Favorite Classic TV Shows by RMMC

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Favorite Classic TV Shows

POSTED BY: RMMC
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Sunday, April 9, 2006 3:06 PM

As this seems to have popped up on a different thread (What are we watching now), I thought perhaps it should have it's own new shiny thread.

So, what's your favorite shows from yesteryear (pre-1980)?

Well I had previously listed a few, but here goes:

1.) WKRP in Cincinnati
2.) M*A*S*H
3.) Maverick
4.) The Avengers
5.) Wild, Wild West
6.) Ernie Kovacs
7.) Jackie Gleason Show
8.) When things Were Rotten
9.) Quark
10.) Monty Python's Flying Circus
11.) Saturday Night Live (original cast)
12.) Doctor Who
13.) Dark Shadows
14.) Topper
15.) Midnight Special

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Monday, April 10, 2006 6:59 AM

I'll agree with WKRP and Ernie Kovacs. But you forgot my favorite. Space:1999!

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Monday, April 10, 2006 7:05 AM

I Love Lucy.

I think that's the only pre-1980 show that I've watched a lot of reruns of. I watched some of Gilligan's Island, but I didn't feel like watching it again. I don't think I've seen many shows that are pre-1980 (I was born in 1977) other than those I mentioned as well as a little Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica.

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Monday, April 10, 2006 7:10 AM

Quark!! I remember that show!!
I agree with Space1999 too.

You forgot Carol Burnett Show. Harvey Korman and Tim Conway... need I say more?

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Monday, April 10, 2006 8:01 AM

Three's Company was the first show I would have called a personal favorite. John Ritter was a genius.

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Monday, April 10, 2006 8:03 AM

The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan. Only had 18 episodes over its lifespan and was made in the 60's. This show however was wrapped up in its own way. The story itself is in the "Big Brother" theme. A man, Number 6, as he is known is a former Intelligence agent who resigns from the field and then is abducted to an island where he is tortured and questioned about his reason for resigning. The whole time he maintains that he is a man not a number and refuses to break. It's very bizarre at times but very entertaining. It's a show that was ahead of it's time and makes some very interesting social commentary. I'd recommend this series to anyone.

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Monday, April 10, 2006 8:34 AM

:( was born 1989... BUT i have monty pythons flying circus on video!! (bought it after watching 'life of brian') so i suppose id have to go with that!

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Monday, April 10, 2006 8:34 AM

:( was born 1989... BUT i have monty pythons flying circus on video!! (bought it after watching 'life of brian') so i suppose id have to go with that!

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Monday, April 10, 2006 8:34 AM

:( was born 1989... BUT i have monty pythons flying circus on video!! (bought it after watching 'life of brian') so i suppose id have to go with that!

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Monday, April 10, 2006 8:34 AM

:( was born 1989... BUT i have monty pythons flying circus on video!! (bought it after watching 'life of brian') so i suppose id have to go with that!

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Monday, April 10, 2006 8:34 AM

:( was born 1989... BUT i have monty pythons flying circus on video!! (bought it after watching 'life of brian') so i suppose id have to go with that!

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Monday, April 10, 2006 8:34 AM

:( was born 1989... BUT i have monty pythons flying circus on video!! (bought it after watching 'life of brian') so i suppose id have to go with that!

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Monday, April 10, 2006 9:10 AM

RMMC, did you mean the Jackie Gleason Show, or The Honeymooners? Two rather different things...

WKRP In Cincinatti -- excellent choice! Who could forget Les Nessman's pronunciation of "Chi Chi Rodriguez", or his immortal words as he reported on the "turkey drop"?

I'd include the Carol Burnett Show in my list except for one thing: there was a lot of go se along with the great sketch comedy. I'll pass on the musical numbers and dance routines, thanks.

For music shows, I'd go with Austin City Limits -- still going strong. In comedy, let's not forget at least one of the Newhart shows. Shouldn't the Outer Limits and/or Twilight Zone (original) be on the list somewhere, too?

And here's a tip of the cunning hat to Monday Night Football. Inconsistent, but some of the greatest games ever have been played on Monday.

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Monday, April 10, 2006 10:47 AM

Ok, WKRP is most worthy of top O' the list. Wild Wild West is a most definate and don't forget Robert Conrad was also in Ba Ba Blacksheep - I haven't seen that in re-runs anywhere. Is it available on DVD?

