What Were Your Favorite TV Shows When Your Were a Kid?
Mates,
Since many of you/us won't be going to work for a while and we sure as heck won't be watching the NCAA's (silent fist of protest), I'm guessing many of you will have an increased amount of TV watching for shows you wouldn't otherwise bother with. Reruns are easy to come by in the modern age, and maybe some of you will dial those up. I can think of older shows like Gunsmoke or Lost in Space. Maybe cartoons like Space Ghost or Bugs Bunny. Jump ahead to the 80's/90's and watch Seinfeld, Friends, or newer programs like Deadliest Catch. Apparently some of you are Bachelor/Bachelorette fans, but who knows?
Anyway, today's question is in the title: What were your favorite TV shows when you were growing up?
Hoping all these cancellations have the intended beneficial effect. Stay safe everybody
XM
Anything that showed boobs, asses, and pussy.
So Benny Hill then?
The Flintstones & The Jetsons. Hint: Check my username.
Similar vintage as OldDad
Maverick
(Did you know there was a third brother named Beau played by Roger Moore?)
As I recall Beau was an English cousin, not a brother. Maverick shows took more than a week to make, and seasons were about 39 weeks long back then. The alternating episodes feature Bret (The great James Garner) and Bart (Jack Kelly) allowed the WB television production studios to work on two shows simultaneously, but separately, so that they would have a show ready each week.
Home videos?
The downvotes seem to indicate:
A) you are the only person who was a horny youngster on this board
B) this board is full of liars
Hmmmmm
The Benny Hill Show - Would have to secretly watch @ 11:30 when my parents were sleeping.
I remember when it was on CH.50 in the early to mid 70s. Loved it when I was a kid. Along with the Ghoul. I remember 3 stooges reruns use to be on into the mid 80s, until parents said they were too violent.
Count Scary too.
Doug Podell on PBS late Saturday nights showing videos.
3:30: Speed Racer
4:00 Captain America (M) Hulk (Tu) Iron Man (W) Namor (Th) Thor (F)
4:30 Spiderman
oh man, we're old. can still hear that jingle about prince namor being the king of the deep.
never a speed racer fan though.
I can still remember all the jingles from the marvel comic cartoons in the early to mid 70s. If I remember correctly they came on Ch.20 WXON. 4 PM was CA, Hulk, IM, Namor and Thor. then followed by Spiderman. I watched speed racer on ch.50.
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Never a bad time for it.
Alf. really liked Alf.
And Hollywood Squares.
i bet if they could've filmed a reality TV type of deal about the real behind-the-scenes lives of the hollywood squares folks it would've been interesting.
What was Charlie Weaver’s great celebrity talent?
which caused me to look it up. per wikipedia, real name was cliff arquette.
here is the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Arquette
HHHHHA!!!!
The Rifleman---Chuck Connors was as badass as it gets, cutting down at least a couple outlaws per show in the name of truth, justice and the American Frontier, all the while raising his son on his own.
My other favorite was The Three Stooges---violent slapstick comedy at its very best! Mo, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe, Curley Joe---loved them all!
Anyone who says The Three Stooges aren’t funny is beyond help.
I don't know how to spell it the way Curley says it, but to the above I would have to say "certainly."
"Soytainly" is what you're looking for.
There's a video out there somewhere where Chuck shoots an endless stream of bad guys without reloading. Toward the end of the video they've spliced in video of Nazis from some old war movie and Chuck guns them down as well.
Couldn't find that particular video, but here's one documenting 120 bad guys in the 5 year run of The Rifleman:
Home Improvement
The X-Files
Animaniacs
FYI: Animaniacs will be rolling out new seasons starting this year. I just sold the director a house and he is working directly with Steven Spielberg and they are continuing the story and style of drawing so as to not screw up a phenomenal cartoon. Was able to nerd out with my client over all sorts of classic animation. he even gave me Batman the Animated Series to rip to my hard drive.
Captain Kangaroo as a wee one, Hogan’s Heroes as a grade schooler. Mr. Greenjeans was a true role model.
my nickname at the gym, for obvious reasons: greenjeans.
