MeTV: I haven't looked forward to Saturday mornings this much since I was a little kid

[Rey C.]

As anyone who reads most of my posts about modern day TV knows, I generally hate most of the crap that now pollutes my TV set. Except for a couple of rare exceptions (like Snowfall and Better Call Saul), I don't watch many current TV shows. To me, they're akin to watching raw sewage run out of a rusty drain pipe. Most either have no plot or a completely predictable (PC) plot. I've been threatening to go the cord cutter route for years. I've had the Roku ready to go for awhile.

Long story short, I finally had enough of the bandits at DirecTV. But before I got rid of all pay TV services, I took Dish Network up on a pretty cheap offer. And with that, I got turned on to a channel called MeTV. It's chock full of old, classic westerns and TV shows from the 50's, 60's and some from the 70's. So now, every Saturday morning, I get up, get myself a cup of coffee and some cereal, and either watch Have Gun Will Travel and a DVR of some early Gunsmoke episodes (which are the absolute bomb - a much darker natured Matt Dillion in the old ones), or I just watch whatever westerns they show through the morning. Hell, it's JUST like the feeling I got as a kid when Saturday mornings were reserved for kids' cartoons - that are now pretty much banned or forbidden because they don't send the "correct" message (better that the youngins play first person shooter games and learn how to jack cars and bitch slap hos. ).

So that's my rant for the day. If'n ya agree, then :thumbsup:. If'n ya don't, git the fuck off my lawn.

 

[xfire]

:thumbsup:

I just cancelled HBO, more often than not the movies on there just flat out suck.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

I catch Green Acres, Addams Family and Munsters on there. Years ago, depending which broadcast you get via states/locations it used to be what TV Land was. Had all the great shows on.

That and Antenna TV I like. Well til they took All in the Family and Sanford & Son off cos it's deemed "insensitive" for some viewers. I don't know if they ever brought them back on or not.

 

[Supafly]

I find three fellow spirits with whom I might even be able to share a house with, and having a lazy saturday morning with some hot coffee and a big stack of donuts, just kicking back and watching old movies or series (Right now, I am watching Mission:Impossible, Season 4).

Great to know you guys are around

 

[Rey C.]

After Rome was done, I watched the first two or three seasons of Game of Thrones on HBO. Then it got completely stoopid and I haven't looked back. When Dish offered me a free three months of HBO, I told them not to waste their (or my) time, since I wouldn't watch it anyway - not even if it was free. Same thing happened with The Living Dead; it just got so tiresome and predictable - to say nothing of Maggie's horrible, fake southern accent. Even the shows that start out with good old, basic storytelling, too many shows either devolve into mainly promoting the goofy social views of the writers, or they're based on what millennial focus groups want to see. Now, if you're trying to appeal to millennials, who seem to be MUCH more thin-skinned and hyper-sensitive than previous generations (ya know, there was no such thing as a "safe space" when I was a kid), then I guess you do have to craft things that won't send them into a tizzy or meltdown. It's not like they can just not watch, as I would do. If it's on and their little feelings begin to get hurt, they'll watch every second of it and then launch into a hysterical #boycott tirade on Twitter.

But yeah, unless you're just incapable of "getting it" without having it completely spelled out, All in the Family (had an extremely witty way of presenting a social message, IMO), Sanford & Son (just damn good comedy), Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere were all TV shows that didn't let you just sit there like a muppet. But that's what so many people want now. So I guess that's why the Hollyweirdos do what they do... although the networks and pay TV services continue to struggle for audience as more people cut the cord. While, from what I've read, "classic TV" networks like MeTV are a raging success. :thumbsup:

 

[John_8581]

Sometimes I watch "Maverick" with James Garner. It's on right after "Have Gun Will Travel" with Richard Boone.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

On MeTV I’ve watched Night Gallery, Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Columbo, Kojak, Rockford Files, and other stuffs.

I am also a fan of Better Call Saul and Snowfall.

 

[bobjustbob]

Clint Eastwood in I think Rawhide today. Yea, I was watching MeTv this morning.

Rey goes back to those Saturday mornings from yesteryear. Three Stooges hosted by Officer Joe Bolton when we got home from school. East Side Kids and Abbott and Costello on the weekends.

Has anyone tuned into the game shows on ABC? Remake What's My Line and Match Game. and To Tell The Truth. They do a nice job without changing the basics that made them popular watching.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

I used to get a station called GritTV and that used to have Death Valley Days on it. I would watch that at 4pm and slide right into 5pm for All in the Family following Sanford and Son. After work was pretty fun actually when I caught that line up.

 

[Rey C.]

I found GritTV on my channel lineup last weekend. I taped Death Valley Days since I had to go out when it was coming on. I've heard of it (of course) but have never seen it. Looking forward to sitting down with some popcorn, hopefully this coming weekend.

I've truly (and completely) hated TV so, so much for the past several years. Except for F1 and a small handful of programs (that usually get cancelled once I find them), I've had NOTHING to watch. Now I'm lovin' TV again. To me, a lot of these great shows are brand new - cause I've never seen them. And let me tell ya, the early Gunsmoke (30 minute) episodes are the bomb. Sam Peckinpah (legendary western director) directed some and Earl Hamner (The Waltons creator) wrote some of the episodes.

 

[Mr. Daystar]

I used to catch Dragnet and Adam 12....love me some facts, JUST the facts.

 

[Supafly]

I have begun to re-arrange some of my fave cable stations on my new cable tv box. That is one thing that is the easiest to do of ALL systems I ever had.

And for a week, My days begin with ZDF Morning Show (German TV), and then I go to "GOLD", and watch classic "Bonanza" episodes. Today a sheriff from St. Louis was in town, while Dad Cartwright was campaigning to become the first governor of the new-emerging state of Nevada (And I finally learned in which state the Ponderosa is in), and old shenanigans were dug out, a murder Dad supposedly did, Little Joe getting in trouble again over someone starting to talk smack about his momma, etc.

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