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As you may or may not know, I have two young boys. I am preparing them, as best I can, to be men. In order to do so, I've developed the following required watching, which I will soon be purchasing on DVD:

  1. The A-Team
  2. MacGyver
  3. Knight Rider

I'm thinking about throwing in Dukes of Hazaard also. Any thoughts?

(Yeah, I know Knight Rider might be iffy, but it served me well)

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  • Dukes of Hazzard is iffy in my book whilst Knight Rider is a must! :) KITT, I need you buddy!

    Are you completely opposed to Star Trek? If not, consider the Next Generation DVD sets. Good stuff and often with good messages.

  • I agree that Knight Rider is iffy. I'd go with the Duke boys. I also like to throw Magnum P.I. into the mix.

    I don't bother with the DVD sets, because TiVo picks them up for me.

    Hmmm. I wonder if I should look out for T.J. Hooker?

    • Magnum -- oh yeah. That show had it all.
    • Magnum is a great show for guys. I grew up watching it (reruns I think). It has guns, dogs, vietnam war stories, sleuthing, and Tom Selleck, though the shorts he wears may occasionally blind you. The show isn't a "gritty tale of some anti-hero" sort of thing. It is about a PI trying to get the job done and lock up scum. Not much to argue with there.

      The Richard Dean Anderson MacGyver is another great one. That show fueled the brain, though it does reach the "preachy anti-violence" area, but nothing to
  • Airwolf. 'Nuff said.

    Another show I liked back in the day was Hunter..."works for me." (I was fixing my MythTV over the weekend and saw that TV Land is showing Hunter. Guess what's getting recorded now...)

  • Knight Rider? Dressing pretty and being rescued by a talking car is manly?
  • If they are in the under 13 age group, I stick with the great cartoons. My favorites all through high school (hey, I admit to watching cartoons then) Duck Tails, Tail Spin, Rescue Rangers, Dark Wing Duck, and Loony Tunes (the best!).

    Heck, I was watching these cartoons the same time I was watching MacGyver, Magnum PI, etc. Provided a nice mix of fun / silly comedy and fighting / shooting action.

    I remember some time in high school when all those shows disappeared off TV. I was very disappointed with the

    • Keep in mind that TV is a passive experience. Unless the shows is like Bill Nye or Nova, no one is getting any smarter.

      Oh, this was mostly meant tongue-in-cheek. My kids are too young to be watching most of the stuff mentioned here. I don't think that training them to be men has anything to do with the TV I let them watch. :-)

  • I am preparing them, as best I can, to be men

    I suppose Barbies are out of the question then?

    Send them to a Koga Nimpo/Bugei ryu, if you can find one here. None of that "karate as a sport" western nonesense. They'll come home one day and tell you they learned how to turn someone's spleen or kidneys into jelly mush. You'll be proud =)

  • almost everything with James Garner in it. Can't say I've watched everything he did, but Rockford Files was fun, and some of his movies were excellent. This latest one, The Notebook should have gotten awards.

    And for cartoons - Pinky And The Brain, if you can get it.

  • You *must* include "Matt Houston" on that list.

    And just for form's sake, since you have Knight Rider on the list, you should probably put "Manimal" in there too. Seems to me they aired back-to-back, waaay back then.

    Pixie

  • Hmm (Score:2)

    by GoRK ( 10018 )
    Knight Rider? Gimme a break.

    Try Bloodsport ya pansywaist.

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