40 Classic Movie and TV Tidbits That Would Have Never Believed We Could One Day Watch Them in the Palm of Our Hands

Archie Bunker would think that being ‘on Tubi’ was some hippie drug thing for sure

When these classic movies and TV shows were in production, the only “streaming” going on involved flowing water. But were sure they could have guessed that audiences could one day view them in different ways because theres no stopping technology. Heck, at one point, even TV was considered “new media.” Back then, some studio execs definitely thought that there was no way such a small screen could compete with beastly cinema screens. 

But here we are: the streaming era… Unless things have drastically changed by the time youre reading this.

Home Improvement

All in the Family

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Clerks

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Clint Eastwood

It’s A Wonderful Life

Harold and Maude

The Sound of Music

The Golden Girls

The Office

007

A Christmas Story

Lost

The Silence of the Lambs

The Children’s Television Act

Jonathan Wolff

Cagney & Lacey

Elf

Greg Berlanti

Forbidden Planet

Jaws

Ghostbusters

Free Willy

Teen Wolf

Volcano

Gilligan’s Island

NewsRadio

Mary Tyler Moore

Classic Sitcoms

The Simpsons

Die Hard

Deliverance

Chinatown

The Addams Family

Star Wars

The Manchurian Candidate

Red Dawn

Westworld

Rebel Without A Cause

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