The MeTv channel (old rerun tv shows)

[BigBill]

I really like watching MeTv. The MASH, Rifleman, Rockford files,
Superman, but CHiPS has me LOL. the car accidents just crack me up. Single and double roll overs has me thinking does it really happen in California like that everyday? The car roll overs are just silly. There are so many of them. California can't really be like that in real life?

 

[bgrafsr]

There's another channel on Time Warner that shows the old shows too, like Leave it to Beaver, Green Acres. and a bunch of others. Takes me back to my younger days.

 

[soFlaNative]

FamilyNet down here shows Barney Miller 1930 local.
If I could find WKRP too I'd be tickled.

 

[LedFowl]

I really like watching MeTv. The MASH, Rifleman, Rockford files,
Superman, but CHiPS has me LOL.

Yeah, I also watch CHiPs on MeTV - or as much as I can stand. I never watched it when it was originally on. I believe I read that an officer only pulled his handgun once in the entire series run. I was thrilled to see that episode later; Danny Bonaduce was on it. The officer didn't fire, btw.

And the car stunts are awful. If the movie Bullitt has the best, these are at the other end of the spectrum.

Did see an episode with Barbie Benton, though...

 

[coltle6920]

I'll watch the Superman episodes on MeTV because it's fairly new on the channel.Everything else has been reran too many times to bother watching again.

I spend more time watching ThisTV or Grit which has just shown up in my area.A new channel called Decades has been showing all of the episodes of shows like Sgt.Bilko,Car 54 and Gomer Pyle.Only problem is that they only show one program at a time.Back-to-back episodes would last 3-4 days.

 

[rwsmith]

GetTV

GetTV has old movies. I like MeTV but when you watch it a while you see the same things over and over. What is a real kick for me is that we used to see these shows once a week, unless we missed episodes. When you see them one after the other you can see all of the character actors who were in nearly every show, some several times in different parts. One week I saw Frank Sutton so much that when the 'Untouchable' had an opening shot with nothing but a man's mouth at a telephone I said, "That's Frank Sutton!"

Royal Dano
Nehemiah Persoff
Bernard Fox
Warren Oates
William Demarest
Una O'Connor
Frank Cady
Richard Deacon
Whit Bissel
Elsa Lanchester
Gloria Graham
Edward Platt
Neville Brand
Simon Oakland
Malachi Throne
Alan Napier
Peter Faulk
Cloris Leachman
Lesley-Ann Down
Julie Newmar
Barbara Nichols
Susan Oliver
Salome Jens and all those other great broads and dames.

Howard McNear, Charles Lane

 

[CajunBass]

I like "Me TV" but I was disapointed when they replaced Adam 12 with Superman. And I think it was Me that had George Burns and Gracie Allen on early in the morning. I'd get up before 5:00 am to watch them every morning. I never laughed so hard at anything. I think they're on now about 10:00, but by then my day has gotten started, so I don't even think about them now.

God Bless you Gracie. And Bea Benaderet...WOW...I didn't appreciate her back in the day...of course I was about ten, twelve years old, and she was an old lady.

Chips has to be the cornest show ever on TV. My wife and I will watch just to see how many cars go flying. If we drank, we could make a drinking game out of it. But since we don't, we content ourselves playing "Punch Buggy" while watching. You gotta look close to spot the VW's in the background.

I sitll like Emergency. It hasn't lost anything over the years. Emergency is also a good "Punch Buggy" hunting ground.

 

[islamoradamark]

beverly hillbillys, Macales Navy, Hogans hero s

 

[Faulkner]

I really like watching MeTv. The MASH, Rifleman, Rockford files,
Superman, but CHiPS has me LOL. the car accidents just crack me up. Single and double roll overs has me thinking does it really happen in California like that everyday? The car roll overs are just silly. There are so many of them. California can't really be like that in real life?

I used to watch CHiPS when I was a teenager, it was just about my favorite show back then. It may have had some influence on me later getting into law enforcement.

