The Big Generation X Nostalgia Thread

[Ralph Dula]

Pretty amazing thread, now I want to seek these episodes out, especially the Miami Vice one.

I know I said it before, but for many years I honestly thought every TV was allowed only one ghost episode, and one UFO episode, and jep track of them all.

For some reason the Benson episode still sticks with me, as does Matt Houston.

As I recall, the Miami Vice episode was a mind screw at the end.

 

[Voros]

I know I said it before, but for many years I honestly thought every TV was allowed only one ghost episode, and one UFO episode, and jep track of them all.

For some reason the Benson episode still sticks with me, as does Matt Houston.

As I recall, the Miami Vice episode was a mind screw at the end.

These screen shots back you up.

 

[Ralph Dula]

These screen shots back you up.

Oh, no that’s not the weird aspect to me. It was

Spoiler

That they went with an “It was all a dream...or was it?” Ending

Strangely, that seems a little bit better than Matt Houston going with

Spoiler

An actual alien event happened around the same time and place Matt was investigating a fake alien event

 

[Gabriel]

Friday and Saturday nights 10PM thru 4AM.

 

[Voros]

Is Miami Vice streaming anywhere?

 

[Yeti Spaghetti]

Who else would watch the PPV channel just for the ads?

 

[Ralph Dula]

Is Miami Vice streaming anywhere?

I don’t believe so. If you’re in the States and do over-the-air TV it was hopping between several retro TV stations as recently as two years ago. It may still be on them, but those stations disappeared from my area at the start of 2020, so I can’t guide you to where it might be now.

 

[Yeti Spaghetti]

Is it on Starz?

 

[Teyrnon]

I don’t believe so. If you’re in the States and do over-the-air TV it was hopping between several retro TV stations as recently as two years ago. It may still be on them, but those stations disappeared from my area at the start of 2020, so I can’t guide you to where it might be now.

According to Google, it's available for streaming on nbc.com

 

[TristramEvans]

 

[TristramEvans]

 

[TristramEvans]

 

[Fenris-77]

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[Tulpa Girl]

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[Dyrnwyn]

The "hit" in hit TV show is doing a lot of work there.

 

[Endless Flight]

 

[Fenris-77]

Hmm, like Airwolf, or Knight Rider, but low rent and manifestly shittier than either. I like it.

 

[Bunch]

Hmm, like Airwolf, or Knight Rider, but low rent and manifestly shittier than either. I like it.

It was pretty practical inside a city limits. I mean how often can you actually use a helicopter in a city?

 

[Endless Flight]

I loved his costume and the bike. It would shoot out of the side of the warehouse where their headquarters was. He was a former police officer like Michael Knight.

 

[Fenris-77]

It was pretty practical inside a city limits. I mean how often can you actually use a helicopter in a city?

See Airwolf, TV show, 1980's...

 

[Bunch]

See Airwolf, TV show, 1980's...

In the 80s everything was possible. Try it now.

 

[Fenris-77]

In the 80s everything was possible. Try it now.

Heresy. If Airwolf could do it, it is possible in all places and times. I'm dispatching an Inquisitorial hit squad to your address. Please remain in place and don't make any sudden moves.

 

[Giganotosaurus]

 

[Endless Flight]

My favorite show as a kid was The Dukes of Hazzard because I loved everyone on that show. Rosco P. Coltrane has to be one of the greatest characters in TV history.

 

[Bunch]

My favorite show as a kid was The Dukes of Hazzard because I loved everyone on that show. Rosco P. Coltrane has to be one of the greatest characters in TV history.

And Daisy.

 

[Stumpydave]

What did happen to the genre "Copper/Vigilante + hi-tech vehicle or device fights crime = profit"?

 

[Ralph Dula]

Bunch @Endlessflight Fenris-77 apparently RPGPub itself is stunned by your massive ignorance on the fact that the 80s had an entire show on crime-fighting helicopters in the big city, as multi-quote won’t work on your admissions of not knowing this classic:

 

[Nobby-W]

It was pretty practical inside a city limits. I mean how often can you actually use a helicopter in a city?

Anything is air droppable, once.

 

[Fenris-77]

Blue Thunder sounds like what happens after too many Blue Lagoons at the pub.

 

[Teyrnon]

What did happen to the genre "Copper/Vigilante + hi-tech vehicle or device fights crime = profit"?

The 80s ended? Are there any examples of the Crimefighting Cool Vehicles genre that wasn't an 80s production?

 

[spittingimage]

The 80s ended? Are there any examples of the Crimefighting Cool Vehicles genre that wasn't an 80s production?

Well, this series was briefly played in my country. (It kinda sucked, though.)

 

[Ralph Dula]

The 80s ended? Are there any examples of the Crimefighting Cool Vehicles genre that wasn't an 80s production?

 

[Bunch]

Well, this series was briefly played in my country. (It kinda sucked, though.)

It never died! It just left prime time and went to Adventure Hour Saturday or Sunday mornings.

 

[Ralph Dula]

Also:

 

[TristramEvans]

 

[Endless Flight]

That looks like a snowmobile or ski-doo.

 

[Ralph Dula]

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People got real tired of me last year as I pointed out Super Force took place in 2020.

 

[TristramEvans]

That looks like a snowmobile or ski-doo.

 

[Stumpydave]

Now I'm imagining a panel of the likes of Knight Rider, Automan, Streethawk et al at a retrogaming convention.

 

[Gabriel]

The 80s ended? Are there any examples of the Crimefighting Cool Vehicles genre that wasn't an 80s production?

Team Knight Rider

But everyone tries to forget that one.

Oh, and there was also the early 00s, Knight Rider show where KITT was the ugliest Ford Mustang ever conceived. But everyone tries to forget that one too.