Purchase Diary 2016 – April – July

Ghostbusters II (1989)


Apr 5th – €10.99 @ Amazon.de

Running Time: 1h 48m

Price per Hour: €6.11

Grey’s Anatomy: Season 2 (2005 – 2006)


Apr 5th – €10.97 @ Amazon.de

Running Time: 18h 37m

Price per Hour: €0.59

Grey’s Anatomy: Season 3 (2006 – 2007)


Apr 5th – €10.99 @ Amazon.de

Running Time: 17h 45m

Price per Hour: €0.62

Beyond Sherwood Forest (2009)


Apr 18th – €4.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Running Time: 1h 33m

Price per Hour: €3.22

Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)


Apr 18th – €5.00 @ Drogerie Müller

Running Time: 2h 5m

Price per Hour: €2.40

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TV Junkie: A History

I watched a lot of TV shows over the years. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. And I watched accross the board.

Keep in mind that I’m only 35 years old.

I watched The Guiding Light for two years straight (it’s a soap opera whose German title was the Springfield Story). I watched medical shows like Trapper John M.D. and lawyer shows like L.A. Law. I watched the 80s action shows from MacGuyver to Riptide. I even watched Love Boat every weekday on one of the first private channels in Germany: Sat.1. I got up at 6am on every Saturday morning to watch Rawhide (Tausend Meilen Staub, lit. “A Thousand Miles of Dust”) with a very young and pre-Fistful Clint Eastwood. I knew who Daniel Boone was around the same time I met the Cartwrights as well as the men from the Shiloh Ranch.

And last weekend I binge-watched the first Netflix show House of Cards (Big recommendation! Kevin Spacey is a brilliant Magnificent Bastard!) and I got curious as to how many shows I watched intently over the past two and a half decades.

With the help of the list on the German site Wunschliste.de I created a list of “my” shows.

I only counted live-action fiction shows, no animated shows may they be Saturday morning cartoons like Yogi Bear or Scooby-Doo or evening shows like The Simpsons or South Park. No scripted reality (which I’m avoiding to 99% anyway with the exception of Comic Book Men). In this list are only shows which I followed for more than a year unless the show itself didn’t last that long.

And the answer was: 244 246 247. Two hundred and fourty four six seven different shows I watched with active interest since I’ve started watching television. And the worst thing is: Of most of these shows I watched 90% or more episodes at least once.

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Beauty and the Beast (2012)

Beauty and the Beast (2012) @ Wikipedia
Beauty and the Beast (2012) @ IMDb

Nine years ago Catherine Chandler’s mother was killed in a botched robbery but Catherine herself was saved by a mysterious beast in the woods.

Now she is a successful police detective in New York. But it’s there that she meats the “beast” again. Vincent is a former soldier who took part in an experiment that re-wrote his DNA, making him faster and stronger but also more aggressive. The project was abandoned and Vincent believed to be dead. With the help of his friend he’s hiding from the world until Catherine steps into his life again.

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