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In article <8jdmkj9jr9eq2f1tfqhsrmf72s2phuupsq@4ax.com>, JL@gct.com 
says...
> 
> We had great shows, better than most of the junk nowadays. PBS was
> "educational TV" with lots of science and documentaries. It's mostly
> murder mysteries now.
> 
> 
> 

We probably had great shows because where I lived we only had 5 
channels.  One was an educational one and another was very weak and some 
times not even watchable.  Now with a couple of hundred channels they 
have to fill all that air time with something and we get quantify 
instead of quality.+

There were two shows that i really liked that do not seem to have an 
equal now. One growing up was Mr Wizard and the other was when computers 
were coming to the homes was The Computer Chronicles.  It told how 
computers worked and history of hem.