Now that I've been in law enforcement for 20 years and I spend most of my vacation time touring around the country on my Harley I watch the CHiPS re-runs with humor. There is no way I could spend all day in a uniform that tight . Seems no one wore ballistic vests back then either, but I love the stainless wheelguns.

My new 2014 Harley has a pretty elaborate communications system. With interal speakers and boom mic mounted to the helmet I have voice activated intercom, CB radio for bike to bike communciations, and Bluetooth interface to my iPhone. Without the comm system my wife and I, who is sitting directly behind me, can't hardly talk to one another at all at any speeds above 2nd gear. I find it humerous that the two motor-partners generally carry on casual conversations as they ride side by side down the highway. It's obviously one of those Hollywood things because I'm telling you it can't be done.

 

[Step N. Mud]

Wonder Woman!

 

[Jack Flash]

Hey RWSmith, don't forget to add Virginia Gregg to your list! Seems like she pops up in every other episode of "Dragnet 67", playing everything from a scamming gypsy fortune teller to a hard as nails newspaper reporter. Once in a while you will see her on "Perry Mason" as well.

 

[the ringo kid]

Not on metv but--in MYDVDs,ive noticed on several I got lately--that JAWS--Richard Keil--had made the TV series rounds. Just saw him in an first season episode of: The Rifleman. Another goodie ivee seen in various episodes--Michael Ansara. Twice in season one of The Rifleman--as an Apache who is a Deputy US Marshal.

Others seen once eor more than once:

Claude Akins, Dennis Hopper,Michael Landon, Denver Pyle, and quite a many more.

 

[LedFowl]

I have to put on record that when I saw Alan Hale Jr. on Andy Griffith Show (1962 episode), he repeatedly referred to Barney as "little buddy." As the Skipper beginning in 1964, he would call Gilligan that over and over.

 

[Jack Flash]

I have to put on record that when I saw Alan Hale Jr. on Andy Griffith Show (1962 episode), he repeatedly referred to Barney as "little buddy." As the Skipper beginning in 1964, he would call Gilligan that over and over.

Alan Hale Jr. was on "Perry Mason" too, and "Gunsmoke" at least once as well.

 

[BigBill]

That's another point when the chips guys are side by side they talk?
Me and my son could never hear each other when we're side by side even when on the quiet rockets. That's jollywood.

 

[ordnanceguy]

Gentlemen:

We have been watching "The Fugitive" with David Jansen on Youtube streaming. What a great show. Robert Conrad intoning the introduction with the Voice of Doom: "Name...Dr. Richard Kimble...Destination...Death Row, State Prison...An innocent victim of blind justice...." as the train horn sounds. It also had one of the best musical themes ever. A QM Production as they liked to say.

After watching a bunch of them I came to realize that Dr. Kimble was a magnet for both women and the local police. I am sure that was the case for dramatic reasons, but it seems like every time that poor guy turned around there was a cop standing there giving him the eyeball ("You're not from around these parts, are you, Mister?") Minutes later someone would be ordered to "run this guy's prints" and the countdown was on for Kimball to save some female in distress or a kid just hit by a truck or ......well, you know.

At one time it was rated as one of the top 5 TV shows of all time, and the final 2 episodes set records for ratings. Highly recommended, even after all these years.

 

[e3mrk]

The Fugitive was loosley based on a Murder that happened near My Parents Home in Bay Village Ohio.
Richard Kimble was supposed to be Dr.Sam Shepard,I went to School with a Grandson of the Supposed real Killer.

 

[rwsmith]

If those car wrecks were funny......

The last 20 years cars have to go up the back of a parked car like a ramp and with rockets the pyro guys installed spewing sparks, fly through the air and explode on impact like a fuel/air bomb. OR blow up like a fuel/air bomb when the good guy is running toward the camera and is knocked off his feet by the blast. Predictable?

 

[S&WForty]

Some really nice cars got destroyed by CHiPs. I don't know if it's the correct name of the channel, but I watch old sitcoms on Antenna TV. Locally, it's paired with my CBS channel. Barney Miller, Three's Company, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Newhart just to name a few.

 

[Mydogmax]

What!! Do you guys really prefer those shows to the intelligent reality shows that are on TV now.