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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (10 children)

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?

[–] klu9@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (9 children)

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:

  • The Saint
  • Burke's Law
  • Honey West
  • Barnaby Jones
  • Rip Tide
  • Jake & the Fat Man
  • Perry Mason (inc the 80s revival)
  • Streets of San Francisco
  • probably a few more I can't remember right now

On other platforms (Fawesome, TheArchive, Roku Channel etc):

  • The Commish ( we also watched The Shield: what a contrast!)
  • Booker
  • Wiseguy
  • Peter Gunn
  • Mr Lucky
  • Colonel March of Scotland Yard
  • Decoy
  • Danger Man

Might have to pick "English-language detective/crime shows 1955-1995" as my specialist subject on Mastermind :)

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

I see a couple missing from your list off the top of my head from the 80s:

  • Hardcastle and McCormick
  • Simon and Simon
[–] klu9@piefed.social 1 points 19 hours ago

we didn't see those, maybe they have better DMCA takedown people

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