TV Guidance Counselor
TV Guidance Counselor Episode 39: Tim McIntire
[music] Hello and welcome to TV guidance counselor. As always, I am Ken Reed and I am your TV guidance counselor. Thank you once again for downloading or listening to the show. However, you got here. This week's episode is a fun one. This guy is named Tim McIntyre. He is a very funny stand-up comedian. He also officiated my wedding, which was 10 years ago this month. Wow, that's very odd. But he's very funny guy. He's got a couple of great albums out. He's a Boston-based guy, originally from Colorado. I think you really liked this episode, so please enjoy this week's episode of TV guidance counselor with my guest Tim McIntyre. [music] Mr. Tim McIntyre. Again, good to be here. Good to be here. Good to be here. Thanks for coming to my home and what you've been to before, so it's not that exciting. It's not the magic fairy land that you call a home. It is a fairy land. What do you want from Boston? What are you calling me? The fairy land. I mean, like apple sprites and fairies might live here. That's true. I have a cookie jar that looks like a sprite. It's very open. So, welcome to the show. You have picked a TV guide from October 10th, 1987. Correct. So, the 10th of the 16th. So, my first question is, what drew you to this particular TV guide? I saw Michael J. Fox on the cover, and that was... So, you're just anything in Michael's Fox. You're in. I think that's for many people of our generation. And '87. I was still watching a lot of TV. When did you stop? I went to college in 1988, and I dropped off. So, I even really have a TV for a couple years. And then I lived in Santa Fe, and there were girls and drugs, and so, TV wasn't quite as appealing for a while. I don't understand that. I know. I don't think it'd be more appealing in that case. So, this is the episode. It's experts rate the favorites, which are the TV's best sitcoms in the worst, and there has family ties, new heart and growing pains on the cover, without really telling us which are the best and which are the worst. In retrospect, though, looking back, we can assume those are probably the best. I would say they're the best, yeah. That would be my reckoning. So, this is a main additions. This is East Coast. It's in time. So, what's interesting is that you grew up in Colorado. Yes. You're in central time? Central and mountain? Mountain time. So, it's an hour time? Yeah, so, prime time was seven. Seven to nine? Yeah. Yeah. See there, I can't... That seems very strange. And it was actually very... That was kind of an adjustment when I moved here. Like, you don't realize how adjusted your bio-rhythm is to the TV. So, everyone's just in the house at seven? So, yes. So, at seven o'clock, I would start kind of winding down. And, no, we were still in jeopardy. You know what I mean? That's very odd. So, let's start with with Saturday night as all good weeks do in TV guide time. Saturday night starts at eight o'clock, and what did you go with? Well, I went with Star Trek the next generation. You know, I'm not surprised that you picked that. It was instantication, Star Trek the next year. So, here, I'm gonna tell you. So, I'm... This is strange, and you're not gonna... You probably don't meet a lot of guys like this. So, my two choices were both science fiction. Okay. However, there was a National League baseball game, a National League Championship baseball game on that night. And I'm not... I can't remember 87 who was playing, so there's a chance I would have watched that instead. Now, this... This was a tough call at eight o'clock and Saturday. I'll tell you, because it is October, so it means it's Halloween month. So, the movie Halloween was playing, which whenever that's on TV, I always... I've never seen that movie. You've never seen any... I've never seen any of the Halloween. I've never seen any of the Friday the thirteenths. But Halloween is not in the same category as Friend of the Three. How do I know? I haven't seen any of them. No, I've never seen a night in my own strength. When you leave my home, you will leave with a DVD of Halloween in hand this evening. I like, I think, that you actually will... I do actually have extra copies of Halloween to people. Of course you do. So, Halloween would have been up there, but there was also an episode of Werewolf, which I used to watch very frequently at the time. I don't know if you've ever seen Werewolf. It was Fox's flagship show. So, Fox Network started in 1987. It was the first year of Fox. So, who was the Werewolf? He was a nobody. It was a nobody actor that you've never heard of, who will never ever be in anything. His name is John J. York. He played Eric. And the plot was very similar to The Incredible Hulk. So, he basically got bit by a Werewolf. He's on a hunt to search for the world that bit him so he can kill him and free himself on the curse. Yes, and he's also on the run from a bounty hunter. So, week to week, you go with different towns. Exactly, taking odd jobs. It was a big budget show. Fox really thought this was going to make Fox. This was a show. It's a pretty decent formula. Yeah, but it wasn't very good. It was poorly written. It never stopped. Yeah, it was not very good. But that was, it had just started. And so, it had just started a week before that. So, I probably would have watched that. However, also, you had once a hero on, which is a really, really good show. It was, start Adam West. I'll read you the description. It's Zawi. That's how it's described. Adam West plays an actor struggling to keep his Captain Justice TV character alive, while the real Captain Justice sends Gumshoe, Robert Forrest, at a pleasant field to quell an archivillion uprising. See, the thing is like, I was seven. I was not, I was not ironic enough at that point to really appreciate it. This show was way ahead of its time. Like, this show was gotten more... That's a meta level thing. Oh, yeah. Yeah. See, and I was not, I was a very simple, linear kind of guy. I don't think anyone was in 1987. Like, once a hero only lasted about four episodes because people were just like, I don't understand it. It's an actor playing the guy and then the real superheroes coming to the real world. And it was, if this was on now, I think it would have done very well. Yeah, no, now that sounds pretty good. But at the time, that would have been... It blew people's minds. Completely had two eye content for me. So, I definitely want to watch that when... I can watch Star Trek to the next generation. Right. Which is, here's the, here's the plot of the Star Trek you chose to watch. While investigating mysterious deaths aboard another starship, Geordie, of course, LeVar Burton, of life in New York, becomes infected with a mind-altering illness that spreads to the rest of the Enterprise crew. Well, of course. Simple, but tense. You give LeVar Burton, I'm sure he gets a chance to, you know, act his ass off. Yeah. All right, so you're a big LeVar Burton fan. You would have gone with that. I still think the move would have been once a hero. Also, if you wanted to go for comedy, "My Sister Sam" was on. It was the last episode of "My Sister Sam." As we know, the star of the show was murdered. So, she was... Not done, not done, not done, not done. Sorry, Rebecca Shafer. Donut Den was also murdered. For Rebecca Shafer, who played the lead in that show was murdered. I did not know that. It was Pam Dauber and David Naughton, and it was a pretty... I didn't know Pam Dauber didn't... Did anything after post-mortem. It was the only show she did that I know of after looking at. What she didn't know. I don't know what Pam Dauber's doing now. Well, if you don't know what he does... No, if I don't know what he does, maybe I'll look her up. We'll look up Pam Dauber and see what she's up to. All right. We didn't start flaging something in whatever witness program she's in. They googled Pam Dauber and asked, "Great, sing to her." Also, Saturday night, USA Network used to run a thing called Saturday Nightmares where they'd have a harm movie on every Saturday night, and people seemed to enjoy them. I wouldn't have gone with this one just because it's not a good one. I'm going to watch USA. I'm going to watch up all night, which didn't start till '87. Before that, it was night flight, which was great. Yeah. You could still watch up all night. It goes at 11. We're just in prime time because it's a little bit of a night. But Saturday Nightmares this evening was at the Devil's Nightmare from 1971. Not a good movie, but I'll read the synopsis just for completion's sake. A familiar horror melodrama involving a family curse and a busload of tourists stranded at a sinister castle. Very