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Trailer Park (1995)
Amazing show
Yes, this show presented horror & Science fiction trailers. But it was much more than that. In the beginning episodes, Tom Davis is drinking heavily, doing drugs... just generally stoned out of his mind. (Acting I would assume.) Then... the Sci-Fi channel must've reeled him in & all he did was host this thing, acting like any TV host would. But...those first shows were outrageously funny. Davis had some sidekick that would bring him to, after he passed out from whatever libation he was doing on camera. I could not believe I was seeing this on ANY TV station, let alone on the "UP-TIGHT" Sci-Fi channel. (I do not watch this boring channel anymore, too many con-jobs on their "Ghost Hunters" program. & that generally represents the rest of their programming.) Find this, (first season of Trailer Park,) you'll love it.
The Twilight Zone: Two (1961)
Sparsely excellent
Simple story... why say more? It nails it's premise. World War 3 kills all or most of the human race and we're viewing 2 of the survivors. The message is that the 2 warring sides should not have been at odds in the first place. Distilled down to representatives from each side, we see they have everything to come together for:
Security... Finding resources... food, shelter, etc... Survival... Love...
At the end they've decided to pool their resources, (she finally does), so they will survive. Simple story, expressed in the limited budget of the early 60s television landscape. We see it in 2009 as somewhat old and maybe predictable. In the early 60s, no one had seen such stuff... I give it a 10...