What old media are you watching? - Since new media isn't worth watching

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tehpope said:
Sorry, this is going over my head. Is this a joke?
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Yes, it's a joke referring to all the obscure and varied mecha anime released between 1980-1985. I quite like that era; it's before everything had to be franchise slop or an OVA, so there's lots of variety -- police mecha (Techno Police 21C), Indiana Jones mecha (Acrobunch), Mission Impossible mecha (Srungle), Lupin III mecha (Braiger), Asian history mecha (Daiohja and Baxingar), Around The World in 80 Days mecha (Sasuraiger), ultra-gritty mecha (Dougram, Votoms, Dorvack, Mospeada, Southern Cross, and Dancouga), fantasy mecha (Galient and Dunbine), cowboy mecha (Xabungle), parody mecha (Macross), and interdimensional shenanigan mecha (Orguss). There's a universe where Takatoku Toys didn't go bankrupt and we continued to get more of this creativity and innovation, but alas.
 
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Space Police said:
Yes, it's a joke referring to all the obscure and varied mecha anime released between 1980-1985. I quite like that era; it's before everything had to be franchise slop or an OVA, so there's lots of variety -- police mecha (Techno Police 21C), Indiana Jones mecha (Acrobunch), Mission Impossible mecha (Srungle), Lupin III mecha (Braiger), Asian history mecha (Daiohja and Baxingar), Around The World in 80 Days mecha (Sasuraiger), ultra-gritty mecha (Dougram, Votoms, Dorvack, Mospeada, Southern Cross, and Dancouga), fantasy mecha (Galient and Dunbine), cowboy mecha (Xabungle), parody mecha (Macross), and interdimensional shenanigan mecha (Orguss). There's a universe where Takatoku Toys didn't go bankrupt and we continued to get more of this creativity and innovation, but alas.
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I don't know most of these, thanks!
 
Since I recently picked up Max as part of their new bundle, I've been watching Looney Tunes again. Stuff in there, mostly the pop culture references and 50s satire I had no way of catching as a kid, hits different now, and adds another layer to the comedy.

Also been on an Incredible Hulk kick recently. Not a show meant for binging, by any stretch, but a couple times a week it's fun to watch David Banner roll into town and fix a problem with the power of a big green rage monster.
 
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I had a solid rotation of older shows I was watching (the main three being The Fugitive, Have Gun Will Travel, and Mannix) but I haven't had time to watch them lately.

The Fugitive takes a few episodes to find its footing but once it does it's really good, though it's almost entirely an episodic drama with the screenplays feeling more like stage plays than anything on modern TV. Have Gun, Will Travel is a terrific western show that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry wrote for (did about 30 scripts, iirc). Mannix is a fun detective show, with the first season having a sci-fi slant to it as the company he originally works for is super advanced and uses computers to help with cases, but unfortunately they nixed all that after season one and made it more of a standard private detective show, though the scripts and (especially) the lead, Mike Connors, are quite good.
 
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Another vintage TV series in the half-hour format I've been taking in has been Tales of Wells Fargo, perhaps the second-most successful Western/private investigator series from the early years of television (the first would be Have Gun, Will Travel). The series was inspired in part by the biography of real-life investigator for the Wells Fargo shipping company Fred J. Dodge.

Dale Robertson played Jim Hardie, an investigator for the Wells Fargo shipping company. He was a troubleshooter who would investigate cases like train and stagecoach robberies, crimes against Wells Fargo company employees and offices, etc. and ran into all sorts of villains: smugglers, gunrunners, counterfeiters, rustlers, killers for hire, corrupt lawmen, corrupt businessmen, and so on. He also had the occasional run-in with historical figures, including outlaws like Jesse James (played by Hugh Beaumont), the future Billy the Kid (played by Robert Vaughn), stagecoach robber Pearl Hart (Beverly Garland) and Butch Cassidy (Charles Bronson). The series lasted 1957 to 1962 on NBC, and in it's final season the show's format was expanded to a full hour and was filmed in color. It also introduced a regular cast and had Hardie sort of settling down to raise horses at a ranch near the fictional California town of Gloribee while still working assignments for Wells Fargo. Robertson was, shall we say, somewhat more convincing as a lead in a Western series than some of the other stars of the period.

While Hardie, known as "the Left-Handed Gun" out of his reputation as a gunfighter, did have to use his revolver and his fists, he was also an investigator and had to uncover clues and evidence as well as sometimes go undercover.

The first dozen episodes are up on Tubi, of course.
 
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Space Police said:
Yes, it's a joke referring to all the obscure and varied mecha anime released between 1980-1985. I quite like that era; it's before everything had to be franchise slop or an OVA, so there's lots of variety -- police mecha (Techno Police 21C), Indiana Jones mecha (Acrobunch), Mission Impossible mecha (Srungle), Lupin III mecha (Braiger), Asian history mecha (Daiohja and Baxingar), Around The World in 80 Days mecha (Sasuraiger), ultra-gritty mecha (Dougram, Votoms, Dorvack, Mospeada, Southern Cross, and Dancouga), fantasy mecha (Galient and Dunbine), cowboy mecha (Xabungle), parody mecha (Macross), and interdimensional shenanigan mecha (Orguss). There's a universe where Takatoku Toys didn't go bankrupt and we continued to get more of this creativity and innovation, but alas.
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ah, okay. I googled the title but only found a few refs to it. Mecha anime is boss. I really want to watch all of VOTMOS. But Its kind of hard to pay attention since its sub only. That's on me though.
 
Space Police said:
Yes, it's a joke referring to all the obscure and varied mecha anime released between 1980-1985. I quite like that era; it's before everything had to be franchise slop or an OVA, so there's lots of variety -- police mecha (Techno Police 21C), Indiana Jones mecha (Acrobunch), Mission Impossible mecha (Srungle), Lupin III mecha (Braiger), Asian history mecha (Daiohja and Baxingar), Around The World in 80 Days mecha (Sasuraiger), ultra-gritty mecha (Dougram, Votoms, Dorvack, Mospeada, Southern Cross, and Dancouga), fantasy mecha (Galient and Dunbine), cowboy mecha (Xabungle), parody mecha (Macross), and interdimensional shenanigan mecha (Orguss). There's a universe where Takatoku Toys didn't go bankrupt and we continued to get more of this creativity and innovation, but alas.
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I started watching Acrobunch, and it seems like it's going to be fun. Thanks for the list.
 
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I've been watching a lot of old Tokusatsu shows from the 1960s and 70s. My personal favorite has to be Ultraseven, followed by Mirrorman. It's refreshing seeing these shows take themselves seriously regardless of the absurdity of some of the enemy aliens and monsters. The special effects, while outdated, have a certain charm to them that I feel is lost in most modern toku shows.
 
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Saw this interesting little curio last night. An early 80s American kaiju movie about Quetzalcoatl terrorizing NYC and a based criminal who extorts NYC for info on how to defeat it.
 
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Saw this interesting little curio last night. An early 80s American kaiju movie about Quetzalcoatl terrorizing NYC and a based criminal who extorts NYC for info on how to defeat it.
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Just finished watching The Stuff, another Larry Cohen movie starring Michael Moriarty. It's a satire about a parasitic, addictive slime that gets packaged into a dessert and sold by corrupt executives. Another nugget of eccentricity that hits more than it misses.
 
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