important movie. Very familiar. Very familiar movie. Absolutely not to make with that one. Tim forgot to shut his phone off. I was actually going to look up who was playing in the National League. Oh, were you at the time? Yeah, but that's quite all right. So 8.30 was not an issue because you picked an hour-long show. Right. But what you did miss at 8.30 was the new Adventures of Beans Baxter. I started very criminal. I remember that show. Yeah, it was a good show. Savage Steve Holland. This is a pretty good episode. I would recommend that you watch or put it. It's not in the cards. I do love Savage Steve Holland. It wasn't his best work, but if you liked his stuff, it was good. No, he's feeling something Nickelodeon now. Oh, absolutely. It was in Maguire's very good. Which is fantastic. Yeah. That's what I love. Yeah. I tried to explain to my kids. Ned's declassified survival guy. Yep. Yep. He directs a lot of the Dan Schneider shows. Yes. Yeah. And he does them well. He's made for it. So you're at 9 o'clock now, since after Star Trek is over. You know what I'm going with. I'm not actually 100% sure. I figured you'd go without you. I'm going to explain why. In addition to the fact that Doctor Who is a good show. Right. So this is a heart-nelled Doctor Who too. This is an old one. Yeah. So here it was my experience of Doctor Who back in this time period. In Colorado Springs, there was Channel 6, Channel 8. One was a PBS station on a Denver. One was a TV station out of Puebla. Okay. And you know, the Doctor Who little mini arcs were four episodes long. Right. And every week they would air three of the episodes and then the signal would switch. So you would never get the conclusion? I never saw the conclusion of a single Doctor Who. Who is Interuptous? Yeah. So the fact that I saw the chance for a complete Doctor Who. Yeah, it was 90 minutes of the hour. I had to take it. Yeah. I had to go for it. All right. I believe. So have you ever seen a complete close? No, not at all. No. Not to this day you have it. Not this day. Well, you're leaving here with a stack of DVDs this evening. So that's it. All right. I was going to say I think you made the wrong move. But given that history, I think you went with the right one. This Doctor Who was 90 minutes. It was The Arc was a William Hart no one. It's an early one. It's not the best, but it's worth seeing. I would have gone with legwork, which was a pretty good show. Margaret Colin was in it who kind of disappeared. She was kind of like a sassy broad. She's very you know sassy broad kind of as a as a piece went away. We don't have a lot. And she was she was like an investigative reporter. So she's hired to prove the innocence of a car wash manager played by John McGinley who everyone likes now accused of blowing up a mob figures car and Francis McDormand Senate. Wow. Yeah, it's a good episode. That was a good show. It was wasn't a hunt very long, but it was pretty good sort of comedy investigation. But she always got the guy. Well, yeah, pretty much. Yeah, that's the formula. So even if you had never seen the end, you would know how that would go. So you went a little bit into the into 10 30 with the 90 minute Doctor Who, but decent Saturday night and then of course you would have gone with up all night. Just so you know the the movie on up all night that night was called Our Latin Thing excerpts from a 1971 Latin music concert interwoven with scenes of New York street life. And I would have been into the event into that unbelievably. I was a I was a wannabe hipster in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which isn't hard to be. So why just watching street scenes of New York would have seemed impossibly. You would have felt like you had better. Oh, yeah. Wow. Oh, yeah. Always dreamed of it. When what age were you when you finally got there? New York? I guess. What did I finally go to New York? I was after I moved here. So I would have been like 27. Oh geez. So we're talking at least 10 years after. Yeah. That would have been a good night. I went and got mugged. Nice. Yeah. So you got the full treatment. I got mugged, I guess, swindled. You've I give you a kind of a more Dan swing little until it's all a guy. So I was getting a cab and some guy came up and said, here, give me your money. I'll get you a cab. And so he just took my money. Oh, you are from the Midwest. Yeah. And then I went to ATM to replace the money and got mugged there. You got mugged. So I was down. I was down 300 bucks before I even got it. Why? Why did you think? Give me your money. I'll get you a cab. Because the guy was standing right. It looked like he was like talking to the driver and he was standing like right in the driver's side door. So it looked like he must have just looked like a mark. I must. And when you got mugged, did they have a weapon? No, the guy that got but he was, you know, big, ethnic. Yeah. Okay. So yeah. He just said, give me your money. And he said, Will you get me a cab? And he said, at least, at least give me a cab dude. Yeah. Yeah. No, I was like, fair enough. It was almost like, ATM money. Here you go. Turn right back around. Get more money. See, you know, the funny thing is that most Dr. Who episodes ended with them telling you how not to get mugged and how to get a cab. So it makes perfect sense as to why you become a victim to that. What visit in New York City? If someone tells you to get a cab. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I feel sad now. So let's move on to Sunday. Okay. 8 p.m. I know exactly what I would have watched, but let's see what you pick. Paper chase. Paper chase. I really loved that. You know what? See, the paper chase was just so boring to me. What? Oh, no. What did it for you about the paper chase? I don't know. John Houseman. I mean, I like John Houseman, but I got my John Houseman fix on Silver Spoons. Oh, that was there. I don't even I've been I remember the opening. Yeah, we don't pay credit and he's yelling at them. I'm going to make you. Not only that, but this is a rerun of paper chase airing on the Christian broadcast network. I would watch it anytime. You'd watch it anytime. But here's what it was up against. Spencer for hire. I never saw. I never watched it. Oh my God. If you still never seen it. Still never seen it. You can't live in Boston and haven't seen Spencer for hire. Is that in Boston? Absolutely. I know that. Set and shot in Boston. Yeah, it was they finally canceled after the third season though because the the teamsters tried to strong arm them and they couldn't afford to make it here anymore. If I maybe they shot an episode that was pro bustling. Right. Well, the the big lie. There's a couple big lies. If you grew up around here in the 80s, one of them was I know Machi Mach. That was a big one or I beat up Machi Mach. That was a big one. But the the biggest one was either I was on Spencer for hire or my uncle was like my uncle played a killer on Spencer for hire. That was a huge the huge lie around here. Of course. I love Spencer for hire. It was great Avery Brooks. If you're a Star Trek fan, he played Hawk, a man called Hawk, which is a spin off of Spencer for hire. That sounds better to me. Man called Hawk. It wasn't as good because it took place in New Orleans and there was a lot of voodoo. Was that not as good? It wasn't as good. You didn't have Robert your Robert. You're a murdered about 75 thugs a week on Spencer for hire. Like there would be no no just dirtbags to hire for crimes in Boston after the third episode. Yeah, he was a private cop Spencer. You never knew it was his first name. Never knew it was last name. Only knew him as Spencer. He would speak poetry. Yeah. That's how you that's how you talk to special needs people. They only have one name like yeah, just don't worry about what my name is. Maybe to us if we're not Spencer, we were special needs. So much smarter than us. Apparently. A lot of action, a lot of Boston character actors, a lot of Boston comedians of the 80s show up on that show right now. I don't know. I don't know how to explain this to you, but it's for people who weren't in Boston. Yeah. Boston was not a big deal. But it was a big show. He's not a big deal. Was there anything ever shot in Colorado aside from Cannibal the musical? Dr. Quinn Metismoan. That was shot in Colorado? I don't know, but it took place in Colorado Springs. Wasn't shot there. I doubt it was shot there. I'm thinking it's an LA shooter. Well, Spencer for hire is great. I think you'd like it. It's a it's a gritty crime show. Also, one of my prized possessions in my home. I have a Spencer for hire crew parking placard. Of course. Which I think to this day, if I put it in my car can park