Tell me about it! I remember distinctly that in the fall of 1999 on my first day of college (which happened to be an afternoon class) I watched "The Dark and Bloody Ground" that morning for the very first time (which remains one of my favorites to this day!) and then that was followed by 2 FIVE-O episodes - "Frozen Assets" and "My Friend, the Enemy" (both from season 10 and both of which I had already seen a few years earlier). I also recall that either the day before or the day after I had seen the BONANZA episode "Second Chance" which I really liked! Why should I remember this stuff? I don't know. I just do.Little Garwood wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:23 pm Your post reminds me once again that TV, like music and sense of smell, brings back the past with a stunning clarity.
Even as a kid in the late ‘70s-early ‘80s, TRF was among the few shows that left a huge positive impression. The look and feel of 1970s Los Angeles with its dark bars and restaurants and wildly varying architecture…Rockford was the world I knew, as the Vietnam/Watergate were just a few years prior but by 1976 seemed like an eternity ago. I was more aware of what are now referred to as the “Malaise” years, which were the early years of my early childhood.
I didn’t reconnect with Rockford and a lot of other fondly-remembered 1970s and (early) ‘80s shows until 2004, some twenty years after I had watched them with any regularity. When I caught up with Jimbo, the first episode I saw after that too-long sabbatical was “The Return of the Black Shadow” (season 5). As you know, Jim is barely even in that episode, as it’s primarily a Coop acooper episode! I would have to wait until the next day to get a “proper” Rockford story! Whenever I reconnect with a series I haven’t seen in many years, the first episode I run into is either the last episode I saw or I get a Two Birds of a Feather kind of episode, with virtually no screen time for the series lead.
Or that in the summer of 1997 immediately after the last day of school (I had just finished 10th grade) the next morning the 2 FIVE-O episodes I saw were "To Die in Paradise" and "Blood Money is Hard to Wash" from season 9. And then I kept watching the remainder of seasons 9, 10, 11, and 12 before they went back to the pilot episode "Cocoon" but then for some reason skipped season 1 and went directly into season 2 and then season 3... and then it was back to school time for me.
My sister used to think and now my wife thinks I'm weird for remembering things like this. 
But it's like you said - it's all about a time and place. Something about those times felt special to me. Because I can't remember what I saw last week or the week before.
Love spotting sights I recognize.
