Good television

As I was watching Netflix's new series, "Stranger Things," I felt like I was watching a show that sent me directly to my childhood through a worm hole, sending me back to the times when I was first discovering thrillers, R-rated movies and Stephen King novels… 

Reading the reviews and comments on the web, it appears that millions of people all around the world have thought the same way. They watched the show and loved it with a very specific feeling: Pure nostalgia.
This shows that millions of kids had the same childhood all over the world… 

It's hard to imagine, but many people do share the same memories.

But wait… How can a kid in the United States, Turkey, France or New Zealand share the same memories?
Let's go back in time for a while… Back to the times when Turkey was introduced to the magical world of television…

In 1968, Turkish government officially started broadcasting on one television channel. Black and white television to be precise, and it stayed that way until 1982.

In the late 1980s, aside from the government's official TV broadcasting company TRT and its subsequent channels, private broadcasters emerged. New media outlets, broadcasters called Star TV (which still exists as one of the leaders) and Teleon were the new windows for us to discover the world from that time on. They brought us new series that were sweeping over American audiences, R-Rated movies, blockbusters, cult ones and many productions that were watched by millions during that period. 

Between the late 1960s and 1980s, many Hollywood productions were brought into our homes through TRT, as we were already familiar with series such as "Dallas," "Charlie's Angels," "Little House on the Prairie" and so on. 

Actually...

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