Post by The Herald Erjen on Sept 16, 2017 8:38:51 GMT
You're older than me, so you would remember what it was like back in the day. You went to a store and bought a television set, took it home, and plugged it in. After that it didn't cost you anything except for the small amount of electricity it used. There weren't as many channels then, but it was good. Then, someone figured out how to make people pay for their own brainwashing, and it was never the same again.
What disturbs me about some people lately is that they could go to college for what they're paying for just plain television. Sure, there's an episode of Nature on PBS with some avant-garde science once a year, but it's not like it's part of a degree in anything.
I am old enough to have watched Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea when they originally aired. As a mere child with no great worldliness I didn't notice how very silly many of those episodes were. There was one episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea that left a profound and abiding memory. The mad scientist (There's one in several episodes.) created a monster (There's one of those in several episodes too.) that did whatever it was told to do through a box that looked like a transistor radio. At some point it got loose and someone got hold of the control box and said, "Die!, die!" Then it died because it did what it was told to do. That was historic, I never forgot it.
I remember several episodes of The Twilight Zone, which of course is more pithy stuff on the whole than Irwin Allen. I especially remember the episode where you see a farm lady troubled by noises who finds an alien spacecraft in her loft. The aliens are about the size of chihuahuas in comparison to her. The surprise ending is
she is the alien and is a giant and the spacecraft is from Earth.
The Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode doesn't ring a bell, but there are a few of the first season episodes that I may not have seen.