Favorite TV show as a kid?

[WI_DEM]

I liked a lot of ABC shows:

The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Nanny and the Professor
Brady Bunch
The Partridge Family
Bewitched (I only remember the Dick Sargent episodes as a kid, but now I love the Dick York episodes)

You?

I did it again!! this should be in the lounge, sorry

[7th_Sephiroth]

1. cheers, night court

transformers, get smart, i dream of jeanie, TMNT bots master

[jdots]

106. Ernie Kovacs &Steve Allen n/t

[Big Kahuna]

2. Dr Who

[NC_Nurse]

3. I liked the Friday night line up too

Nanny and the Professor
Brady Bunch
Partridge Family

and Scooby Doo was my fav cartoon. :)

[SaveElmer]

4. If you grew up in Minneapolis in the 60' and 70's

It has to be the Casey Jones Show

[Mizmoon]

5. Star Trek n/t

[proud patriot]

6. *M*A*S*H*

and Little House On The Prairie

[LibertyLover]

7. Favorite TV shows as a kid

The Monkees
Rat Patrol
Star Trek (original series)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Combat
12 O'Clock High
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Time Tunnel

[Mr. McD]

8. As a kid I liked

The Red Skelton Show.
Have Gun Will Travel.
Perry Mason.

[7th_Sephiroth]

16. why is the smiley in your sig

kicking himself in tha balls?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Wild Kingdom

I'll bet Mutual of Omaha wouldn't touch Jim with a ten foot pole!

[WI_DEM]

13. "While I enjoy a tropical drink, Jim wrestles an aligator..."

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. Good ol' Marlin...

I wonder whatever happened to Jim?
Maybe he trained the Crock Hunter...

[skygazer]

44. He used to show up on the Tonight Show now and then

and Johnny Carson would persecute him while the animals ran up and down his arm.

Poor Jim...

[benito]

10. TENSPEED AND BROWNSHOE

Cast
BEN VEREEN as E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner / JEFF GOLDBLUM as Lionel 'Brown Shoe' Whitney
Actually, the above show kinda sucked.


Square Pegs
Mr. Merlin
Good Times
Jennifer Slept Here
WKRP
Chico and the man

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Tie (NYC specific): Let's Have Fun (Chuck McCann) & The Sandy Becker Show.

[CO Liberal]

17. Agreed

See my post below. But I remember Chuck McCann more after he moved from Channel 11 to Channel 5.

[CO Liberal]

12. Showing My Age Here....

From when I was growing up in the '50s and '60s in New Jersey (40 miles west of Manhattan):

Howdy Doody

Mickey Mouse Club

American Bandstand (Mon - Fri from Philadelphia)

Terrytoon Circus (local show on WOR New York - now WWOR)

The Soupy Sales Show
The Chuck McCann Show
The Fred Hall Show
Wonderama
The Sandy Becker Show (all on WNEW-TV Metromedia - now WNYW Fox)

Officer Joe Bolton & The Three Stooges
Captain Jack McCarthy Presents Popeye
Huckleberry Hound
Yogi Bear
Quick Draw McGraw (all on WPIX-TV)

Later on (when I decided I wanted to be a DJ when I grew up), one of my favorites was "Good Morning, World", a CBS sitcom about two morning DJs that was only on for one year. Another favorite was "He & She", which was also on for just one year.

[no_hypocrisy]

28. You omitted Beachcomber Bill and Claude Kirschner (& Clownie).

You didn't like them enough to make them favorites?

[CO Liberal]

31. Beachcomber Bill Was On Opposite Sandy Becker

And Claude Kirshner & Clownie were on Terrytoon Circus.

(It's 7:30, and now it's time for most of you, to go to bed.)

[the Princess]

30. Boy you're OOOOOLD!

Hee Hee

I LOVED Flipper!!!

And The Wonderful World of Disney.

[CO Liberal]

32. There May Be a Bit of Snow On The Roof...

...but there's still a fire in the furnace!!!!

