nope
first one i've had from California
and where are you
uh North Carolina
uh-huh well i guess the only people i've talked to before were from Texas so i
yeah mine me too and i had
i was beginning to think that was the only people on the network
yeah they all work for TI too
well what do you uh what are your favorite television shows
well first and foremost it's got to be LA Law
LA Law yeah that's a very popular one around my office but i've never seen it
yeah
never
never have seen it
my goodness it's hard to believe i didn't think there was anybody in the country who hadn't seen that one
i
well i can go even better than that i've never seen Dallas either
never
never once
gosh
i admit that i used to be hooked on Dallas but back way long time ago when Jock died i gave up watching it it just got too funny
well i think i just sort of uh
didn't start watching it and then felt like i would have been way too late getting in on the action to figure out what was going on so i never did get involved in it
well i think the writers had the same problem
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yeah
i mean they they went for an entire season with this
and i'm sure you heard about it all these things
oh who killed JR
all these things going on no this was i think it was before or after that
oh
but they went for this whole season and they had all these situations
and then to end the season come to find out Pam it was all a dream
oh yes yes i remember reading about that thinking uh i would have just strangled them
you remember that i mean an
and then oh i i tell you that just did it for me right there i said you've put me through an entire season of Pam dreaming
yes
you know you writers are coming you know you're having a hard time here
i think that's right i think they just lost their uh inspiration for a while
well i understand that this is the last season for it
yeah somebody said that uh JR is going to die and that will be end of the season forever i mean the end of the show forever
uh i i read something in the paper
yeah that's
yeah they uh i read something in the paper today talking about or it was Parade magazine yesterday and they said you know when's the last episode and what's going to happen and they say insiders say JR is going to get knocked off
well it's about time huh
good
about time
too bad they didn't kill him the first time
yeah too bad they didn't get away with it shoot
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well anyway what's your favorites
oh well i mostly watch public television so yeah i'm one of those i uh
no i i that's what i spend most of my time watching that uh
well i love Masterpiece Theatre
oh yeah
and i love the mystery series
yeah mystery especially uh Miss Marple
oh yes oh
i i've i've got all the videos that i can get my hands on of of Miss Marple
oh
yeah i love those i used to i i lived in England for about four years so it really brings back
oh we
uh-huh
some memories
we have uh uh a local station uh on our cable network here that uh is showing all the Miss Marples over again so we got to repeat them
it must be either uh A&E or um
uh Discovery Discovery
i
i think it is A&E
yeah A&E runs quite a lot of them
um i like Discovery Channel too i like they have lots of wildlife shows and
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oh they do have some absolutely gorgeous things so uh but they uh the one we just watched that we had videotaped from the weekend was the Gardens of the World did you see that one this week
yeah
hum-um no i missed it
uh well
nice i bet
we are lucky enough to now be on a cable system that has four public TV channels
um boy that is that is good
so we get
we get things over and over so if we miss them we can catch them later and that Gardens of the Worlds was absolutely glorious it was
i bet it was
uh Audrey Hepburn was narrating it
um i like her
and they took you all over uh
oh i like that
started in Italy went to England France some in America uh also Japan anyway it was a really a a visual treat
um
really nice i bet
i bet
yeah the interesting thing about public TV is it's not public around here you have to have cable to get it
is that right
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uh well uh
silly
when i was in Houston there was one station of just uh
it was uh the University of Houston station
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and uh so it had not all of the stuff that people in other parts of the country were getting because each station gets its own mix
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but when i moved to California and all of a sudden i had this uh
surfeit of public television
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yeah
we can get all sorts of things everything from i guess on Saturday there you can watch something like eight different cooking shows
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so i don't but i could if i felt like it
right
yeah i i spend a lot of time down in Charlotte uh and on their just the the regular TV not cable you can pick up four PB or three PBS channels
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but uh
the closest one to Raleigh is in uh Chapel Hill which is about twenty five miles away and believe it or not you can't pick it up
really i would have thought that was close enough that
yeah
it was it should be close enough but i guess they have the antennas pointing it the other way or something
or you got a hill between you or something like that
bu t
yeah it's uh it just you can barely see the picture and you can't hear anything so
well the only about the only things i watch on commercial television are Thirty Something and Twin Peaks uh and i just discovered that they uh have have canceled both of those so
oh really yeah i've i've never seen either one of them
well let me tell you that Twin Peaks was much better when it just started so maybe it's time for it to quit i they've gone downhill too
oh
well i guess there were i guess it was pretty popular because there was quite a lot of Twin Peak conversation
well the thing i liked about it was that it was so unconventional that you couldn't predict what was coming next
well at least that that's what i like about a show if if you can predict it it's not worth watching
that's right and this one had all sorts of weird little things and would go off in uh strange directions and it had lots of
uh little subtle touches that if you weren't watching you would miss uh that
they'd have references to literature and things like that and they'd also just have odd thing they walk into a bank vault and there is a deer head lying on the table in the bank vault
um
and there's no explanation for it they treat it as perfectly normal and somebody says what's the deer head doing here and they said oh it fell off the wall so why was it doing on the wall
and in one case the fellow was making coffee and they said there's a fish in the coffee pot
well
i suspect that that's a reference to Thoreau's Fish in the Bucket of Milk but i don't know for sure and i'm not sure what the relevance would be if it were but
sounds like a pretty good show i'm sorry sorry i missed
anyway
it had a lot of things like that thing to make you keep watching just for the novelty and the surprise of it
sorry i missed that one
you know i i don't watch very much TV i i watch um LA Law
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and i watch Sixty Minutes
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and America's Funniest Home Videos
um
and that's about it
well they
and i watch the i sometimes watch the the news
yeah i'd say probably what i watch the most faithfully is the news which i really don't watch as much as i just listen to it
yeah back well when i had cable i used to just keep it on CNN not to watch it but just to have it in the background because i'd always listen to it
when i'm fixing dinner or something like that it's i uh at least know if there's anything i want to read thoroughly in the newspaper
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i get the headlines off the television
right
yeah the uh cable prices are just too high nowadays and i'm not going to
i i just won't pay that that kind of money for for what i'm getting i mean i miss A&E and i miss Discovery and i miss CNN but that's it
yeah
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uh and it just it just wasn't worth it just to get those three
uh we just about had to get it because the reception in our particular locality was so poor
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that we could only get about three stations and uh only one was a public station and we had a
yeah
San Francisco station and a San Jose station but neither one of them was very clear they were both
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barely adequate
yeah well
so we decided when the cable came through that we would get on it just so we could see what we were watching if we watched anything at all
right
yeah i'd i'd probably i'd probably get cable but i've got we got the the three networks and two local stations and that
fulfills my needs because i don't watch TV that much anyway anymore anyway
um-hum yeah i think i would be inclined to do the same thing if we could see anything without the cable
yeah
yeah
i know what you mean course like i say the only thing i do miss is PBS because i there several things on there i like Masterpiece Theatre Mystery
uh-huh
especially those
yeah
uh Masterpiece Theatre is really good
they have had some absolutely wonderful shows and they do they have incredibly good what are called production values they have
yeah and and you
yeah
really well researched uh locations and sets and costumes and so forth and as far as i can tell on places where i have some knowledge their historical research is excellent
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yeah
