Hal Lindon (Barnery Miller in The Barney Miller Show) is alive at 94.
Do you ever watch old classic TV shows and realize that they are all dead
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AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Apollonius_Cone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Max Gail is still alive too, he’s 82.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Dick Van Dyke is alive too, just turned 100
Toes@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Star Trek is going to be really difficult to watch once captain Picard joins Q for the last time.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
“Q, was I a good captain?”
“No”
“…”
“You were the best.”
Then Q turns him into an apple and eats him.
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Every few years I get someone into B5 and rewatch the series along with them. And every time there’s one or two more cast members gone.
Beacon@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
What is b5
Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
Worth watching.
It gets good. Past the rough tacky start.
G’Kar: If I take a lamp and shine it toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth, for understanding. Too often we assume that the light on the wall is God. But the light is not the goal of the search; it is the result of the search. The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it! Similarly, someone who does not search, who does not bring a lantern with him, sees nothing. What we perceive as God, is the byproduct of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light, pure and unblemished, not understanding that it comes from us. Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the center of the universe. God looks astonishingly like we do! Or we turn to look at our shadow, and assume that all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose; which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty…and in all its flaws. And in so doing better understand the world around us.
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Babylon 5
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Babylon 5, great space show from the '90s.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I watched it a few years back and while watching, Mira Furlan died. Not sure if anyone died since then
Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ha! I watched Leave it to Beaver and the guy who played Beaver and the guy who played his brother Wally are still alive and still best of friends!! Never mind just looked it up and Wally passed away a couple of years ago. Damn.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Worse, the characters in my animes never existed!
Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
You know things have gone to shit when dead old actors performing on the most basic stage set are better than living actors on a multi million dollar production with CGI and special effects.
otacon239@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve watched Casablanca so that was sort of a given going into it.
handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Over 11 seasons, MASH had 11 series regulars. I think five of them are still alive
handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Alan Alda, Jamie Farr, Mike Farrell and Gary Burghoff are still around and kicking. 🪵✊
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
What's the oldest show with living actors in the main cast that's still in reruns? The Dick Van Dyke Show maybe?
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Have to make a few assumptions to make this workable. Im assuming we’re only allowing things that were made as a TV series, so not counting specials or anything that jumped from another medium like radio or theatrical releases. And we’re only including fiction, so news and the like wouldn’t count. And we only include things that have ended and only count the original run of a series.
With all those caveats, my best guess is I Love Lucy. Started in 1951 and the actor that played their kid is still alive, though he didn’t join the cast until 1955.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Probably
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
No I exclusively watch media where the actors are still alive, I don’t want to see ghosts.
Same goes for voice actors, I don’t want to hear no ghost either.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s sounding like you are afraid of some ghosts. I think I have someone for you to call.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Do you research everything you watch beforehand? That's a very interesting and restricting filter for yourself.
Mind blowing realization - any media you watch, even live stream, is from a past that's gone by the time you see it.
The next level is - how real is anything that you perceive? "What is... real?" - Morpheus
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure they’re joking. If they were serious, there would be some very recent things they can’t watch. Rob Reiner is on recent episodes of The Bear. Malcom Jamal Warner was on an episode of Murder In A Small Town that premiered after he died.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Average James Dean fan
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve watched porn and later found out one of the porn stars was dead. 🤷♂️
kindenough@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
Well yeah, watching Kolchak The Night Stalker lately, aired around 1975 and looking up some of the actors…they've mostly passed away.
tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Realized with Animal House
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Yeah, we’ve been watching lots of old movies lately, and now and then, as we’re watching a group scene, I’ll mutter “All those people are dead,” just to get a rise out of everyone else in the room.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For me it always serves as a reminder that our time is short
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Also, movies from the 90s that feature animals (eg, Homeward Bound), I’m pretty sure the animals are all dead now
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Why not use a picture from a show where the actors are all actually dead?
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The Golden Girls are all dead now and that show isn’t really that old
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean, it was a show about old retired women to start with…
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Hate to nitpick but the characters weren’t retired, three of them had jobs
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I wonder if anyone involved in The Wizard of Oz is alive?
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dwarfs live longer then humans so probably
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Every once in a while, I run into the olden smut magazines here on Lemmy, and I’m like, “That’s somebody’s grandmother.”
LePoisson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s kind of insane how many people had to fuck just for you to exist. Like just thousands of humans stretching through our vast history … Nutting.
Gork@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
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