:-)

[no_hypocrisy]

33. Yeah, tell me about it . . . .

[MrBenchley]

35. Soupy Sales came to Baltimore and became one of my favorites

He got tossed off the air there for "No, white fang, I don't know what word starts with "F" and ends with "u-c-k"?
Oh, FIRETRUCK."

How about You Bet your Life
Lone Ranger
Sea Hunt (Look out for the giant clam, Lloyd!)
The Jackie Gleason Show (especially Reginald van Gleason)
Whirlybirds
Davy Crockett

[DemOverseas]

57. I'll up you

Highway Patrol and Sky King........

[MrBenchley]

61. Out of the blue of the Western skies comes (gnrrrrow) Sky King!

Sky King's niece Penny, as I recall, seemed to spend a big chunk of every episode tied up....

I remember Highway Patrol, as well....

George Reeves as Superman....

The Cisco Kid....

[CO Liberal]

67. I Remember Watching "Sky King" On Saturdays

It was one of the last kid shows on each week - after that, they switched to sports (such as golf), and I went outside to play.

Another one was Fury - "The Story of a Horse - And The Boy Who Loved Him". Sounds a little kinky to me......

[MrBenchley]

86. Wasn't Peter Graves Fury's dad?

I remember those shows too....

[CO Liberal]

87. Either His Dad or His Uncle

I's been a long time since I saw that show....

[CO Liberal]

76. How About "Andy's Gang"?

"I've got a gang, you've got a gang
Everybody's got to have a gang
But what's the gang that we all love?
ANDY'S GANG....."

Andy Devine: "Plunk yer magic twanger, Froggie....."

[MrBenchley]

88. Chimpy's wire remidned me of Froggy the Gremlin

pResident Twitchy: But the important thing for Americans to remember is, I...
Froggy: am an idiot.
pResident Twitchy: am an idiot, no! I mean...

[The empressof all]

37. Ooooooh Wonderama and Sandy Becker were my favorites (nt)

[CO Liberal]

39. I'm Walking About "Wonderama" with Sonny Fox

It was better than Bob McAllister's version.

Oh-oh ... just thought of a McAllister song:

"Does anybody here have an aardvark?
Anybody here have an aardvark?
Everybody here
Has a right and left ear
But nobody here has an aardvark..."

:-)

[The empressof all]

40. Sonny Fox was the greatest

I don't remember the other guy at all. Was Wonderama just a New York thing?

[CO Liberal]

73. I'm Not Sure

It may have been.

[XNASA]

14. The Original Jonny Quest

[Richardo]

18. Hajii!

:thumbsup: XNASA.

(you 1957 POS, you ;-))

[XNASA]

54. Damn you, man!!! And your Astros TOO!!

'57 was a very, very good year. :donut:

[Beer Snob-50]

15. Batman!

Great show still (when you can find it!)

[meegbear]

59. Me too!

They used to show it at midnite on TvLand Fri-Sat nites. Used to get the bartender to put in on for me. Some patrons liked it on too.

[Beer Snob-50]

71. A great show!

I particular loved the ways they concocted these ways to kill the dynamic duo and batman alsways had a piece of gum in his utility belt or something to get out!

[starroute]

19. My peak tv watching years were c. 1956-59

Once I'd outgrown the little kiddie shows, it was:

Zorro (the Disney version)
Maverick
77 Sunset Strip

On edit: Looking at the other posts, I'm reminded I also liked The Man From Uncle a lot. But I was in high school by then, so it didn't come to mind as something I watched as a child.

[Merrick]

20. Electric Blue

my parents didnt get the Playboy channel, so it was scrambled, but I'd watch it anyway (with my ears peeled).

[medeak]

21. Kennedy Nixon debate

first time I watched tv..parents bought tv just for debate.

will never forget.

[DemVIctory]

27. Dukes of Hazzard

People probably think it was a RW show- VERY far from it! The Greedy (Boss and Roscoe or guest villain) would try to pull some scam. However, by the end of the show the Dukes would foil the scam and give all of the money to a worthy cause. All they ever wanted was the car, their farm, and each other.

Ben Jones who played Cooter on the show was a 2 term (D) congressman from Georgia who barely lost to Newt in 92 or 94.

