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How did you wind up recently watching such an old obscure show? Like even if it was a nostalgia watch of a childhood show, how did it even come up in your mind again?
My mother broke her hip and was bedridden during recovery. I bought her a Roku and would watch mainly detective shows / mysteries (her fave) with her.
Before I got Prime & Netflix set up, that meant trawling for free ones on various platforms, and YouTube's recommendation algorithm eventually led us to Vega$. Others we saw on YT:
On other platforms (Fawesome, TheArchive, Roku Channel etc):
Might have to pick "English-language detective/crime shows 1955-1995" as my specialist subject on Mastermind :)
I see a couple missing from your list off the top of my head from the 80s:
we didn't see those, maybe they have better DMCA takedown people