anywhere I want in Boston. That's a fine. Whoa, that might be shooting that again. Yeah, you can park any handicap space on that. Yeah. My uncle's on that. You can park wherever you want. And again, also, my caveat, the American League championship game is on it doesn't even register to me. I know. I wish I had time to look up the teams because that would have made the only way I could have forced you out of your comfort zone. If I knew about the teams, the rest of this, we were 100% on can read home turf. Yeah, I could have. Were you a huge baseball fan then? Yeah, but there was but I had but especially during this time of year because there wasn't a team in Colorado yet. Oh, because would you get the Rockies later? Yeah. So, so you only got to see the championship. Yeah, like I've watched national games. Sometimes I was the literally world series where a huge deal to me and my dad. But Spencer for hire isn't. Man, you're missing out. Sorry, I'm sorry. Uh, so at nine o'clock, so one thing you missed out on both of us would have missed out on actually by taking the hour long show was that 8.30 on Fox was a very short lived, very bad show called Women in Prison. It was a sitcom about women in prison. I believe it was been remade as that aren't just the black show. But it's probably pretty similar. It's it's not a good show that Wendy Gios Berbers on it who's very funny of she plays Marty's sister on Back to the Future. Oh, okay. Yes, sure. Speaking of Michael J. Fox. Uh, so nine o'clock. What'd you go with? I know exactly what I'd go with, but I'm curious to see what we're doing. I went with Dolly. Yeah, that's the okay. Yeah. Dolly was a great show. The great show is very funny and then I noticed Emmy Lou was one of the guests. Emmy Lou Harris. Uh, sadly Bruce Willis, also when everybody wasn't singing. Yeah, but no, but in '87. Yeah, he wasn't uh, what's the return of? Return of Bruno Bruno. Yeah. He does sing under the boardwalk with her in this though. I will say that. Uh, I own this whole series. It's great. She's hilarious. She's very funny. There's uh, Miss P.E. is in an episode that's great. Uh, Jackie Harry co-stars in an episode. It was a very weird show. It's like a variety show, but it also had a sitcom in the middle of it. That was kind of sad. Yeah, I love that. It's a great show. That was uh, that was the easiest choice I made to all night. Yeah. I mean, the other thing you had up against it was uh, was Tracy Almond's show. That's pretty much it. Which was okay. See, I just thought like, there's something so precious about I do a million voices and a million characters. Well, you're so what? Yeah, I mean, it was an okay sketch show, but Dolly, Dolly wins out. Absolutely. Hands down, Dolly. Yeah. Whoa, I don't mean it that way, but hey, why not? Why wouldn't you? Yeah. So we've moved on to Monday the saddest night of the week. Uh, always Monday is the saddest night of the week. You've gone back to school, you've gone back to work, you want something that's going to take you away, remind you of the weekend. It's a tough call. What'd you go with? Well, 8 o'clock, I went with Alf. When was Alf, really? I loved that show. I, I liked it at the time, does not hold up. Uh, I can imagine. Right. No surprise. Uh, midway through I switched and I started watching Frank's place. Really? That's what I went with. That's a, that's a more choice. Again, Frank's place is about a guy from Boston. There you go. Who inherits, uh, restaurant in New Orleans and moves down there and has to run it from his, from his estranged father. So these, do you think that Spencer and a man called the Hawk and then this all take place? All the same universe. I think it's a shared universe. Absolutely. Uh, also Boston connection, uh, Paul Frisco, who created Alfred as his voice from Boston. He used to do a lot of weird puppet shows out of WGBH. He made a thing called Santa's Magic Toy Bag. That was his attempt. Yeah. He really wanted to be the next Jim Henson and you really pushed to do like annual specials there. They're pretty awful. Pretty awful. Yeah. Uh, so this episode of Alf, upset by a lie his parents told him becomes the hairiest monk in history in order to quote, quote, contemplate life's viciss- viciss- viciss- viciss- viciss- viciss- vicissitudes. I can't even pronounce that. I'm losing goings of fortune. No wonder you watch this. This is, this is a highbrow stuff. I'm a, I'm a paperchase guy. I don't know what you have. I've never seen the word vicissitudes. Really? That's a pretty big vocabulary word to be in a description of it. I had to be in a TV guide. Like they were, yeah. And that wouldn't even be in the crossword. That would not, you know, someone, you would get fired if you tried to put that in today. So Frank's place episode that night, uh, which is listed as comedy drama. I shouldn't. Okay. Frank's introduction to men's social clubs begins with a wild night with tiger and his friends followed by lunch with a fellow brown alumni, uh, whose own club is a little more reserved and restricted. Sounds a little boring. It was awful. Yeah, it does. It doesn't have- Alf has this alien coz- vicissitudes of life. Yeah. I'd say based on the, uh, just the straight up description, Alf, one on that one, but Frank's place is a, is a better show. I will say that. Uh, but also at eight o'clock, Car 54, where are you was on Nick at night? That would have been the good move for the two years that it ran on Nick at night. It's probably my all time favorite sitcom. Really? It's, uh, it's the most influential sitcom that exists, but people don't know it. Seinfeld, curvy enthusiasm, direct descendants of Car 54. The very, very intricate plots that Matt Hankin did, the building on themselves. It, it's perfect. I'm gonna take your word for it. You should rewatch that show. Anyone who wants to write comedy, especially anything comedic for television should be well versed in Car 54. Right. That's my, that's my, uh, PSA for the night. Also on- I think I tried to write a joke once about Studio 54, where are you? But that didn't- Yeah. I would, I see why you said try. Yeah. In the Car 54, our movie is absolutely awful. Well, yeah, I figure. Really bad. Yeah. Really bad. Sat on the shelf for two years, should have continued to set that shelf. Uh, but also fast times originally when I was on Cinemax. So there's always that. Well, see, that's, I considered saying that, but then I just felt like that would be a great choice. Well, it would be great. It would have taken the whole night. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Yeah. I wanted to give you a lot to work with. 830. See, this was really hard. It would have been torn on this one. I picked Kate and Allie. I think that's the right choice. But it, I'm not super enthusiastic about it. Really? Yeah. It's a good show. Here's the thing. I remember liking the show. It's very good. I don't remember a thing about it. It's a very well-written, well-acted show. I still rewatch it frequently, actually, Kate and Allie. This was from season two. A sportscaster, Allie once dated, moves to New York and wants to see her again. And he's also seeing someone else and Allie Fierce. He's just playing games with her. This is a good one. She, this guy is a sports player. I love the bat that you actually recognize it. Yeah, absolutely. I'm sure, yeah. Yeah. This guy, she eventually marries this, this guy later in the series. I don't want to ruin it for you when you rewatch it. But he plays a Boston sportsscaster. Of course, he plays Boston. Jane Curtin from Boston. Oh, from Cambridge, rather. I met her at this time when, when Kate and Allie first started, she came home to promote it. And I went and met her and told her how much I liked Saturday Night Live and Kate and Allie when I was five years old. And I had a photo of her, like, holding me. Thanks. And I was just hanging out with Jane Curtin. You haven't been in life unlike anybody that ever met. Oh, I made an effort to try and meet all the original SNL cast members that were living. And I crossed quite a few off before age 10. That's pretty amazing. Yep. And sad. It is a little sad for them. More sad for them, I think. Oh, this little boy. Yeah, he's so little. Are your parents okay? Yes. Are they around? Yeah. Kate, now like great show Monday night CBS was definitely my night because we'll get to the rest of the reasons later. But it was, it was just solid all around. You're not going to believe this, but I actually have this night of television. So this actual night of CBS I have from an old tape that I've put on. Really? This whole two hour block from CD. That's crazy. Yeah. I have most of 1987, but we can, we can talk off, off the air