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Flash72
06-05-2003, 12:51 AM
A favorite past time of mine, one that I have retained from childhood, is collecting non-sports trading cards related to television shows and movies. Who can forget buying dozens of packs of cards, chewing through the rock hard stick of gum, all in the effort to obtain that elusive card for your set? Some of the sets were well produced while others appeared to have been manufactured by the kids at whom the cards were produced. Of course, collecting a complete set could prove nearly impossible, especially if your friend was unwilling to trade with you. Nowadays, it is almost obligatory that I get a complete set of cards, anything less is not satisfactory. Ah, how adulthood rearranges one's definition of "satisfaction."

Some of my TV card/sticker sets:

Three's Company
Good Times
Happy Days (Set 1 and 2)
Kojak
Incredible Hulk
Six Million Dollar Man
Bionic Woman

Anybody else collect tv trading cards, if so, which ones do you have?
DarleneIllyria
06-05-2003, 02:07 AM
Let me see. I have the first two sets of a Twilight Zone card set and I have the Batman Returns card set. I think that's all the card sets I have.
Sean Snow
06-05-2003, 11:06 AM
I have the 44 main cards of the Three's Company set made in 1978. I think there are 16 additional cards that make up a 'poster'. *shrug* They're pretty well produced, except they spell Suzanne Somers as Suzanne Sommers. I also have a complete set of one of the ALF cardsets made. I have some random Welcome Back, Kotter & Mork & Mindy cards.
*PinkLady*
06-05-2003, 03:10 PM
I've never even seen those cards. I think I might look for some.
Flash72
06-05-2003, 11:13 PM
Actually, in the "Three's Company" set, the majority of the set consists of stickers, with only a few true cards. As you said, a few of them can be put together to form a picture of Suzanne Somers. It seems that the main focus of the set was, not surprisingly, Suzanne.
Sitcomwriter
06-06-2003, 01:01 AM
I have/had Batman (Movie),Batman:The Animated Series,FOX kids,Power Rangers (Series and Movie),Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Movie) and several others.