[bloodyjack]

22. Rocky & Bullwinkle

Where I grew up the TV was terrrrrible (for which I'm kind of grateful in hindsight) so I just watched stuff we'd tape whenever on vacation in the States.

Good show, though...wonderful writing more than made up for the choppy animation (which I happen to like anyhow)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

29. YES!

That was a great show!

I also enjoyed the other cartoons on the show....Peabody and Sherman, Fractured Fairy Tales, and Dudley DoRight.

[bloodyjack]

36. I loved the other little segments

Mr Know-It-All, Bullwinkle's Corner, et cetera

Rocky: Bullwinkle, do you know what an A Bomb is?
Bullwinkle: Sure, a bomb is what some people call our show
Rocky: I don't think that's very funny
Bullwinkle: Neither do they apparently

Bullwinkle: In a word, you said it!
Rocky: That's three words!
Bullwinkle: Well I'm a heavy tipper


"Here, disguised as a bomb, is a bomb"

[bigwillq]

23. I still watch some of the shows I liked as a kid

Like the Golden Girls, Roseanne.

Nick at Nite is like my childhood relived.

[qnr]

24. Time Tunnel, Land Of The Giants, Fireball XL-5,

And about 80 others heheh

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

83. TIME TUNNEL! TIME TUNNEL! TIME TUNNEL! TIME TUNNEL!

[DelawareValleyDem]

26. Banana Splits

[arwalden]

34. Bewitched, Bonanza, Hazel

[ThoughtCriminal]

38. Smothers Brothers

young ThoughtCriminal learned much from Dick & Tommy

[baldguy]

41. ULTRAMAN!

Yes, it needs to be in allcaps and it needs the exclamation point.

[HEyHEY]

42. hmmmmmmmmm

I don't know

[MrSandman]

43. Love American Style...

Room 222

Hey, I was only a kid...kinda thought Karen Valentine was hot and WWHS was kewl.

[skygazer]

45. I loved Westerns as a kid

The Virginian
The Rifleman
High Chaparral
Gunsmoke

also The Wonderful World of Disney when Walt was alive
Wild Kingdom
Star Trek

[Magrittes Pipe]

46. Robotech.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

47. Rocky and Bullwinkle

American Bandstand - Perry Mason - Have Gun Will Travel - all those WB detective shows like Hawaiian Eye. Oh - and College Bowl. My mom liked that WWII show Combat (go figure). I'd translate what the German soldiers were saying. I didn't speak German - I'd just make shit up. She'd go "How do you do that??" Mom's not too smart - that's why she's a Shrub lover.x( They have so much in common.

[otohara]

62. R&B Rocked

I also liked HOgans Hero's

[salin]

48. all of the above and

reruns on saturday morning of the Monkees.

[Sabriel]

49. CHiPs!

Erik Estrada...rowrrrrrrr!

[texas1928]

50. Emergency

That show rocked.

[Forkboy]

51. Creature Double Feature

[faithnotgreed]

92. hey! are you talking about creature feature? with the tree by the

pool of blood looking thing? i was so young but i remember that... and as the hand came out then the voiceover says "thrillaaaaa"

i have no idea if im right here on the specifics, but its what i remember

[SidDithers]

52. Flintstones, meet the Flintstones...

and the age old argument goes...Betty or Wilma?

Sid

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

53. The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

No contest.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

55. Black Adder

[Elginoid]

56. Beverly Hillbillies

Max Baer was a comic genius.

[noonwitch]

58. "Gilligan's Island" and "HR Pufinstuf"

Those Kroft shows were so strange, but amusing.

I know "Gilligan's Island" was one of the most stupid shows ever made, but I loved it as a kid. I still will watch it if I'm flipping channels and find it. It does make me laugh.

Hamlet as a musical. Mr Howell trying to bribe anyone on an island where money means nothing. The Honeybees. All the stuff that would just wash up on the island, like radioactive seeds, plastic explosives and WWII mines. It was all so very silly.