Some more:
MTM - it was funny
Dick Van Dyke Show
and what was the name of that show with Ed Asner that took place after he was on MTM where he was a newspaper editor, I think he was still Lou Grant also, or was that later in the 80's? Times flyin' so fast I just don't remember, seems like yesterday though.

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Monday, April 10, 2006 10:52 AM

The Rockford Files

erm thats the only one ive seen from that era but its an amazing series :D

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Monday, April 10, 2006 11:07 AM

Oh, well I grew up with all of these shows, so there are so many...

early 60's:

Mr. Ed, Beverly Hillbillies, Dick Van Dyke, Jonny Quest, Bullwinkle, The Flintstones (hey, I was a kid)

mid-to-late 60's:

Batman, Green Acres, Green Hornet, The Herculoids, Get Smart, I Dream of Jeannie, Secret Agent, The Prisoner, (still) The Beverly Hillbillies, Lost In Space, The Avengers, Star Trek

The 1970's went ultra realistic with cop and hospital shows which bored me to death. I prefered the escapist fun of the 60's, so while I watched a lot of TV in the 1970's, most of it was reruns of older shows I'd previously watched first run -- and, of course, re-runs of The Honeymooners (which were a few years before my time), and probably my one favorite from the 1970's -- Barney Miller.

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Monday, April 10, 2006 11:17 AM

OMG! How could we forget about Barney Miller. I LOVED that show. I have a few of my fav episodes taped. The all time classic is when WoJo brought in the hash brownies. Nick was so stoned he was going "Mooshy mooshy", and "Has anyone seen my legs? They're about this long" . Then Fish comes back from a robbery and the perp is all freaked out about how "the old guy" chased him across all the roofs and Fish yell's at him "WHAADYA THINK, WE'RE PLAYIN' HERE!?"

Oh, I gotta go watch that one again right now.

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Monday, April 10, 2006 11:42 AM

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Originally posted by bluemoonstuff:
OMG! How could we forget about Barney Miller. I LOVED that show.

I know how I forgot it. My sieve-like mind.

Which is also how I forgot The Carol Burnett Show--and geeze, I just had a Carol Burnett moment last week. I needed to make a peroid costume and went to a budget 2nd hand store. I struckout finding a dress I could butc--er, redesign. Then i had a vision of Carol wearing the draperie with the curtain rod. I didn't end up with that, but I did sacrifice a table cloth.

I don't remember when Lou Grant was on exactly, either, But I remember loving the first season of that.

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re: Barney Miller
I have a few of my fav episodes taped. The all time classic is when WoJo brought in the hash brownies.

Yeah, I remember that one as well.

Did ya buy the first season on DVD, friend?

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Monday, April 10, 2006 11:53 AM

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Originally posted by DonCoat:
RMMC, did you mean the Jackie Gleason Show, or The Honeymooners? Two rather different things...

I meant the Jackie Gleason Show of which The Honeymooners was originally just one of several re-ocurring skits. My fav skits were the Poor Soul and Joe the Bartender.

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Originally posted by DonCoat:

WKRP In Cincinatti -- excellent choice! Who could forget Les Nessman's pronunciation of "Chi Chi Rodriguez", or his immortal words as he reported on the "turkey drop"?

Certainly not anyone from my family.

I also loved the ep with Johnny hiding at the transmitter tower, terrified that the 'phone police' were after him. *giggle* And then there's Scum of the Earth...

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Originally posted by DonCoat:

And here's a tip of the cunning hat to Monday Night Football. Inconsistent, but some of the greatest games ever have been played on Monday.

Only if I can have Hockey Night in Canada.

Yeah, it qualifies; it debuted in the 1950's.

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Monday, April 10, 2006 2:10 PM

Alias Smith and Jones
Here Come The Brides
Starsky and Hutch
Combat!

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Monday, April 10, 2006 2:10 PM

I'm still a Twilight Zone/ Outer Limits junkie. Being I was born in '79, I've had to come across "classic" TV after the fact, though. Lately, I've found myself watching The Andy Griffith show fairly regularly. "Oh Barney..."

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Monday, April 10, 2006 8:19 PM

-The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. (Was the first time I saw Tuesday Weld, and fell completely in love.) (Also, Maynard Krebs (the late Bob Denver) went on to become Gilligan.)
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-I HATE Lucy. Always have. Liked Desi Arnaz and his music, though.

-Topper was great, but seldom saw it.

-Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town

-Gleason (Honeymooners, but also later show)

-Milton Berle (Live, BTW. One night, he ran out of material with 20 minutes to go, so he ad libbed for all that time, and was just wonderful. WHO can do that today??? On Live TV?!)

