Favorite TV series part 2

The bad part of it all, is that some of these were not exactly "shown" in American TV, to the point that everyone could see them weekly like everyone did something like The Simpsons, and South Park.

In those days, I think that PBS was passing through one MP thing, about 25 minutes worth and you might have gotten to see another one 2 weeks later! It never got to the big 3 net-crappers at all. The same thing happened to Faulty Towers. I first caught Faulty Towers on a friend's TV, and he had videotaped it, in Boston, I think it was or something like it, and then brought like 4 shows to the West Coast when he moved, and already this was years later.

For the American TV, the 80's I was busy working 80 hours per week, and the 90's too busy writing and trying to establish the discussion of progressive music in the internet, as it was a bit haphazard then, and it was mostly considered something else. The "new age" bulletin boards and Fido, were the worst bunch of postings ever, and at least in this place it is a bit more centered, but in those days the hero worship was ridiculous, and just because the title said "women" or "woman" of this and that, it meant that it was automatically spiritual and the new age stores sold it better than candy in the store for kids! (do they still have those?).

I finally caught the original Office, and Black Adder, and some other shows between 1998 and 2004, when my roomie had a Tivo and we had cable that had just about everything ... it was nice to watch a few things, but some of them were too fast for me ... that English red-something or other was way too talky for me, for example, and half the jokes went over my head. 

The original Twilight Show, seen later on several places as reruns (early days Sci-Fi channel), was actually better than the redo later. Still both were very cardboard oriented, however, the material itself on the original had more "occult" connections (mystical orientation) than the copy a few years later which was a total corruption of the mystical and occult material. 

At this time I got to see things like "Footballer's Wives", "Mile High", the one about the laird or lord of the something or other about the bed and breakfast, almost all of the Helen Mirren detective thing, and one of my favorites, was Robbie Coltrane's detective thing ... which was excellent. There were a few other things on the BBC channel, but I did not have enough time to see all of it ...