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Diagnosis Murder

Joe Nerve

Joe Nerve

Oct 7, 2000
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#1
I've been on a vintage TV kick for a while now, and just started recording episodes of this. Never watched it when it originally aired, but I like Dick Van Dyke and thought I'd give it a go. It's somewhat entertaining, and helps put me to sleep at night...

BUT IT'S ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!!!!

In pretty much every episode I've seen thus far, one of the 4 or 5 main characters has a friend that gets murdered. They are often right there at the scene of the murder, and the person who did the murdering either works with them, or is someone connected somehow.

I would never want to be part of their clique, that's for certain.

Did the writers do this intentionally, to make it comical or something? Did they not realize most people don't witness and/or get involved in murders on a weekly basis?

Rant over.

Feel free to add your own rants about other shows.
 
#3
guy n. cognito said:
You clearly never watched Murder She Wrote. Angela Landsbury should be insane surrounded by that much death.
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Somebody else actually suggested that today, when I was japping about Diagnosis Murder.

I'm also getting a kick out of Ironside, which isn't about murder so much. They try to hit on all the social issues that were going on in the late 60s, early 70s.
 
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Stumbo said:
Dukes of Hazzard or The Andy Griffith Show or Gomer Pyle. Awesome stuff. Or maybe The Real McCoys or The Lone Ranger or Highway Patrol or Petticoat Junction or Green Acres. All good.
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Leave it to Beaver is a good one, too. The Beavis and Butthead in me still loves all the great lines like, "Wally, why don't you go play with the Beaver."
 
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I still remember the idiocy of "Emergency" from when I was a little kid. I haven't seen the show in likely 40 years, but EVERY DAMNED TIME someone was being pulled out of a burning car, it would explode a nanosecond after they were pulled to safety. Even as a toddler with only a few TV channels to watch, I thought it was ridiculous.

The A-Team was just as dumb. Hundreds of explosions and gun fights and not one death? I'm starting to doubt the realism of that show.

Lastly, Gilligans Island.... The professed can make a nuclear reactor with some coconuts and seaweed but can't patch a hole in a boat?
 
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We started watching The Invaders awhile back. Kinda like an early beta version of X Files (which we've also been binging on lately).

Oddly said:
Gee, you Americans get all the great TV...
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Ummm . . . hmmm. We've been enjoying finding bizarre or funny-in-a-way-we're-not-used-to British TV in the past year or so. Things like League of Gentlemen, Big Train, Black Books, Spaced, etc.
 
#16
I like the cityscape 70's crime dramas like Kojak. It reminds me of my childhood. Columbo and Rockford Files are good too. Haven't watched Ironside in ages, may check it out. I don't think Hulu or Netflix have Diagnosis Murder, but I will see.
 
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