about that. Valerie's family was on at the same time. See that's another number. I loved Valerie, but by this time, she was replaced by Sandy Duncan, which was complete bullshit. Yeah. So I would not have watched, I love the episodes of Valerie by the time Sandy Duncan came in, and I wouldn't have watched it. I admire your principles. Well, you should. I'm not going to, I'm not going to sugarcoat it. No, you feel it straight. Yeah. That's what I like about you. Can we? Nine o'clock. I think there's only one move here. New heart. New heart. Hands down. New heart. This was New Heart and it's absolute prime. What a great show. What a great show. One of my all time favorites. Yeah. It's the most defensible choice I made in the whole later. And I think I prefer New Heart to the Bob New Heart Show. I think New Heart was a better show. I think the Bob New Heart Show gets the esteem because of the time it was on, but I think that quality, weirdness, innovation, New Heart's better show. Yeah, that might be. That's what I'm going to go with. I don't know. I don't know if I can sign off on that entirely. Well, I like that you're considering it. I can say it, but the Bob New Heart Show was so... It was good, but New Heart was better. That's what I'll say. Yeah, because the place in Vermont, which is close to Boston. No. No. Well, that was good. They did mention Boston frequently, but I thought that the setting was a lot better. And they had a better supporting cast. Yeah, that is true. The supporting cast was amazing. Amazing. This particular episode pressed to come up with an idea for a new TV show. Michael steals one from a student in his TV production class that he's teaching. This is also a really good episode. It's Michael Centric. I love Peter Scallari. He was great on the show. And yeah, you can't go wrong with New Heart there. That's it. Yeah. If you were, you would get a life fan? No. He didn't like it a life. He didn't like it a life. Wow. Well, because the last few seasons of New Heart were done by pretty much everyone who moved on to dude Get a Life, and they're very surreal in Get a Life-ish. I should mention that to flip through the next day, I had to flip through a 17-page craft recipe guide in the middle of this with some of the most vile looking food I've ever seen in my life. It's 9.30. Tough one. This is impossible. So I actually, you're gonna really be appalled. I figured I'd watch the last half of Larry King. Oh, geez. There's nothing. There's nothing. No, I would have gone. All right. Here's, there was a move. There was a move here. I would have said, if you're just going for the half hour, Donna Reed is something good to put in the background. It was enjoyable. I'll watch a 50-show. But Cinemax, the movie "Valley Girls" started at 9.30, which is an 80s teen sex comedy. It's about some teenage girls who become valleys in Hollywood and antics ensue. That's probably a pretty good choice. Yeah, I don't know why you wouldn't watch "Valley Girls." Oh, Larry King. I think it's because I'm so programmed. We didn't have Cinemax when I was a kid. Well, you have it now. I've magically granted you cinemax. I'm so programmed when I look at TV Guide. You don't even look at Cinemax. You don't even look at HBO because you don't have it. You don't want to see what you're missing. We had it because I built a black box. Of course you did. Yeah. "Valley Girls," man. If you are so, how will do this time? 17. 17. You're 17 and someone's like, "Hey, Timmy, McIntyre." I don't know. They wouldn't call you that because this is Colorado. I don't know what the accent is there. But they said, "You can watch Larry King or something with boobs called the "Valley Girls." What was Larry King's guest? Does he even say? Let's see who Larry King's guest is that night. I have to go back from the craft Mac and Cheese ads. 9 p.m. Larry King. Let's see where we go here. No, just his Larry King live. But let me read you the synopsis of "Valley Girls" from the back of a TV Guide where they go through all the movies that are airing this month. All you have to do is that. Let's see, "Valley Girls," here we go. "No Stars," rated R, 1986, "Sexual Situations," adult themes, adult comedy about a contest between car parking companies in Hollywood. Yeah. Not doing it for you? No, it's not. I mean, I think an art TV is in a very public location. So what am I really going to do with that? I'm not saying that it was, you know, you had to masturbate. Well, if I'm going to watch it, I'm going to watch it. Well, I'm going to watch. If I'm going to watch it, I'm going to just enjoy it. If it's coming to an synomax, I'm going to masturbate. Well, no, I'm going to be ruining the art. What does that say to the comedy? Who cares about the comedy? I wouldn't even turn the volume on. Oh, that's terrible. That's terrible. I was down there watching TV. You weren't allowed to watch TV after 11 or 12. No, but if I was going to, if I was going to, if I was going to, I didn't want them knowing that. That's terrible, Tim. Were you able to do that without cable? Oh, yeah. Well, actually, I had a move. So what I would do is we hit, we had a box. Yeah. And this is back in the day where you have to flick, if you flick the, flick the dial for a couple of seconds. Yeah. And so my friends would all flick it, flick it, flick it, flick it, flick it, flick it, and try to jump up at the same time. While you were there? No. Okay. Okay. Yes. All right. This was the movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Aircles and taught me them how to do it. The channel. Right. This was when it was an oral tradition where this sort of thing was passed around verbally. And so my great contribution to Western civilization was I realized you could put a tape in the VCR and record the flicking. Oh, and watch it later, watch it later. And that way you could have a nearly clear porno. So somewhere in your home, there was a tape of just a second. It was after I put it on at the after a bunch of my sister's recorded match episodes. Was this probably, this was probably American ecstasy was probably the network at the time. Oh, playboy. It was playboy. So it wasn't even hardcore. This was hardcore. No, I was just boobs. Maybe, maybe fronts, maybe butts. You could have got that on Cinemax. I, I caught one of my hobbies is this is a non transition, but I collect old VHS and beta tapes that people have taped off TV. And then I transfer them on to DVD and I have a huge archive. But inevitably, I'll always find a porno tape or two in there. And I would say 99 times out of 100, they're all labeled the same thing. Any guesses? Mesh. PBS shows, PBS shows. And I'm not saying like the list of PBS shows, it'll actually say PBS shows, like someone will be like, I'm not even watching this. Almost every time I ever see a tape labeled PBS shows, I'm like, this is porn, this is hidden pornography. And it always is. It always is. Because I'm like cool PBS shows. Maybe it'll be this old house doesn't know. Yeah, it's not at all. All right, on to Tuesday. Tuesday. What do you got at eight o'clock? Eight o'clock. I went with Nova. Nova. Look at that. Look at that. Look what it's about. A history of US spy machines, chronicles, surveillance techniques from civil war today, including the use of hot air balloons in the 1800s, Francis Gary Powers, YouTube mission in 1960. Also experts and former CIA employees comment on the use of surveillance during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I will give you this. That's pretty interesting. It's pretty awesome. Nova was a pretty good show. It's an ancient show. It still is. But at this time you could have gone with, I mean, this was a tough one. Yet who's the boss, which I wasn't the biggest fan. I never liked a list of Milano hate Tony Danza. I would usually watch it. I don't like Tony Danza just drips in the wrong way. He's the worst human being. I think he's pure evil. They tried to kill him. It didn't work. But you had two movies, three actually. You had blazing saddles. Yeah. You had the jerk. Yeah. And once bitten. But knowing what's coming up at nine o'clock, you wouldn't want to get going. Okay. Well, I probably would have gone with Car 54 on this one. Of course you would have. And watch it every night. All those movies. Once bitten. Jerk. You go with the jerk? Yeah. Especially the first half. Well, I'll say this makes a difference. The jerk was on TV56 or was edited for television, whereas once bitten was unedited. Jim Carrey's finest work, by the way, once bitten. Yeah, fair. All right. So at 8.30, you don't have to pick anything because you've gone with Nova, which is an hour. However, you've missed out on growing pains, maybe my