-Jack Benny

-The Metropolitan Opera

-The first Twilight Zone

-Tales from the Crypt

-The Fugutive (David Janssen)

-Amos 'N Andy

-Gunsmoke
-Have Gun, Will Travel
-Bonanza

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Monday, April 10, 2006 9:11 PM

I recall watching Monty Python w/ my girfriend, living in Alaska at the time, and we saw The Spanish Inquisition. We laughed so hard we nearly cried, and laughed about it for well over a year. Must have been in 1983, a bit late for this thread maybe.

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Monday, April 10, 2006 10:22 PM

M*A*S*H* is second only to Firefly in my books, as far as TV series go. Hawkeye Pierce a serious hero contender even for Mal.

I've also recently become a fan of Gunsmoke. Damn good show.

My family always used to watch a fair sampling of WKRP in Cinncinnati and I Dream of Jeanie, too, and I enjoyed them well enough. TV ain't what it used to be, that's for sure (generally speaking)

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Monday, April 10, 2006 11:42 PM

Not sure of the era but I used to like Greatest American Hero back in the day :)

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:37 AM

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Originally posted by Malice:
The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan.

That was a great show.

I'd add Barbary Coast (Who doesn't love Shatner hamming it up?), and Man From Atlantis (Who doesn't love Batman's King Tut wherever he pops up?), and UFO (Who doesn't love sci-fi shows set in the way-distant year of 1980?); all my others have been listed all through this thread.

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:49 AM

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Originally posted by bluemoonstuff:
Ok, WKRP is most worthy of top O' the list. Wild Wild West is a most definate and don't forget Robert Conrad was also in Ba Ba Blacksheep - I haven't seen that in re-runs anywhere. Is it available on DVD?

First season of Baa Baa Blacksheep is available http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=MCA027770

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:23 AM

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Originally posted by Ruxton:
-The Fugutive (David Janssen)

How could I have forgotten the Fugitive? I remember the night the final episode of the series was shown -- I believe it was the most watched TV episode ever (up to that time, of course).

It was quite a show. Although, I didn't really appreciate it until years later in syndication, as I was too young to grasp the drama when it was first run.

Also, I forgot "The Man From UNCLE". That was a good show, too.

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:03 AM

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Originally posted by Malice:
The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan.

IMO, Secret Agent / Dangerman was a much better show! It was the prequel series, but supposedly was about the same character: John Drake. It wasn't as symbolic or just plain weird as The Prisoner, but was a lot more intelligent and 'realistic'. Although it could get a little dry from time to time.

"It's a cow."

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 10:05 AM

Hey, 'Toon,
So many we forget. How could I have overlooked Black Sheep Squadron?! Loved them Corsairs.

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:37 PM

Pride and Prejudice.
Tutti Frutti
The Young Ones
Blackadder (Series 2 onwards)
Red Dwarf
Thunderbirds
The Flashing Blade. Fabulously cheesy feem toon.
Belle and Sebastian
The Wild Wild West
Alias Smith and Jones
Cagney and Lacey. Cagney. Hot.
The A Team.
Hamish MacBeth
Malcolm (no, the other one) in the Middle.
Coupling
Northern Exposure
Due South
Skippy. (Bet you can do the tune, including the banjo bits.) Bell 47, just like Whirlybirds.
Ripcord
The Singing Ringing Tree.
The Singing Detective.

Classic don't necessarily mean old.

Gratuitous Aussie Sci-Fi obscurania. Phoenix 5.
(You have to say the title strine for the full effect.)

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:43 PM

Monty Python
Red Dwarf (Gunmen of the Apocolypse best episode)
Blackadder

Best ones for me not much else can compete except for Firefly of cause.

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:58 PM

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First season of Baa Baa Blacksheep is available http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=MCA027770

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:37 PM

Also, I forgot "The Man From UNCLE". That was a good show, too.
lol! going off track a little, do you watch NCIS? david mccallum is in it, and once, kate asked gibbs if he had known ducky when he was younger. gibbs said, "yeah, he looked like a young illya kuryakin".

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 5:27 PM

I met all the classics in re-runs during the 80's- (Nick at Night!)
I preferred:
I-Spy
Star Trek
The Fugitive
Wagon Train

My sister preferred
Green Acres
I Dream of Genie
Brady Bunch

- we had wars over who got to watch what. It wasn't pretty!

