| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | memyselfandmindyahooc... (0)
09/30/2008 | PLEASE SHOW DIFFERENT EPISODES OF I LOVE LUCY/ANDY GRIFFITH;tvland ars same episodes OVER,OVER,OVER,......EACH SHOW MADE MANY EPISODES:SO PICK FROM THE INSTEAD OF "BURNING" A PERSON OUT ON THE SAME ONES OVER AND OVER.....AND WHAT HAPPEN TO "FAMILY" TV ......TVLAND IS FILTHY,GET RID OF THE "NEW WAVE TV"AND STICK TO THE CLASSIC TV,
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 | CBMC (0)
09/23/2008 |  TVland has gotten terrible. I just watched an episode of Hogan's Heroes. 2 minutes into the show there was a commercial. It lasted from 3:32 until 3:38. Effectively about 6 minutes. At 3:44 another commercial lasting 3+ more minutes. Finally the show ended at 3:57. Shows from the 60's ran around 25 or so minutes. TVLand has effectively took around 6-7 minutes off that run time...Basically 18-19 minutes of the show. A complete hacking, so bad that it totally messed up the script(noticeably hard to follow). Don't even start me on the new programming. Absolutely pathetic... It seems to me like there would be enough of a following to start a classic show network (that actually showed classic shows) considering the absurd amount of channels currently available via cable. Hey, I am a 28 year old and I enjoy these old shows.
If you noticed AMC did the same thing. They started by adding 1 commercial in the middle of the movie (something that I didn't mind, gave me time to get a drink or go to the bathroom). Now they have become another network with the typical 15+ minutes of commercials per hour. It seems like the only network that has maintained its integrity is TCM. They still show the unedited movies in their theatrical aspect ratio (cropping of films really is annoying). Who wants to watch a 2.59:1 movie in 4:3, crazy! Enough of my ranting now...It ain't going to change anything.
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 | ClassicTVFan47 (38)
09/11/2008 | Now, more than ever, TV Land is a victim of a debilitating disease that is afflicting the majority of cable/satellite television networks. This disorder is known as the "network creep." It starts out innocently enough, with a "special event" of a movie or a current TV show outside of the original networks mission. But, by the later stages, nothing can be done as the network changes logos and themes, ditches its original purpose and becomes a clone of fifteen other networks, most of which are also easily diagnosed with "network creep" themselves.
Ironically, TV Land began to offset the tiniest beginning stages of network creep seen on Nick at Nite. There were so many classic 50s, 60s, and 70s shows that TV Land was to be the 24-hour home for them, "guaranteeing TV satisfaction." These included a vast variety of rarely seen shows such as "Batman," "Green Acres," and "The Monkees" just to name a few. Up until 2004-2005, the show had a nicely variable lineup of classics that was exciting to follow and anticipate...
...and then it all came crashing down. The network has officially rebranded itself as a "baby boomers" network. Curiously, this seems to mean reality shows featuring Mr. T and George Foreman (!?), movies that are easily available on DVD just about anywhere, and a glut of modern shows. Over the next few years, starting this year, TV Land will add Friends (!?!), Just Shoot Me, and That 70s Show. Two of the latter are also disturbing examples of "shared deals," meaning another network also shows the *same* show. There are too many of these to count, sadly, from Everybody Loves Raymond to Friends to CSI and on and on.
TV Land does still show classic shows, but these are also easily available on DVD in their unedited-for-syndication form and usually syndicated in most local markets to begin with already, like I Love Lucy and The Beverly Hillbillies. Sadly, it would seem TV Land needs to spin-off another network, but likely, in a few years, it would also fall victim to that dreaded disease, "network creep..."
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 | LadyJesusFan777 (39)
08/02/2008 | They do have some good programs, but what really gets annoying is when they take one particular show, and have a marathon of it all day. I think it would be a lot better if they mixed them up a little more.
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 | kidicarus333 (8)
08/02/2008 | Good, but they could definitely upgrade their selection of old shows. There is a lot of stuff out there that they don't play that is really funny.