[CanuckAmok]

60. Flintstones, meet the Flintstones, thy're a modern stone-age family..."

[dr.strangelove]

63. Sid and Marty Krofft - HR Pufnstuf, Sigmund the Sea Monster

The Space Nuts and everything the Kroffts touched.
I also loved the Great Space Coaster on PBS.

[peekaloo]

64. 'My World and Welcome To It'

didn't last long. Inspired by James Thurber's writings/cartoons. Very imaginative little show.

[Elginoid]

65. Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, and The Time Tunnel-

for the sci-fi lover in me.

[scarlet_owl]

66. Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp.

The Monkees, ALF, Alvin and the Chipmunks. And that's all I can think of right now.

[Commendatori]

68. Hawaii Five-O - one episode even established a hobby for me

An episode centering around a 1913 Liberty Head nickel got me interested in coin collecting. After over three decades of it, I have a collection worth about as much as my house.

[Arkana]

69. It's a tie

between "Garfield" and old-school Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I was born in 1985, and those two were really popular then.

[DemWitch]

70. Real young...

Lost in Space, The Mod Squad, Hawaii 5-O, Columbo, McMillian and Wife. A bit older All in the Fmaily, Police Woman, the Bionic Woman, Man from Atlantis, Charlie's Angels.

[Huckebein the Raven]

72. My list is gonna be long:

Cartoons:

Danger Mouse
The Littles
He-man
Smurfs
GI-Joe (yes I did watch that show)
Thundercats
Pole Position
Eek the Cat
Loony Tunes
The 7 Cities of Gold (old french cartoon)
Garfield and Friends
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Disney's Afternoon Cartoon lineup.
and many more I can't think of right now

Regular TV shows:
Cosby Show
Cheers
Wonder Years
Family Matters
Full House
Growing Pains
Mr. Belvedere (sp ?)
Alf
The show with Michael J Fox (???)
Golden Girls (yes I did.)
Empty Nest
227
Good Times reruns
What's Happening
Different World
Discovery Channel's Wild Discovery (watched it with my grandfather)
Sesame Street
Square 1
Salute your Shorts
Double Dare
Nick Arcade
National Geographic specials on broadcast TV
Mr. Wizard
You can't do that on Television

-i'm quitting because I could go on forever

[liontamer]

82. you sound like me

especially with the disney afternoon! We're at least an 85% match. The michael j fox show was family ties.

Some of my faves you didn't list: out of this world. little house on a prairie, earthworm jim, freakazoid, xmen

[Huckebein the Raven]

93. I knew I forgot some shows

I can't believe I forgot X-men. I didn't really read the comics (or any comics....I guess videogames are to blame) but that show made me a fan.

I watched earthworm jim and freakazoid too. I still watch freakazoid when ever they show it on Cartoon Network.


A few additions to my list:

Saved by the Bell
Degrassi
Reading Rainbow
Captain N: the Game Master
Super Mario Bros.
Sonic Cartoon (the one they showed on CBS which was the more dramatic one where Sonic was a freedom fighter)
Exo-Squad (I'm still pissed they didn't finish this series properly)
Street Fighter cartoon
Wing Commander cartoon
Batman: The animated series (one of best cartoons ever IMHO)
Married with Children
In Living Color
Martin
Fresh Prince of BelAir
Blossom
The cartoon with Hulk Hogan, Roddy Piper,etc
The cartoon with Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretsky, and Bo Jackson
Dallas
Dynasty

[Ron Green]

74. Winky Dink....

you had to draw with crayon on a plastic overlay on the screen as the show progressed (to help Winky escape some menace, for example), and at the end of the show you would have created a picture. Before we sent off for the official overlay, I drew right on the glass and my mom kicked my ass for it.

At this time, television didn't come on during the week until 5:00 pm, and signed off about 11:00.

[immoderate]

77. Ah! Winky Dink

Jack Barry, later disgraced as a quiz show host, and Dayton Allen (Mr. Bungle: "Whhhyyyy not!?") who went to Steve Allen.

Some hits for real old timers:

Sea Hunt
The Magic Cottage
The Small Fry Club
Rootie Kazootie
Beanie (the puppets, not the later cartoon.}
And of course Mr. Wizard taught me to think.


