Yep. I'm all over thatAnybody remember "Tour of Duty" and the original "Prisoner, cell block H"?
Used to love coming back from the boozer and watching these before going up the stairs to Bedfordshire!
RIP Airwolf
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alcohol & smoking was really popular things back in the 80's
Was it the weekends? I remember it well watching it but cannot remember when. I remember The Dukes of Hazzard on BBC1? The A-Team was on after Blockbusters on Saturdays... I cannot remember when Streethawk was on.
I loved Street hawk
I miss the 80's the time before the internet & mobile phones took over everyone life
Technically it was good until 2008 but in many ways things are still good and bad then and now. Except TV shows. Everything is dark, gore and sinister these days.
Still gives me chills hearing that intro from back then, mid/late 80s.
Was going to say much the same myself.
Regarding "Prisoner Cell block H"
Then it was entertaining with just enough tension to keep it interesting but no realty gratuitous violence (there was a lot of psychological stuff, but I think the most gory physical incident was when "Queen B" burned one of the other girls with a soldering iron.)
The recent remake, by contrast, was like everything else these days. An obsession among modern produces to pursue "Grittiness and reality" to such an extent that it basically just becomes torture porn!
I want my TV shows to be entertainment, not brutalistic drama-documentaries. No wonder younger people are so bloody nihilistic these days!
(Oh, and WRT the other thread on Web-Advertising. Back in the day TV shows ran to nearly 50Mins/Hour. Nowadays I have seen some that run as low as 37!
Even the good ones are almost unwatchable because of the constant interruptions by interminable ad breaks, PVR's can mitigate this a bit, but cannot totally remove the consequences of an utterly fractured story line! )