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:12 AM

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Originally posted by livlass:
Also, I forgot "The Man From UNCLE". That was a good show, too.
lol! going off track a little, do you watch NCIS? david mccallum is in it, and once, kate asked gibbs if he had known ducky when he was younger. gibbs said, "yeah, he looked like a young illya kuryakin".

No, haven't seen that.

That is funny, though. Wish they would rerun those old "Man From UNCLE" episodes.

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:18 AM

'Man from UNCLE' was standard Friday evening viewing at our house when I was little. We'd get picked up from school, go to the swimming pool and get chips on the way home to watch in front of whatever was showing on BBC2 at 6pm.

As such, I have a terrifying working knowledge of Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlet, The Man from UNCLE and The Avengers. And am reminded of all when confronted with the smell of chlorine and salty vinegar.

*Sigh* Halycon days.

They're showing The Avengers again! With Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee. It's the last word in style, refined wit and judo chops. Surely that belongs on a 'Best of..' List/?

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:41 PM

You watched Uncle Miltie live? Okay, you win; I'm jealous.

The few I can think of who can do an unexpected 20 minutes (Soupy Sales comes to mind immediately...oh, wait a second' add The Soupy Sales show to my list.

) are of that generation with the exception of Robin Williams...and maybe Tim Allen (I've heard him go on for a bit on live radio--his high school buddy is a DJ around here.)
Most of those, I've seen as my local market(s) showed reruns when I was a wee lass.

I liked Lucy, but only some eps.

ooo! The original Fugitive! I forgot about that one. Yeah, the harrison Ford movie was okay, but the original series...damn!

Monty Python counts...I watched it in '71 initially and it was first broadcast in the UK in the late 60's.

The Spanish Inquisition is my mother's favorite. Get the comfy chair!

I also watched Dobie Gillis...and Gilligan's Island...and Dusty's Trail, which Bob Denver was also in (yeah, as a kid I wasn't as discriminating in my viewing habits. I even watched Lost in Space.)

Oh, heck I just remembered another one to add...Kung Fu. I loved that show as did my siblings. Our parents were just confused by this phenomenon as the 3 of us rarely agreed on anything.

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:52 PM

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Originally posted by cartoon:

No, haven't seen that. That is funny, though. Wish they would rerun those old "Man From UNCLE" episodes.

Hang on to your pens. Season 1 will be out on DVD in July according to tvshowson dvd.com.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5443

Nifty, eh?

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 4:05 PM

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Originally posted by cab1729:
Alias Smith and Jones
Here Come The Brides
Starsky and Hutch
Combat!

Oh, man...Alias Smith and Jones. Yes! But it's gotta have Pete Duel. His replacement (whose name escapes me, but I remember he'd also been on Dark Shadows) was just too bland in the part.
oh, my goodness...Here Come the Brides with David Soul (also of Starsky and Hutch) and teen idol Bobby Sherman.

Okay...you got a point..actually three of 'em. And oh, dear, speaking of teen idols, I also forgot the original Monkees! Its still fun after all these years.
Oh, dear, lets also add the Sunday Mystery Movies which included McCloud, Columbo, McMillian & Wife and...wasn't the fourth one Banachek with George Peppard?

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 4:26 PM

1. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
2. Star Trek
3. Wild, Wild West
4. Time Tunnel
5. Land of the Giants
6. The 1st Twilight Zone
7. The 1st Outer Limits
8. Night gallery
9. Space 1999
10. I love Lucy
11. Bewitched
12. That Girl
13. All That Glitters
14. Perry mason
15. Dragnet
16. Adam 12
17. Alfred Hitchcock
18. Speed Racer
19. Marine Boy
20. Star Blazers
21. The Six Million Dollar Man
22. The Bionic Woman
23. Good Times
24. Marcus Welby MD
25. The Patty Duke Show
26. The Flying Nun
27. Hogan's Heroes
28. Three's Company
29. Johnny Ouest
30. The Jetsons
31. UFO the (british version)
32. Nightmare Theater
33. Iron Side
34. Monty Python's Flying Circus
35. I Dream of Genie
36. The Partridge Family
37. The Courtship of Eddies Father

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:01 PM

RMMC,

Good, God, David Carradine in Kung Fu! How can anyone forget that?

Yes, Uncle Miltie was one of the very first TV shows, starting around 1948. I was very young then, but still recall it. That original 8" b/w TV is still in our family.

We were the envy of the neigbors, adults and children, and they all used to come over to watch that TV. Eight-inch screeen.

