Category: Cinema 31
Hello,
this topic is a tribute to the history of pbs, one of the few channels that, in my opinion, still has some good programming (especially in the morning).
what was your favorite show on that channel? (this includes shows aired on net, since that was pbs's original name.)
mine would be barney, especially seasons 1-3, and Arthur.
I'm guessing you're pretty young?
I liked the Mystery! series, especially Touching Evil.
I never saw Sesame Street as a kid, but at college met a guy who loved Bert and Ernie and had several videos of them and there started my own love of them.
Wishbone all the way!
I'm about 20, but I know net was the original name. Pbs was part of my childhood.
My favorite on PBS have been the Nature series, some of it, and really loved the Antiques Road Show.
It's seriously not what it sounds like: No moldy antique stores with people yawning about better days. It's usually collectors and they have a lot of history behind what they have there. And you learn about what was done as knock-offs and how some of the knock-offs are even old just not as valuable. They hit up different cities and showed a lot of interesting character from there.
In my opinion Barney was punishment to us parents for having reproduced or something. Sesame Street was OK, Wishbone was kinda cute for awhile though the daughter was really too young for it. And that Arthur series kept going on for years there, didn't it? She liked that show a lot. There was others like Reading Rainbow she liked also.
Anyway it's true what VH says, depends on how old you are I guess. I never got into Masterpiece Theater or others like that that my parents' generation got into.
I still have to say that Antiques Road Show is the class A act from PBS only because of the local histories you get from there. We'd watch that after the daughter was in bed.
Sesame Street. Wish they would put out the first 25 years on DVD, every single episode.
In the days of the Alt.Barney.Die and similar newsgroups, there was an audio file posted of Elmo singing his song wandering through the trees, when he wanders into a firefight in the Vietnam war.
That was pretty funny to some of us parents, though The Chick heard it and told us all how awful that was. lol. The gunfire, trees burning and all your typical jungle warfare sounds were pretty realistic sounding. Hard to say which side got 'im though. Got is got, I guess.
Now you all know what some of us parents did to let off a little steam after having some of those shows in the background. lol