My favorite TV shows - when I was a kid

[Mike]

Here is when this show started getting really, REALLY good when uncle Charlie joined up!

[Mike]

...and one of Harry Nilsson's better songs, and a great show. -yes, mister Eddie's father.

[Sweet Jane 61]

PF thanks for the great trip down memory lane. I loved both of those shows so much. And it was great because my whole family watched them together.

My Mom and I never missed an episode... The Dick Van Dyke Show

[Mike]

In the 70's my folks and I would watch All in the family, The Bob Newhart Show, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Burnett. Oh and one of my other favs was That Girl!

[Sweet Jane 61]

Oh all those shows were my Mom and I's favs! We watched Mary Tyler Moore with my Dad all the way to the end of the show, never missed, even when I was a teenager, I stayed home to watch. I had a crush on Lou!

[logan01]

Too many to list. Your list thus far is excellent. Some quickies which come to mind are Mighty Mouse, Route 66, The Citadel, The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Twentieth Century, Highway Patrol, 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside 6, I've Got a Secret. Though not tv, I fell to sleep every night listening to CBS Radio Mystery Theater with E.G. Marshall. Giving serious thought to buying the cd set with all the old Mystery shows. I would highly recommend to any of the younger folks to listen to one of those old radio shows; way too cool.

[skybluesky]

Mork & Mindy, Laverene & Shirley, Happy Days, Growing Pains and Mr. Belvedere.

[Jenny]

I liked the Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, The Addams Family, Bugs Bunny, The Wacky Races, Tom & Jerry (when they didn't talk), and then later the shows Shannon mentioned, plus Love Boat.

[Otokichi]

And now, from The World of Tomorrow...when TVs were black & white and there were fewer channels than the fingers on one hand. I'd like to see episodes from "Science Fiction Theater" again, if only to update suspect memories. (Separating compounds by density via Termite spit, E.T.'s bullet-flattening plastic sheet, Y.O.R.D., a blind boy who sees colored light as emotions.) For those who think MTV is cool, how about Ernie Kovacs, who brought us The Nairobi Trio, Percy Dovetonsils the Poet, and could animate numerous everyday objects. TV Military doctors have gotten far too serious; "Hennesey" treated his sailors with humor, understanding, and a dose of common sense. As for Steve Martin, he missed Phil Silvers' "Sgt. Bilko" by an astronomic unit. (Who else would try to sell army jeeps as the Arrivederci sport coupe!?) Moving from the geologic past to something a tad more current, I wouldn't mind visiting The Stratford Inn with "Newhart" just to hear "Anything for a Buck" turn into "Hi, my name's Larry, here's my brother Darrel, and this is my other brother Darrell."

Edited September 18, 2007 by Guest
One "s" too many!

[_Laurie_]

Newhart....loved it!

[Endymion1977]

Blake's Seven: Wikipedia link

It was huge in Bulgaria in the mid-80's.

[_Laurie_]

Welcome Back Kotter comes to mind...along with many that have already been mentioned...

[skybluesky]

Hey Laurie-Up your nose with a rubber hose!

[_Laurie_]

Signed,

Epstein's Mutha.....

[skybluesky]

Epstein makes me sigh and swoon.

[Foolonthehill]

I guess I'm too young to relate to any of you on those ones.

When I was really young, I loved watching The Magic School Bus and Kratt's Creatures. I learned far more from those shows than I ever have in Science at school.

[Rayzor]

My favorite shows were All In The Family and Three's Company. I watched those after school while doing my homework. My mom made us do our homework before we were allowed to go out and play hockey...

Meathead!

[Sweet Jane 61]

Patty Duke Show

I watched this every day, it was on at 3:30 when I got home from school. I would sing and dance to the opening theme and wish I could have Patty's life, getting into fun trouble!

[blue_n_white]

I have many and most have already been mentioned but one I will add is "Hogans Heros". It made me wonder if all Nazis were really that stupid. Of course you had to be stupid if you wanted to be a Nazi,but anyway.

[Mike]

What I can't figure out is how the Skipper maintained his heavy figure on the island, sustaining on berries, bananas, fish and coconuts? Hmm?

[_Laurie_]

^^^ Or how the Professor could make a radio out of coconuts, but cant build a boat...

[Otokichi]

Then there was the episode when Gilligan was replaced by a Russian spy and nobody noticed!

[RonJonSurfer]

I loved:

The Monkees

The Soupy Sales Show (Soupy's kids are rockers...played with Bowie)

Get Smart

The Beatles (Cartoons)

Wonderama (Sunday Morning NY based kid's show)

The Bugs Bunny Show (Hours of Sat. Morning cartoons)

This should explain a great deal about me...

[_Laurie_]

Those were great shows Ron!

and also

Sonny and Cher

Flip Wilson....Loved Geraldine! remember "Killer"?

American Bandstand

Soooooooul Train

[Sweet Jane 61]

Oh Soul Train!! Loved that show, remember when David Bowie was on and Elton John, so cool! I wanted to be on Soul Train more than I wanted to be on American Bandstand, more cooler and groovier!!