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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by coldtea on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:22PM (#15992910)
>When I look at the crap I watched as a kid in the 80s (which included a good amount of 70s reruns), basically all broadcast TV today is far superior.

Depends. Talk shows in the 70s (Dick Cavett and such) were far better than the BS today (from Fallon and Kimmel to Letterman). M.A.S.H would stand up there with anything today. And the original talent on something like the Ed Sullivan show or the Soul Train or Johny Cash show. Or the Groucho Marx game show I've been watching on YouTube (all the above were beyond my time, and I've only caught MASH on re-runs).

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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by Intermernet on Saturday December 23, 2017 @03:33AM (#15993439)
>I've only caught MASH on re-runs

I have a feeling that MASH somehow breaks the normal chain of time and causality in that the only time anyone ever caught it was on re-runs. Same with "A Charlie Brown Christmas". These are shows that were born in the big bang and civilisations occasionally drift into their broadcast space for a few decades before moving on. We're still in the MASH nebula, and have been since 1972.

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