In the Wildcard category, The Channel Surfers select Criminal Minds.
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Criminal Minds is a US crime drama series that premiered September 22, 2005 on CBS. It is produced by The Mark Gordon Company in association with ABC Studios and CBS Paramount Network Television. The show follows the adventures of a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) at Quantico, Virginia. Criminal Minds differs from many criminal system procedural dramas by focusing on the criminal rather than the crime itself.
In the Action/Adventure category, Team Legen...wait for it...dary! selects Angel.
As mentioned above, I was a pretty hardcore fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when it was on, so it was only fitting to also watch "Angel". Angel is a spin-off series about Buffy's Vampire boyfriend Angel, played by David Boreanaz. The show is about Angel moving away from Sunnydale to Los Angeles and fighting the forces of evil with Angel Investigations, his detective agency and battling the evil law firm of Wolfram & Hart, whose clients are of the demon variety. Angel was always kind of a drag when he was on Buffy, but he was given so much more personality on his own show. The show also featured Buffy Alums Cordelia Chase and Wesley Wyndam-Price, and has several cross-over episodes with Buffy. My favorite characters were Charles Gunn and Lorne, the lounge singer demon. After Buffy ended, James Marsters aka Spike joint the cast, which made me a very happy person because he was always my favorite.
This doesn't really show much about Angel as a show, it just a good clip with Spike in it.
I can't really find many other good clips because I have found that I can't really find anything on YouTube lately. Did they change their restrictions again?
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With our eleventh selection in the 2008 Calgary Puck Television Draft, we here at the Patterson Corporation are pleased to select for our lineup on our new channel MQS-TV, an open comedy that not only made us laugh, but in 2002 also helped to teach us about historical figures . Staring Will Forte, Phil Lord, Michael McDonald, Christa Miller, Chris Miller, Nicole Sullivan, Donald Faison, and Neil Flynn. In its only season this show attracted guest stars such as Andy Dick, Tom Green, Mandy Moore, John Stamos, Marilyn Manson, Michael J. Fox, Jack Black, Murray Miller, Judah Miller, Debra Wilson, Zach Braff, Joe Flaherty, and the apple of my eye, the love of my life, my be all end all of celebrities, my future wife Sarah Chalke. While not winning any major awards it does have a cult following, especially amongst twenty-somethings. Filling our Comedy (Open)* slot, we here at MQS-TV humbly select from the Teletoon and Music Television, Clone High.
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Matlock was a long-running American television legal drama. The show ran from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC, where it replaced the long-running series The A-Team to Friday nights, then on November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC.
The show centered on widower Benjamin L. "Ben" Matlock (Andy Griffith). Matlock is a renowned, folksy, popular yet cantankerous defense attorney, (based on attorney Bobby Lee Cook, from Summerville Georgia,) who is worth every penny of his $100,000 fee. As part of "The Thief (Part1)" Matlock bartered his services for several rare coins in the defense of a coin dealer. His remark was "Look at it this way Michael. You just got $100,000.00 in legal services for just $13.00."[citation needed][neutrality disputed] He has also solved and subsequently won at trial almost every case he has taken, especially murder cases where everyone else was sure his client was guilty, when at the end of the episode, the person who is sitting on the stand, is the actual killer. He studied law at Harvard, based his law practice in Atlanta, Georgia, and lived in a modest farmhouse in a neighboring suburb. He is known to visit the scene of the crime to discover clues otherwise overlooked and come up with viable, alternative theories of the crime in question (usually murder). Matlock also has conspicuously finicky fashion sense; he generally appeared in court wearing a trademark light gray suit and, over the nine seasons, was seen behind the wheel of three generations of the Ford Crown Victoria— always an all-gray model (Andy Griffith always drove Ford products in his 1960's show, The Andy Griffith Show, as with Matlock). Some Mayberry alumni had guest shots on the drama: Don Knotts, Aneta Corsaut, Betty Lynn and Arlene Golonka.
Matlock was noted for his thrift and a fondness for hot dogs. After the series ended, his penchant for hot dogs was explained in the episode Murder Two of the television show Diagnosis: Murder. In it, Matlock blames Dr. Mark Sloan for recommending a disastrous investment in 8-track cartridges. Matlock subsequently invested (and lost) his savings of $5000, while he survived by wearing cheap suits and living on hot dogs.
Matlock's thriftiness, liking for hot dogs, and the demands he placed upon his investigators were often points of comic relief in the series. Andy Griffith's prior career as a comic often showed through in things that Matlock did or said.
I think FI80 should be penalized for a) picking Matlock, period, and b) expecting us to read so damn much about Matlock. Please treat this post as a semi-formal protest. Really, Matlock? The "I" in FI80 just became "is"!
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I think FI80 should be penalized for a) picking Matlock, period, and b) expecting us to read so damn much about Matlock. Please treat this post as a semi-formal protest. Really, Matlock? The "I" in FI80 just became "is"!
I grew up watching it with my Dad on Sunday afternoons. It's not my favourite show, but there's not much else to pick from in a genre that I don't really like to begin with.
Agree on the length of the text though. I didn't realize I'd quoted so much. In fact, I didn't even read any of it. I'm about as interested in it as other people are.
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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I think FI80 should be penalized for a) picking Matlock, period, and b) expecting us to read so damn much about Matlock. Please treat this post as a semi-formal protest. Really, Matlock? The "I" in FI80 just became "is"!
That's my definition of Hell.
Watching re runs of Matlock forever and ever with Celine Dion playing in the background
So much hate for Matlock! My sister and I used to watch it all the time when we were kids. I haven't watched it for years.
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In the Educational category, Team Sequoia is proud to select, Beakman's World.
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The program starred Paul Zaloom as Beakman, an eccentric scientist who performed comical experiments and demonstrations in response to viewer mail, to illustrate various scientific concepts from density to electricity to flatulence. When his experiments were successful, he would often exclaim "Zaloom!", referring to his last name.
One segment of the show was the famed "Beakman Challenge". During this, Beakman would challenge Lester to do a basic scientific feat. During the first season, virtually every challenge related to either Air Pressure or Bernoulli's Principle. The show addressed this during the second season, by having Lester exclaim to Beakman (as he was explaining the science behind a trick) "AIR PRESSURE! IT'S ALWAYS AIR PRESSURE!"
At the beginning and end of the show, as well as before or after commercial breaks, the show featured short scenes portraying puppet penguins, Don (voiced by Bert Berdis) and Herb (Alan Barzman), at the South Pole watching Beakman’s World on television. The penguins were named after Don Herbert, who starred as Mr. Wizard in Watch Mr. Wizard. Mark Ritts (Lester) was also one of the puppeteers operating the penguins.
As of now, Beakman's World currently plays in weekend syndication in the United States and in several other countries. It is distributed by Sony Pictures Television in the U.S. and Sony Pictures Television International in other countries.