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 | kg4nab (0)
07/20/2008 | My family is not happy because of your ridiculous reality shows and inappropriate
advertisements for the logo channel. If this continues we will block this channel.
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 | imme (0)
04/07/2008 | I wish they cared about long time viewers who would still watch IF they would give us back our oldies shows!
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 | trebon1038 (65)
03/29/2008 | For the most part I like TV Land...don't like some of the series they are running right now but they also play movies. I prefer Nick @ Night for the series except TV Land plays a lot of Andy Griffith and Mash.
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 | bcourson (0)
01/05/2008 | Too much editing going on - it's ruining shows such as Andy Griffith. They cut scenes crucial to the show, it's like they don't even bother to watch the show they are editing. I agree that quality of TVLand has gone down hill.
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 | denves07 (1)
12/30/2007 |  I would have given TVLand a "5" but they are slipping, just as many of the others have written. I do not want "original" programming, like they are starting to do! We can get that anywhere, anytime. People who watch TVLand want the old classics (Andy, Sanford & Son, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, etc.). Personally I do not like to see recent shows on here (by that I mean Designing Women) since we can usually see these elsewhere anyway. True, you can see Andy and some of the others on other outlets, but these are classics, which stand the test of time. I could watch Andy, Bonanza, Sanford all the time.
One other thing TVLand: Please stop editing the TV shows so much! This is our number 1 pet-pee. We want to see the entire show. So many classic scenes and laughes have been cut out it makes me mad! At least occasionally run a night of "un-cut episodes".
I don't watch TVLand as much as I used too mainly due to the changing of the schedules. I am glad they added The Hillbillies. It is a true classic. I'd also like to see "Gomer Pyle" and "Barney Miller". Some crime dramas they should add are "Streets of San Francisco" and maybe "The Rockford Files". Oh, also good would be "Barnaby Jones" and "Mannix"! Are you listening TVLand?!
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 | westsider29 (0)
12/07/2007 | Would of give it 5 stars but agree it has slipped.I like the old tv shows but they added movies and original programming.Want to see Eight is enough on tv land.
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 | spinette (15)
10/26/2007 | A great place to watch good clean family type of shows. I enjoy Happy Days when they have the show playing, I also love to watch The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, you name it Seventies, I love to watch it.
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 | disgust4PCness (19)
09/24/2007 | I could watch Andy Griffith 24 hours a day, everyday and never get bored of the show (as long as I'm watching the B&W era with Don Knotts). It's also great to see Bob Newhart (the real one that ran in the 70's) again, too.
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| jangler3 (0)
09/15/2007 | They should all this channel (the bonanza,gunsmoke,Andy griffith channel)IF they would change their line up more often,I might put it back on my channels.
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| katiepin53 (0)
08/10/2007 | do we really need to have 4 hours of bananza, then gunsmoke after. we need have tv land mix things up with sitcoms.
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 | nowhinning (1)
04/07/2007 |  Ten years ago I would have given this station a 5 but, they seemed to have slipped. They seem to be stuck in a rut and with the edition of their new "TV Land Original" shows this channel just isn't what it used to be. I have tried, with thousands of other viewers for over a year to write the editors on their own site (programming sugestions) but, it seems to fall on deaf ears. Although I do like the I love lucy, Andy Griffith and Leave it to Beaver shows, they have been played to death along with Sanford and Son, All in the Family and Beverly Hillbilly's. I have never been a big western fan although it was nice for awhile to see the old "Gunsmoke" and "Bonanza" series in rerun but, they have run those in the ground now. As far as the "MASH" and "Three's Company" generation of shows they can be seen in rerun on all kinds of stations. Why they don't bring back shows like "Please don't eat the daisy's", The Mothers-In-Law", "Family Affair", "Wild, Wild, West", "Maverick", The Nanny and the Professor", "Petticoat Junction", "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", (well I think you get the picture, my list could go on way too long) is beyond me. I'm not sure why they insist on the same 10 shows over and over again when there are so many "Classic TV" shows to choose from.
