[Angelino97]

Crime-action shows of the 1970s seem cheesy today largely because of the improved production values for TV in the ensuing decades.

Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice far surpassed the cop shows of the previous decade (the former introducing that annoying documentary shaky-cam, and the latter embracing music video aesthetics).

Then David Lynch raised the TV bar (both creatively and production wise) with Twin Peaks, followed by such innovative TV epics as The Sopranos, Lost, and Game of Thrones

Sitcoms didn't evolve so extensively, though after the BBC's The Office, many now also use documentary shaky-cams.

[Dr. Sivana]

Sitcoms didn't evolve so extensively, though after the BBC's The Office, many now also use documentary shaky-cams.

I find shaky-cams unwatchable, and FAR cheaper looking than a two-camera kinescope recording of "The Honeymooners". When I saw Shaky Cams used on soap operas, I assumed that Soap Operas are too expensive to make for the audience size, and will go the way of the broadsheet newspaper.