Movies/TV What Old Films and TV shows have you seen?

[JollyYoshi]

I’ve been watching a lot of clips on YouTube of black and white shows that are beloved by many and ones I discovered through my dad. Twilight Zone’s twists are always fun to watch. I’ve been watching clips of this sitcom called The Andy Griffith Show that has the characters messing around with each other.

I’ve also been into watching some of Akira Kurosawa’s Samurai movies. The characters all feel meaningful and are also really cool.

Now, I’m curious what old shows are you all into. What do you find so interesting about them? Or are you not that into some old shows? Any old shows you’ve just happened to watch and somehow remember?

 

[Viridian Beedrill]

Hmmm, let's see...

--I quite like the 1960's Batman TV show. It's just extremely goofy adventure, great when you just want to watch something fun.
--My parents have recently been introducing me and my siblings to the Jetsons. It's funny in a very silly way, and seeing what people thought the future would be like is quite interesting (one episode had a robber heist a sack of physical money from the bank, because nobody had thought of credit cards and digital fund theft )
--I grew up watching Marx Brothers movies, and still do occasionally. They're just some of those things that stay good no matter how old they get, in my opinion.
--Get Smart, which is a show that's basically a James Bond spoof. (just now realizing how many of these are comedies...I guess I have an old sense of humor.)

(To anyone looking these up, note that these were made before the modern standard of political correctness. They are not hateful or malicious, but there might be a few things you disagree with. That probably goes without saying for old shows in general, but I want to be clear so no one comes back and screams at me later.)

 

[Princess Viola]

I'm a huge fan of Doctor Who, which began in 1963 and is still on the air to this day (albeit with gaps in production). I love the series because the nature of the series means it can pretty much be anything. My fave era is the Second Doctor's era from 1966 to 1969 though (even though sadly a good chunk of his episodes are missing).

I also just generally grew up watching older TV series in general because I watched a lot of TV Land and Game Show Network (which would air reruns of game shows from the 70s and 80s) as a kid since those channels were immediately before Nick, Disney Channel, and Cartoon Network on the channel lineup.

Some shows that I watched (and enjoyed) were All in the Family, MASH, The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, The Cosby Show (can't watch this one anymore considering how much Bill Cosby's legacy has been ruined), Match Game, and Press Your Luck.

Honestly all of those shows still hold up to this day (even if I can't watch The Cosby Show nowadays), but I'd say All in the Family and MASH are series that everyone should watch because they're just so good and a lot of the messages in All in the Family are still relevant to this day.

 

[Railgun]

For old films, I really love The Godfather franchise. Part I and II are absolute cinema. Haven't seen Part III, and I am afraid to because I hear it isn't that great. I just think it ended perfectly with Part II.

Spoiler: Part II Ending

Like Michael sitting in the end and reminiscing of his past before he finally accepts his fate as the next Don Corleone is haunting. The birthday party flashback with his family showed he wanted nothing to do with it, so he joined the military. Only for Sonny to completely lose it and gets violent. Meanwhile, Fredo - the only one who supported Michael ended up betraying him in the present. Michael is then left alone at the table while everyone else celebrates Vito's birthday. It was from there that everything started to go downhill. By the end of the film, you see nothing more than a hollow shell of a broken man cursed into a life of corruption and crime. Because, well, that is what his family has always done. That's business.

Like I can go on about this saga, but I don't seem to find many fans of it in my age group sadly.

 

[darksteel6]

Depends on what you define as "old", I enjoy a lot of 80s TV shows and movies.

 

[Lapidot Matoi]

The only thing I can think of is the 1960's public domain version of little shop of horrors.
Wasn't half bad

 

[ToxicWhiskers]

I've recently started watching Columbo, knowing that he's one of the inspirations for one of my favourite Ace Attorney characters, Detective Gumshoe.

While I'm more used to the whole whodunit style of murder mystery and having the killer revealed near the end, it's interesting watching Columbo's methods of getting the killer to eventually snap. And Columbo himself is quite adorable in an odd way, one of my favourite scenes is one where he's at a TV studio and is fascinated by these onscreen graphics that play when he pushes certain buttons.

 

[carpology]

i don't watch many films or tv shows in the first place, but some things i have seen are ... some parts of the star trek original series, if that counts, & kurosawa's movies 'stray dog' and 'throne of blood' (i'll also watch rashoumon eventually... i started it and then stopped halfway through lol...) .... i thought there was more but i can't think of anything? lol? i've seen old 'movies' from the earlier half of the 20th century of, like, people recording paris and similar things, but i don't know if those really count. i've also seen random silent films from back then, too, because my dad got into watching them when i was back home during my break from university.
i'm interested in watching more old film! but my attention span for film & tv is really short, so it doesn't happen often. i'd like to watch more kurosawa in particular.

 

[Athena]

Adam West's Batman and classic series Doctor Who for me. Oh and original series Star Trek.

 

[Aozora]

We watched the silent film Nosferatu (from 1922) in a class I took in college about vampires in culture. It was cool to see from a historical perspective, but I'm glad movies have sound now..

I watched Mission to Moscow (1943), a US pro-Soviet propaganda film from the world war 2 era. It was interesting to see US media paint the USSR in such a positive light, knowing how much that changed later.

Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (from 1940) was actually a pretty good and funny satire for old it was - I enjoyed it.

 

[JacobChu]

A lot of old films/tv shows I’ve watched in my time:
JAWS
King Kong (1933 and 1976)
The Love Bug
The Shaggy D.A.
Leave it To Beaver
The Beverly Hillbillies
WKRP in Cincinnati
M*A*S*H*
and the list goes on!

 

[Antiyonder]

80s My Little Pony, The Super Mario Bros Super Show and Captain N The Game Master.

 

[-PokemonBattleFanatic-]

12 Angry Men (School)
To Kill a Mocking Bird (School)
All in the Family
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Roots (School)
Little House on the Prarie (School)
Creepshow (1982)
Black Christmas (1974)
Raging Bull
The Three Stooges
The Little Rascals (1955)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Good Times
Carrie (1976)
Demons (1985)
Demons 2 (1986)
West Side Story (School)
The Cosby Show
Full Metal Jacket
Stand by Me (School)
The Fly (1986)
Cujo
Superman (1978)
Superman II (1980)
Columbo