Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxt!techpub From: techpub@mhuxt.UUCP (mcgrew) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: No tv? Message-ID: <394@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 16:06:01 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxt.394 Posted: Thu Dec 6 16:06:01 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 02:11:42 EST References: <292@ut-sally.UUCP> <255@scc.UUCP> <171@harvard.ARPA> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 56 > What's wrong with something that's a waste of time? As long as you know > it's a waste of time... Most novels are a waste of time, but I enjoy > reading them. > I don't think novels are a waste of time at all. It depends on what you read. One can learn alot from good novels (Michener, perhaps??). > Public TV can be > (and often is) very informative -- for example, "The Brain" (a weekly > series on PBS) is really interesting. Also, there are some good kids' > shows (Sesame Street, Electric Company, wildlife shows, etc. etc.) > Public TV is my favorite... especially since they began airing Nature. That show is, in my book, the best show EVER. The photography is absolutely phenomenal!!! Oh by the way, can anyone out there tell me how the heck they film a rattlesnake's den from *INSIDE LOOKING OUT*? or how they film a fly falling into the ovary of a plant that contains liquid pollen (and eventually drowns) and they show the fly *UNDERNEATH* the liquid pollen (as if it were under water)? Everytime I watch Nature these questions are asked. Any nature photographers who can answer them? > However, I think that tv (in addition to fulfilling, at least to some > extent, the role of educator) is there for entertainment. I find some > shows entertaining (in particular, I happen to like Kate & Allie, Cagney > & Lacey, Cheers, Hill Street Blues, and the Johnny Carson Show). I > watch them because they make me laugh. I watch old Brady Bunch shows > because they remind me of when I was a little kid (I also had a large > family, although we fought a lot more than the Brady Bunch did!) and > they make me laugh. > > > Marie desJardins > marie@harvard How about Leave it to Beaver....Good ole Beave!!! Although there's alot of crap on TV, entertaining shows are still available--you just have to look a little harder to find them. One thing I've found is that having a VCR (video recorder) has opened alot of new doors regarding TV. Usually the best of the old movies are shown at most inconvenient times (4am....11:30am, etc), and by having a VCR I'm able to record and watch them at my leisure (without watching the commercials!!). Melanie mhuxt!techpub