Hmmm. When I was a kid we watched a lot of Nick at Nite and reruns on TBS. I loved The Monkees, The Simpsons, Sanford & Son, The Carol Burnett Show, and Friends, Seinfeld, X-Files, and Mad About You (shut up) when I was in high school. Then in college, MST3K all the way, baby. Still my absolute favorite show.
Roseanne My so called Life Growing Pains Degrassi Jr High (the original!) and lots of bizzare TVO shows that only Canadians would understand: DearAunt Agnus, Read all about it, Todays Special
I can think of a few, growing up. Rin tin tin( yoooo Rinnie!). Circus boy. Skye king. Then smothers brothers, david suskind, mid squad, (god, how I wanted to BE Julie!!) , dick cavet, all the talk shows, because they were really off the cuff and funny as hell then. Oh and Shindig and lesser degree hullabaloo. I lived that shingid commercial, when jimmy wld ask teenage couple, is your face clean? Really clean? Oh yes they'd say. Then the used the product that was being sold, and ewww! The cotton ball showed they were filthy! Lol. And they looked properly upset too, like, ugh, i was gonna kiss him/ her??!! Dodged that bullet!!
We must be close to the same age auntliddy. I watched all of those shows too and I wanted Julie's (Peggy Lipton) hair. I danced around the living room watching Shindig and Hullabaloo. I never missed Bandstand and Soul Train too. I also remember the dirty cotton ball. LOL.
I really loved the Saturday night line-up with Mary Tyler Moore and Bob Newhart shows. I also loved That Girl. Marlo had the best clothes, hair, and make-up. My Mother had to go and ruin it by saying that wasn't all Marlo's real hair. Boo.
I'm around the same age too. I LOVED the Man from UNCLE. Robert Vaughn was my first crush. It's on ME tv now and I still feel tingly watching him. But I forgot what a silly show it was.
The ORIGINAL Star Trek. Aka, the ONLY REAL Star Trek. And Merv Griffin - especially if Totie Fields was on. I also watched Shindig and all that tommyrot, like Aunt Liddy. No one wanted a dirty cotton ball face - or wax build up on their floors,
There are just so many: Kids Inc. You Can't Do That on Television Double Dare Jem The Jetsons The Monkees The State Golden Girls The Cosby Show Who's The Boss Facts of Life Different Strokes Solid Gold The first Real World And of course, 90210
Was Ghostwriter the show about the kid who put on sparky gloves and a cape and peddled on a bike? He had to use reading skills and context clues to beat the bad guy? (I'm going to sound insane if it's not.)
I loved Night Court but didn't understand most of the jokes, like what did Dan mean when he said he was going home for some "peel and squeal?" Was he going to remove the plastic from Fruit Roll-Ups and make bird sounds? I really thought that's what he meant.
The Hardy Boys. (Parker was mine, Shaun was my BFF's) Happy Days When I was really little I always snuggled up with my Daddy to watch "Little House In The Prairie"- He loved that show as did I. (My mom and I happened across a re-run the other day and my mom said my Dad used to get tears in his eyes watching some episodes.)
Three's Company Carol Burnett and Friends Growing Pains Wonder Years Mickey Mouse Club - Tony and Kerri forever! My So Called Life That pretty much rounds up my youth in TV
Get Smart, Wonderful World of Disney Rocky and Bullwinkle The Dick Van Dyke Show Carol Burnett and Friends Romper Room and Mickey Mouse Club (younger years of course) Captain Kangaroo (same) Monkees McHale's Navy F-Troop Hogan's Heroes
I forgot to mention Family Ties and General Hospital. Do soaps count? Kills me how GH has totally gotten all fucked up in recent years. And the 2 p.m. timeslot. For shame!! The Quartermaines. The Scorpios. Lucy Coe. Sonny as a strip club owner. It was BANANAS back in the day.
I would watch that in the afternoon by hiding behind a chair in our den. I loved everything about it. I had the board game and thought Barnabas was the scariest thing on TV.
Serious horror fan from a young age The Night Stalker Night Gallery Creature Features Twi Light Zone
All these programs were after school shows that came on before dinner time: Bewitched I Dream of Jeanie McHales Navy Gilligan's Island Hogan's Heroes Beverly Hillbillies The Brady Bunch The Partridge Family (had a crush on David Cassidy) Star Trek (the original)
The only video game we had was PONG so we grew up watching a lot of basic TV (no cable). Shit - no remote control on the kid's TV set, just a knob and 3 channels. Yeah, I'm old.