all-time favorite 80s sitcom. This was a pretty good episode. This was in the prime of growing pains in season three. Season three and four were easily the best two seasons of growing pains. This was when just the 10 of us spun off from growing pains, which is one of my all-time favorites. And this episode. Here's your cooking bar, right? Oh, yes, cooking bar is fantastic. Yeah. He was on the show as coach Lubbock at this time. This particular episode Ben discovers a way to get his parents to buy him a new bike by adopting Carol's subtle approach instead of Mike's fawning manner. Basically, he pulls a scam. He has a raffle for a bike. It's a Ben-centric episode, which are usually the weaker episodes, but it's a pretty good one. So 9 o'clock, we move on. And you know what I think. Let me see here. You know what I think. I'm thinking you didn't go with Jake and the Fat Man. I did not. I guess, and you didn't do that. I'm not. You probably didn't watch boxing on USA. Larry King Live is on, and we know how you're a fan of that. But no, I think you go with moonlight. I went with moonlight. That's the move. You have to go with moonlight. That show was so good. It's still good. I have not. I haven't watched it since. Oh, you got a rewatch moonlighting. That's another show that we should play ahead of its time. There was one episode I can't remember where Bruce Willis was fighting somebody they had brooms. Yeah. Only I had a red broom and I got a green broom, and they played a little bit of the Star Wars theme over it. And I thought it was the. Yeah. Now, Purgy. That happens in everything. Oh, everything. Right. But yeah, the show was so far ahead. Plus, I'm in civil shop right now, watch and anything. If you ever read her book, civil disobedience, I did it. It's pretty good. I had a record of her jazz standards. Yeah. Lovely picture of her legs. Yes. Yeah. Was this around the same time? Yeah, exactly. You put the record on a video. So this episode of moonlight is pretty good. And when Maddie continues, whatever she's doing, David grudgingly takes the obsequious Viola, whose Curtis Armstrong, speaking of savage C-found movies, along on the case of a missing fiance whose status remained quo when he failed to appear at the wedding. This was when civil chef and Bruce Willis were having some serious on set fighting. They very rarely appeared in the same episode. I didn't know that moonlighting was tumultuous. They missed a lot of episodes. They had truncated seasons. They introduced Curtis Armstrong into the show to be sort of a main character. And what was and what was who was his Bluminger? That was her name. Her name was she was the secretary. Yeah, she was also on all the things. Alice Beasley? Was that her name? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. But was that her character name or actress name? I think that's her actress, right? I think so. You can't remember a character name. I remember exactly what you look like and she was the perfect. Oh, she was great. And they were they were hilarious together. This episode has a couple of pretty good guest stars Amanda Plummer and Terry O'Quinn are in this episode, which is for the stepfather himself. They had some good actors on moonlighting. It's a good show. But this time it started to fall apart a little bit. What are the best and the last episodes ever? I can't remember. Oh, you should I don't want to ruin it. You should watch it. It's very, very good. So moonlighting went till nine o'clock. 10 o'clock, of course, is outside the realm of what we're speaking up. But I just wanted to mention that one of my favorite shows ever crime story was on antennae would I have to watch it. Michael Mann takes place in the 60s. Dennis Farina. Yeah, I don't. You don't like cop shows. I do like, well, now I do. Back then I didn't like I didn't watch any of them. You know, everyone's like, oh, Mad Men's great. It takes place in the 60s. Yeah, crime story is actually that. Okay. Great show. Okay. Dennis Farina just beaten the crap out of like mobsters. I mean, with runaway playing in the background who we want to watch that. All right, we move on. Move on to Wednesday, middle of the week, Wednesday, eight o'clock, Tim McIntyre, your choice. I actually went with a movie this time. Okay. All right. Dr. Detroit. Dr. Detroit is a decent choice. I love that movie and equity. Find Devo soundtrack. That's a great great. I don't think I only saw it once, but I remember loving it. It's not it's actually not that great, but it's it's pretty entertaining. He becomes a pimp and inadvertently. Yeah. Well, I mean, that happens. Yeah. I mean, we've all been there. I've been in Detroit. I've been in a pimp for four years now. Gee, I've started out with DeVry. And then a guy I worked with was a secret pimp. Really? Yeah. And he ended up killing himself in a shootout with the cops. Really? It was a sales guy, totally normal dude. See, sales guys. Oh, yeah, I just, they're all a half a breath away from being a pimp. Well, now I assume they're all secret pimps after this happened. They're like, where's this guy? And they're like, Oh, did you see the news yesterday with that? They shoot it with the cops? And I was like, yeah, I'm like, that was him. Worked them for three years. Never knew. Guy was a secret pimp. So it can happen. It's my point. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I've also met Dan Aykroy that speaking. Everybody's liquor. Yes. There was no one else in there. He's got a vodka now. Like some crystal skull vodka. Yeah. And a wine and a line of wine. Are they supposed to be good? I mean, I know. I don't drink. They come in a cool bottle of it's a crystal skull. I gotta get some of Dan Aykroy to vodka. Yeah. I mean, I guess he would know. I don't know. I mean, he's funny. He was trying to be a douchey. So I guess he's probably got some sort of natural ink blue. She was very discerning with what he ingested. That's true. I wouldn't say like, oh, yeah, Lucie, he's a fine connoisseur. If he'll take it, you know, it's good. Yeah, that's true. I guess. That's not. So that that was my second. I met him twice, actually. I met him at the House of Blues opening in Cambridge. First one. Yeah. So Dr. Detroit, you went with, which pretty much just wiped out the night for you. But Wednesday was a pretty good night. ABC had Perfect Strangers, which I did enjoy at the time. I didn't really dig that. I think you were probably too old for it. I was in a Bronson Pinchot guy. And then the other guy, what's his face? Mark Lynn Baker, who I liked from my favorite year, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. He's one of the biggest assholes in a TV series of all time. The character, of course, Larry Hamilton. Yeah. It's very, very unlikeable. Yeah, I didn't, didn't do it for me. 8.30 you missed out on Head of the Class. Never watched it. You never watched Head of the Class? Oh, man. You weren't a sitcom guy. I just feel like I had a very different relationship with TV than most people I think. Speaking of your, of enjoying New York, Head of the Class was about a gifted teens program at a New York inner city high school. That's, that's where Dan Schneider, Dan Schneider was the first one. Yeah. Yeah. It was after he was in Bearef Dead, speaking of service of all again. Yeah. But yeah, it was his big, that's his claim to fame. Well, now I know, but at the time, it just did not, I think. Robin Givens was in it. I think I was just sick of white crackin' teenagers. But there wasn't so much white crackin' teenagers. I mean, you had, Howard Hesman was in it. Yeah. I was post-W-K-R-P. Yeah. And then he was really a pretty, pretty, pretty, humbled. And then he was a pre-Trump head. Howard Hesman, was he in Herman's head? Was not in Herman's head. Are you sure? I'm almost positive Howard Hesman wasn't in Herman. Who did he play in Herman's head? We're the, one of the, one of the guys. Oh, no, he definitely was a woman. No. He was, definitely was not. No. Yeah, not Howard Hesman. You're thinking of the guy who played Les Nesman on WKRP as one of the guys, but he also was not in Herman's head. And that's not always the eye on him. I can swear. I can, I can almost hear it. Johnny Fever. Yeah. No, he wasn't in there. Wasn't in there. You feel free to look it up, but I'm 90. Why was I? It's true. Why would you need to? This is a pretty good episode. After inciting a food fight, Dennis, played by Dan Schneider, is exposed to 60s philosophies by Charlie, which Dennis applies in his attempt to change the cafeteria menu. Come on. He's a sit-in. Fat kid has a sit-in. You're telling me fat kid has a sit-in? Isn't something he would want to watch? Not compared to Dr. Detroit. Yeah, I guess