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Can 80s TV hits succeed decades later?
ABC ^ | 1/10/08

Posted on 01/10/2008 10:46:44 AM PST by qam1

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To: Tenacious 1

The A Team.....

Our top commandos from the Vietnam war......

Every week they fired thousands of rounds from automatic weapons.......

and NEVER SHOT ANYONE!!!!!!!

No wonder we lost Vietnam /sarc


41 posted on 01/10/2008 11:50:25 AM PST by fredhead (Four cylinders, air cooled, horizontally opposed...the REAL VW.)
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To: qam1

I’m waiting for “Saved By The Bell” and “CHIPS”.


42 posted on 01/10/2008 11:51:10 AM PST by fredhead (Four cylinders, air cooled, horizontally opposed...the REAL VW.)
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To: CholeraJoe
On an episode of Fox’s “Bones” Emily Deschanel was dressed in a Wonder Woman outfit for Halloween.

Her sister Zooey is pretty cute too.

43 posted on 01/10/2008 11:51:20 AM PST by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: qam1

Well, you take the good...you take the bad...you take them both, and there you have...80s TV shows. ;-)


44 posted on 01/10/2008 11:59:26 AM PST by Clemenza (Ronald Reagan was a "Free Traitor", Like Me ;-))
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To: RockinRight

The Mets made more headlines than the Yanks, Reagan won blue states, you could still get good pizza on every corner, you could get away with wearing a Fila track suit without irony, Metallica and the Cure were “underground” artists, Penthouse was not a urological journal, and you didn’t walk past Avenue A after dark. Dose were da days!


45 posted on 01/10/2008 12:02:45 PM PST by Clemenza (Ronald Reagan was a "Free Traitor", Like Me ;-))
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To: dfwgator

I remember Zooey Deschanel from the movie “Elf” with Will Ferrell.

She sang a couple songs on that one. Her voice was incredible. I can’t believe no one has gotten her to record.


46 posted on 01/10/2008 12:04:02 PM PST by sinanju
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To: Clemenza

I would KILL for a good pizza right about now. This ‘eating healthy’ and ‘weight loss’ BS is for the birds.


47 posted on 01/10/2008 12:04:54 PM PST by RockinRight (Huck(abee, not the Freeper Huck) Sucks.)
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To: fredhead
"Saved by the Bell" was the early-mid 90s. It was mostly a girls show from what I remember.

CHIPs would have to be remade a la Brokeback Mountain.

48 posted on 01/10/2008 12:08:57 PM PST by Clemenza (Ronald Reagan was a "Free Traitor", Like Me ;-))
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To: dfwgator

“I must admit the new Bionic Woman is pretty hot.”
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They’ll never re-create the character. Lindsay Wagner’s Jaime Sommers was the perfect everywoman (grade-schoolteacher) plunged into extraordinary circumstances, saving the world every week, but who only wanted to live an ordinary life. She could do glamorous when the mission called for it but was much more comfortable in jeans and t-shirt.


49 posted on 01/10/2008 12:09:10 PM PST by sinanju
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To: qam1
With a few exceptions, I hated 80s tv even back in the 80s. In fact, bad 80s tv is what hooked me on Nick@Nite as a teen in the 80s.

However, the Bionic Woman wasn't 80s tv...it was 70s tv. Since I loved it so much as a kid, I gave the new one a chance. I really wanted to like it, but just couldn't get into it.

50 posted on 01/10/2008 12:12:45 PM PST by Kellykoop (All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.)
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To: qam1
With a few exceptions, I hated 80s tv even back in the 80s. In fact, bad 80s tv is what hooked me on Nick@Nite as a teen in the 80s.

However, the Bionic Woman wasn't 80s tv...it was 70s tv. Since I loved it so much as a kid, I gave the new one a chance. I really wanted to like it, but just couldn't get into it.

51 posted on 01/10/2008 12:12:45 PM PST by Kellykoop (All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.)
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To: dfwgator
Correct!


52 posted on 01/10/2008 12:15:59 PM PST by CholeraJoe ("At last my arm is complete!" Sweeney Todd)
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To: sinanju

Agreed. If that’s really her singing, then she has a lovely voice. A nice contrast to all the warbeling divas these days...

Fletcher J


53 posted on 01/10/2008 12:18:47 PM PST by Fletcher J
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How long before the Bionic Woman takes on a corporation that’s destroying the environment?

I think that will be the episode after where she stops a group of terrorist from blowing up some school full of children. The terrorist being from a White Supremacist Christian group of course.

54 posted on 01/10/2008 12:19:49 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: dfwgator
I must admit the new Bionic Woman is pretty hot.

I got pretty excited about seeing this make a come back. But it quickly got all sappy and the story seems to be about her personal struggle with her abilities, her sister and her love life.

I like it when the story is a new adventure every week and she has to go out and use her abilities to save the world.

Same goes for Heroes and Medium.

55 posted on 01/10/2008 12:24:51 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (Racism? There are more than a million people in the world that want me dead because I am American!)
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To: qam1

As long as they leave “The Fall Guy” alone.


56 posted on 01/10/2008 12:29:02 PM PST by Sybeck1 (McCain or Huckabee will never see my support at the ballot box)
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To: Tenacious 1

Wow, sick minds must think alike. I was thinking A-Team while reading the article and wondering who would play BA and if, for a bunch of SF guys someone might actually manage to shoot a bad guy


57 posted on 01/10/2008 12:37:53 PM PST by cyclotic (Support Scouting-Raising boys to be men, and politically incorrect at the same time.)
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To: Fletcher J

I checked the movie credits. That’s really her singing.


58 posted on 01/10/2008 12:52:33 PM PST by sinanju
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To: fredhead
Every week they fired thousands of rounds from automatic weapons.......

and NEVER SHOT ANYONE!!!!!!!

That always bothered me. I guess they thought the show was less violent since nobody was actually dying. It was a pretty PC show really. Think about the cast. A black guy, an old guy, a crazy guy, a woman and a good looking guy.

Still, it was good Vs evil and the good guys always won. AND if you missed a show, oh well. It was a new story next week.

59 posted on 01/10/2008 1:10:23 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (Racism? There are more than a million people in the world that want me dead because I am American!)
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To: RockinRight
I would KILL for a good pizza right about now. This ‘eating healthy’ and ‘weight loss’ BS is for the birds.

You too, huh? Thus far today, I have consumed 1,119 calories and 41g of fat. I do have about 25g of fiber in me though, so tomorrow morning's pre-workout constitutional should be easy.

I'm fricking starving!

What is the lowest calorie alcoholic beverage I can drink and what is the serving size? :o)

60 posted on 01/10/2008 1:15:20 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (Racism? There are more than a million people in the world that want me dead because I am American!)
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