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 | doobiesNhof (22)
03/13/2007 | TV Land broadcasts great classic shows that have stood the test of time: Andy Griffith, Leave It To Beaver, Lucy, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Munsters, Newhart, Beverly Hillbillies, Sanford and Son, All In The Family, etc, etc. Like the world we live in, today's shows are much darker, full of sex, violence and the other assorted ugly sides of the "human condition".
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 | Conservatism (5)
03/12/2007 | Some of my favorite TV shows come on TV land like Three's Company, MASH, Cheers, and I Love Lucy. They just don't make shows like that anymore.
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 | acox38 (0)
11/14/2006 | To start with tvland is not the same as it was years ago.My kids would come home and watch tvland faithfully everyday now they could care less if they ever watch it because of all the program changes.We feel shows like my mother the car,my three sons,petticoat junction,ozzie and harriet,father knows best,courtship of eddies father,and a host of many more like these shows I have named.The old commericals you all need to bring the back also for tvland to be named number one channel on television.Because right now in my household its the least channel that is watched because we never watch tvland now but we will if its changed back. Thank you Arlene Cox -Kentucky
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| BB2004 (4)
11/12/2006 | Lucy is about all I watch, but they air that on other stations too.
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 | MomsandpopscallmeJoe (10)
11/11/2006 | I like classic t.v. shows like: Three's Company, I Love Lucy, Goodtimes, Sandford and Son, Happy Days and Bonanza.
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| risks (0)
01/28/2006 | If I could give it zero stars I would. What was once a great network in the late nineties has become Toilet Land. This is all because they no longer show 50's and 60's shows. Youth is where the money is and us baby boomers no longer count. Have not watched this garbage programming in over a year.
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| crazibananas (0)
01/14/2006 | too many commercials, doesn't really stick w/ old television shows
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| Tygger32 (0)
10/24/2005 | I was appalled on October 23, 2005 at 1:20am to turn on TVland to find that the channel that our son and our family watch was running a commercial for a Gay man phone center where they can meet other gay men. What happened to Nick at Night and TVland providing good wholesome family entertainment. As a christian white family who has no one to protect our rights I am sickened that no one is out to prevent our rights being infringed on by the gay activists and ones who do not believe in God. When will there be someone out to protect our rights.
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 | joshua_01 (1)
08/28/2005 | the only good shows are all in the family and threese company(i love that show)
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 | Nightbird (9)
06/07/2005 | I like Retro TV.
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 | James76255 (23)
06/07/2005 | Good for some nostalgia. One of the things I like is they air some of the shows that haven't been run into the ground through syndication already. I watched The Rookies awhile back, a show I'd completely forgotten about.
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 | GenghisTheHun (177)
06/06/2005 | Great nostalgic fare.
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 | MissPackRat4Jesus (42)
05/11/2005 | TV Land is now similar to what Nick-at-Nite was some years ago. While Nick-at-Nite does have a couple of programs I enjoy, TV Land seems to be, in general, much more superior and higher in quality than NAN. TV Land shows more of the '50s and '60s programs, where NAN doesn't do that anymore. TV Land even offers a few classic advertisements for nostalgia's sake -- for example, I saw an old Messy Marvin (Peter Billingsley) commercial for Hershey's Chocolate Syrup that really unleashed some of those childhood memories (and if you're a thirtysomething like me, you'd identify).
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| martinema (0)
04/25/2005 | I am going to have to chang my rating this past year was one of the worst they moved i love lucy to 10:00am they put the worst realty show on. But what I do like is they put on All In the family. If you ask me they have to put on more shows like The Lucy Show, ChIps{cop show} Differnt Strokes, Family Ties, Facts of life.
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 | 37102002 (2)
04/07/2005 | This and Nickolodeon are pretty much the only channels where you can watch the classic 60's and 70's comedys like Bewitched, Sanford and Son, All In The Family,Gilligan's Island, etc.