you're right. Also, as you mentioned, Perfect Strangers, Balki gets a taste of corporate greed when he buys stock in a cereal company that manufacturers raisin puffs without the promised number of raisins in each box. God, it was a simpler time. It sounds like a Seinfeld plotline. A very simpler time in 1986. That could have easily been a Seinfeld episode. Sure. Just replaced Balki with Kramer. Actually, you know, someone should get, someone could probably do this with editing software. Just put Balki in all the Kramer scenes and Kramer in all the Balki scenes, and we get gold. Internet gold. You're going to want to edit that out because someone will take that. That's a million dollar idea. We get it done. A million dollar idea. And then at 9 o'clock, we had the show a year in a life which was kind of a boring depressing drama. We had Magnum PI, which you didn't watch. Magnum was a fun show when I watched more at like 4 o'clock in the reruns. But you missed out on Hooper Man. John Ritter is finest now. I remember Hooper Man. Hooper Man was a very good crime comedy drama. He's got a little dog. It's a great show. Hooper Man missed out. And at 9 30, you missed out on the Slap Maxwell story, Dabmy Coleman's second film. Oh, look at Dabmy Coleman. God, that guy. He's great. I watched Dabmy Coleman in anything. He was in Buffalo Bill. That was his first show. That was great. Slap Maxwell was the second one, which wasn't quite as good, but was good. And then after that, he moved on to Drexel's class, which was kind of a rip off ahead of the class with him and how it has been rolled. But Slap Maxwell, you could have done worse than Slap Maxwell, but you went with Dr. Detroit. And you know, it's a solid, solid choice at 11 o'clock that night, though, on HBO, the young comedian special. Oh, who's on any guesses? 87. It's hosted by John Larricut, my all-time hero. But John Larricut is one of my favorites. He's the best, not a comedian in any way, not a stand-up comedian. But I bet he hosted the hell out of that. He's good in everything. He's good in summer rental. He's great in second sight. We might have a Boston guy in 87. There's not one Boston guy listed here. No, they list three people. There's a woman in two men. Lane Boudsler? No. No. The other woman from the 80s. That's not what I asked her. Margaret Smith. Okay. Yeah, sure. Bobby Slaton. Oh, and Alan Havy. Oh, I love Alan Havy. Did you ever watch his show Night After Night? Yes. That was one of the best shows comedy central ever. There's a girl, Cathy Hanszewski in high school, who knew I wanted to be a comedian, and she would record that. She would record Night After Night for you, because you didn't have cable? No, I just she knew about it. So she was trying to get in your good graces? She was. Did you guys go out? I mean, you could call that, I suppose. You did some kissy. Yeah. Colorado, man. What a weird time. Yeah. She was like, "Hey, look at this Alan Havy tape." And you're like, "Hey, I'm in." Yeah. Well, hey, that's that's that's a little more information than we need to. Yeah. Yeah, Alan Haver was good. He'd one of my favorite things where he did the audience of one. That was only one person in the audience except for every show. Yeah, he was hilarious. Yeah, he's still around. He was under a Louis last year. Was he really? He was in at least one episode of Louis, which was pretty good. Is this Canadian? I don't think so. I thought he might be Canadian. I think he might be from New York, but I'm not 100% positive. So, Thursday night, the powerhouse night. This is, I mean, I this is NBC. I would like that. It's full glory. I have one possible wild card, but otherwise, I think I'm pretty much straight down the line straight down. Straight down to the scene. It was Cosby Show. It was Cosby, of course. I think that's the choice. However, this was very difficult time for me because at this time, they had moved sledgehammer to be opposite Cosby. And I loved sledgehammer. I can't. Loved it. At the time though, Cosby was... Cosby, Cosby's great. Cosby's great. I probably would have went with Cosby, but sledgehammer is a really great show. All right. And this is a good episode where hammer goes down under undercover as an Aussie used car salesman called Crocodile Ralph to catch the woman who marries, then kills car dealers. It's a good episode. That's nothing plausible. It's a, I think that based on a trustee show, there's some sort of jazz musician makes an appearance. An elderly neighbor who isn't taking her medicine as prescribed finds herself answering to Cliff and the rest of the Huxtable family. That's the opposite. But if you put it like that, sledgehammer does sound better, I guess. Yeah, sledgehammer is a lot more going on. But I wouldn't even have thought. I wouldn't even... Plus, Anne-Marie Martin. You don't even look on 30 nights, 1987. You don't even look at a TV guide. You know I would. So here's what... Every Wednesday night, every Wednesday, when we got TV out in the mail, I went through with a highlighter. And so I would have had to sit and make this choice. And I would have said, you know, I'm going to have to go with sledgehammer. But I understand the Cosby, normally would have gone with Cosby. When sledgehammer was on Wednesday nights, I went on Wednesday nights, but this would have been a tough call. And I liked Anne-Marie Martin, who later went on to write the movie Twister. Okay. She played sledgehammer as a partner, Deroux. All right, 8.30. She's the sheriff. She's the sheriff? Yeah. She's the sheriff, dude. Oh, you had two decent choices and you went with she's the sheriff. That show was hilarious. Oh, Tim McIntyre. That show was hilarious. No, no, no, it wasn't. It was. Let me read you what happens. And she's... If you're unfamiliar with she's the sheriff, this was Susan Summer's post-three company, pre-step-by-step show. As you can imagine by the title, she was the sheriff in a small town. I hated the show. It was a very southern feeling, which was bad for me. This particular episode, Max, sends a picture of Hildy to a girly magazine, then tries to sell her to an Arab chic. What? What? There is. That's at least as possible as sledgehammer going down under the ketchup used card killer. Tim, you missed out on clearly the best show at 8.30, a different world. I can only chalk it up to your inherent racism. That's the only explanation, and I think the least embarrassing one. See, I just don't even, it's a different world than it was that one day with the college. This is spin-off of college. Yeah, I didn't like it. Oh, it's such a good show. I didn't like it. I remember the, something about the opening sequence always was weird to me. Was it too ethnic? No. I know my parents love me. I know. It's a different show. Maybe just too much of those characters. Maybe then I was sick of it. I didn't. Tim, I really think it would have been less than yours. Until this remote, because I saw it when I was looking through it and I saw it different than I could have remembered what it was until just now I remembered it was the college one. His three moves you could have made here. You could have said, "Look, I have terrible taste. I like she's the sheriff. That's the most embarrassing." You could have said, "Look, I'm a huge racist. I can only watch one show with black people in it in a night. That's less embarrassing than saying she's the sheriff's great." Or you could have gone with, "I thought it was the soap opera different world." I'm thinking she's the sheriff. I even think a better move than she's the sheriff. On ABC would have been the charmings. Are we familiar with the charmings? Let me tell you about the plot of the charmings. Snow White and Prince Charming are enchanted by the evil witch. She screws up. They all go to sleep, wake up in modern times. Sticking as she's a sheriff. I mean, because you got Suzanne Summers looking kind of hot. That's your only reason for watching she's the sheriff. I mean, different world was filled with hot women. Lisa Bonet, Jasmine Guy, Marissa Tomay. Yeah, she was in that. Kree Summer was in it later. I mean, come on. And then the charmings you had. I just take remember watching and liking she's the sheriff and I'm just going to stand by that. Paul Winfield, Billy Bird. You know you can't. All right, you're going with she's the sheriff. This is going to be my biggest bonus contention so far that you've picked and we're almost done with the week. But you know what, you're sticking to your guns and I understand that. And so the and some other two choices for the night are completely predictable. Cheers. Yeah, which is a great episode. Take place in Boston. Take place in Boston. As does LA Law. I don't