[galahad]

Any fans of DERRICK,DiDi's nonstop nonsense and other TRANSTEL programs....
Wouldnt it be gr8 if someone telecasts the above stuff along with BYomkesh Bakshi,
Malgudi days kinda operas on TV???
CAnt find such content on any INdian channel these days:(
wAT say??????/

[eddy]

and one prog i enjoyed as a kid was -- quile ka rahasya
but i guess the best would be hum log....

[Psychodementia]

Hey guys, I think the nostalgia about DD is only because we had very limited content to see. Over the last 13 odd years (I think Cable TV took wings sometime in 1991 and finally took to flight with the World cup in 1992) our attention span has drastically reduced. I doubt if anyone would eagarly wait to do any of the following these days :

1) Not play cricket on a Sunday evening to watch the movie on TV (some arcane 1970s stuff)

2) Do home-work early to see Nukkad.

3) Rush home early from school to watch Didi's nonstop nonsense.

4) Watch Humlog on a nice summer night.

5) Try to catch up on the latest hits on Chitrahaar, to talk about in school the next day.

.......... so on...........

The point is I bet you wouldnt do even 1/4th of the things listed here. Why would I watch chitrahaar when the latest songs are blaring from each channel worth its suscription cost ? Why should i put up with not watching the Wimbledon finals because some president of the 1970s died (this actually happened sometime in 1986-87) ?

But on the flip side there were immemorable serials then :

1) Yeh jo hai zindagi.......redefined comedy. I remember an episode where Satish Shah is a lottery dealer who keeps saying "Mereko 30years ka experience hai"

2) Subah.........got banned because it "glorified drugs", but anyone who saw it cannot forget Salim Ghouse's personality.

to name a couple.

Arun

PS: The Quila ka rehasya had a very eerie song which went like "Yeh hai .... abhishapdt quila.....isme.....kabhi mat jaanaa........mat jaanaa......."

[MOONSTRUCK]

Hi Junta
I cudnt believe when I was told sometime in 1988 that there are prvate channels in foreinn countires.

I was like,.... Private is an individual(old definition), how come an individual owned channel. U need to be a government to have a DD(channel).


Then came gulf war and CNN that brought in Live War....

and the saga began....

Moonstruckkkkkk

[RahulSharma]

i too feel nostalgic about DD, the good gold days.
remember, the time when election results would take 2-3 days to come in and there were movies all day and night on DD.

[galahad]

I forgot to mention NUKKAD,and also P.Roy's -"THe world this week".
THat news prog can compete with the slew of news channels and still run away with top honours.I enjoyed that prog as a 7 year old kid...the USSR->RUSSIA trans,
th Brandenburg wall being broken etc....
CAnt watch 2days news channels tho i'm 20 .

[shyguy]

Hello!

There was a short film .. Stone boy, or something was its name ... I remember seeing it 3-4 times whenever it used to come on DD....

Now all that comes on TV are stupid K soaps!

[shadow=red:73fbf6fd2a]SHYGUY[/shadow:73fbf6fd2a]

[pratsy]

hiya ppl.....

at laaasst a thread where i can remember the good ole' days of oshyeen(was'nt the name of that serial which showed at 9 30 on weekends....i think.. : ) n the oh soo famous ... tehkikaat...saurabh shukla's (vijay anand's actually) detective wrap.......missin the chitrahaaaar 2....can ye beleive that !!!!

n the sunday regional movie ......

now b4 i get tooo emotional....
bye all.....
thanks 4 the thread...


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pratsha aka dmitri :x

[Hobbes]

oh kay folksies!!!

Of all the progs mentioned here the only ones i liked n remembered are Stone Boy (really good series, was too short :( ), oshyeen (yo! it was the japanese serial at 9:30) and byomkesh bakshi, ofcourse! Really liked the analysis he gave at the end of each part.

Uday

[couger]

of all the serial i remember one in particular...
MALGUDI DAYS

the music,the simple life style...the depiction of a simple indian village family....

cant forget those days....

and what about fauji..... every sunday......

and mahabharat.....i remember once going out on a sunday morning to find the roads some what deserted...then i realised that most of the people were busy watching the serial that the city seemed to stop for that 1hrs...

ye those were the good old days....

How i miss them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!