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Fallon97
08-04-2020, 02:42 PM
What decade is your favorite era for television and film? And names some of your favorites from your preferred decade/era.

Furienna
08-05-2020, 12:25 AM
I'm a '90s fangirl. :)

FHCastmember
08-05-2020, 01:27 PM
90s and early to mid 2000s

LUNCH
08-05-2020, 01:34 PM
I'd say the 1960-70s for both television and film combined. It is really hard for me to narrow it down to one decade. The 1940s-1950s were also a great time period for films. If I add music to the mix I would say entertainment in general: TV, movies and music combined,peaked and was at it's best during the 1960s- early 1980s.

GentlemanJim
08-05-2020, 04:38 PM
What decade is your favorite era for television and film? And names some of your favorites from your preferred decade/era.

Early to mid sixties for television. The Fugitive, the Invaders, Gunsmoke, Combat, 12 o'clock high, Route 66

For Movies, the Late 40's and early 50's film noir The Narrow Margin, Pickup on South Street, The Killing, Thieves Highway, I am a fugitive from a chain gang, Born Yesterday, and Face in the crowd

treky
08-06-2020, 02:22 AM
50s-60s

merlinjones
08-06-2020, 02:42 AM
Movies: mid 1930s - early 1980s

TV: late 1950s - late 1970s

Median for both: 1960s

AMackII
08-06-2020, 03:49 AM
Television- The 1960s, The 1970s, The 1980s & The 1990s

Film- same as above

MA
08-06-2020, 05:16 AM
Television: 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, Current

Film: The same as above

Fallon97
08-06-2020, 04:25 PM
Personally, my favorite decade/era for television and film is the 80s.

So many great shows like:

Dynasty
Dallas
Falcon Crest
Knots Landing
Highway To Heaven
The Facts Of Life
The Golden Girls
227
The Cosby Show
Amen
Who's The Boss
Family Ties
Diff'rent Strokes
Magnum PI
Cagney and Lacey
Fame
The Love Boat
The Jeffersons


I felt that daytime soap operas, like General Hospital, One Life To Life, All My Children, The Edge Of Night, etc were at their best in the 80s.

Television Mini-Series were the best:

North & South
Elvis & Me
Lace
Hollywood Wives
V
The Atlantic Child Murders
I'll Take Manhattan
Bare Essence
The Women Of Brewster Place



Some favorite movies/cinema are:

Top Gun
Gremlins
Fatal Attraction
The Color Purple
Coming To America
Purple Rain
The Last Dragon
The Breakfast Club
The Lost Boys
Micki & Maude
A Soldier's Story
Superman II
Urban Cowboy
An Officer And A Gentleman
All The Friday The 13th Movies
I could go on

GentlemanJim
08-06-2020, 05:01 PM
Personally, my favorite decade/era for television and film is the 80s.

So many great shows like:

Dynasty
Dallas
Falcon Crest
Knots Landing
Highway To Heaven
The Facts Of Life
The Golden Girls
227
The Cosby Show
Amen
Who's The Boss
Family Ties
Diff'rent Strokes
Magnum PI
Cagney and Lacey
Fame
The Love Boat
The Jeffersons


I felt that daytime soap operas, like General Hospital, One Life To Life, All My Children, The Edge Of Night, etc were at their best in the 80s.

Television Mini-Series were the best:

North & South
Elvis & Me
Lace
Hollywood Wives
V
The Atlantic Child Murders
I'll Take Manhattan
Bare Essence
The Women Of Brewster Place



Some favorite movies/cinema are:

Top Gun
Gremlins
Fatal Attraction
The Color Purple
Coming To America
Purple Rain
The Last Dragon
The Breakfast Club
The Lost Boys
Micki & Maude
A Soldier's Story
Superman II
Urban Cowboy
An Officer And A Gentleman
All The Friday The 13th Movies
I could go on

I feel that your choices, for the time period that you specify, are all good ones.

Except one that seems a mystery to me. The Breakfast club. I appreciate that we all have our own preferences.....but that selection in particular, has always seemed an oddity to me. Some people love it.

And I have one question in particular, did you personally go to high school at about the same time that you first saw that movie? Nothing "wrong" either way. But that one factor seems to be a constant among those I've talked to, who seem to like it. Just curious.

Coffeecup
08-06-2020, 09:37 PM
1950-early 1990's. Old Tv shows are wonderful!!. Can't get into anything in this century.

Fallon97
08-07-2020, 12:45 AM
And I have one question in particular, did you personally go to high school at about the same time that you first saw that movie? Nothing "wrong" either way. But that one factor seems to be a constant among those I've talked to, who seem to like it. Just curious.

No. I wasn't in high school. I was in elementary school.

jimpickens
08-07-2020, 05:05 AM
TV 50's 60's some of the 70's and 80's
Movies 60's 70's and 80's

Crusinforabrusin2.5
08-07-2020, 02:34 PM
TV was at its best in the 90s, thanks in large part to NBC and its comedy shows. Many 50s-70s shows, while funny, are just silly and don't hold up too well. Many 90s sitcoms still are funny to this day


As for movies, I'd say 50s-70s

broadmoor
08-08-2020, 12:33 AM
My preference for movies ranges from the 1930s to early-1950s. Movies start to interest me gradually less after that point. But while movies wane for me, this also coincides with the burgeoning advent of filmed tv-series, which takes over, covering the 1950s and 1960s, which I go for in a big way. Then things get dicey for me by the 1970s... some tv-shows from then I like, while others I actively dislike. By the 1980s onward, I have pretty much zero interest in tv or film.

jimpickens
08-08-2020, 03:31 AM
The 90's blew.

Old School
08-08-2020, 11:27 AM
1970s & 1980s

Both the tv shows and movies made during those two decades are the best!!!

Sal
08-09-2020, 10:28 AM
Movies: 1930s to 1960s

TV: 1957-75

Music: 1956-64

After that it's all downhill!