--IMM

[CO Liberal]

80. My Older Sister Got In Trouble, Too...

...for drawing on the picture tube of our black-and-white Emerson TV WITHOUT the plastic overlay.

I'm sure a lot of kids did that.

[pdx_prog]

75. So Many!

Sky King
Get Smart
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
My Favorite Martian
Mr Ed
Love American Style
Room 222
Mod Squad
Ed Sullivan
Lucy


Endless......

[TheCentepedeShoes]

90. Sky King was my favorite

Saturday morning show. OG - I wanted to be Penny and fly in the Songbird. You know, Grant Kirby got killed in a car wreck in Florida on the way to watch a shuttle launch?

[maveric]

107. And Sea Hunt.

Mike Nelson (Lloyd Bridges) was my idol for a while.

[sniffa]

78. great space coaster

gary gnu

[SarahB]

79. Donnie and Marie

Something about those purple shirts and that pose I found strangely attractive.

[slinkerwink]

81. Punky Brewster, Saved By The Bell, Step by Step, and Boy's World

[Parche]

84. shows

Outer Limits
Twilight Zone

[flamingyouth]

85. Police Woman, Starsky & Hutch, Quincy, Streets of SF

(I loved the cop shows, can you tell?)

[Bombtrack]

89. X-Men + Spider-Man animated series, Pete+Pete, Salute Your Shorts

and of course the greatest show EVER and my favorite show to this day

THE SIMPSONS

Also, Beavis and Butthead, In Living Color, Ninja Turtles, Fresh Prince, and uhh, X-files.

[DrWeird]

91. Post WWII Japanese Propaganda.

aka Starblazers.

[samplegirl]

94. Patty Duke

Never missed it

[China_cat]

95. Captain Video

Tom Corbett, Space Cadet

[getoffmytrain]

96. mine were..

Brady Bunch
Tour of Duty (anyone remember that one?)
Unsolved Mysteries
The Wonder Years

[Lizzie Borden]

97. RAWHIDE!

What can I say? I train horses.

[DrZeeLit]

99. Combat!

Combat! had Rick Jasen and Vic Morrow and a lot of other cast member/regulars -- we used to do a combat crawl through our darkened hallway.... sheesh!

Rawhide, too.
Friday nite was "dirty nite" -- we got to stay up and not take a bath.

For LA oldies: Lloyd Thaxton's Hop
Also, Casey Kasem had a dance show.

In jr hi we all loved Man From Uncle.

Then the westerns: Maverick, Sugar Foot, Cheyenne.... oooh, crush city!

[Cerridwen]

98. Dark Shadows - Star Trek (TOS) - Monkees - n/t

[Digit]

100. Soupy Sales, Rocky & Bullwinkle....later in life: PeeWee's Playhouse

[mykpart]

101. Howdy Doody

Super Circus (anyone remember that?)
Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney
Mickey Mouse Club
Have Gun Will Travel
Bell Telephone Hour
Armstrong Circle Theater
Disneyland (later became Wonderful World of Disney)

[ghostsofgiants]

102. Showing my youth:

Masters of the Universe
Brave Starr
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Transformers
The Real Ghostbusters

Those were my all-time favourites.

There were other ones too, various saturday morning cartoons and shit...The various Super Mario Bros. shows, Captain N, Captain Planet, Astro Boy, Samurai Pizza Cats, Dino-Riders.

Ah, sweet sweet nostalgia. (If this were The Simpsons, the shot would pan out showing me holding a can of Nostalgia soda.)

[maveric]

103. Combat, F Troop, McHales Navy, The Littlest Hobo, Lost in Space

Dick Van Dyke Show, Andy Griffith Show.

[grannylib]

104. Mission Impossible was my favorite. I liked Mannix too. And Laugh In.

[NamVetsWeeLass]

105. M*A*S*H*, The Monkees, The Dukes of Hazzard, Soap....

Bewitched, WKRP In Cincinatti... I could go on, but will spare you all.

[WindRavenX]

108. Inspector Gadget, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...

...David the Gnome, Gargoyles...