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| laurie strode (1)
03/30/2005 | i love three's company alot
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| sixty7a (3)
03/27/2005 | Great to watch Andy and Barney as well as Beaver with my own 9 year old! Too bad they don't make any shows like those today!
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 | X Factor Z (15)
03/26/2005 | A huge dissapointment.I've seen most
of the shows they air dozens of times.
When i want to watch a good, old
western, I watch the Hallmark channel.
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| Mooselover (1)
03/06/2005 | Definatly one of the best stations. They have great shows and every month change them to new ones. LONG LIVE TVLAND!
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| sfalconer (22)
11/01/2004 | If you want to be nostaligic and watch some of your old favorites than this is the channel for you. Thats all they show is old TV shows and they can get repetive at times but it is good to watch the old favorites every now and then.
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| uneek (0)
10/09/2004 | Love it, need to get some more different shows, bring back the Honeymooners and I want to see more old commercials.
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 | Mr.Political (20)
09/26/2004 | A long time ago ( and I do mean long), when I first got cable, the first channel I turned to was TV Land. The show that was on was the Brady Bunch and I got hooked to the channel instantly. But as time went one, I've noticed that all the great classics have been dropped or moved to obsecure time slots and in their place are immature original programming or just shows that are not really classics. They've really dropped the ball and at the pace their at now, they may never be able to pick it back up.
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 | #1sailormoonfan (3)
08/19/2004 | I love watching Bewitched, I Love Lucy, The Munsters, Mister Ed, I Dream of Jeannie, and the Brady Bunch on this channel. It lets adults bring back memories and share them with their kids...and the kids enjoy watching it! I only give it 4 stars because of its Andy Griffith obsession.
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| eric04 (0)
08/04/2004 | Continues to be on a very serious downward spiral. Too many lineup changes and are now doing original programming. A formerly excellent bastion of classics now just another channel showing some old shows.
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 | Darkness302 (1)
08/04/2004 | MUNSTERS!!!
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| Judy Hopskin (0)
07/26/2004 | It is great because I am from the old school, but are there not any black shows that are old school too? Like Fredd Sandford, George Jefferson, and Good Times! Thanks!
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| Jamie McBain (50)
06/22/2004 | Weeeeee! No reality tv, just good old classic television!
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| Coco1 (0)
06/02/2004 | I love TVLAND. Now they are showing Green Acres which is so funny ! The only thing I can't figure out is here they have all the classic black and white Andy Griffith shows and they don't show them. They just show the bad color episodes instead. Please start showing the great black and white Andy Griffith shows again !!
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 | Davis21Wylie (1)
04/12/2004 | It used to be incredible, but now all they show is Happy Days, Bewitched, and the Brady Bunch 24-7. Where's Adam-12, or Emergency!? TV Land has slipped considerably, probably ever since the first TV Land Awards, which aren't funny and are sometimes excruciating to watch due to lack of humor. Bring I Dream of Jeannie back at a reasonable hour, or do Twice as Nice with shows other than Bonanza or Gunsmoke! Please!
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| helmetranchobob (0)
03/22/2004 | Screw TV LAND
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| Howard Beale (0)
03/11/2004 | What is with these marathons???? I wish someone could help me find some info on tvland ratings and all these othwer channels that show marathons of the same show all day long 7 episodes a day of Andy Griffith according to my preview guide!! 7!!!! Wheres the variety? What are the reasons?
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 | Dawnsdinos (6)
03/09/2004 | Some of the shows are good, but some are just bad shows being shown over and over again.
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| BklynGirl (0)
03/09/2004 | I love TV Land. If I try hard enough, I can just imagine that it is really the '70s again. No GenXers, no Dubya. I wish I could stay home all day and watch!
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| ClassicTVFan507 (0)
01/23/2004 | I would rate TV Land a 5 except we're having to sit through mindless reruns of sheer boredom deriving from these Nick-at-Nite so-called classics which are nothing but garbage. I think you know the two or three shows I'm talking about. If not, hear this: it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what shows I'm referring to.
