The Cheers thread saw mention of a Cheers viewing club about ten years ago, looks like it was fun. The season one thread was full but it seems to have stopped by season two. Doesn't mean we can't try again.

I see Cheers is on Paramount+ and it's $25 for one year through January 2, 2023, and that's pretty accessible.

Would people be interested in starting up a viewing club of Cheers or other vintage / catalog shows in 2023 and beyond? If so, what's a good way to do it? What's a good pace? You can read how the Cheers viewing club developed here.

One idea I have is to take a show like Cheers, for example, and start up a thread per season every two weeks starting in January. People can dip into each season thread as they start, watch, and finish it. That way, there is some pacing yet with some flexibility.

Are there are other vintage/catalog TV shows that are great TV and easily-accessible to most of us? This thread can help us do some planning, nominate some shows, etc.

I made a poll (vote for as many options as you like!) with a few ideas, using streaming information I found on Just Watch. The poll says how many seasons are streaming out of how many total (4/7 or 7/7, that sort of thing).

I'm thinking of watching Get Smart again. I've got the dvds and usually do a disc per week with tv on disc. Could go a little faster
Don't know how accurate the info is but streaming on Prime, Vudu, Hulu, Apple TV

Great idea.
When the Twin Peaks revival happened and there was a lot of discussion and it trending on Twitter, it totally made me wonder what it would have been like if places like this were around during the original run to discuss episodes.

I feel like G.I. Joe and He-Man would get very redundant after a few episodes if we tried to watch them regularly as adults. I tried to watch one episode of He-Man and could barely sit through an episode.

I purchased that big Masters of the Universe set (the one that came in a Castle Greyskull) a few years ago and, yeah, I can say it was a bit of a chore to get through them all with the repeat animation

Appreciate this thread idea, story! I recall participating in the Cheers discussion and it's hard to believe it was a decade ago. I don't have a strong pull for any particular show, but I'd try to contribute with whatever might be chosen.

There is no way I could sit through those, I couldn't do it when they originally aired (to be fair I was a teenager at the time, not a little kid. When I was seven years old I could sit though any cartoon, just as I'm sure many little kids in the 80's sat through these two).

I would suggest something like Babylon 5 or Farscape. Maybe everyone agrees to watch only 2 episodes per week?

I recall someone in this forum tried a Twin Peaks re-watch marathon years ago and the thread quickly died in probably 4 weeks. The people here quickly lost interest. I guess it depends on the people here and how much time they have. But making time to re-watch an old favorite when there are literally 3 to 4 new series premiering every week in addition to stuff currently airing/streaming is incredibly difficult.

I’d be interested after the holidays. I’ve been considering re-watching Fringe. Twin Peaks or Twilight Zone are other possibilities.

Where's Frasier?!! Just got the blu-ray set...

I feel like that about most of the choices on the list, leading me to think a different interesting challenge would be to watch TV shows all from the same year; so you could do a couple episodes of He-Man and Cheers, some specials or talk shows from that year, news coverage of the significant event to happen that year... Each participant could craft themselves an eclectic viewing experience.

One of either Front Page Challenge, The Beachcombers, or King of Kensington to meet the CRTC's CanCon requirement for television viewing up here, eh?

Trailer Park Boys, Letterkenny, and The Hilarious House of Frightenstein would all be acceptable as well. Danger Bay, too.

Would anyone like to start with Cheers?

If so, what would be the best way to roll out threads? Release season threads every couple of weeks or put them all up at once and post as you watch?

Personally, I like the idea of Seasons...especially with something like Cheers that had so many of them.
Keeps that season's discussion in one thread.

I vote for vintage commercials and newscasts.

As far as series, the Carol Burnett Show.

Yeah, I'd like to commit to this but knowing me, I'd likely flake out after a few weeks.

Letterkenny would be good, short seasons and the new season is coming on Christmas Day. I don't think I could sit through 130 episodes of Frightenstein, unless I got nice and stoned first. That show was mostly watched by kids (like me in the 70's) and stoned and/or drunk young adults trying to recover from a nightlong bender (according to my uncle, it aired at 6:00 am back then, and he often watched it after a rough night of partying).

Front Page Challenge alone should have been the giveaway that (most of) my suggestions were tongue-in-cheek ...

Letterkenny, OTOH, would be pretty cool ...

As for Frightenstein, I absolutely loved it as a kid but, yes, Cheers likely has the edge here ...