip - 2/4/2010 8:47 AM One of my all time favorite shows! Micheal Landon's hair did get quite big in the last years of the show, though. It was the 80's, it couldn't be helped. lol I still watch it whenever I get a chance and I've seen them all multiple times.
I remember reading one time, that he had some thing about cutting his hair. Something about running track in school & they made him cut his hair -- and he couldn't run as fast...
I have no earthly idea why I can remember that, but can't remember to take the trash out  |
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| i bought my 14 year old daughter the complete set, 9 years! we have loved it, we watch it together, she just won't tell her friends  |
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Well Duh
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| I remember liking Highway To Heaven as a young child too.
I have not been sleeping so well and have been up until midnight watching the Cosby Show. There are times I am just dying laughing in bed and trying not to wake up my other half. Sooo much funnier than the crap that is out there today. There is no way I would let my daughter watch most of what is on tv nowadays. Why did tv get so trashy? It's not cute, funny or appropriate. |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be! | I have a confession -- for the longest time I was pretty vigilant about what the munchkin was watching. Then as life happens, I got pretty lax -- until one day we were on the front porch & she "showed me" her latest dance/cheer (she makes them up all the time & looooves to perform them). When she was essentially pole dancing on the front porch, I got a wake up call.
Decided I had to start monitoring better, again. If for no other reason to open doors to what is and is not appropriate behavior!
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Location: North Carolina | It is funny to think back and see how much times have changed. Programs and movies made in years past would never be accepted today. Can you imagine if "All in the Family" premiered today? It would take all of about 10 nanoseconds into the first show before various special interest groups started raising hell. Ditto for perhaps the funniest movie I can ever remember watching, "Blazing Saddles." The PC police would have killed that movie before it ever hit the screen if it came out today.
I am really, really tired of people getting "offended" and the political correctness in this country has gone way too far. In the case of LHotP, yes, it would undoubtedly draw fire today from those groups "offended" by the show's message.
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I miss the ol' days. :) |
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Proud American Patriot
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Location: Watertown, SD | Reruns are still on TV...thankfully.
A bit of trivia...we live only a handful of miles from the actual town in which the Ingall's lived. The real one, not the TV one. Our son-in-law's father was mayor for many years. DeSmet has a large gathering each year that is LHOTP-based. You should plan a family vacation!
I will confess that I watch TV nearly every night during these long winter months. I believe there are some decent programs out there if you seek them out. And now, thanks to the world of DVR, I can record those things that interest me and watch them at my convenience. I will say that I don't watch much network TV. Much like the internet...TV is what we make of it. Good or bad. I do my best to seek out the good and ignore the bad. IMO, it is very do-able.
One of my favorites? I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist with Frank Turek. And, Ravi Zacharias's shows. I love those!! I love the medical shows (real ones, not drama series) and science-based shows. I also watch those irritating "documentaries" that discredit my faith, lifestyle and political views in some manner. I want to know what will be coming out of the mouths of those who watch.........and see how they present the information as if it was they, themselves, who have discovered it. Meanwhile, I know what to expect from the little parrots and am better prepared with a response. It makes me giggle a little. |
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| Though I like the books, I could never get into that TV show. That might have something to do with me preferring sci-fi in TV programming. Too bad they think sci-fi means vampire today.
Have you seen the Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency? They only made one season, but worth catching if you want to see something done in the last couple years with God at the center of the characters' lives. Actually worth catching even without all the characters mentioning God, it was a good series, as are the books it is based on. Shame they didn't pick it up for a second season, but that is cable for you, no sex or blood and it isn't worthy of further viewing. |
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