I just recently seen a movie I had not seen in over 20 years easy! This one was a very honorable Sci-fi classic done for PBS, the Public Broadcasting Station. I remember seeing this on Channel 28 UHF when I was in High School and it dare go to the darkness of man's "good will," and playing god. Oh the powers of dreams...

Lathe of Heaven, done in 1980.

And for those of you wanting to see it, SURPRISE! HERE IS YOUR LINK TO IT!!!!

http://youtu.be/ofwNTrlyY5I

I know there are some people who are going to have their disparages towards this movie and PBS but frankly who likes a player hater? Or a Haterator?

The short narrative about this movie goes like this, A man is plagued by dreams that alter reality but only he remembers the changes. He tries to use drugs to correct and control his dreams to no success. He likewise is caught for substance abuse and is sent to counseling which he voluntarily goes to in desperation to get professional help. He is sent to see a Onerologist, Dr. Haber who semi gains control of this man's power and makes suggestions to improve the world, all of which are not executed the way Dr. Haber intends and likewise escalates into raw abuse of George Orr's powers. And this movie happens in Portland Oregon in the year 2002. Considering it was done in the 1980s this was a "in the future" movie. But here we are in 2010 and Portland is still Portland and we are all not gray.

It also has aliens too! and a notable quote from the movie is by one of the aliens, "To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven."

So let PBS movies reign here. What other classics appeared on PBS that are indelibly stamped in your memory? Yes TV series likewise count here. Dr. Who is likewise a classic as well but that is for someone else to bring up...

Since you mentioned it, PBS is how I was introduced to Doctor
Who, the version with Tom Baker. Also back in the 90's PBS used to air one of my favorite sitcoms- Red Dwarf. And they reran the hilarious The Red Green Show.

PBS even tried to get into original for PBS sitcoms, they had the way to short lived The Steven Banks Show.

And before A Christmas Story, PBS showed us Ralphie and his family- on American Playhouse- Matt Dillon played Ralph in The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters, and even before that on Visions we had one of the earliest versions of Ralph in The Phantom Of The Open Hearth. And like A Christmas Story, they were narrated by Jean Shepherd.

Red Dwarf was a great show. The English humor though goes over a lot of American heads. Rimmer is still a Schmeg head no matter how you look at that particular hologram!

Smiley's People with Alec Guinness as George Smiley


British master spy George Smiley returns for a final encounter with his deadly Soviet counterpart, Karla, in an Emmy-nominated adaptation of John Le Carre's sequel to `Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,' which was made into a memorable miniseries shown on PBS's `Great Performances' in 1980. Alec Guinness superbly reprises the role of the weary and methodical Smiley, who, summoned from retirement, sifts through clues in a complex investigation that carries him halfway across Europe.

Watched the series. Outstanding!!

http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/tv/Smiley-s-People/83621/1134829729/Smiley-s-People/videos?cmpid=syn_rss

And they're coming out with a new Season!!(Series for those English blokes).

Not sure if they were PBS shows or not, but I remember all the educational kids shows from the 80's.

Sesame Street
3-2-1 Contact
The Electric Company (especially remember the Spider Man shorts no spoken dialogues, just the bubble captions). Good stuff.

Not sure how long Antiques Roadshow has been on but I've watched quite a few of those too.

And of course all the great nature related series.

Electric Company!! I remember Spider Man on there! And of course Morgan Freeman. I remember they would do that thing with 2 people- one would say have a word, the other would say the second half, then they'd repeat the word together.