Poll of the Day > How much stuff from before the 70's have you watched?

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Things from before the 1970's that you've watched. You must have watched it to completion, of your own free will, and understood what was going on. So being forced to watch an old-timey PSA in school doesn't count but watching the original Fantasia to enjoy the movie does.

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"to completion" wasn't really a thing in the 70s and early 80s, there was no guarantee that you'd not miss an episode.

But for the most part, I've seen most of Get Smart, Quincy ME, Magnum PI, Murder She Wrote... aaaaaand none of those are 70s :V

oops

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Nothing aside from a few movies. Mostly early disney movies, but i've also seen Casablanca and Seven Samurai. I also found whats supposedly the first anime, a short called the dull sword.

I watched the maltese falcon in a class, but I guess you're not counting stuff we watched in school.

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I watched The Birth of a Nation of my own free will, but not much else comes to mind.

I did watch a lot of Doctor Who. But not to completion. But that's not my fault. They lost a bunch of episodes... So, the continuity was a little, well, shitty. I miss a bunch of things...
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Several movies. Silent movies, classic horror movies, etc.

Metropolis was.... interesting

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Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch, Seven Samurai, Rio Bravo, A Fistful of Dollars, The good The Bad and The Ugly, The Bible.

Probably a few more but those are ones I can think of the top of my head.

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Lawrence of Arabia is really good. I was shocked at how well an epic from the 60s holds up against modern CGI spectacle.

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funkyfritter posted...

Lawrence of Arabia is really good

I've been tempted to watch that a few times but then I see the time length and i'm like "uuhh, maybe later" lol

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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.
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Scooby-Doo, Tom and Jerry, the Looney Tunes, lots of Hanna-Barbera cartoons like the Flintstones and the Jetsons, Casper the Friendly Ghost, It's a Wonderful Life, Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, and most recently, that show with the Twilight Zone where dark, creepy, and surreal stuff happens to many unsuspecting people.
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I've seen all the episodes of the original Hercules cartoon

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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.

But for the most part, I've seen most of Get Smart, Quincy ME, Magnum PI, Murder She Wrote... aaaaaand none of those are 70s :V

oops

'To Completion' doesn't mean the entire series; just the episodes within the series. Basically I'm saying you catching a snippet of Flash Gordon or something for five minutes doesn't count.

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all of it

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I've watched the entirety of That 70's Show.

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helIy posted...

I've watched the entirety of That 70's Show.

I've seen a good chunk of it. They use to watch it after a church youth group I went to a few times...
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Probably 50+ movies and dozens of TV shows/series. I own the complete Rocky & Bullwinkle show on DVD.
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5-10 movies, and the same for shows. The Twilight Zone is the big one.

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Little Norse Prince

Looney Tunes

Merry Melodies

Peter pan

Superman cartoon

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Movies, cartoons, and shows. Some have stood the test of time. Others should have been definitely left in the past

I've seen what still remains of 60s doctor who and a lot of movies but that's it.

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I like to listen to classic radio shows. I think I've heard every episode of X-Minus One and probably most episodes of Lights Out. My favorites, though, were comedies such as Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Fibber McGee and Molly, Our Miss Brooks, and probably my most favorite, Charlie McCarthy.

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Star Trek & Classic Doctor Who

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The 3 Cabaierros... like 60 times, 'cuz it always was coincidentally on whenever we visited grandma

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Lots of stuff...

everything from the amazing Kurosawa and Sergio Leone and Hitchcock

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I've watched a lot of 30's and 40's animated shorts, I've also watched Mogura no Adventure (oldest televised anime which is from the late 50's).
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A ton of Disney movies, solid amount of stuff from the Golden Age of Hollywood, pretty much all of the classic Universal monster movies (I still bust those out around Halloween), random episodes of old TV shows here and there.

I've seen tons of old TV shows. Dragnet, Adam-12, Mission: Impossible, Gilligan's Island, Star Trek, the Munsters, Bonanza, Get Smart, Car 54 Where Are You?, Combat!, the Man From U.N.C.L.E., Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, I Spy, Superman, Batman, the Green Hornet, the Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., Sea Hunt, Wild Wild West, The Rifleman, McHale's Navy, Twilight Zone, Lassie, the Lone Ranger, Lost in Space, I Love Lucy, Laugh-In, Carol Burnett, Perry Mason, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Highway Patrol, Have Gun - Will Travel, Zorro, I think I've even seen an episode of My Mother the Car. I've even seen the original 1967 pilot for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, which was terrible.

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captpackrat posted...

Carol Burnett,

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY
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Probably more than I know.

