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Coronavirus, Part 17 - Binge Watch Worthy

Because the number of virus victims are beginning to rise again, plan on being quarantined again. At least in states where crowds have been gathering. Red or yellow may be the new green. Just in case you find yourself house bound again, there are some interesting programs to watch.

Tubi, if you haven't heard of it, has hundreds if not thousands of programs to binge watch. Old television sitcoms and dramas as well as old movies. If you're missing that old favorite, Tubi just might have it. And it's all at a great price...FREE! I like free. Free in this case is good. Very good. Getting the Coronavirus for free, not good.


I've started to re-watch 1960s (I watched some of these when they were brand new or in reruns.) black and white sitcoms and dramas: My Favorite Martian that starred Ray Walston and Bill Bixby and ran for three seasons 1963-66. Very funny, simple humor, with a touch of sexual innuendo. It's not overtly sexual like sitcoms today. Just a hint. Another program I plan to add to my list is Route 66, a drama that ran for four seasons from 1960-64. It's basically a four year road trip along the titled route by two friends, Martin Milner and George Maharis. The car they drove was a convertible Corvette, a vehicle I have always dreamt of owning.

Another one I have been watching is the classic horror daytime soap opera drama, Dark Shadows. I used to watch these when I was in elementary school. I'd dash home and park myself in front our black and white television. It came on at 4 pm everyday. Its time slot moved around depending on where in the country you lived to the 3 pm, 3:30 pm and 4:30 pm but finally found a home back at 4 pm in 1968 and stayed there until the show was cancelled. During the summer, I'd stop playing outside and rush in to catch it. It was a very macabre program and thus interesting to an 8-9 year old. I've chosen to re-watch all 1,225 episodes because I'm positive I never saw all of them when they originally aired. They have not been available for free until recently. There were a series of VHS tapes and now DVDs, but you had to buy them or get lucky if your local library carried them.

The first 294 episodes were in black and white (I'm on episode 215.) before going to color in 1967. It ran from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. I'm watching this with short commercials peppered in from my well-worth-the-annual-fee-for-more-reasons-than-just-free-television-and-movies, Prime Video from Amazon. It too has hundreds if not thousands of programs, television and movies. 

I'm also still binging Star Trek: DS9 but have paused it temporarily. I'm not as excited about this series as I was with Next Generation. So, I'll end this so we all can go back to binge watching whatever tickles our fancy. Until next time, Stay home. Socially distance six feet and wear a mask if you have got to go out. TTFN.


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