know if you knew that took place in Boston. So you remember Cheers? There really isn't any other choice at nine o'clock. The only other. Nobody's even putting anything on against Cheers. Well, wise guy was on. But that was there was no crossover in that audience. Cheers was a great one. That's a Karla Centric episode. It's a very good one. And then at 9.30, one of my all-time favorites. Nightcord. Nightcord. Speaking up on there. Exactly. The the the air to the Barney Miller for gender. Yeah. That is nightcord. It was so corny and so good. It got much corier later. So the early episodes. Yeah, yeah. Well, there was schmaltziness and that we my wife and I refer to them as nightcord moments where like that moment where Harry has to talk the kid down from holding everyone hostage. And it's like, but somebody loved it and then hugs him. Yeah. Yeah. It got a by 87 to started to get a little more silly. So this will be evidenced by the plot of this particular nightcord episode. Struck dead by lightning. Ball. He's a ruling from a higher court. He comes back to life convinced that God wants him to give all his earthly possessions to the needy. Yeah, it's a pretty good episode. Yeah. You really had no other. I mean, Donna Reed was on in the Loretta Lynn show. There's really nothing worth watching. That wasn't nightcord. Love nightcord. Nightcord is one of the reasons why I never went to New York very often because I love nightcord so much and I didn't want the reality of it to ruin. Everyone nightcord. It's very reasonable. So we moved to the final night of the week. Friday night. Let me try it into the week. I don't know. Okay. So I went with the for eight o'clock. Yeah. I think I know what you went with, but I watched it. I wanted to watch the first half of The Lonely Guy. The Lonely Guy with Steve Martin. Yeah. So you went with two Steve Martin movies this week. No, I would have gone with the jerk. If I had to choose, I would have gone with the jerk. All right. The Lonely Guy. I always like The Lonely Guy. Lonely Guy's okay. It's not it's not my favorite, my favorite Steve Martin movie. I would have gone with Rags to Riches, which I absolutely love. That seems like you're a musical show. For years, Rags to Riches was sort of a holy grail because one of the episodes was interrupted by the Baby Jessica incident this year. I never saw the ending of it. I hated Baby Jessica for decades because of this. What a bitch. Yeah. If people don't remember, this girl fell down a well. Wasn't like Wyoming or something? Texas, I think. Was it Texas? I mean, it sounds like it could be Texas. Somewhere in the middle. And it was on TV forever. She's in this well for like three days. Well, this is great. Cause this is like one of the very first times that we now that CNN existed, you have 24 hours of this coverage. Baby Jessica in a well. This is kind of like a precursor of what was to come with Waco and OJ and everything. Yes. I think everybody, the three, the trinity is Waco, OJ, and Baby Jessica. So those are the three things that we've been able to gather. And the only thing that sticks with me the most, aside from absolutely hating this portrait, I'm sucking a well because I missed Rags to Riches, was that they had a diagram of how they were going to get her out. Yeah, they're going to go down. They're going to dig down. But here is the, if you remember this fact, the man they sent down to get her was a biological freak in that he had no color bone. They found a man with no color. Come on. It's amazing that he could squish in this opening. And I was like, he's touching him, like sitting in a chair, just waiting for the phone next to him. You're a kid. No way on the side. Bring, bring. I don't need no color. You need me to be. Exactly. Yeah. That would be a good TV show. A guy with no color bone. And he's just like the A team. Like they call him in when they need to have an exclusive color bone mistake. Like a human rat. So that was the thing that stuck out with me for the most. But first half of the lonely guy, Rags to Riches, I should mention, took place in the 60s. It was a musical show. Tisha Campbell was on it. Heidi Ziegler, who later went on to be on just the 10 of us the next year when Rags to Riches was canceled, sadly. But I did get the full series came out on DVD two years ago. And I have rectified. And you finally saw it. Yes, I finally saw it. At eight o'clock, there was also the movie Out of Bounds, which was the action adventure movie starring Anthony Michael Hoe gets the drugs and they try to kill him. That's a pretty that's a pretty good flick. So at eight thirty, you also missed another one of my favorites. I married Dora, starring Elizabeth Peña. Elizabeth Peña like her. Do you know Elizabeth Peña? I don't remember this show at all. Do you ever see Jacob's ladder? Yeah. She was. Jez is his wife. Yeah. So here is the premise of I married Dora. A widowed architect marries his housekeeper, Dora, played by Elizabeth Peña, so that she doesn't get deported. That's it. That happens all the time. And yeah, and Juliet Lewis was the daughter. Oh, geez. Wait. It was a pretty okay show, but it contained probably the most mind-blowing moment I had of 1987. So when the show was canceled, it was, you know, it was like a will they won't they do their really love each other. They married for convenience. She decides she loves the architect guy. He's flying off somewhere. So she runs to the airport to tell him I love you. He comes out with his bags and she goes, "What happened?" He says, "It's canceled." And she goes, "Your flight was canceled." And he says, "No. Our show was canceled." And then they pull back and show all the cameras and the audience and it cuts to black and that's the end of the show. That's amazing. Yeah. I was seven years old and I was like, "I can't believe this just happened." That is amazing. Yeah. It was pretty amazing. Okay. Yeah. And later that year, moonlighting had a similar ending. Yeah. I remember that. I remember that. Yeah. But I married Dora really ahead of its time for... Who remembers that? Only you would remember that I married Dora beaten the lighting to that thing. I searched for literally a decade for the episodes of I married Dora and this year I got them. You spent a lot of time like trading with Sketchy. I found a guy in L.A. who bought a storage locker full of beta tapes that was pretty much the entire year of 1987. So I actually have this exact night of I married Dora on beta that I had someone, he had transferred them to DVD for me. So I have S.I. married Dora. It's a great show. Nine o'clock. I think I know what you would have gone with here, but you may surprise me. I don't invite me, vice. You surprised me? Yeah. No, dude. Let me invite me, vice. Great show. Great show. But my parents, when it first came on, would not let me watch it. Because they thought it was too violent? Too violent to my head. Too violent to my head. EGG, drug, sex, the whole schmer. Right, right. It's got vice right in the tight. Yeah. So in our fantasy world where I'm getting to watch anything, I'm of course I'm a fan of it. I actually dated a girl in college for a lot longer than I should have. Well passed when it was clearly a disaster because she had all Miami vise on VHS. Nice. And I hadn't finished. Did she know that? But she knows you're just using her for her Miami vise. No, no, no, because actually funny, she was physically way out of my league. Okay. So she must have assumed that I was just hanging on because she was more attractive or that she could kick your ass. Oh, she was so good looking. She was so good looking. And so she was a promo mayor, a good looking girl with all of Miami vise on VHS. She had some weird sexual hang ups. Okay. All right. So it got really uncomfortable. I hear you. I hear you. And at that age, it's not worth it. Yeah. So this again, this was later. This was right, right, right. Yeah. So this this is a good episode. Penelope and Miller is the guest star in this who I absolutely love. Crockett becomes obsessed with determining whether a famous avant-garde director, director, actually snuffed an actress. Yeah. I mean, my treatment of snuff films. Yeah. Oh, my not gonna perfect. However, I would have set the VCR to tape Max Headroom. Yeah, Max Headroom was great. And you know what? The most appropriate way to watch that would have been taped off of VCR. Absolutely. You know, you know, Eminem has a new video out that is basically him doing Max Headroom. Oh, that's timely. What a goof. Well, here's what's funny. I saw this Sean Tumbly. I was like, ah, he did it's Max Headroom. He's like, what is that? Max Headroom. And what is he, 30? Yeah. I mean, you should probably