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Subject: Favorite TV Drama-Action
OK, since so many have posted drama shows in with the sitcoms, I thought I would start a thread for the drama shows, not the sitcoms.
Here are a few of my favorites:
Tales Of The Gold Monkey
Quantum Leap
Life Goes On
Tattengers
Max Headroom
Stingray
V
Night Rider
The Equalizer
MacGyver (what WAS his first name?)
Those are just a few that I could think of quickly, any more?
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I thought Max Headroom and Quantum Leap were Sci-Fi.
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magnum PI, simon and simon and i used to love A-Team but i've seen it recently on Prime, wow, what a stinker. the other two shows are still top notch and will watch them if i happenend to catch them.
i remember very little of max headroom although i recall it being very cyberpunk.
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MacGyver (what WAS his first name?)
Those are just a few that I could think of quickly, any more?
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MacGyver's first name was Angus. :D It was revealed in the last season, apparently. :)
Absolutely Vile
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Hill Street Blues
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The Beachcombers (oops, during the 70's, not 80's)
Max Headroom
Miami Vice
MacGyver
The Equalizer <- x-cellent show
and at risk of sounding stupid, I used to like the CBC series "Danger Bay".
There are some other shows but i'm suffering from a brain fart right now and I can't think of them... :P
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Hunter
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My favorites were:
St. Elsewhere
Quantam Leap
Simon & Simon
MacGuyver
Hill Street Blues
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Quantam Leap was wonderful! I never saw the last episode though. :'(
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MacGyver
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Hunter
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Good one!!
And "Simon & Simon" mentioned after it. Plus a few more:
Blue Thunder
Fantasy Island
Hardcastle & McCormick
Remmington Steele
Stingray
TJ Hooker (was ok :) )
http://members.aol.com/evrebdyhrt/dtv.html
http://members.aol.com/evrebdyhrt/ddtv.html
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MacGyver ;)
and there was some other one with that buy from baywatch about a car that was like so cool but I can't remember the name. :/
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Quoting:
MacGyver ;)
and there was some other one with that buy from baywatch about a car that was like so cool but I can't remember the name. :/
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It was Knight Rider, it's also on of my favorites. It comes on the Sci-fi channel weekday afternoons at 4:00
Subject: Re: Favorite TV Drama-Action
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I thought Max Headroom and Quantum Leap were Sci-Fi.
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Max Headroom and Quantum Leap WERE Sci-Fi, but both were still drama shows.
Drama is a style of storytelling, just like Comedy is. Documentery is yet another style of storytelling. Sci-Fi is merely a setting for the story.
You have drama sci-fi like Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek. YOu also have COmedy Sci-Fi, such as Quark and HHGTTG (Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy). All of those are Sci-Fi, but not all of those area drama shows.
The same goes with any type of setting. Cop shows have Kojack and Adam-12 which are Drama, and Police Squad, which is Comedy.
Of course, there is the shows which are hard to place, "Dramedy" is what a lot of people call them. This can be like a docudrama (or as Rob Riner did in SPinal Tap, a "mockumentery"), where it can be hard to tell where one part ends, and another part begins.
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It was Knight Rider, it's also on of my favorites. It comes on the Sci-fi channel weekday afternoons at 4:00
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Ugghhh....
Knight Rider is a cartoony kiddie show filled with goofball villains and hokey comic book plots. It's hardly in the same league of true 80's drama/action shows like Hunter, Hill Street Blues, Magnum PI, Riptide, Wiseguy, Miami Vice, 21 Jumpstreet, or MacGyver.
Even The A-Team and many of the other vehicle themed shows like Airwolf and the short lived Street Hawk had more drama and adult sensabilties then Michael and KITT.
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Rockcliff's Babies (UK)
Street Hawk (Yank)
Manimal (Yank)
Juliet Bravo (UK)
Spender (UK)
Bergerac (UK)
Jukes of Hazzard (Yank)
Starsky and Hutch (Yank)
The UK series are still watchable, unfortunate less can be said about those produced by the old 'septic tanks'.
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Tour of Duty
21 Jump Street
Miami Vice
A-Team
Knight Rider
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Quoting:
MacGyver ;)
and there was some other one with that buy from baywatch about a car that was like so cool but I can't remember the name. :/
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That would have been Knightrider ;D
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MacGyver
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21 jump street, quantim leap
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My fave 80s dramas would have been LA Law, Life Goes On, thirtysomething and China Beach! :)
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The greatest american hero is one of my faves when I was in a Jr high..
btw, who sang the title song??