The Three Stooges used to be regularly shown, but I recall the family gatherings to watch a few shows. Lucy, etc.

Columbo and Perry Mason! Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Howdy Doody Time with Buffalo Bob.

And let us not forget:

WONDER WOMAN!!

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 8:27 PM

I would add

GiGantor
Voltron
Herculoids

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:22 PM

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Originally posted by RMMC:
Oh, man...Alias Smith and Jones. Yes! But it's gotta have Pete Duel. His replacement (whose name escapes me, but I remember he'd also been on Dark Shadows) was just too bland in the part.
oh, my goodness...Here Come the Brides with David Soul (also of Starsky and Hutch) and teen idol Bobby Sherman.
Okay...you got a point..actually three of 'em. And oh, dear, speaking of teen idols, I also forgot the original Monkees! Its still fun after all these years.
Oh, dear, lets also add the Sunday Mystery Movies which included McCloud, Columbo, McMillian & Wife and...wasn't the fourth one Banachek with George Peppard?

I don't think we even watched that season without Pete Duel, just wasn't the same. And I vaguely remember the mystery movies but I was probably off reading somewhere.

I definitely remember the Monkees! I was at a ripe age for that - preteeny. The Partridge Family too.

Bat Masterson. Have Gun Will Travel. Rifleman. Wagon Train. Wild Wild West of course - what teenage girl at that time wasn't watching Robert Conrad?!

The Flintstones on at night when Pebbles was born and there was a big contest to name her. I was preschool but that was a big deal. And Johnny Quest with the weird lips?

Did you move here or grow up around here? Remember Romper Room? Rita Bell? Bill Kennedy? Soupy and Bozo of course. Saturdays watching Flash Gordon? The Little Rascals every day? Father Knows Best and The Donna Reed Show at lunchtime?

I've temporarily run out of TV memories but I'm sure you catch my drift!

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Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:10 AM

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Originally posted by Ruxton:
RMMC,

Good, God, David Carradine in Kung Fu! How can anyone forget that?

Ruxton...looks like I managed it quite well.

I still love it, and it being one of the first 'action' shows to advocate non-violence. I think that's also why my parents weren't that fond of it...the idea seemed to confuse them. That and I think they were worried us kids may have wanted to convert to Buddhism or something.:-/

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Yes, Uncle Miltie was one of the very first TV shows, starting around 1948. I was very young then, but still recall it. That original 8" b/w TV is still in our family.

We were the envy of the neigbors, adults and children, and they all used to come over to watch that TV. Eight-inch screen.

And now I'm having pictures in my head from Back to the Future when Marty arrives in 1955, his grandparents are excited about getting their first TV.

For me, I remember our neighbors a few doors down were the first ones to get a color TV, and they nicely let us come over to watch Dark Shadows on it with them.
And in a weird tangent, I remember my grandfather getting a TV with a wireless remote in the very early 70's. I think it may have been one of Zenith's first models to have one.

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The Three Stooges used to be regularly shown, but I recall the family gatherings to watch a few shows. Lucy, etc.

I used to watch the Stooges, but they ceased to be enjoyable after puberty. I still don't know why.

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Columbo and Perry Mason! Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Howdy Doody Time with Buffalo Bob.

And let us not forget:

WONDER WOMAN!!

Oh, heavens...I remember watching WW. And laughing my tushie off. part of it was i had a hard time taking Lyle Waggoner seriously after the Carol Burnett Show...especially since WW was being set in WWII, I kept thinking of the skit on CB with Tim Conway interrogating Lyle with a Hitler handpuppet, and lyle unable to deliver his lines because he was laughing too much.

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BTW--Remember the 7Up commercial spoofing Kung Fu?

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Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:24 AM

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I don't think I've seen many shows that are pre-1980 (I was born in 1977) other than those I mentioned as well as a little Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica.

Ooh, I was born in '77 too!

I've fallen in love with Hogan's Hero's. Which I think was unfairly named the worst TV show ever! I also love Dukes of Hazzard and M*A*S*H is probably my favoritest TV show ever.

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Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:38 AM

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I don't think we even watched that season without Pete Duel, just wasn't the same.

Good choice. It was uninspired and lame after that.

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And I definitely remember the Monkees! I was at a ripe age for that - preteeny. The Partridge Family too.

Ditto. I think my sister was verging on Teenhood then. She had a crush on David Cassidy.

Okay, this means you were probably a teen when Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew were on. Which of the boys was it for you?

