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I don't watch much TV, and until a few years ago only had access to the networks. About a year after I moved into my condo, though, I decided to buy a satellite dish which I use mostly for the digital commercial-free audio channels. I do have to admit, though, that I've become enamored of the original content on HBO and practically addicted to some of the programming on HGTV, Discovery Home and Leisure, The Learning Channel, and BBC America.

Programs and Services I Particularly Enjoy
  • BBC America
  • Discovery Home and Leisure
  • Discovery Science Channel
  • DIY: The Do It Yourself Network
  • Food Network
  • HGTV - Home and Garden Television
  • The Learning Channel
  • Changing Rooms
  • Enterprise The newest series in the Star Trek franchise.
  • Farscape The most complex, interesting and entertaining new science-fiction show in years.
  • Good Eats An entertaining cooking and information show. And Alton Brown, born one day before me, seems to share my taste in bowling shirts and mid-century modern style.
  • Ground Force
  • Iron Chef
  • Oz
  • Sex and the City
  • Six Feet Under The single best series on television. Well-written, well-acted, quirky drama.
  • The Sopranos
  • Trading Spaces
    Programs I've Enjoyed Over the Years
    Y represents a link to program information on the Yesterdayland web site
  • Absolutely Fabulous
  • The Avengers Y Diana Rigg will always be Mrs. Peel to me.
  • Bewitched Y
  • The Bionic Woman Y As a pre-teen, I adored Jaime Sommers. I wanted to be bionic just like her. Having Steve Austin as a boyfriend wouldn't hurt, either.
  • Blackadder
  • The Bugaloos Y This was my favorite Saturday morning show when I was a kid. I had a major crush on the character Courage.
  • Danger Mouse Y The greatest secret agent in the world. "Crumbs! Carrots!" I started watching this at college, and found it roll-on-the-floor funny at the time.
  • Kids in the Hall Canadian. And some of the best sketch comedy since the early days of SNL and SCTV.
  • Mad TV Fox's funny late-night sketch comedy show. Clever skits, and they know how to end them. In its first seasons, Bryan Callen was possibly the sexiest guy on TV, and I lived for the words, "Pool Boy, dance!"
  • Max Headroom Y The episodic black comedy set "twenty minutes into the future" about Edison Carter, reporter for Network 23, not the inane talk show that came later.
  • Monty Python's Flying Circus Y
  • Northern Exposure
  • Picket Fences
  • The Pretender
  • Queer as Folk I prefer the groundbreaking, witty, original British series to the inferior US version
  • Reboot Y Completely computer generated Saturday morning show, which has an imaginative and sophisticated sense of humor (like its spot-on parody of The X-Files).
  • SCTV Outside of Monty Python, I think this may be the best sketch comedy show of all time, and it's certainly produced its share of major comedy stars. I still find myself chuckling outloud when I think about Mrs. Falbo's Tiny Town, or Tex and Edna Boil, or Andrea Martin as Indira Gandhi in a take-off on Evita, or Monster Chiller Horror Theatre, or the McKenzie Brothers in the Great White North, or Julia Childs and Fred Rogers duking it out in Battle of the PBS Stars...
  • The Simpsons
  • Sliders Well, this show originally had a great premise, and a pretty good cast. But even before the first cast changes and John Rhys-Davies' departure, it was starting to creep off my list of favorites for not having come even close to fufilling its original promise.
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Y
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation Y
  • Star Trek: Voyager Y
  • St. Elsewhere Y
  • Two Fat Ladies
  • The X-Files Y
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