That's part of the fun.
Lately i've binged all the way through:
Warehouse 13
The Librarians (the tv show)
Firefly
Columbo
The Virginian (because westerns never go out of style)
And I've just started Batman the tv show.
Shows Like The Equalizer Worth Revisiting
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Lately i've binged all the way through:
Warehouse 13
The Librarians (the tv show)
Firefly
Columbo
The Virginian (because westerns never go out of style)
And I've just started Batman the tv show.
It's not from the same era, but Justified is in my Top 5 series list of all time.
Also Monk, but i went through that one last year.
So many of these shows were really good but remake them and expecting it to work seems about as smart as Doing the new Newhart show staring me. Or in other words how many of these shows in a large part worked because of the main actor and how well they embodied the role? Columbo or Rockford with another actor might have been great but not the same.
I wasn't advocating watching any of the remakes but inquiring which of the originals might be worth rewatching.
Know what no sleuth / vigilant show I wish would be finally made for streaming: Northern Exposure.
But in the cop realm it's a crime that Homicide: Life on the Streets is only available for purchase via out of production DVDs, the set of which will cost you something like $150.
I don’t know where you live, but the complete series is available from Amazon US for $65: https://www.amazon.com/Homicide-Str...&qid=1676641052&sprefix=Homici,aps,119&sr=8-1.
The original Hawaii Five-O and Magnum P.I. were better in my opinion but the remake were also entertaining.
I also liked Murder, She Wrote. There were fewer shoot-outs and car chases but they were good shows.
Instead of remaking old tv shows, I wish they were turn some of the old radio detective shows into tv. A number of good 1960s era shows were based on the radio shows - Dragnet, Gunsmoke, Superman, Green Hornet, Perry Mason, for example.
Then again, they would probably really screw up good radio shows by making them politically correct.
I also liked Murder, She Wrote. There were fewer shoot-outs and car chases but they were good shows.
Instead of remaking old tv shows, I wish they were turn some of the old radio detective shows into tv. A number of good 1960s era shows were based on the radio shows - Dragnet, Gunsmoke, Superman, Green Hornet, Perry Mason, for example.
Then again, they would probably really screw up good radio shows by making them politically correct.
Well, that is one seller. Last I looked someone was selling it for $150. Either way, I spend too much on my streaming services to splurge on that.
No, that’s Amazon itself. It’s available via Prime, meaning that it’s a product Amazon actively stocks.
Ah ok. So, did you watch it when it was on air and also consider it one of the best TV shows ever?
You disappoint me but that's not saying much as I woke up disappointed with myself.
Oh?!
Well crap. I'm on the second season now.
Looking forward to the Justified reboot. Which is filming now for a summer release.
It veered away completely from the kind of jobs the team handled in the earlier seasons and became wrapped up in an internal conspiracy story that was almost devoid of the team’s earlier humor and sense of fun capers. This seems to happen frequently: A show that starts out episodic, lighthearted, witty, and character-driven ends up turning more serious, darker, and driven by drawn-out, over-arching storylines.