The Transformers.
I loved characters like Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Prowl, Wheeljack, Starscream, and Megatron.
After seeing them get hit by laser fire repeatedly, with no lingering effects, you can imagine the shock I got when “Transformers: The Movie” came out and all of them, and many others, got wasted in the first 30 minutes of the film.
GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN ACRESSSSS is the place to beeeeeee!!!!!!!
Farmmmmmmmmmmmmm Living is the life for me.......
Simple and Pure Comedy.............Something that cannot be done today.................
there's a certain part of that show that rings true here on the farm. my wonderful wife says with a smile, from her giant law firm days to being the homeschooling mother of many with livestock and crops all around, 'whatever happened to limousine rides and sushi bars?!'
Batman '66
Ultraman
Johnny Sokko & his Flying Robot
Lost in Space
Twilight Zone
Hanna Barbera (Yogi Bear, Hong Kong Phooey, Dynomutt, etc).
Six Million Dollar Man
ChiPs
Hulk / Wonder Woman / Greatest American Hero
Star Trek / Battlestar Gallactica
Happy Days
BIG negative on Ultraman - that show freaked me out. Lost in Space sucked ass too.
Batman was #1 for me too. It's still one of my favorites.
As a kid, I liked: Recess, Ducktales, Tailspin, PepperAnn, Flash Forward, Even Stevens.
Also, the New Adventures is Winnie the Pooh was underrated . It had a second layer of humor to it that was mastered perfectly
And yes, I am a fan of The Bachelor currently.
Babar (really young)
Doug
Rugrats
Salute Your Shorts
Rocko's Modern Life
The Little Koalas
Looney Tunes...loved Pink Panther especially but it was all so good, even with the not so subtle racism/
Heathcliff, so underrated
Garfield
Pete and Pete...though probably too young to get some of that humour
Old Warner Brothers cartoons. I was a huge fan of the Wolf and Sheepdog.
LOL I always loved how it was just a job to them. As soon as the whistle blew at the end of the day, they were just buds again.
A lot of these WB cartoons were movie shorts played before the featured film in the 40s and 50s, Just like the Three Stooges were played before the featured films in the 30s through 50s.
"Shut up, shuttin' up, rabbit."
"WHAM! A homah! WHAM, anudda homah!"
"Do you want to shoot him now, or wait 'til you get home?" - "Oh no, you don't! Shoot me now! Shoot me now!"
I still Dream of Jeannie.
The Big Valley (Linda Evans)
Beverly Hillbilly’s (Ellie May)
Hmmm, i’m seeing a pattern here...!
How about:
The Hulk
Rifleman - Chuck Connors was a stone cold killa when he had to be!
Thanks XM for the OP.
Pre-1960 (years when I might’ve been considered a “kid”) in no special order:
The Twilight Zone (my all-time favorite debuted in October 1959, so it qualifies), The Adventures of Superman, Captain Kangaroo, The Three Stooges Funhouse, The Ed Sullivan Show, You Bet Your Life, Concentration, To Tell the Truth, What’s My Line, Truth or Consequences, Beat the Clock, Wonderama, The Honeymooners, Leave It to Beaver, Father Knows Best, The Lone Ranger, Rin Tin Tin, Million Dollar Movie, The Mickey Mouse Club, Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies, The Amos 'n Andy Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (debuted in September 1959, so it beats the cut-off date)
The original Twilight Zone still holds up really well IMO.
Home Improvement, Family Matters. As I got older, Fresh Prince reruns. In college, I loved Scrubs. Couldn't get enough of it. So much better than Friends. Not even in the same conversation tbh
Are you Afraid of the Dark?
MST3K - Now there is now a Twitch channel for MST3K and RiffTrax which is also great.
God. I wouldn’t even know where to begin. As an immigrant with only one parent in the US who worked 16 hour days, I was practically raised by the television. Morning cartoons, after school cartoons, sitcoms, Saturday morning tv. I’d have to come up with favorites on each category, then break myself out by my various kid age cohorts. That would give you a list of about 50 shows that served as a substitute father for me in my formative years.