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It's weird to think people wouldn't watch things from before the 70s, no matter when they were born.

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I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Munsters, I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Andy Griffith, Gomar Pyle, Adams Family, Batman, Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, Lassie, Dennis the Menace, Twilight Zone, Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Loony Toons, lots of other shows and cartoons, all the presidential elections, JFK news story, several movies Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, tons of Disney, live action and cartoon, countless others, tons of silent movies including A Trip to the Moon from 1902.

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Definitely the carry on films back when they could get away with a lot more than they could today.

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For movies Psycho, Rear Window (watched it in class but I really enjoyed it), The Birds, 2001, Rosemary's Baby, 101 Dalmatians, 12 Angry Men (like Rear Window, I saw it in class but liked it), Bambi, Cinderella, Snow White, Miracle on 34th Street, The Wizard of Oz

For TV, I have seen a good chunk of The Three Stooges, Batman, The Twilight Zone, The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Munsters, The Addams Family, The Flintstones, The Brady Bunch, Green Acres, The Jetsons, Scooby Doo, Where Are You!, Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies

There's others I've seen a few episodes of like the rifleman, bonanza, happy days, etc.

At least that is what I can remember from a brief Google search

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captpackrat posted...

I like to listen to classic radio shows.

Didn't even think of those, because of the "watched" part of the question.

I've listened to old Shadow radio shows, along with stuff like Spike Jones and Dickie Goodman when I was a kid.



Zeus posted...

It's weird to think people wouldn't watch things from before the 70s, no matter when they were born.

Children of the Modern Age are obviously incapable of enjoying anything that doesn't involve at least one thing exploding every thirty seconds. What we used to call building suspense or establishing dramatic tension or even setting the mood, they call boring.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Children of the Modern Age are obviously incapable of enjoying anything that doesn't involve at least one thing exploding every thirty seconds. What we used to call building suspense or establishing dramatic tension or even setting the mood, they call boring.

Every generation says the next one is incapable of enjoying the past. And when they're young, it is typically true. Once they get older and can form actual informed opinions, they usually change their minds

funkyfritter posted...

Lawrence of Arabia is really good. I was shocked at how well an epic from the 60s holds up against modern CGI spectacle.

Very true. You should watch it if you haven't seen it yet.

I may have seen more movies from before the '70s than after.

A lot of my favorite television is from before the '70s. I Love Lucy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, etc.

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A few hundred movies. It's pre-1950 where the amount really dips. But for each year from like 1950-1980 I've seen 10-30 films, and then there is still 10x more than that that I want to see but haven't yet.

When it comes to tv though, nothing much besides most Twilight Zone episodes and scattered episodes of other stuff.

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Plenty of stuff.

Likely as much before as since the 70s. Lots of good black&white movies on TV when I was a kid in the 1950s. Lots of stuff shown in my high school's auditorium at lunchtime in the early 60s, The Birds, Wackiest Ship In The Army, Thunder Road, etc.

Recently, I bought the whole Thin Man series on DVD. And the Avengers (the British TV series with Patrick McNee/Diana Rigg, not the new hokey comic book garbage that tarnishes the name)

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dancer62 posted...

And the Avengers (the British TV series with Patrick McNee/Diana Rigg, not the new hokey comic book garbage that tarnishes the name)

You realize the TV show only predates the comic by about 2 years, yes?
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dancer62 posted...

the Avengers (the British TV series with Patrick McNee/Diana Rigg, not the new hokey comic book garbage that tarnishes the name)

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I remember thinking I was gonna watch Avengers on cable tv and instead got some garbo spy movie.

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The Andy Griffith Show, Bonanza, Paladin, The Monkees, Bewitched, Gilligans Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, Hogans Heroes, Green Acres, Get Smart, The Munsters, Gunsmoke, The Brady Bunch, Batman, Star Trek, I Dream of Jeanie, The Adams Family, The Carol Burnett Show, F Troop, various Lucille Ball shows, all the Hanna Barbera cartoons, The Twilight Zone, The Virginian, The Rifleman, The Big Valley and The Cisco Kid (oh Poncho).

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Unbridled9 posted...

'To Completion' doesn't mean the entire series; just the episodes within the series. Basically I'm saying you catching a snippet of Flash Gordon or something for five minutes doesn't count.

Oh, you mean tv shows count if I've seen full episodes of them, but not the whole series?

In that case a bunch of stuff people have mentioned.

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Batman 1966 and The Addams Family. Watched every episode.

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Quite a bit.
In particular, 12 Angry Men and Singin' in the Rain are two of my favorite movies. I also love the show Get Smart. I watched every episode multiple times in high school.
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