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You can take dvd's of entire series of 3 tv shows...

which do you take, to watch, till the end of time...

1. gilligan's island

2. The Beverly Hillbillies

3. The Wonderful World of Disney the longest running tv series

Ed Sullivan show

MTV

Saturday Night Live

And since MTV and Saturday Night Live are current shows still in production, when they came to deliver the new current DVD's, I'd stowaway on the delivery craft and escape from the Island.

Ha! Good plan!

1. M*A*S*H

2. The Dick Van Dyke Show

3 The Cosby Show


That should keep me occupied.

I'm with you on M*A*S*H. I'd also have to take Spaced. Only two seasons, or series as they say, but the funniest damn thing ever.

The third would have to be Survivor since it would be a good combo of entertainment and some useful info on survival here and there.

So, really no way to include porn? Not "Charlie's Angels," but REAL porn?

There's some pretty long series' in that category. But without assurances that there is a hearty cluster of aloe I'd probably stick to video that tickles the funny bone and leave the other tickling for when the mood arises, then watch something out of the permanent file.

Though there was the HBO Real Sex series. Good balance of entertaining and stimulating...

Porn could be problematic depending on the makeup of soils and sands, the geology of the Island, and the climate of the surrounding ocean.

Basically the type of ever present grit on the ground and wind blown salt could make watching too much desert island porn watching problematic Bushwa.

In so far as salt is concerned I've experienced the salt aspect myself, living aboard ships at sea. About once a week I'd sweep up about a pound of salt from off of my cabin deck.

A deck area smaller than a sheet of plywood, and yet there would build up there a pound of salt a week, coming from my clothing, flaking off my skin, and hair. I'd be raining dried salt onto the deck the whole time I was in there. I'd sweep it out of my bunk with my hand before I would climb in, and yet be lying in granules of salt when I awoke.

I was in the engine room most of the time, I rarely got splashed and wet. Deck hands got heavily salted standing their watches. They had even more salt drifting through their cabins than I did.

Tiny islands surrounded by stormy seas are like that, the wind blows salty air over the island coating everything and everybody with salt all the time.

Too much porn under conditions like those would create painful bloody running sores infesting those unmentionable creases.

Include me in the MASH club...also:
Star Trek: Next Generation
Bugs Bunny- yes, every cartoon.

xoxo

You had to bring up the sci-fi? Now I guess I'll have to ditch the Survivor for Stargate:SG1. Especially since I haven't seen them all yet.

Damn, only 3 huh? Well one things for sure, I won't take Dr.Who. I have only seen one and I just don't get it!

Paid poster sent by the RNC!!!!!

(Hey, I "get" it, SUAF, but the adoration/affection/addiction escapes me completely. I've found it best to just stay silent, or to go off and start checking books in the bookshelves when folks around me start babbling about Who.)

Ha! I'm with SuF...I don't "get it" either. I've been silent on this till now too; I thought I was the only person on the planet who didn't drool over the thought of "New Dr. Who Episodes Coming!"

It's an acquired taste.

Some people picked it up when they first saw the First Doctor back in 1963. That wasn't me.

I first saw the Fourth Doctor around 1979 or so and said "who the hell is this guy running around in a scarf while accompanied by a woman in a weird hat"? That was Tom Baker. I saw it on PBS, which was carrying episodes from the BBC.

I stopped watching some time in the Peter Davison era - it got yanked off the air sometime around 1989 - I think by that point PBS wasn't carrying episodes over the pond anymore from the BBC anyway.

And then all of a sudden one day it's revived in 2005, and it's back on the Sci-Fi channel. For a while Sci-Fi was carrying episodes from BBC, and then it stopped. It's a good thing I switched cable systems to get BBC America, now I'm all caught up with the Eleventh Doctor.

Yes, I admit, it's hard to fathom that this show has been running almost continuously (with a long hiatus of 1989-2005) since 1963, with eleven different people playing the same guy. (And unlike soap operas, they have a canonical reason for why he keeps changing faces called "regeneration.")

Hard to explain if you like it why you do - but I do. Yeah, a blue 1960s style police box is the most bizarre of time travel devices. It might not have stood out in 1963 London, but now it does in 2012. Of course the box (the TARDIS) is bigger on the inside than the outside.

The longest running mystery in the program is the program's title. The Doctor has another name which no one knows (which is why they call him Doctor. Doctor ... Who?) Apparently, it seems, this is the oldest mystery in the universe. (He is, after all, a time traveller.) And apparently at some point he's going to be forced to reveal it.

For fans of the show, this is, of course, like crack, and the show producers damn well know it.

You'll probably recognize the show's most notable race of villains - the Daleks. The Doctor has faced them in every incarnation. During the Time War, he even wiped out most of his own race, the Time Lords, in defeating them.



Yeah, I know. What the hell's so fearsome about a roving salt shaker with an eye prong sticking out?

Maybe it's the way they say the word "EX...TER....MINATE!"

This is probably a design some cheap ass props department came up with in 1963 ... and like so many other things, they haven't ever changed them in the show since.

If I were on a deserted island that had electricity to run a dvd and tv, I'm probably not on a deserted island.

And if it were a desert island, I probably wouldn't last long enough to watch all the shows I brought with me. I might have other priorities besides tv.