The 90s thread

[Cruyff14]

Print media was so much better/more popular too.

 

[Shell]

The Sun and The Herald.

/k that actually was more in the 80s. Herald Sun began October 1990. I do recall there being a PM edition tho. Now its just one and its shrinking all the time..

 

[Silent Alarm]

Few mentions of the X Files in here. SBS is showing all of them from the start, I think they're early into season two by now but there's probably a good bank of them online. Great show, pretty pioneering too.

Seeing someone you always knew as older, but when they were young, is confronting. Kind of nice though. David Duchovny was a fresh faced, good looking young man (crazy that he was 33-odd when it debuted, he looks 24). Amazing how cute Gillian Anderson was back then too – she's kinda horror-tier these days... looks a little crazy...

It's funny, people my age know the show mostly from that classic Simpsons episode. Channel 10 flogged that one. Now they're in their 20s, it's this cool cult hit that hints at 90s fashion that's come full circle.

 

[GWBogan]

No love for this?

 

[brucetiki]

Game Shows still had some pull on tv in 1990's although. Sale of Century without Tony Barber was never the same.

Wheel of Fortune in late afternoon and The Price Is Right were ones I remember.

Comedy Shows I tended to tune into were Cheers but Seinfield never got into as much as others but a mate of a mate had been recording every episode on VHS so some weekend party at his house when party wound down, ended up seeing 3 or 4 episodes of it late at night at his house and from there saw why it was so popular.

Started watching South Park on SBS in later 90's which appealed to me straight away.

X Files in mid 90's started watching on channel 10..
Early 90's Footy on tv was still rarely live unless a game from interstate in Perth for example.

But if there was a Friday night game in Melbourne if you were out on Friday night you could catch up in car what going on by radio but the tv coverage was still mainly much later delayed telecast on channel 7. Saturday night was still a replay show on channel 7 for 90 minutes or up to two hours of 2 or 3 games from Saturday. Early 90's was still a time you could find 3 to 5 games on a Saturday in Melbourne at grounds like Princes Park, Windy Hill, Victoria Park, Moorabin and Western Oval. Waverley Park at some point in mid 90's tended to be Hawthorn and Saints playing home games there and Essendon left windy Hill for MCG. North had already left Arden Street in 80's for the MCG Friday night type schedule. So now it was 4 clubs playing home games at MCG and 2 at Waverley Park it was not long before it was down to only 3 traditional suburban grounds in mid to late 90's. Geelong only club that kept their own ground.
Late 90's was last games at Waverley Park. So lots of games on Saturday you would only see 20 to 30 minutes of on Saturday night replay show.
Channel 9 would be running Hey Hey It's Saturday at similar time and often if you were going out Saturday night you would tune into one of these before hitting the nightclubs or pubs to see live bands or parties with friends.

If you were getting home at 3, 4 or 5 in morning, would often be late night chance you crash watching bits of Rage on channel 2. Which was really a spill over from 80's when Rage was probably even bigger due to music videos were more popular and new to music lovers. "Video killed the Radio Star"...

And Wheel was never the same once Burgo and Adriana Obscenites, I mean Xenedes, left. That was one almighty stuff up from Channel 7 - and Wheel never recovered (especially once 9 picked up Burgo and Adriana for Catch Phrase) from it's controversial move to Sydney.

 

[footyfan1978]

Few mentions of the X Files in here. SBS is showing all of them from the start, I think they're early into season two by now but there's probably a good bank of them online. Great show, pretty pioneering too.

Seeing someone you always knew as older, but when they were young, is confronting. Kind of nice though. David Duchovny was a fresh faced, good looking young man (crazy that he was 33-odd when it debuted, he looks 24). Amazing how cute Gillian Anderson was back then too – she's kinda horror-tier these days... looks a little crazy...

I think Gillian Anderson was genuinely a bit eccentric so if looked a little crazy probably more real life person sifting through the acting of more conservative characters.

David Duchovny I think had small part in tv series Twin Peaks years before this as ironically an FBI agent.


For some reason that video reminds me of another quirky show that had cult following in 90's.. Northern Exposure

 

[Gough]

I remember Gerry Adams' voice was considered so seditious that when he appeared on the news an actor spoke his words.

 

[footyfan1978]

25 years later he still in the FBI... or should I say she ?...

 

[Kram]

First few seasons of X-Files were great but I thought it got old pretty quickly after that.

 

[footyfan1978]

First few seasons of X-Files were great but I thought it got old pretty quickly after that.

Yep. I do not remember how many seasons saw but the story did not really advance so lost it's way and main actors were leaving. I was probably tuning out by 1997 but do remember tuning in more regularly in 1996 for some reason.

 

[Silent Alarm]

The first two have a real culty feeling to them, like it should've been canned, then the third to fourth are probably the best. Gets a bit glossy but they must've recruited some good writers and editors. It got lame when they inevitably insisted on focusing on their dynamic – instead of leaving it as small little moments of tension every couple of eps.

 

[Cuzz09]

Needed more aliens.

I remember an episode of x files with this sewer creature.

It still look in drains for him

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[Del191229]

Yes the nineties was last decade to not have television infected with the banal narcissism of reality tv. It all started with Big Brother.

Thank God for streaming services and the platform they have provided for quality narrative based content.

 

[Scotland]

Bring back Pacific Drive.

All I remember about that was that it was set on the Gold Coast and bounced around time slots like nobody's business.

 

[kickazz]

Good call. That really was the first big one, but I suppose the theme didn't catch on fire a decade!

 

[Del191229]

Good call. That really was the first big one, but I suppose the theme didn't catch on fire a decade!

That was hit on by accident rather than design - the culture wasn't ready for what it could become.

 

[00Stinger]

 

[Shell]

Bring back Pacific Drive.

All I remember about that was that it was set on the Gold Coast and bounced around time slots like nobody's business.

I ****ing loved Pacific Drive. Was so shit it was awesome

 

[Shell]

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[Scotland]

I feel like going home from school and watching The Ferals and Crocadoo.

Except I am 34 and not at school and they are long gone.

 

[Scotland]

I still remember having the shit scared out of me by The Extraordinary.

 

[Shell]

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[Scotland]

Holy moley.

I will have one diabeetus, please.

 

[peternorth]

Thing about x files i believe strongly it was on at the same time as the footy show

 

[Scotland]

I miss Target lollies. Plastic soft drink cup with as many as you could jam in for $3. Or if you could stretch to $4 you could get a large cup. Target -> Hoyts -> train home -> sugar crash.