In an unexpected move, Vic Mackey and the Strike Team will use one of it's precious Wildcard slots to select Little House on the Prairie.
Seriously, how is this show still on the board? It had everything. Anyone who says they didn't/don't like Little House can't possibly be human.
9 seasons, 189 episodes all based on the books of Laura Ingalls-Wilder. Nominated for 17 emmys and winner of 5. This show made you laugh, it made you cry and it made you amazed when you looked on a map of Minnesota and found out that Sleepy Eye is REALLY the name of a town. Michael Landon treated the show as one of his children, and it really shows.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
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Now I'm going to have that theme song stuck in my head.
Curse you Dis! *shakes fist*
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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Now I'm going to have that theme song stuck in my head.
Curse you Dis! *shakes fist*
Don't pretend like you were unsuspectingly blindsided by that! You could see the grassy hill and the bonnets! You KNEW what it was when you clicked and you LOVED it!!
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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I must admit that i've watched the show from time to time and actually liked it. Had considered it as one of my wildcard picks but figured i could get it near the end of the draft.
Don't pretend like you were unsuspectingly blindsided by that! You could see the grassy hill and the bonnets! You KNEW what it was when you clicked and you LOVED it!!
Thing is I read your pick at work where Youtube is blocked, so I didn't click on any link, I just saw the pick and suddenly the theme popped into my head.
There are more than a few TV theme songs like that.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
With our 12th round pick, The Channel Surfers select in the Miniseries/TV Movie category, CBC's Canada-Russia '72.
A little blurb from CBC:
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The remarkable cast includes Booth Savage, as Team Canada Head Coach Harry Sinden, Mark Owen, as Assistant Coach John Ferguson, Judah Katz, as NHL player rep and Canadian troubleshooter Alan Eagleson, and Sonia LaPlante as Gabrielle Fournier, a fictional composite character in the Canadian diplomatic corps. Team Canada hockey stars are played by David Berni as Phil Esposito, Gabriel Hogan as Ken Dryden, David Miller as Paul Henderson, John Bregar as Bobby Clarke and Gerry Dee as Wayne Cashman among others. It was filmed entirely on location in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick.
CANADA RUSSIA '72 is shot in a fluid documentary style that effectively captures all the immediacy of the '72 hockey summit’s intrigues. This exciting recreation of the hockey series that spawned an enduring national myth about determination, pride, and heart also features a soundtrack of Canada’s greatest hits of the era, including songs by The Guess Who, Crowbar, Lighthouse, Leonard Cohen, The Five Man Electrical Band, The Poppy Family and The Band.
In the Information category, Team Legen...wait for it...dary! selects my favorite show on the Food Network, Unwrapped!
It's the "How It's Made" of the food world and I love watching it. I like it because it's really interesting to see how automation is used to make food and I have a massive sweet tooth so it's fun to see all the crap that goes into the food I eat!
I could only find one good clip on Youtube, making lollipops
And the show website at the Food Network has more clips.
The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. Go Flames Go!
I'll take.. In reality (ongoing).... MTV's The Real World
The first reality TV show ever... MTV's The Real World is still going "strong" into it's 21st season, The Real World: Brooklyn.
This season has taken TRW casting into uncharted territory of ridiculousness: not only do we have the token gay character (JD), the token religious character (Chet - a mormon from Utah), the token juice-monkey (Scott), the token minority (Devyn), the token cute-white-girl (Baya), and the token wild-child (ex-lesbian Sarah).... This season producers have decided to throw an Iraq-vet (Ryan) and... a Transgendered female (Katelynn).
It's going to be a trainwreck week-in, week-out, and I can't wait!!!
With our twelfth 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, a ground breaking drama that truly put Canadian television on the map being the first Canadian television series to be played on prime time in the United States. Staring David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Tony Craig, Daniel Kash, Ramona Milano, Camilla Scott, Callum Keith Rennie, Tom Melissis, Dean McDermott, Leslie Nielsen, Gordon Pinsent, and Paul Gross, while being the winner of 15 Gemini Awards with 53 nominations. Filling our the Canadian* slot, we here at MQS-TV humbly select from the CTV television network, due South.
