We’ve finally decided to get rid of the satellite TV. Why pay $70.00 plus dollars a month to see repeat programing? Programs we really want to watch are available on the internet via You-tube or Netflix or by clicking on a TV network website.
One of the things we’ve been doing over the last year or so is buying DVD’s of favorite movies and old television series. The older TV series like The Real McCoys actually showed conservative family values. For instance, the patriarch of the family giving thanks before the family starts their meal. Or one particular episode where the rest of the family is ashamed of Gramps because they think he’s taking advantage of someone trying to buy some worthless land, how honesty pays off.
We bought the complete series, The Wild, Wild West and Wanted Dead or Alive for westerns and McHale’s Navy for some comic relief. Some of our favorite movies are the Ma and Pa Kettle movies, humorous, but with a moral at the end of the story.
Back in the day, (The Real McCoy’s first episode was one year before I was born.), television series had 39 episodes per season unlike TV today where you might watch two shows before they start running repeats of it.
I just don’t think you get what you pay for with the satellite TV any more.