Ten Years of Toilet Talk. And Oreos.Random Ping-o-RamaTen Years Ago...Paul: White Castle.
Search Me!Last 5 PingsJustified
Thursday, March 18 2010 All About Pigeons Wednesday, March 17 2010 First Ticket Tuesday, March 16 2010 Your Unreasonable Fear Monday, March 15 2010 Auto Tune the News Sunday, March 14 2010 |
Friday, July 6, 2007
A TV show I remember fondly (really!) from the 80s is Fight Back! With David Horowitz. I wish I could say it was a crime drama, a time travel show, or a spinoff of What's Happening!!! but alas, it was a consumer interest show.
David Horowitz, a consumer reporter guy I'd never heard of before said show, would do... uhm, consumer reporting. For instance, if someone had an issue with identity theft from a certain chain (called Leona's), sending it in to Horowitz was the way to get it solved. That wasn't my favorite part of the show though; that would be the Commercial Challenge. You know how commercials make outlandish claims, like a phone will change your life or beer will get stains out? Horowitz would put these to the test. Seeing if Nu-Finish really did stand up to 52 car washes and if Timex could take a licking and keep on ticking was totally worth it for me. I'd still watch a show like that today, particularly if it featured the Fight Back! theme song. Comments
From: Ryan
(URL)
One of the stations in DC has a segment called "Does it really do that?" (I'm sure they struggled for days to come up with that one) that sounds pretty similar.
I think a show like that, though, half-depends on 80s clothing to be successful.
From: Steve A
I remember Fight Back. And it <i>was</i> some damn good TV.
Ciao, © 2010 The Daily Ping, all rights reserved. We are not responsible for the content of any comments on our site. We are also not responsible, in general, so it's all good. |
Recent Comments
03.18.2010 03:09PM
03.18.2010 10:29AM
03.17.2010 11:41PM
03.17.2010 09:45PM
03.16.2010 05:47PM