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A TV show made before 1990 that you think has aged well?


Columbo

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St. Elsewhere
Hill Street Blues
The Andy Griffith Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
I Love Lucy
The Avengers

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Here are some of the pre-1990 shows I still watch occasionally and think work fine:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (best eps still work like a charm)
Twilight Zone (most eps still work like a charm with better production values than AHP)
The Prisoner (1967)
Star Trek
Dad's Army
Yes, Minister
Everything Denis Potter ever wrote for UK TV, but esp. The Singing Detective
I, Claudius
Taxi (Most timeless of the US sitcoms)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
The Young Ones
Edge Of Darkness (1985)
Moonlighting (best early eps are great)
and (mostly pre-1990)
Thirtysomething (first couple of seasons are excellent)

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I'm a huge fan of I, Claudius and have watched it many times. It's great to this day.

Some great 1970s British miniseries! The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Elizabeth R., Edward the Seventh. I absolutely think they hold up.

Upstairs, Downstairs.

Twilight Zone - Great Pick!

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Shows such as Star Trek and The Andy Griifth Show while I like them and consider them entertaining I would also consider them dated. Things that jump out me lately with ST is the show is too Kirk-Spock centered in the mundane tasks aboard the ship. In Tomorrow is Yesterday Spock relays the countdown to beam the 1960's people back to Earth when in reality that would be most imprecise compared to a computer or two performing the same task. I know the first season was rushed but the dialog is very clunky compared to a lot of later SF efforts. I chalk this up to being the first time somebody had to seriously think about a situation and people such as what ST was set in. The Andy Griffith Show had too many stories where Andy bails Barney out of a jam so Barney never learns the lesson he needs or starts on a career he can actually do competently. I still like those two shows but can see them for the time that they were made in.

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Captain Future
Lucky Luke (1984 series)

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21 Jump Street.

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21 Jump Street

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I recently binge watched 21 Jump Street as I never saw every ep the first time around. I got up to the end of the second last season. I could see it starting to die there, I haven't done the last season yet as Hanson and Penhall leave and I am not that interested in Hoffs who becomes the last original cast member.

I thought it held up ok very 80's which was cool. A bit hokey at times, the 80's was all about the "Very Special Episode" which was almost every ep with Jump Street.

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The Rockford Files

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Surprised no one's brought up Mash.

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Good point.

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I don't know if aged well, since some of them show a very different society and how people "should be", but in 2020 I still enjoy the following pre-90s shows:

The Twilight Zone (original)
Quantum Leap
The Simpsons
The Flintstones
Seinfeld
Married With Children
Moonlighting
Bugs Bunny - Looney Tunes shorts
Star Trek
Mission: Impossible

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Get Smart

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