• Flying SquidOPM
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      2011 months ago

      In the 80s, if you got up really early, like 5 am, Discovery would sometimes just put a camera on a professor giving a lecture. It was pretty cool. I guess we have YouTube for that sort of thing now, but you even make a suggestion like that to a Discovery executive now and they’d probably try to murder you.

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      11 months ago

      As I recall back in 2003 when MythBusters started there were still some okay shows left but it went downhill quickly from there.

      I haven’t been able to find a good list of Discovery schedules by year, that would make it clear when it became reality only.

      The good shows I remember from the 90s was:

      • Dinosaur! and When Dinosaurs Ruled with Bob Bakker
      • Connections with James Burke
      • Beyond 2000
      • Time Team
      • WW2 documentaries
      • Flying SquidOPM
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        311 months ago

        Discovery showing Time Team made me a lifelong fan. Most of the old episodes are on YouTube now. They have a Patreon to fund new episodes. They aren’t as good because Tony doesn’t host them, but they’re still fun.