okay well my favorite probably all time TV show is Star Trek
and i would like that i i like the adventure of it
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and the idea that that we would survive long enough to get to that point and be able to do these fantastic things in space
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and then i like the they have a new one now the Star Trek the Next Generation which it's an all new cast but kind of the same idea going out to new places and and doing new things and
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finding out about different people and i've i've always liked that show probably the very best
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i think i've actually seen a number of Star Treks one way or another over the years
uh although i never watched it regularly i'm certainly acquainted with the character the characters and then i've seen some of the Star Trek movies
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yeah those the movies are good too
and i i guess all the most the shows i like are are kind of along the same line because they're all adventures
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when i when i started thinking about this that those are some of my favorite shows McGyver
because it's it's only one person there more than uh you know instead of a cast of people but he's always going out and inventing new things out of scrap and grabbing what he can and you know pieces of baling wire and
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and a few tires and all of a sudden he's got a hang glider and
i don't think i i've even heard of that show it's called McGyver and what is what is he
you haven't
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he's like a semi government type agent who goes out then to uh works for the Phoenix Foundation supposedly
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and uh his his big thing is that he can take pieces of
little bits and pieces of string and baling wire and turn them into fantastic different things he took a car battery and some wire and two washers one time and made a welder
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so he he does all kinds of strange things like that
oh great Boeing ought to hire him and give him a junkyard and see if he could build a 747 out of it
yeah
see what we can come up with do you like the uh news shows Twenty Twenty and Sixty Minutes those kind of things
well uh i used to watch Sixty Minutes as a matter of fact and uh and i used to like the show very much
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but unfortunately i find getting rid of your TV set you do throw out some some of the baby with the bath water
some of the little things yeah
and uh i just decided i had to do that i think in part because it was easy for me to become addicted to it i mean i could just sit mindlessly in front of a TV set for hours and i just realized i was sort of like an alcoholic if i didn't get the booze out of the house i was going to drink
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oh
so
i guess i haven't ever had any trouble with that i have more or less i have my favorite shows and i usually make time in my day or my week you know to watch those
yeah
but for the most part i try i have small kids and i try and keep it on just
a minimum amount of time really when they're up
yeah yeah
because they're i guess that that that falls in and one of my other favorite shows is Sesame Street because of the kids
i like that real well
right well when my kids were little i did have a TV set and i did watch a lot of Sesame Street and a lot of Electric Company as well
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oh that would be a shame
i haven't seen the Electric Company in a long time i i remember it when i was younger of you know catching it on PBS but uh i don't think they show it must be in maybe it's in if it was in repeats but they're not making new ones
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i haven't seen it in a long time but Sesame Street is still really good
yeah how about Mister Rogers is he still around
yes yeah they still show Mister Rogers i don't think he's making new ones but they repeat all the old ones
i see i see
so that's still a real good show too i that one tends to come on earlier in the day than i want to turn the TV on
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Sesame Street comes on from like nine to ten which is a good time and everybody is up and had breakfast and dressed and ready to go so it's the timing of of it is good besides the amount what's on
right i figure your children are preschool
yes i have two little ones
yeah
so they like that
yeah i seem to remember those shows being on in the afternoon
they come on both they come on like from nine to ten and then from uh five to six
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they just repeat
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over again which is also that's another thing that's good about it when it comes on right in the dinner hour i feel can feel like i can let them sit in front of the TV and watch
and they're watching something worthwhile while i can make dinner and do things i need to do without them under foot
yeah
yeah little with little kids the TV set really is a
i mean i used it as a pacifier i'm not sure it was that great for my children but they turned out okay so
yeah
uh it didn't hurt them any
yeah
some shows are good for i think some shows some Star Trek i for the imagination of it all
the idea i i think that's one of the things i like about Star Trek and is is the even in for kids watching it some of it can be a little violent sometimes and stuff i don't let my little ones watch it but the imagination of look what we can do
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you know in the future this is perhaps this will be possible
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that kind of thing
yeah
okay well i think we've covered most of my favorite TV shows
well i'm trying to think if i ever even had a favorite one at one time uh
let's see how about uh Man From Uncle
i do seem to remember is that the one where they uh he always got this this tape recording that self-destructed
that's Mission Impossible
uh Mission that's right Mission Impossible yeah i used to watch that in fact i can still remember a couple of those they were i thought those were very good
yeah they always have i've i've seen some of them on repeats
yeah
that uh they always had a good plot
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it kind of kept you guessing on on uh what was going to happen next
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how they're going get out of their latest scrape
yeah i do remember that and uh i remember as a kid my parents watching the Ed Sullivan Show that was really the big deal in our household
was the Ed Sullivan Show yeah i guess i guess it was a Saturday night and i went to see the movie The Doors a couple of days ago and they had this scene
oh yeah every Saturday night
uh that portraying portraying The Doors appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show
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they even had somebody portraying Ed Sullivan and it was very very funny i think it was the funniest part of the of that movie
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well i don't know was there any i remember the Milton Berle Show even i was
yeah i'm not old enough to recall that one
i was well i guess i have to admit that i am
my TV viewing started sort of mid sixties so
i see
my folks didn't my folks i'm not even sure if we had one when i was really little that may be why but they probably didn't have a TV until i got to be
you know grade school or so
yeah
and the shows that i like now they wouldn't let me watch i had to catch them all on repeats like Star Trek they thought that was much too violent for small children so
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i i i i ended up watching a lot of these things on you know repeats in the afternoons or something
yeah that's that's interesting uh i think it's interesting that parents think that their small children learn violence from TV people were just as violent before TV was invented maybe even more so
yeah
but i guess that's that's a different topic isn't it
probably so
well i think that's about uh
that's about covered it for me so i think i'll say good-bye and we'll
yeah well it was nice talking to you tell me tell me where you're calling from
talk another time perhaps
i'm calling from Garland Texas
Garland Texas all right i'm in North i'm in Raleigh North Carolina
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where were you from
oh my goodness i didn't know they did it long distance
yeah i think they're doing it trying to do it or i hope they're trying to do it all over the country because they need to collect all kinds of different
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different dialects
well it was nice talking to you
same here bye-bye
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