Pink Panther cartoons Scooby Doo Mork and Mindy The Groovy Goolies Buck Rogers Battlestar Galactica The ATeam Hardcastle and McCormick Forever knight Buffy Still love vampire shows. I've been rewatching True Blood. I REALLY miss Eric Northman. I'd let Skarsgård do some real bad things to me. Hell, I'd probably PAY him to. (Sorry Mr. Snarky.)
Bonanza..especially Little Joe. Ed Sullivan was big because I lived in a town that didn't have cable tv and I didn't get to see BandStand or Hullabaloo, or Shindig unless I went visiting my Grandma, who really wasn't all that into my viewing choices.Mod Squad was huge, and the Monkees. My mom's favorite show was The Fugitive. She had a mad crush on David Janssen and we watched everything he was in.
Full House
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Buffy
Angel
Smallville
Facts of Life
growing pains
Family matters
Martin
The Parkers.
How could I forget Facts of Life! ugh I hated The Parkers though "Heeeeyyy boo!" ugh
DeleteReally? awee I liked it more than Moesha!
DeleteHmmm. When I was a kid we watched a lot of Nick at Nite and reruns on TBS. I loved The Monkees, The Simpsons, Sanford & Son, The Carol Burnett Show, and Friends, Seinfeld, X-Files, and Mad About You (shut up) when I was in high school. Then in college, MST3K all the way, baby. Still my absolute favorite show.
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah. Buffy, Just the Ten of Us, and Mama's Family. I watched a lot of TV when I was a kid which is why I'm a socially awkward land whale.
DeleteP.P.S., You Can't Do That On Television, Turkey TV, and Out of Control.
DeleteJesus.
Roseanne
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Growing Pains
Degrassi Jr High (the original!)
and lots of bizzare TVO shows that only Canadians would understand: DearAunt Agnus, Read all about it, Todays Special
I loved Today's Special! Nickelodeon showed a lot of Canadian TV in the early to mid-80s.
DeleteI still get the Growing Pains theme song stuck in my head!
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Happy Days
The Carol Burnett Show
Sha-Na-Na
I can think of a few, growing up. Rin tin tin( yoooo Rinnie!). Circus boy. Skye king. Then smothers brothers, david suskind, mid squad, (god, how I wanted to BE Julie!!) , dick cavet, all the talk shows, because they were really off the cuff and funny as hell then. Oh and Shindig and lesser degree hullabaloo. I lived that shingid commercial, when jimmy wld ask teenage couple, is your face clean? Really clean? Oh yes they'd say. Then the used the product that was being sold, and ewww! The cotton ball showed they were filthy! Lol. And they looked properly upset too, like, ugh, i was gonna kiss him/ her??!! Dodged that bullet!!
ReplyDeleteWe must be close to the same age auntliddy. I watched all of those shows too and I wanted Julie's (Peggy Lipton) hair. I danced around the living room watching Shindig and Hullabaloo. I never missed Bandstand and Soul Train too. I also remember the dirty cotton ball. LOL.
DeleteI really loved the Saturday night line-up with Mary Tyler Moore and Bob Newhart shows. I also loved That Girl. Marlo had the best clothes, hair, and make-up. My Mother had to go and ruin it by saying that wasn't all Marlo's real hair. Boo.
I'm around the same age too. I LOVED the Man from UNCLE. Robert Vaughn was my first crush. It's on ME tv now and I still feel tingly watching him. But I forgot what a silly show it was.
DeleteThe ORIGINAL Star Trek.
ReplyDeleteAka, the ONLY REAL Star Trek.
And Merv Griffin - especially if Totie Fields was on.
I also watched Shindig and all that tommyrot, like Aunt Liddy.
No one wanted a dirty cotton ball face - or wax build up on their floors,
Dick Cavett was one of my first crushes.
DeleteThere were three, simultaneously:
Dick Cavett
Jimi Hendrix
Yul Brynner
I was a weird kid.
There are just so many:
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You Can't Do That on Television
Double Dare
Jem
The Jetsons
The Monkees
The State
Golden Girls
The Cosby Show
Who's The Boss
Facts of Life
Different Strokes
Solid Gold
The first Real World
And of course, 90210
There are so many more.
yes at whos the boss
DeleteJem, Are You Being Served?, Mr. Ed, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Dallas
ReplyDeleteAre You Being Served! Thanks for reminding me of my first introduction to old British sitcoms. I loved Keeping Up Appearances, too.
