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1998-2003: Television's golden era?

  • 16-08-2008 9:54am
    #1
    lt_cmdr_worf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭


    Personally I think so - Buffy, Angel, Family Guy, Futurama, Roswell, Malcolm in the Middle, Dark Angel, early CSI, South Park (which was huge back then), Firefly, Star Trek DS9 (which ended its last season in '99), Voyager, Enterprise etc.

    It was also a time when TV3 was actually good and showed a lot of the above...

    What do you think of it (and list your fave show), and how does it compare to now?


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  • #2
    K4t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    lt_cmdr_worf wrote: »
    Personally I think so - Buffy, Angel, Family Guy, Futurama, Roswell, Malcolm in the Middle, Dark Angel, early CSI, South Park (which was huge back then), Firefly, Star Trek DS9 (which ended its last season in '99), Voyager, Enterprise etc.

    It was also a time when TV3 was actually good and showed a lot of the above...

    What do you think of it (and list your fave show), and how does it compare to now?
    I agree with the thread title but you forgot the best shows:

    The Sopranos
    Oz
    The West Wing
    Six Feet Under

    which are four of the best tv shows ever made and far superior to the ones you mentioned. However, I was only 10 or 11 at the time so I was watching Buffy, Malcolm in the middle, Simpsons! (how could you leave it out) and others at that time. Also, Superman (with terri hatcher) anybody? Classic tv, well for me as an elevn year old anyway!


  • #3
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    The only thing that I would have interest in was Firefly.


  • #4
    mike65
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    Rolls about the place in fits of laughter. TV has been ****e since I was a teenager.

    Official!

    Mike.


  • #5
    dodgyme
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    I would say TV can only be said to have a golden era when programmes were national events. e.g Morecombe and wise at christmas, Hall pictorial weekly or JR being shot. Dont think stuff like buffy the vampire slayer counts.


  • #6
    TvWatcher
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    nostalgic for the days when you could look forward to new eps of The Sopranos, and Six Feet Under (to a lesser extent). haven't managed to get into anything since the Sopranos (except the Tudors, cause it's the funniest thing on TV at the mo)


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