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Yes!! I used to watch that all the time. That reminds me...there was another series about that time called "Real People" and it was kinda along the same lines, I think!
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SeaQuest
YESSSS.... how could I forget about SeaQuest!? I had a BIG crush on Jonathan Brandis at that time.
Don't remember a single episode, but I know I watched SeaQuest. And yeah, I guess I had a little crush on Jonathan Brandis as well - though I think I saw him in the Chuck Norris movie (Sidekicks?) before SeaQuest.
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QUOTE (DashboardOnFire @ 10 February 2018 - 07:41 PM)
Don't remember a single episode, but I know I watched SeaQuest. And yeah, I guess I had a little crush on Jonathan Brandis as well - though I think I saw him in the Chuck Norris movie (Sidekicks?) before SeaQuest.
Oh heck yeah! I used to watch Sidekicks. My sister had it on VHS. When she was at work, I sneak into her room and "borrow" it. XD
I used to watch Cynthia Rothrock movies too... she's awesome. Can't act her way out of a paper bag, but nobody watches her for her acting skills. I'm surprised that she and Church Norris never did a movie together. That would have been cool.
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Does anyone remember a short series called Vegas? It was a detective show set in the late 50s/early 60s. I forgot about it until a friend of mine brought it up the other night.
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The Monkees anyone? XD A friend of mine just reminded me of this show on Facebook... completely forgot about it!
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QUOTE (Jediferret @ 16 February 2018 - 03:41 PM)
The Monkees anyone? XD A friend of mine just reminded me of this show on Facebook... completely forgot about it!
I like the Monkees!
I saw a few episodes about a year ago, and have been trying to get them on dvd. I'm not sure why I like them, to be honest, but something draws me to them. (And no, not the fact that they're young, cute boys )
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I remember this show from a few years back. It only made 12 episodes before being cancelled but I wish it had lasted longer. Very well written smart show. Had Tim Daly in the lead role, who I've always liked as an actor.
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David Ogden Stiers' passing prompted me to write the following entry about an obscure historical fiction TV movie I really love:
Taking Liberty (1993) never made it to being a TV show. I've read a number of stories from several sources, including a February 2016 entry from Riff Trax, that say it was a pilot for a partially-filmed-but-scrapped TV show that RHI decided to release on VHS as a movie. It also aired several times on the Ion network and its predecessors, but it never made it to DVD.
MacGyver fans will recognize a number of familiar faces in Taking Liberty.
Sophie Ward (many of you will recognize her from the Lost Treasure of Atlantis TV movie) stars as Nell Prescott, the daughter of a Tory power broker who, after a fateful encounter, becomes allied with a band of patriots near the start of the American Revolution. Although Ward's character is a fictional one, her story appears to draw inspiration from true ones of heroines from the U.S. war for independence, like those of Molly Pitcher and Sybil Ludington.
David Ogden Stiers plays Ben Franklin, his take on the statesman wows me every time I watch Taking Liberty. W. Morgan Sheppard plays a former-pirate-turned American revolutionary who is gruff and sarcastic, but also has an endearing side. Eric Close who, when I first saw this movie, I knew best from Dark Skies, also has a supporting role. Veteran actor David Warner plays a snobby and comically villainous British general; he and Ward get to show off their comedic strengths in a madcap party/wannabe seduction (for him, anyway) scene near the end of the movie.
The tone of piece is mostly lighthearted and sweet; its approach to storytelling is similar to that of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
Pen Densham, interviewed not long ago on The MacGyver Project website, developed part of the story for Taking Liberty. The script, written by John Watson (who also developed the concept for the show) and Jacqueline Zambrano, is one of my favorites; it captures (primarily in the form of voice-overs from Stiers' Franklin) so beautifully the desire to have the freedom to determine your own fate apart from government say-so and class and social strictures.
All in all, I would give this quirky, spirited and charming gem a 5/5.
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