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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Purchase Diary 2011 – June

Batman: The Animated Series: Season 1: Part 1


06 Jun – €0.00 ($18.49) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Batman: The Animated Series: Season 1: Part 2


07 Jun – €2.69 ($23.99) @ Amazon.com (paid partially via gift certificate)

CBS presents this program in color:

Hogan’s Heroes: The Complete Series


11 Jun – €26.07 (CA$61.99) @ Amazon.ca (paid partially via gift certificate)

The Butterfly Effect 2


15 Jun – €4.20 (£2.96) @ Amazon.co.uk

(only because of Mrs. Durance ;))

Hot Tub Time Machine


15 Jun – €6.50 (£4.96) @ Amazon.co.uk

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