Texas Ranch House on PBS

[Leanwolf]

CHECKMAN - " Those folks who say thing like 'I was born in the wrong century' crack me up."
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I'm with Checkman. I have spent too many days and nights out in the boonies, and also in the Army, where I realized just how fantastic it is to have hot running water, flush toilets, and Man's greatist achievment, the harnassing of ELECTRICITY!!!

Also, having done a tremendous amount of research on "the old days," I know how rough it was "back then."

(Not that I don't know how to "rough it," but it wears kinda thin after a few days. )

L.W.

 

[torpid]

I was born in the wrong century.


I feel deprived without a hoverbike and a blaster rifle.

 

[Bruce H]

If they are going to do a show about history they should follow history exactly. This will probably become a classroom instruction video someday. If it isn't factual and correct in all aspects then it is a lie. Chances are the no guns was for a reason. The ranchers will probably be shown as trespassers on the indians property.

 

[Srigs]

I like these "old reality" TV and how non-period people act in them. They are winny babies about things and don't want to act in the period.

It is still fun looking at the show.

 

[Sistema1927]

Good grief, why am I watching the female ranch hand and the foreman arguing about "respect"? I almost expect to hear Aretha Franklin singing next.

 

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

One worthwhile PBS reality show, of a different kind.

I was watching bits and pieces of "Top Gun"* and remembered a special PBS did on the Navy Fighter Weapons School. That was worth seeing.

The best pilot in the class turned out not to be an arrogant maverick, but a devoutly religious family guy. I thought that was interestong.

- NF




* In retrospect, a very silly movie with some beautiful aircraft footage and a great soundtrack. I understand that anyone who did the things the Cruise character did would have a career measured in minutes.

 

[Desk Jockey]

I didn't see the show, but I did come across this article written by one of the characters. In real life, "Rattlesnake Bob" is a gym teacher near Denver.
The 1867 Experience

 

[IAJack]

The whole show reminds me of the old computer game "Oregon Trail" -the live version. Or survivor -the western. It is more of a show about sociology than on how the old west was.