Day #21 of the 30 Day of Television Challenge

[shadowkat]

This is Day #21 of 30 Days of Television Challenge

The prompt is A favorite documentary, science or nature series or mini-series (can't be a reality show) (the prompt was not my idea, it was atpo omn - the only one who gave suggestions. )

I don't know, I'm not a huge doc fan and I'm drawing a blank on nature series.

Because there's been an increasingly annoying trend towards obscure 1950s and 60s television series that no one can watch now or would want to. (No offense but most of those shows were horribly racist, sexist, and dated.) The television series has to be post 1980s and available either on a streaming service,cable or network/broadcast television. I know you have watched television since the 1980s. Stop picking shows from your childhoods.

Mine? Ken Burns Country Music Documentary - which is among the few that I watched and enjoyed all the way through - much to my considerable surprise. (I realized I enjoyed country music far more than I thought.)

Watch on YouTube

Comments

[cjlasky7]

When I was a kid, my family and I used to watch Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, starring the avuncular, grey haired (and mustachioed) Marlin Perkins and his youthful associate, Jim Fowler (who would do all of the real work out in the wild).

As a sideline/cross-promotion, Fowler would also bring animals to the set of The Tonight Show that would scare the shit out of Johnny Carson...

https://youtu.be/-txG2ng97MU

[shadowkat]

I loved Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

However - was it in the 1980s - now? And can you watch it on streaming, broadcast, or cable? If not? Select another one.

There's an alarming trend of people picking shows from their childhoods in the 1950s and 60s.

[cjlasky7]

You can stream dozens of vintage episodes on youtube, and I think you can also watch a modern incarnation with a new host.

[shadowkat]

Sorry, no cigar. No interest in streaming outdated nature programs. Find something more recent. The childhood category was already done.

[cjlasky7]

If you want something more recent, we are watching Innovation Nation (hosted by Mo Rocca) on Saturday mornings these days:

https://youtu.be/2eDKoXaJhPs

[shadowkat]

Thank you. That works.

[cactuswatcher]

Why did you pick to exclude the 80s? A lot of good shows from the 80s (and 50s and 60s!) can be seen on youTube.

[shadowkat]

Nothing before the 80s. Why? Because I need variety. Everyone is posting shows, films, etc from the mid-to-early 20th Century.

I know you all have watched television post 1970s. I need to make this harder for you.

[cactuswatcher]

I think I asked my question too accusingly. If what you really want is only HDTV things, That's understandable. And I didn't ask about things before the 80s. You exclude things in the 80s, which is when documentaries really took off. Including Nature, see your reply below. It started in 1982.

I don't have cable or streaming, so I don't know what can or can't be seen that way. If YouTube doesn't work for you, that's okay.

[shadowkat]

But it is still on now. I'll allow 80s. Particularly if it is still on television and I can watch it now, with new episodes.

You have PBS, right?

There's tons of documentaries on Broadcast Television. The one I posted is from PBS - on broadcast television. I don't get why people are posting shows that left the airways ages ago and you can only find on some streaming service. I mean Mutual of Omaha was succeeded by Blue Planet, Nature, and various others. All of which can be found on broadcast television. Mutual of Omaha can no longer be found on Broadcast TV.

Also I specifically stated I did not want a reality series - HDTV does reality shows.

I don't know why you have to post something from the 1980s. Haven't you watched any documentaries on broadcast television post 1980s? I know you have - you've mentioned it.

What is it with old television series, films, songs, etc? Is this a way to revisit the bygone days of youth or nostalgia? I mean at first I thought oh cool, but to an objective observer you all seem to have decided nothing worth viewing, listening too, etc happened after the 1970s. It's not just you, if it was just one person - I'd handwave it - but it's everyone and in every single meme. It's as if you are competing with each other to see how old and obscure you can get. I mean no one picked Twilight Zone or the Outer Limits - instead you pick shows that are obscure things that are hard to find.

[cactuswatcher]

I meant HDTV as a television broadcast format. The older format in the 20th century was NTSB. IF HDTV is also a cable channel full of realty shows I know nothing about it.

[shadowkat]

It is. Home Development - or it's HGDTV - I forget. It's a channel with nothing but home development and gardnering reality television shows - do not want.

There's over 20 years of television to choose from in the 21st century.

Hey, my journal my rules. If you want post television shows from your bygone youth - you can do it your own journals.

[cactuswatcher]

Marlin Perkins had an earlier show on NBC which I won't name since Shadowkat has put down rules about series she's too young to have seen. He was then director of the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, in his 40s and he did do a lot of the action for that show. In his late 50s he moved to be director at the St. Louis Zoo where he had his first job after dropping out of college. It was in St. Louis where Wild Kingdom was begun and some of the indoor shots were done. We used to see him quite frequently at the St. Louis Zoo. (George Vierheller, the guy who Perkins succeeded and who gave Perkins that first job, used to climb into the spacious gorilla cage and share a cigar with our beloved Phil the gorilla.)

[shadowkat]

I saw Mutual of Omaha. I want more recent series. I know they exist. I'm not going to hunt down Mutual of Omaha again. It's horribly dated, and kind of chauvinistic.