Comments on: Tales of the Golden Monkey

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:38:30 +0000

Pleasure, Therese. It was such a fun show, wasn’t it?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:37:37 +0000

Spy, I only got ‘American’ TV from about 13 to 18 years old. That was the window. Before that, it didn’t exist on SA TV and after that, I was overseas for a year and then at university. I did another degree through distance education after I finished my MA, while I was working, and my husband was doing the same thing, so we didn’t get a TV then, either. I first got a TV again when I was 31, LOL.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:34:40 +0000

Karin, I don’t think we got MC. And its that so true about romance writers. I liked that SF newspaper article about the conference, where the journalist mentioned he’d never come across a group of writers who so genuinely supported each other.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:33:12 +0000

Lee, Star Trek was another fave of mine. I can still remember some of the original episodes quite clearly.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:32:01 +0000

LOL, Margaret. I watched the A-Team the other day, and I was in stitches. Corny doesn’t begin to cover those special effects. But at the time, I loved it.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:30:44 +0000

LaD, living in South Africa, we got things long after they aired in the States, and I am pretty sure we never had the Flying Nun. Sounds good, though.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:29:43 +0000

Edie, now you’re taking me back. I LOVED WKRP. That was a funny, funny show.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:29:00 +0000

Barbara, the site I googled about the show said it had been in the pipeline for a while, but only got the go-ahead when the producers saw the success of Indiana Jones. Horrible to think it might never have been aired had IJ not done so well at the box office.

The cost of producing it, though, was too high to justify in the end, apparently, so it only lasted one series, despite its popularity.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:27:05 +0000

Ooooh, Marcia. Me and McGyver, we were soul mates . And I really liked that one around the same time with the ex Vietnam vet helicopter pilot – Stringfellow Hawk. Oooooh.

And Witch Blade is also great, although I didn’t like the second series so much.

By: Therese Walsh

Therese Walsh — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:58:22 +0000

I loved this show, too, but I’d completely forgotten about it. Thanks for the post, Michelle–and for jolting my memory!