Geez, do any of you have cable? Many of the shows mentioned in this thread are on cable channels in my locale every day,
Combat in particular. I also regualarly see
Simon and Simon (BTW, Parker Jamison is also an RKBA supporter, though not as outspoken as Gerald McRaney; Jamison nearly died several years ago from cancer) and
Magnum, PI.
Gopher, I agree with your assesment of theme songs, particularly for
Simon and Simon. When you hear the first bar of that song, with its wickedly nasty overdriven slide guitar, ya just gotta BOOGIE! And then when they add in those funky saxes...well, if that song don't make you tap your toes, better check your pulse. Funny thing is, the first year of the series, the song was different. It had lyrics, and sounded like something a 3rd rate mariachi band would have composed.
I can't believe how many of you like
The A-Team. Talk about bad shots! These guys were supposedly one of the best Green Beret teams in Vietnam, but in evey big gunfight they get into, they expend about a thousand rounds of ammo and no one on either side gets so much as a scratch; and every time they get into a jam, B.A. seems to be able to coble together something to get them out using all that plate metal and oxy-acetylene equipment the bad guys just happened to forget about. They must have some of the dumbest bad guys in the history of crime on that show.
As far as I'm concerned, the best shows in TV history are on right now.
Tales of the Gun, Arms in Action, World at War, Modern Marvels, Weapons at War,, and many other excellent shows about the tools of war and peace, and the people who used them. Between A&E, TLC, THC, Discovery, Discovery People, and Discovery Wings, I could just about fill each 24 hours with nothing but guns-and-weapons related shows. In the last week alone, I've seen shows about tanks, airplanes, subs, bows, the first guns, cannons, etc.
The golden age of TV shows for entertainment may have past, but IMHO, the golden age of good TV shows about history, and particularly the history of warfare, is just beginning. A couple of weeks ago, on
Modern Marvels, they highlighted the development of the machine gun. At the beginning of each commercial break, they presented an interesting factoid. One was that of the 68,000 MG's produced for WW I & WW II, half are currently in the hands of US civilians. The next factoid was that since the NFA of '34, only one of these legally owned MG's has ever been used in a crime, and it was done by a cop. Who among us, knowing the anti-gun bias of mainstream media, would have thought we'd ever see mainstream TV presenting info such as that?
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