DeleteAnd Ghostwriter and Square One TV on PBS! How could I forget those? Mathnet FTW!
DeleteWas Ghostwriter the show about the kid who put on sparky gloves and a cape and peddled on a bike? He had to use reading skills and context clues to beat the bad guy? (I'm going to sound insane if it's not.)
Delete@Colleen I don't remember that happening on the Ghostwriter I watched, but it's been years, so you never know :)
DeleteMy bad...the show I was thinking of was called Storylords. It was ridiculous:)
Deletedont forget Save by the Bell and California Dreams
ReplyDeleteNight court!!! Never missed it! Looooved it!
ReplyDeleteAlso, Candy! Candy! Saw it four times in a row.
I loved Night Court but didn't understand most of the jokes, like what did Dan mean when he said he was going home for some "peel and squeal?" Was he going to remove the plastic from Fruit Roll-Ups and make bird sounds? I really thought that's what he meant.
DeleteLol, I loved Night Court!
DeleteThe Hardy Boys.
ReplyDelete(Parker was mine, Shaun was my BFF's)
Happy Days
When I was really little I always snuggled up with my Daddy to watch "Little House In The Prairie"- He loved that show as did I. (My mom and I happened across a re-run the other day and my mom said my Dad used to get tears in his eyes watching some episodes.)
Courtship of Eddie's Father
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Growing Pains
Wonder Years
Mickey Mouse Club - Tony and Kerri forever!
My So Called Life
That pretty much rounds up my youth in TV
Get Smart,
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Rocky and Bullwinkle
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Carol Burnett and Friends
Romper Room and Mickey Mouse Club (younger years of course)
Captain Kangaroo (same)
Monkees
McHale's Navy
F-Troop
Hogan's Heroes
~ good times~
I Dream of Jeannie!!!
ReplyDeleteI forgot to mention Family Ties and General Hospital. Do soaps count? Kills me how GH has totally gotten all fucked up in recent years. And the 2 p.m. timeslot. For shame!! The Quartermaines. The Scorpios. Lucy Coe. Sonny as a strip club owner. It was BANANAS back in the day.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, and Dark Shadows!
ReplyDeleteI would watch that in the afternoon by hiding behind a chair in our den. I loved everything about it. I had the board game and thought Barnabas was the scariest thing on TV.
DeleteOh, can't forget My Favorite Martian. Loved that show!
ReplyDeleteAnd the Partridge Family.
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Simpsons
Twin Peaks
I loved NYPD Blue - even though I was eleven when it started.
When I was really little I loved the Partridge Family and the Brady Bunch
ReplyDeleteOh and you can watch the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew on Netflix. Woohoo!
In order of age:
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Family Ties
Out of this World
Who's the Boss
Beverly Hills 90210
My So Called Life
Serious horror fan from a young age
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Night Gallery
Creature Features
Twi Light Zone
All these programs were after school shows that came on before dinner time:
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeanie
McHales Navy
Gilligan's Island
Hogan's Heroes
Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Partridge Family (had a crush on David Cassidy)
Star Trek (the original)
The only video game we had was PONG so we grew up watching a lot of basic TV (no cable). Shit - no remote control on the kid's TV set, just a knob and 3 channels. Yeah, I'm old.
Tom and Jerry cartoons. I watched them all through my childhood, and I still watch them today.
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Mork and Mindy
The Groovy Goolies
Buck Rogers
Battlestar Galactica
The ATeam
Hardcastle and McCormick
Forever knight
Buffy
Still love vampire shows. I've been rewatching True Blood. I REALLY miss Eric Northman. I'd let Skarsgård do some real bad things to me. Hell, I'd probably PAY him to.
(Sorry Mr. Snarky.)
Bonanza..especially Little Joe. Ed Sullivan was big because I lived in a town that didn't have cable tv and I didn't get to see BandStand or Hullabaloo, or Shindig unless I went visiting my Grandma, who really wasn't all that into my viewing choices.Mod Squad was huge, and the Monkees. My mom's favorite show was The Fugitive. She had a mad crush on David Janssen and we watched everything he was in.
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ReplyDeleteMarried With Children, love me some Bundys. Four touchdowns in a single game, baby!
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