Retro Tv Viewer Gifts

'Postgrad Pat.'

"Lassie, go get help!" "Oh Timmy you idiot! Not again!"

'The History Channel is all reruns.'

"Don't get strung out by the way I look, don't judge a book by its cover."

Before the Internet

"The following film has been formatted to fir the screen of the newer and more expensive television set."

"Do you know any other songs besides the theme to The Andy Griffin Show?"

"That concludes our broadcast day. Go to bed."

'It's O.K. Charlie - you can relax. The T.V. repairman said, 'it can be fixed!''

The Old Time Television Channel

"I know he's funny, boy, but he’s also the president of the United States."

'No Bonanza, no Gunsmoke, no Led Zeppelin... what a sad state of affairs this is! I'm glad I'm not in your generation...'

'Could you pass me my - oh thankyou.'

"It's the great pumpkin's psychotic uncle Mitch, Charlie Brown."

Lady throws dart to decide which soap opera she's going to watch.

"...Looks like nothing but snow on TV tonight..."

"If I had been on 'The Brady Bunch', which I wasn't, I'd have been Greg, whom I ain't"

'We couldn't give away black-and-white TVs until we started advertising them as having 'non multi-color capability'.'

'I've seen nothing I've liked since Victor Meldrew!'

'...According to the survey, Canadians prefer the doggie style positions, so the can both keep watching the Hockey game...'

The Bronze Age of Television

'I don't have any formal training, but I do own the complet boxed set of 'Get Smart' DVD's.'

"These are PC to view, providing we laugh in an ironic and non-committal way - belly laughing constitutes a hate crime."

'What did your grandmother and I do before we had 600 channels? Go ask your 12 aunts and uncles.'

"...but after they hired Vanna White instead of me things really got interesting."

TV dinners: regular and widescreen

'When I was your age, 'classic episodes' were called repeats.'

'Morcambe and Wise.'