__________________ "Calgary Flames is the best team in all the land" - My Brainwashed Son
Aliens arrived on Earth in a fleet of 50 huge, saucer-shaped motherships, which hovered over major key cities. They revealed themselves on the roof of the United Nations building in New York City, and were human in appearance, but required special glasses to protect their eyes; they also had a distinctive low resonance to their voices. Simply referred to as the Visitors, they reached out in friendship, ostensibly seeking the help of humans to obtain chemicals needed to aid their ailing world. In return, the Visitors promised to share their advanced technology with humanity. The governments of Earth accepted the arrangement, and the Visitors, led by their leader John and his deputy Diana, began to gain considerable influence with human authorities.
However, strange things were soon noted. Scientists found themselves facing increasing media hostility, and government restrictions on their activities and movements. Others, particularly those keen on examining the Visitors more closely, began to disappear or were discredited. Noted scientists confessed to subversive activities; some exhibited other unusual behavior, such as suddenly demonstrating an opposite hand preference to the one they were known to have.
Journalist and TV cameraman Michael Donovan (Singer) covertly boarded one of the Visitors' motherships and discovered that beneath their human like facade, the aliens were reptilian in nature, and carnivorous - preferring to eat live food, like rodents and birds. Donovan recorded some of what transpired on tape, but just as the exposé was about to air, the broadcast was interrupted by a Visitor announcement suddenly making Donovan a fugitive, pursued by both the police and the Visitors.
Scientists around the world continued to be persecuted - both to discredit them (as the part of the human population most likely to discover the Visitors' secrets) and to distract the rest of the population with a scapegoat upon whom they could focus their fears. Key human individuals were subjected to Diana's special mind control process called "conversion", which turned them into the Visitors' pawns, leaving only subtle behavioral clues to this manipulation; others were subjects of biological experiments. Some other humans, on the other hand (including Mike Donovan's mother, Eleanor Dupres), willingly collaborated with the Visitors, seduced by their power. Daniel Bernstein, a grandson of a Holocaust survivor, joined the Visitor Youth and began to reveal the locations of traitors to the alien cause. One teenager, Robin Maxwell, the daughter of a prominent scientist who went into hiding, was seduced by a male Visitor named Brian, who impregnates her as one of Diana's "medical experiments."
A resistance movement was formed, determined to expose and oppose the Visitors as much as possible. The Los Angeles cell leader was Dr. Juliet "Julie" Parrish. Donovan was later assimilated into the group and, sneaking again into a mothership, he learned from a Visitor named Martin that the story about the needed chemicals was merely a diversion. The true purpose of the Visitors' trip to Earth was to conquer and subdue the planet, steal all of the Earth's water and harvest the human race as food, leaving only a few as slaves and soldiers/cannon fodder for the Visitors' wars with other alien races. Donovan also discovered there were dissidents among the Visitors (later known as the Fifth Column) who opposed their leader's plans. Martin promised to aid the Resistance, and gave Donovan access to an alien ship, which he quickly learned how to pilot.
Soon, the members of the Resistance struck their first blows against the Visitors, while procuring laboratory equipment and modern military weapons from National Guard armories to carry on the fight. The symbol of the resistance was blood-red letter V's spray-painted over posters promoting Visitor friendship among humans.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
Not to nit pick here FI80, but I think you're pick is V... based on the success of the mini-series, and V: The Final Battle, NBC ran a full series based on the franchise. Almost the same as what they did with the new Night Rider.
I would imagine in the spirit of other Franchises, V all together may be off the board now, but there is a distinct difference from V, V: The Final Battle, and V: The Series.
I feel your pain, man. It's like the only mini-series I could even think of (other than It, which was already taken).
That's why I thought I was on to something with that whole Summit Series thing. Damn you, Flamesguy_SJ!
Sorry...though I have to admit, doing it to someone after having Beakman's World stolen from me is somewhat satisfying. No hard feelings meant, though; it's just that of all my remaining picks, Canada/Russia was the one I felt was most likely to be picked by someone else. Don't worry, you'll get to do it to someone else soon enough
Don't pretend like you were unsuspectingly blindsided by that! You could see the grassy hill and the bonnets! You KNEW what it was when you clicked and you LOVED it!!
