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15 votes
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Ferris Bueller: The sitcom | Forgotten Failures
9 votes -
Witchy women: A Sabrina the Teenage Witch retrospective
10 votes -
How The X-Files invented modern television
11 votes -
The Price Is Right host entrance: a visual history
3 votes -
George Takei: Love and justice beyond the stars
3 votes -
‘M*A*S*H’ said goodbye forty years ago, with a finale for the ages
5 votes -
How MTV destroyed their network
5 votes -
Disney Channel's theme: A history mystery
5 votes -
Teletubbies: The bizarre kids' TV show that swept the world
6 votes -
The strange history of Deanna Troi's accent
6 votes -
The straightening of Chandler Bing
9 votes -
Where everybody knows your name, a Cheers retrospective
2 votes -
What is an older TV show that you really think would be relevant today, both from an artistic and cultural standpoint?
Lots of older shows were quite innovative and groundbreaking even for today, so I'm curious to know what you would like to present to younger audiences!
14 votes -
M*A*S*H’s revolutionary gay episode
8 votes -
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that” - It may be hard to believe now, but in its early years Seinfeld was nearly canceled, and to make matters worse there was a rumor following its star
4 votes -
Soap or Scum? Inside the fight over history's most controversial sitcom
1 vote -
The history of Sanford & Son
3 votes -
The story behind the iconic Vietnam episode of 'Hey Arnold!'
8 votes -
Twenty-five years ago, Star Trek: Voyager tackled one of its most infamous transporter questions
17 votes -
The Sopranos: Pine Barrens oral history
6 votes -
A brief history of 'Unsolved Mysteries'
9 votes -
The history of 'Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?' | DefunctTV
13 votes -
Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after thirty years
21 votes -
Why sitcoms stopped using laugh tracks - Short history of the laff box
8 votes -
Culture kept in its coffin: How the Netflix model buries our media history
7 votes -
Top dog: An oral history of "Wishbone"
6 votes -
Netflix's Challenger is a gripping look at NASA in crisis
10 votes -
How 'Star Trek' made history twenty-two (twenty-four) years ago with a same-sex kiss
10 votes -
How seventy years of cop shows taught us to valorize the police
10 votes -
Most watched American TV series 1951 – 2019
3 votes -
War, colonialism, and industrialism | The worldbuilding of Avatar
7 votes -
The history of Adventures in Wonderland | DefunctTV
5 votes -
How we got to Sesame Street
6 votes -
How we fell in and out of love with the laff box, the laugh track machine that changed sitcoms forever
9 votes -
VHSVault - A large VHSRip archive has been posted to the Internet Archive
9 votes -
'The Stranger' was Australia's first locally-produced science fiction television show and one of the first Australian series to be sold overseas
ABC's media release: 'The Stranger' was Australia's first locally-produced science fiction television show and one of the first Australian series to be sold overseas. (Ignore the references to...
ABC's media release: 'The Stranger' was Australia's first locally-produced science fiction television show and one of the first Australian series to be sold overseas. (Ignore the references to 'Doctor Who'; the only connection they have is that they were both science fiction shows made in the mid-1960s. I suspect that show is name-dropped just to get people's interest.)
I've been watching this show. I'm 5 episodes in, which means I'm up to the last episode of the 1st season, with another 6 episodes in the 2nd season (only 12 eps in total).
It's bad but also good (not in the "so bad it's good" way). The production isn't great: the special effects are low-grade, the sets are ordinary, the acting ranges from hammy to wooden, and the writing is clunky. However, despite all that, I find myself hooked. I want to know what's going to happen next. It's an interesting premise: the remnants of an alien species eking out an existence inside a rocket-equipped moon, having left their home planet after an unspecified ecological disaster, to seek out a new home. The plot is good enough to drag me along with it. It also has historical curiosity value.
I doubt it's available outside of Australia, but here's the streaming link. Be warned: it's very slow-paced to start with. The first episode doesn't even mention aliens, and the second episode only has hints.
7 votes -
Behind-the-scenes pictures from the early years of Sesame Street
6 votes -
The young man and the sea sponge: How a marine biology teacher gave life to Spongebob Squarepants, who turns twenty this year
4 votes -
Swedish sect murder case set to feature in HBO documentary
7 votes -
What Game of Thrones got wrong about firebombing
11 votes -
The remarkable story of a woman who preserved over thirty years of TV history
11 votes -
The cigarette company that reinvented television news
3 votes -
Netflix series recommendation: Mr. Sunshine
8 votes -
How BoJack Horseman got made - An oral history of TV’s favorite alcoholic, narcissistic, self-destructive talking horse
13 votes -
Wild Wild Country: A Netflix documentary about the free love cult that took over an Oregon town in the 80s
9 votes -
Harlan Ellison wrote Star Trek’s greatest episode. He hated it.
14 votes -
The lost gay episode of Star Trek
5 votes