70's/80's TV Shows
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Three's Company
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Small Wonder... lol @ Harriet hahaha
It was beyond horrible.. but hey at least the hot chick got halfway naked. And whats with the 'attack mode' where Kit grows a 10ft ricer wing?
Three's Company
Whats Happening
Small Wonder... lol @ Harriet hahaha
GP403 said:
It was beyond horrible.. but hey at least the hot chick got halfway naked. And whats with the 'attack mode' where Kit grows a 10ft ricer wing?
Re: 70s 80s shows
Hardcastle and McCormick, I used to love that show.
Maybe I am a little older but I remember my older brother and sister letting me watch
BJ & the Bear
Starksy and Hutch
CHiPs
I loved Simon & Simon & Airwolf too !
papabearxl said:
Hardcastle and McCormick, I used to love that show.
Maybe I am a little older but I remember my older brother and sister letting me watch
BJ & the Bear
Starksy and Hutch
CHiPs
I loved Simon & Simon & Airwolf too !
I'll tell you one thing I don't miss about those 70&80's shows. The way they use too smash american iron around to no end, use to burn me up. The show CHIPS was the worst. That whole show revolved around cars wrecking into each other or blowwing up. I forget how many chargers met an early death because of Dukes of Hazzard, but I think it was in the thousands. Watch any of those shows now and it will make you cry. Hollywood still does it but not as much. There was a commercial last year where they pushed a black regal off a highrise garage into a river below. Couldn't have they used some front wheel econo car that no one would miss?
It was actually a Cutlass in that commercial. I think it was for Allstate insurance.
As for movies wrecking lots of cars back in the day, back then they were common and cheap. It's not like had they not been wrecked they would have been cocooned in a vault somewhere to preserve them for the future. They probably would have met an anonymous fate when they were no longer relevant for transportation and would have been junked. Back then, it would be like destroying a Camry or a Lumina in a movie today. Now for them to wreck one for TV today is a different story as they are rare and few people still use them for regular transportation. Wrecking them now means a loss to the hobby that it did not mean 30 years ago. Even the most common of old cars is scarce when it gets to be 25-30 years old.
As for movies wrecking lots of cars back in the day, back then they were common and cheap. It's not like had they not been wrecked they would have been cocooned in a vault somewhere to preserve them for the future. They probably would have met an anonymous fate when they were no longer relevant for transportation and would have been junked. Back then, it would be like destroying a Camry or a Lumina in a movie today. Now for them to wreck one for TV today is a different story as they are rare and few people still use them for regular transportation. Wrecking them now means a loss to the hobby that it did not mean 30 years ago. Even the most common of old cars is scarce when it gets to be 25-30 years old.
There were a total of 309 "General Lees" used in the Dukes of Hazzard TV series, just about all used as stunt cars. Towards the end of the series '69 and '70 Chargers were getting very hard for the producers to find. About 20 of the Generals used on the show still exist today.
I get a kick out of watching the movie Smokey and the Bandit 2 and seeing all the '78 LeMans' just like mine that were destroyed in the end scenes of that movie. Of course at the time, it was a dime a dozen new car.
"The Equalizer" was one of my favorite 80's TV shows.
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I get a kick out of watching the movie Smokey and the Bandit 2 and seeing all the '78 LeMans' just like mine that were destroyed in the end scenes of that movie. Of course at the time, it was a dime a dozen new car.
"The Equalizer" was one of my favorite 80's TV shows.
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