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Re: TV Series Binge Watching
« Reply #525 on: September 30, 2024, 08:14:31 AM »
Watching This Old House on Roku this morning... Before the producer, Russell Morash, died, he sold the rights to the show over to Roku.

First thing I see is a tile guy not putting mortar down properly on a fancy tile mosaic installation...

The tile guys were a family business and the main guy was originally Joe Ferrante. I saw the last episode that he died later that day. Before learning of his death on the show, I had thought to myself he sucked. At the end of the episode, I thought that he was just having a bad day before dying.

I was wrong.

This guy sucked all the time apparently. He just wasn't doing a good job and I bet the installation failed within a couple of years.
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Re: TV Series Binge Watching
« Reply #526 on: November 29, 2024, 06:47:59 PM »
I'm a pretty big fan of the old cop shows.  Hawaii Five-O is my all time fave but shows like Dragnet, Columbo, Streets of San Francisco, etc are fun to watch as well.  I've never watched Ironside before and just came across it and thought I would give it a watch.  Man, Ironside is such a grouchy dick. LoL!  Hard to believe that his minions haven't pushed his wheelchair down Lombard Street.

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Re: TV Series Binge Watching
« Reply #527 on: November 29, 2024, 09:07:32 PM »
I'm a pretty big fan of the old cop shows.  Hawaii Five-O is my all time fave but shows like Dragnet, Columbo, Streets of San Francisco, etc are fun to watch as well.  I've never watched Ironside before and just came across it and thought I would give it a watch.  Man, Ironside is such a grouchy dick. LoL!  Hard to believe that his minions haven't pushed his wheelchair down Lombard Street.


I like a really old cop show, Gunsmoke. I've been watching it on Pluto TV on demand.

I have googled many of the guests who have made appearances on the show, so far, I have found two who have been buried a few miles north of me.

I watched Adam 12 and Dragnet a ton, in the last decade. I loved how many of those businesses and apartment buildings were still in existence a decade ago.
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Re: TV Series Binge Watching
« Reply #528 on: November 29, 2024, 09:39:08 PM »
Peter Gunn, still worth watching. The series represents for me an interesting transition from post WWII film noir to the more stylish Bond era.

https://www.thearchive.tv/shows/peter-gunn

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Re: TV Series Binge Watching
« Reply #529 on: November 29, 2024, 09:51:29 PM »
I would like to add that whoever has restored the gunsmoke library has done one hell of a job. Watching it in 4k has been a pleasure.
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Re: TV Series Binge Watching
« Reply #530 on: November 29, 2024, 09:55:11 PM »
M Squad, another good one with often interesting casting in retrospect.

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M Squad starring Lee Marvin (1959) with James Coburn and Leonard Nimoy

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Re: TV Series Binge Watching
« Reply #531 on: December 13, 2024, 05:18:56 PM »
It was an accident, a suggestion on my anonymous YouTube account... Think Falkie or miller-like delusions, but with an effort being made. NYC


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Re: TV Series Binge Watching
« Reply #532 on: December 21, 2024, 11:14:58 AM »
Gunsmoke. I've always sworn that the half hour episodes were always the best. Minus two episodes, one because the streaming service got them messed up and the other I fell asleep during, I've watched the first five seasons. I'm starting season 6 this morning.

Streaming on Pluto TV, the picture quality. It's great. Sometimes it's a little grainy, but it's film being upscaled to 2K or 4K. The graininess is more noticeable in the studio shots, the outdoor ones are fine.

Although there's a few commercials featured in two different breaks, I find that the Pluto on demand is actually a better quality than watching it on one of their channels.
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Re: TV Series Binge Watching
« Reply #533 on: January 29, 2025, 09:53:36 AM »
...I made it to the beginning of Gunsmoke's episode 15 of season 7. The one-hour episodes just drag and the repetition gets harder to get through...
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