By Rick Brady
People keep asking what it takes to enjoy classic TV shows. But if this question is simplified, then it amounts to "What is the best way to access and watch TV shows from the good old times"?
But the answer is simple. This is the era of the World Wide Web. The boom of the internet has made it easy and simple to enjoy lots of things – even old age TV shows. So all you need is a broadband internet connection with moderately fast speed.
If you have this simple arrangement, you should have absolutely no problem watching and enjoying television shows from the days of classic television – because much of it is online now. But what exactly is considered classic TV? Today, there are television shows available online from every decade from the 1940s to today.
If you browse through the online services offering you classic time TV shows, you will see that the majority of them are offering you popular shows from the 50's or to the early 80's (or sometimes the 90"s).
Though the 90"s shows may not be considered as classic as those from earlier decades, most people like calling them classics. But did you look at the brighter side of it? People tend to consider things classic that were popular when they were teenagers so someone born in the 1970s could already be considering TV shows from the 1990s to be classics.
In loose terms, they refer to the shows of the past. But putting it in the original themes, the word "classic" means something that belongs to a certain "class." In keeping with that, classic shows are divided into a variety of classes.
Do you remember Jungle Jim, or Dennis the Menace? Both of them were in Black & White. But these classics had their own categories. While Jungle Jim was adventure type jungle suspense show, Dennis the Menace was pure comedy.
If you come a little closer to our time, you see "I dream of Jeannie". This one was a romantic comedy but in color schemes. Same goes for "Bewitched". Both these shows were pioneering the comedy of their times.
Advancing a bit ahead in time, there are "serial" shows like "Dallas" or "Dynasty". These are the series that fall into another popular category – pure drama. On the other hand, if you look at the popular series that rocked the TV screens in the 80s and 90s, you see a large hype for action thrillers or pure thrillers.
Good examples of those are – The Incredible Hulk, Bionic Woman, Automan or Murder She Wrote. As time passed by, audience developed a changed taste, which brought forward all time popular shows like- Miami Vice, Spencer for Hire and The Equalizer.
A little later came pure cheap entertainers like "Raven," "Hercules - the Legendary Journeys". But even in the 90s, Hollywood never really lacked the supply of comedies – I hope you remember "The Perfect Stranger".
Here"s a mixed list of some of America's most beloved classic TV shows:
"Defenders," "Dobie Gillis," "F.B.I.," "Flintstones," "Flying Nun," "Flicka," "Gray Ghost," "Green Hornet," "Highway Patrol," "$64,000 Question," "Addams Family," "Adventures of Robin Hood," "Adventures of Superman," "Airwolf," "Avengers," "Batman," "Ben Casey," "Burns and Allen," "I Spy," "It Takes a Thief," "Jetsons," and "MacGyver."
Just as said before, today, many of these shows can be watched online. You can either go to your favorite video site to search for the show of your choice or find it via a search engine by searching for the name on the show plus the word "online".
Learn more about thousands of old TV shows by visiting my Classic TV Shows site or if you are interested in even older entertainment, visit my Old Time Radio Shows site.
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