What classic TV series are you getting bored watching again & again?

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You know the show backwards & forwards, since they've been repeated so many times. I'm not entertained anymore with Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Gilligan's Island, The Golden Girls, Gunsmoke, and Leave It To Beaver.
 

Those shows were good at the time for me to watch, but I can't handle watching them now.
 

They ran the original A Team a while back and watched that due to being infatuated with George Peppard but didn't enjoy the show as much as first time round. Or at all really.

Wagon Train got a gig for a while, I only managed one episode of that. I can't believe we thought that was so great back then, my gawd it was corny.

Gimme new stuff.
 
My kids still watch the A-team, and Knightrider!

The only things I really enjoy re-watching are things like Brideshead revisited, and the original John le Carres. Very British of course!
 
I still like seeing old TV shows from the 1950's-early 60's.

Andy Griffith show is still golden to me, the first few years in black and white, Barney was on there and Floyd the Barber, Barney left after 2 or maybe 3 seasons. I'm too lazy to go to google and find out for sure. After Barney left and then Goober showed up, it went down hill rapidly.

Oh I know it's later but Laverne and Shirley, that got old and also Happy Days was never funny enough for me. Can't watch Kojak.
 
The old UK coppers shows are getting late night gigs here at the moment. Gideons Way etc. Wasn't a great fan originally and life's too short to watch them again but they were very popular with most, probably still are with many. The Avengers and Dangerman have been running recently. Loved 'em then, can't watch them now. Over it.

Couldn't handle Brideshead again. My god that was hard work enough to watch back in the day. I really didn't give a rats what happened to any of them. Expensively produced soap opera.
 
That has become a catchphrase over here....we have a murrrdrrrr!
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going out to dinner with two Scots on Saturday; that will get my ear in again!
 
If it's trending on Twitter or frequently discussed on Facebook I probably won't like it. To me, most of what is "new and wonderful" is garbage.

Give me the oldies any day. Our nostalgia channel here (MeTV) has all the old Westerns, sitcoms and detective shows and that's fine by me. I can still watch The Honeymooners, Dick van Dyke, Twilight Zone, Kojak, Columbo, Gunsmoke, etc. and never get too burned out.

Just when I start to get bored with them they change up the schedule (maybe every 6 months) by putting a few shows on hiatus and bringing in a few new-old ones.

Still, there are some I just can't watch - Gilligan's Island, Rhoda, Lost in Space, a few others - either because they don't seem funny anymore (Gilligan's Island) or I just never liked them to begin with (Rhoda, Lost in Space).

What's the alternative?

I looked at TV Guide's list of the 130 most popular shows. I have never seen a single episode of the majority of them. For a while I enjoyed #28, Big Bang Theory, and I still enjoy reruns of #30, Two and A Half Men and #45, Criminal Minds, when I'm in my Sherlock Holmes mode; all the rest I either gave up on long ago (#109, Saturday Night Live) or we just don't get the right channels (HBO2, Game of Thrones).

If I'm curious about a show I'll watch a few episodes on YouTube or one of the other streaming sites; if I really like it I'll download the entire series. But of TV Guide's 130 listed shows, only one or two are currently what I would call favorites.

I will continue to claim that I was born too late.
 
I love Colombo; basically as you know what happens from the beginning you don't have to remember anything, so you can watch repeats too!
 
Peter Falk was a great actor, whether doing drama, comedy or (as with Columbo) a combination of both. He got a lot of big-name guest stars on there as well - always a sign that he "played nice" with his fellow actors.
 
"What classic TV series are you getting bored watching again & again?"
None of them. Why keep watching them?
 
I believe "The Andy Griffith show" was the best comedy tv show ever made. But, I have watched all of the episodes over and over again and won't watch again. Same thing with "The Twilight Zone" original. A really good comedy is "Gomer Pyle USMC ." I haven't seen all of them yet. Another good one is "Mama's Family."
 
I never liked Mash when it first aired so didn't watch it. Fast forward to present.....got watching it and have seen every show at least twice.

my favorites are Andy Griffith and Don Knotts. Great casting on someone's part.
 

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