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Bat Masterson. Have Gun Will Travel. Rifleman. Wagon Train. Wild Wild West of course - what teenage girl at that time wasn't watching Robert Conrad?!

Ah, the Rifleman. Do you remember when 62 broadcast an ep in Spanish by accident? That was highly amusing. We had fun doing our own dialogue, kinda like we'd do for the monsters in the Godzilla movies.

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Did you move here or grow up around here? Remember Romper Room? Rita Bell? Bill Kennedy? Soupy and Bozo of course. Saturdays watching Flash Gordon? The Little Rascals every day? Father Knows Best and The Donna Reed Show at lunchtime?

Born & bred here(well, actually Livonia.

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Rita Bell and Bill Kennedy were both watched on a daily basis in our house. Plus the channel 7 4 o'clock movie, depending on the movie. Abbott and Costello Movies on Sunday morning!
Didn't do RR or New Zoo Revue, but did do Capt Kangaroo and ...okay, I think I need a kids program list, too.

Kiddie TV List
a.) Capt Kangaroo
b.) Sesame Street
c.) Mr. Dressup
d.) Friendly Giant (Boy am I confusing a lot of Americans with this list.

e.) Johnny Quest
f.) Scooby Doo (Original and the ones with the celebrity guests. No Scrappy.)
g.) Bozo (no kid list is complete with out it)
h.) Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home
i.) The Ghoul (okay, not so kiddie, but I enjoyed it more then)
j.) The Muppet Show!
k.) Schoolhouse Rock/In the News
l.) Bugs Bunny Show (in its many incarnations...wasn't there a point where in our area we could watch it like 3 or 4 times a day?)
m.) Oopsie the Clown
n.) Hot Fudge

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I've temporarily run out of TV memories but I'm sure you catch my drift!

And got carried away with it from the looks of things.

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Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:42 AM

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I've fallen in love with Hogan's Heroes. Which I think was unfairly named the worst TV show ever!

I agree. I thik some of that may be backlash from all the icky stuff that's come out about Bob Crane's personal life. That and that Speilberg hates it because he thinks that nothing about WWII should ever be made light of by anyone.

Personally, I think Petticoat Junction is far, far worse.

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Thursday, April 13, 2006 2:46 PM

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... And Johnny Quest with the weird lips?

Um... Johnny Quest didn't have weird lips. It was pretty decent Hanna-Barbera animation, actually, though not as good as the classic WB or MGM toons. Good scifiish show, too. Remember the invisible electric monster?

Perhaps you're thinking of Clutch Cargo... which I always found downright disturbin'. Wouldn't watch it.

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Thursday, April 13, 2006 7:37 PM

RMMC,

Ah, yes, Nancy Drew, with Pamela Sue Martin. I saw one episode twice, the second time with a witness: during that particular show, in a scene with lots of people, Pam got her breast squeezed on national TV.

I wonder how many remember/saw that?!

[I'd say your idea for this thread was indeed a good one.]

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Thursday, April 13, 2006 7:59 PM

I was born in '88, but I grew up as a child of Nick at Nite, so most of the shows I grew up on were the same things my mom watched when she was a kid. Just to name a few (not sure how many of these have already been listed)...

- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- The Dick van Dyke Show
- The Bob Newhart Show
- The Jeffersons
- I Dream of Jeanie
- The Munsters
- Get Smart
- Gilligan's Island
- Looney Tunes
- Scooby Doo
- Happy Days

I love classic tv

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Friday, April 14, 2006 2:07 AM

Arrgh... you know you're an aging Browncoat when the shows you saw first-run (and not necessarily as a little kid) are now called "classic TV".

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Friday, April 14, 2006 2:22 AM

The Dick Van Dyke Show

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Friday, April 14, 2006 1:38 PM

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Ooh, I was born in '77 too!

Woo hoo! A fellow '77er. We're awesome.

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Saturday, April 15, 2006 11:56 PM

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....Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew...

Neither, it must have been up against something important. *shrug*

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...d.) Friendly Giant (Boy am I confusing a lot of Americans with this list. ....

Oh, wow, I remember that! We had a 9-year span from oldest to youngest so it was probably many years before that show wasn't watched on a daily basis.

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...l.) Bugs Bunny Show (in its many incarnations...wasn't there a point where in our area we could watch it like 3 or 4 times a day?)

Probably. Along with that other kid show for grown-ups - Bullwinkle. Still my all-time favorite smart-ass cartoon!

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