TV Shows I Would Like To Own –1980s (Part 2)

About 2 weeks ago I had blogged about the tv shows from the 70s & 80s, which I had watched in Kuwait as a kid (until the age of 11) or atleast started watching in Kuwait, and which I now wanted to own a copy of. That was just the first of a 2 part blog post as I have some other shows from the 80s as well. They fall in the second category, stuff that from the 80s but which I watched only after we moved to India. And they are:

  • Star Trek : The Next Generation
  • Street Hawk
  • Alien Nation
  • Doogie Howser M.D.
  • Full House
  • Mr.Belvedere
  • The Wonder Years

Similarly I did also watch Baywatch, Fall Guy, Mork & Mindy and also enjoyed watching the soaps Santa Barbera & The Bold & the Beautiful for a couple of years. I wouldn’t want to own the 3 tv series mention here and hang my head in shame for having watched those American Soaps – although to be honest, in my defence my sister and I watched everything & anything they showed as soon as cable tv was launched in India and we started subscribing to it, and the soaps were actually good for during their initial years. Especially Santa Barbera.

To be fair, Star Trek : TNG is something that I have and it really isn’t a 80s show, even though the original run was from 1987 to 1994. It was way ahead of the other shows in the 80s.

Has A Book Ever Brought You To Tears?

Yeah I tried to read a book on christianity many years ago and I was so bored that I yawned a lot and tears came running down my eyes. I also remember two other books that would put me to sleep as soon as I tried reading a few pages – Zorba The Greek & The Last Temptation Of Christ. Both by Nikos Kazantakis, a Greek writer. Hmmm a trend is noticed over here. Maybe something lost in the translation from Greek to English. Although, many years later I came to like Zorba a whole lot more.

I also you know have had some tears while going through a few magazine spreads of Playboy & other such nudie mags. Those woman are enough to make a grown man cry. So sad; all that money and yet unable to fully cloth themselves! Makes me wanna go over and hug them to me and tell them everything is gonna be alright.

For the more serious answer, no I don’t think a book has ever brought me to tears. Emotionally Stephen King’s IT is the one closest to me; I feel that this novel has everything you could ever ask for from one novel and it has always resonated close to my heart. It has been my favourite novel of all time.

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