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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.
Purchase Diary 2012 – November
By the way: I made new pictures of my collection, see My DVDs
This Means War (2012)
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08 Nov – €12.97 @ Amazon.de
Indiana Jones 1 – 4 (1981 – 2008)
which contains my 1,000th movie:
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Lightning Point: Season 1 (2012)
The Twilight Saga 1 – 3 (2008 – 2010)
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24 Nov – €14.90 @ Media Markt
American Reunion (2012)
Purchase Diary 2011 – March
The Expendables
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05 Mar – €13 @ DVD-Börse Ludwigsburg
Double Impact
05 Mar – €5 @ DVD-Börse Ludwigsburg
Knight and Day
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05 Mar – €10 @ DVD-Börse Ludwigsburg
The Running Man
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05 Mar – €9 @ DVD-Börse Ludwigsburg
The Town
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05 Mar – €12 @ DVD-Börse Ludwigsburg
Purchase Diary 2011 – January
Back to the Future 1 – 3
11 Jan – €24.01 (£17.99) @ Amazon.co.uk
Mad Men: Season 1 – 3
18 Jan – €32.46 (£24.79) @ Amazon.co.uk
Dexter: Season 3
20 Jan – €17.28 (£12.89) @ Amazon.co.uk
Dune
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20 Jan – €12.99 @ Media Markt
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door