everyone should know Max Headroom. Have you ever seen the footage of this Max Headroom, the pirate footage? Terrifying, speaking of Dr. Who? It's awesome. It's really terrifying. Yeah. Also, have you ever read the Mies Commission report on pornography? No. Reagan said the Mies Commission report. And there's a large section on snuff films, which they were really, really, really trying to make sure that snuff films are real because that was sort of the the the keystone of their argument. If you can prove it. This snuff films at the next step in pornography. This leads to violence. Here's the link right here. And even the Mies Commission said it's a myth. Right. Does not exist. Maybe they'll rob an Williams joke about the Mies Commission. No. Hey, how's it meet? How's the has the productivity report coming? Oh, it's coming great. Yes. Yes. That makes sense. Yeah. Oh, it's going to take us about eight years. Yeah. It was his own personal big dig back to Boston. So Miami Vice, good episode. Max Headroom, great show. Charles Rocket, very good as such a jerk on that show. I always feel bad that he felt the need to slit his own throughout the Providence field. He was a great, yeah, he murdered, he killed himself years ago former SNL from Providence, Rhode Island. Of course. He was very good friends of the talking kids. He went to college with them at URI. Really? I'm not URI. I'm sorry. I'm not Brown. No, the design. RISD. RISD. RISD. Also, he's a great accordion player. Charles Rocket was in a lot of bands. He was great on on Max Headroom. And also, we have Amanda Pays, who? I mean, who doesn't love Amanda Pays? She was really the only reason to watch The Flash. This episode, the death of a season MetroCop alerts Edison, Matt Frewo to follow play when an addicting game show starts wiping out network 23's ratings and even gets max hooked. This was a really good episode. Yeah. That's a classic. Taking too soon at Max Headroom only lasted the one season. That's a great show. I felt so sophisticated liking that show. Yeah, you felt like you were on a list. Yeah, I knew that. I felt like that was a test that I had passed. What a weird phenomenon because Max Headroom was the new coke spokesman. So he was sort of a corporate evil incarnate. This was like, but that's like some real gifts and stuff. He was on a very subversive, very futuristic cyberpunk show. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, this guy doesn't even really exist. Yeah. And at the same time, had a talk show on Cinemax. Right. Yeah. It's an odd time 1987 was an odd time. So that brings us to 10 o'clock. That's the end of the week. I will mention this on Friday nights at 10 o'clock. I always watch 2020 because it was on after the NBC sitcoms, the sort of pre-TJIF and it became the only show my parents banned me from watching. Okay. Yep. It was because I became incredibly paranoid. I wouldn't wear a lap seat belts. I was afraid of people being robbed at ATMs, much like you were, which was which was exposed on 2020. I was afraid of something called flirty fishing by the moonies cult that I saw on there where they have hot girls recruit people into their cult. I thought that was going to happen to all my cousins. I was wouldn't go to the beach. Not me. No, I was only seven. Not me. Yeah. In this episode, correspondent Roger Carris explores the world of animal behavior, including researchers seeking to determine why an animal will sometimes save a person's life. Doesn't sound as menacing as I remember it, but 2020 really, really kind of fucked me up. That's the show your folks said no 2020 and my dad actually made me watch Super Dave Osborne instead at 10 o'clock on a Friday, which you know worked out. Pretty good. Yeah. Not a bad. Yeah. So now TV Guide does Cheers and Jears. As we all know, it doesn't just give us information. It does judge mental as well. However, the Cheers and Jears did not start until 1988. So there are no Cheers and Jears in this episode. But Tim McIntyre, if you had to have a cheer for the week and a cheer for the week based on the week of television you've picked, what do you got? Oh, let me see here. So everything I'm going to have to go with the cheer would have to be my advice, I guess. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I'm going to correct myself. This edition does. Oh, let's go to instance. All right. So the cheer, let's see if you agree or disagree with the Cheers and Jears. Cheers to television for trying at long last to come to grips with the terrors of the American servicemen experience in Vietnam. And then it goes on to detail all the Vietnam. So that's their cheer. Do you going to go with the S on that one? You know, at the time, I guess there's a lot of Vietnam stuff. There's a lot of people who didn't talk about it for until until about, you know, what's interesting to me is you don't see a lot of TV shows now or a key plot point as someone is a Gulf War like a, yeah, like an Iraqi war veteran. I bet you they'll keep it. I mean, it's too, but at this time, I mean, the number was only 10 years ago, but we're like, this is the same time now. Yeah, but we're still there. So I mean, maybe it was a good deal from the dark side that was about a guy that he draft the dodge and yeah, dodge the draft draft the dodge. So what's a split vote on that one? I'd say, I mean, looking back, I'm going to have to say at the time, it was kind of a, it really was kind of a big deal. Yeah, could probably still it is to somebody. Jears to HBO video, however, for pricing home cassettes of platoon at 99.95. Oh my God. 100 bucks for platoon. Yeah, no, that's how much tapes were. That wasn't that unusual. They weren't really really expensive. They weren't priced to own it was priced to rent. That's right. Studios didn't want you owning tapes. I don't know why they decided to jear just platoon for that every I mean, how would they have to praise the other V. I mean, if you're going for Vietnam, how would the duck is 100 bucks? I would pay under bucks. Well, yeah, well, they're saying that it's a great movie, but people have to pay 100 bucks to buy it. That's a that's a lame Jears TV guy. This is someone didn't need to deadline. Double cheer that we have two cheers left. Cheers. You'll like this one to Major League Baseball for deciding to play game six of the this year's World Series during the daytime. Yeah. Well, do they not do that? No, no, no, no, they didn't do it then surprisingly. Yeah. So you're going to you're going to agree with that? Yeah. But if what if you were working, you would have missed it. That's the I bet you they did it on this game six. First of all, you mean, you may not even get the game six. Right. I'm going to bet you it's on like a Saturday afternoon or Sunday afternoon. It says, yes, more of us can see series games if they're played under the lights, but so what. It's a God given American right to be unproductive on a fall afternoon and catch a series game. In this year of our Constitution's 200th birthday, it's only right that Major League Baseball admits it. Wow, that was like a Rush Limbaugh episode and I got pretty ballsy with their cheers. The final cheer in the TV guide this week is thanks to memories for HBO's second annual Prince's Trust All-Star Rock concert, which reunited on stage ex Beatles George Harrison and Ringo Starr. And that's their cheer for the week. That's very, very boring. I'm not a big Beatles person. We should have talked about this before. I don't really enjoy it. I never, I give it a kind of get. I get why people like it. Not my favorite thing. I know. I mean, a couple, there's a couple, a couple songs I like, but by and large. Well, to McIntire, given that we disagreed so vehemently about she's the sheriff, I'm glad that we could end this on an agreement of our mutual apathy. Yeah, apathy for the Beatles. Well, thank you for being on to be guys counselor and I enjoy it. Thank you. There you go. That was Tim McIntire. Very funny, interesting guy. So please check out his website. He's all over social media. Definitely buy at least one of his albums, if not two or multiple copies of each one. And as always, please like us on Facebook. If you like the show, I'll have more contests up there where you can win memorabilia from my private collection of TV memorabilia. You'll also be the first to hear about all of our big announcements that we have when we have them, which hopefully we will have more in the future. And you can request TV guidance counselor pins or badges. What we had made up and everybody got at the live event a couple weeks ago. So thanks again. And please like us on iTunes, subscribe, rate us. 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