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Topic	How much stuff from before the 70's have you watched?
ParanoidObsessive 01/21/20 12:32:58 AM #10:	I've watched a ton of stuff from the 30s-70s. TV generally only falls in the 50s-70s window (where I've watched a ton of older cartoons and every episode of Doctor Who that still exists), but a fair number of movies from the 30s and 40s as well (like most Universal horror, various films like March of the Wooden Soldiers, most of the Three Stooges shorts, The Thin Man, The Maltese Falcon, etc.). It would be extremely hard for me to list every single thing I've seen from the entirety of that period. It's distinctly possible that I've seen more things from prior to 1970 than I have post-2010. Lokarin posted... "to completion" wasn't really a thing in the 70s and early 80s, there was no guarantee that you'd not miss an episode. The flip-side is, prior to the 90s or so, there really weren't all that many episodic shows that actually had an overarching storyline you NEEDED to see every episode to understand. At least not when it came to Western television. Most episodes were self-contained, and everything you needed to know was often summed up in the intro credits song. The Mysterious Cities of Gold stood out for that reason in the mid-80s - it was about 40 episodes, and every single one was part of one long story, so if you missed one you'd be confused, if you missed a lot you'd be REALLY confused. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:933255810] in How much s... [t:78348388]...</cite> <quote>I've watched a ton of stuff from the 30s-70s. TV generally only falls in the 50s-70s window (where I've watched a ton of older cartoons and every episode of Doctor Who that still exists), but a fair number of movies from the 30s and 40s as well (like most Universal horror, various films like March of the Wooden Soldiers, most of the Three Stooges shorts, The Thin Man, The Maltese Falcon, etc.). It would be extremely hard for me to list every single thing I've seen from the entirety of that period. It's distinctly possible that I've seen more things from prior to 1970 than I have post-2010. <cite>Lokarin posted...</cite> <quote>"to completion" wasn't really a thing in the 70s and early 80s, there was no guarantee that you'd not miss an episode.</quote> The flip-side is, prior to the 90s or so, there really weren't all that many episodic shows that actually had an overarching storyline you NEEDED to see every episode to understand. At least not when it came to Western television. Most episodes were self-contained, and everything you needed to know was often summed up in the intro credits song. The Mysterious Cities of Gold stood out for that reason in the mid-80s - it was about 40 episodes, and every single one was part of one long story, so if you missed one you'd be confused, if you missed a lot you'd be REALLY confused. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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