TV Land should go back to their summer and fall schedules of 2003 when they aired such classics: Mister Ed, Bewitched, I Love Lucy, Mary Tyler Moore, Happy Days, I Dream of Jeannie, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady Bunch, Dennis the Menace, The Munsters, Sanford and Son and countless others.
The 2004 schedule changes are a far cry for the glorious days of TV Land in the years of 1996 to 2003.
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| tdubya71 (0)
01/14/2004 | The place to go for classic TV and for people to see how great TV used to be. No Survivor crud here.
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 | tvtator (6)
11/20/2003 | Great classic tv shows like Mr Ed, Bewitched, The Andy Griffith Show, I Love Lucy, I Dream of Jeannie and more. I wish they'd bring back some from the 50's and early 60's like Father Knows Best, My Three Son's, Donna Reed. Also I'd love to see The Monkees and Laugh-In again. Still it's a fun channel. But Macgyver does not belong on TVLand. Sorry.
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| michelec (0)
10/30/2003 |  TV Land is the one channel I can rely on to have great programming all the time. Sure we all have some favorites that we would like to see added or return to the lineup (I would love to see the Odd Couple again), but there's only so many hours in the day. I think for the most part TV Land does a good job of rotating their lineup every now and then to keep things fresh. I think their only black spot is late Sunday night...instead of showing those tired 60 Minute or ET specials, they should put a classic drama in that timeslot like Family or Marcus Welby. As for the rater who chided everyone for not giving high marks to news channels or the networks...I can't speak for everyone else but when I come home from a long day at a stressful job or running from one class to the next, the last thing I want to do is turn on a news channel to watch people yell and scream at each other and call it a discussion of the issues, or watch a "current" show that consists of people treating each other like crap. TV Land is an escape, and when I watch Andy Griffin or Sanford and Son I know that's at least 30 minutes out of the day I don't have to worry about my blood pressure going through the roof.
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| hellokitty76 (0)
10/29/2003 | My family and I like the variety of classic tv shows shown by TV Land. I would welcome some more seldom seen programs, but it's great to have a channel to turn to that is suitable for the entire family to watch.
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| pilotman8767 (0)
08/05/2003 | its a good channel for watching shows without all the dirty stuff in todays tv shows
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| tommychongsmokes (0)
07/25/2003 | The only thing that would be better is a 24hr 7 Happy Days Channel
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| lotr417 (0)
05/28/2003 | WHERE HAS THIS CHANNEL BEEN ALL MY LIFE??? I LOVE IT!
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| ladyburro2005 (0)
05/19/2003 | one of my favorite channels. i love it!
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| Mario500 (0)
05/11/2003 | Classic TV 24/7 is all here in TV Land! Many of our old favorite from TV's past are here on this channel for your viewing pleasure. If you're missing something in your life that made you're TV viewing the best, TV Land just may cure you of that once and for all. Expect TV Land to keep all the shows alive for more to see for many years to come.
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| 747BraniffPlace (0)
04/01/2003 | From what I've seen of TV Land's listings in USA Today and on the network's website (I've never seen the channel personally--I am not sure if we have it in our area), they largely show the same reruns that used to be shown on the local and superstations. Many of those are good--and the TVLand people should be commended for getting Barney Miller in front of a large audience after a large number of years (I miss that show, I must admit). But TV Land should also show the great miniseries such as Roots and The Holocaust and such talk shows hosted by such personalities as Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett and Mike Douglas. Those programs are also part of TV history.
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| Sharon3802 (0)
02/25/2003 | TVLand is one of my favorite channels. I love the shows such as Get Smart, All in the Family, Barney Miller just to name a few. Please please please I'm sick and tired of I Love Lucy. Sure, Lucille Ball is wonderful, but too much of anything can be annoying! Hey TVLand, there are a lot of us "Perfect Strangers" fans who'd like to see Balki and Larry again! What about it?
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| ChunkyLover53 (0)
02/24/2003 | I like watching TV Land. They have some great classics and it's a nice alternative to the tripe that regular broadcast network TV is airing nowadays. I wish they'd bring back Taxi though.
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| philc (5)
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