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Family Ties :p

Here goes:

• Simon & Simon, Miami Vice, Knight Rider, The Hardy Boys, Magnum PI, Chips, Hart to Hart, Hawaii Five-O, Little House on the Prairie, Love Boat, The Waltons, Emergency
  
• Scooby Doo, Tom & Jerry, Yogi Bear, Hong Kong Phooey, Garfield
  
• Happy Days, Family Ties, Saved by the Bell, Facts of Life 

 

The Night Stalker, Little House on the Prairie, Magnum PI, Scooby Doo (still love this one and watch it all the time), Emergency, The Flintsones, The Jetsons, The Lucy Show and I Love Lucy. 

I'm sure there are more, but can't think of them right now.

I was a big Star Trek fan when the show was in first-run episodes in the 1960s on NBC. I could not believe the idiotic network cancelled the show after three years. The funny thing is that I've seen a couple of these old episodes lately and they were really hokey.

Then I really got into the later incarnations of Star Trek, including ST: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise. Enterprise looks particularly good in HD. However, my favorite of all these series is The Next Generation -- it holds up very well in re-runs.

I've liked many other shows over the years, including Hill Street Blues, LA Law, Ally McBeal, MASH, Home Improvement and Seinfeld. Current faves are Ugly Betty and Monk, the latter of which has a very odd schedule. Oh, and there's a British car show that is hilarious and fascinating called Top Gear. I've gotten into that lately.

--Bob

The one that I remember that I HAD to watch was Knight Rider. 

But of course I had many favs.  thats when TV was actually good.

I watch a lot of those shows still today :-D

Growing up my #1 show was Boy Meets World.  Cory was around the same age as me so every season I could watch and relate to it :)

#2 Was Home Improvement b/c I watched it all the time with my dad and I still think that show is hilarious.

Finally, the simpsons comes in at #3, Loved it, love it still.

A movie that I could not wait to see when I was growing up was Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I loved the movie's set and storyline and it felt like Christmas was almost there once it played. Frosty was up there on my list too. Once I was older, I added Christmas Vacation to the list.

I liked Happy Days and re-runs of The Munsters and The Three Stooges.  Favorite cartoons were Looney Tunes ( Bugs Bunny, Tasmanian Devil, Foghorn Leghorn. etc...)   The Flintstones, and Scooby Doo.  At one time The Wizard of Oz was shown once/year on TV and I liked seeing that, except the Flying Monkeys kinda freak me out.

Those are cool!

Oh I forgot about those too: I love Lucy, The three stooges, etc.  Wow, good times. :)

 I loved to watch Dark Shadows & I Love Lucy (I still watch her even today, I think she was fantastic.

LDC said…

 I loved to watch Dark Shadows & I Love Lucy (I still watch her even today, I think she was fantastic.

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She was funny, lol.

As a kid, I used to love the cartoon Digimon. I already just loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, those were my favorites for a long time. Now I like Supernatural, which is pretty similar to those. My tastes haven't changed!

Johnny Quest - the '60's version.

Gilligan's Island

The Flintsones - before they got lame in the '70's

The Munsters

The Addams Family

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color

All of the Peter Sellers Pink Panther movies from the '60's and '70's

Spaghetti Westerns

Anything by Alfred Hitchcock

The Twilight Zone

Night Gallery

There are lots more that I can't think of right now.

 

CAT DOG !

Love boat, Flintstones, All of the Christmas shows and loved the Nerelco shaver tv ad where Santa is sliding down a hill on a razor, Ronco ads (only ads I remember), Room 222, Nurse, Welcome back Koter (spelling?), Happy Days, Bozo,  Lavern and Shirley, Courtship of Eddie's Father, Partrige Family, Fame...Ok now I have to go hit HULU to watch some of these :)

Most stuff from the 60s and back is far superior to anything now. I don't even bother with TV unless it's a baseball game or a movie.

 

• Casper the Friendly Ghost
• Shirley Temple
• Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin
• Perry Como Christmas shows
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Twilight Zone
• Flipper
• Dragnet
• Perry Mason
• Hawaii Five-O
• Hee Haw
• Kojak
• Grizzly Adams
• Love, American Style
• Marcus Welby, M.D.
• The Mod Squad
• Mork and Mindy
• The Rockford Files
• Magnum P.I.
• I Dream of Jeannie
• The Andy Griffith show
• Dick Van Dyke show
• Gilligan's Island
• Hogan's Heroes
• Chico and the Man (Lookin' Gooooood)
• Happy Days
• All in the Family
• Good Times
• Sanford and Son
• Mary Tyler Moore
• Partridge Family
• Gomer Pyle
• Shazam!
• Six Million Dollar Man
• Laverne and Shirley
• CHiPS
• The Jeffersons
• Welcome Back Kotter
• The Waltons
• Three's Company
• One Day at a Time
• Alice (Kiss My Grits)
• Little House on the Prairie
• Greatest American Hero (Believe it or not I'm Walking on Air)
• In The Heat of the Night
• The Love Boat
• Fantasy Island
• Beverly Hillbillies
• ...just to mention a few ;)

I was (and my parents too) a tv fanatic - still am. As a little kid I loved Captain Kangaroo and the woman who looked at us through the mirror. As I got older I came home from school and watched Soap Operas.

Later I watched (using others suggestions)

* Twilight Zone
* Flipper
* Dragnet
* Hawaii Five-O
* Marcus Welby, M.D.
* Dr. Kildare
* The Mod Squad
* Mork and Mindy
* Magnum P.I.
* I Dream of Jeannie
* Dick Van Dyke show
* Gilligan's Island
* Happy Days
* All in the Family
* Mary Tyler Moore
* Six Million Dollar Man
* Laverne and Shirley
* Welcome Back Kotter
* Three's Company
* One Day at a Time
* In The Heat of the Night
* The Love Boat
* Fantasy Island
* Beverly Hillbillies
* Father Knows Best
* The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

rulistenin said…
 

• Casper the Friendly Ghost
• Shirley Temple
• Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin
• Perry Como Christmas shows
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Twilight Zone
• Flipper
• Dragnet
• Perry Mason
• Hawaii Five-O
• Hee Haw
• Kojak
• Grizzly Adams
• Love, American Style
• Marcus Welby, M.D.
• The Mod Squad
• Mork and Mindy
• The Rockford Files
• Magnum P.I.
• I Dream of Jeannie
• The Andy Griffith show
• Dick Van Dyke show
• Gilligan's Island
• Hogan's Heroes
• Chico and the Man (Lookin' Gooooood)
• Happy Days
• All in the Family
• Good Times
• Sanford and Son
• Mary Tyler Moore
• Partridge Family
• Gomer Pyle
• Shazam!
• Six Million Dollar Man
• Laverne and Shirley
• CHiPS
• The Jeffersons
• Welcome Back Kotter
• The Waltons
• Three's Company
• One Day at a Time
• Alice (Kiss My Grits)
• Little House on the Prairie
• Greatest American Hero (Believe it or not I'm Walking on Air)
• In The Heat of the Night
• The Love Boat
• Fantasy Island
• Beverly Hillbillies
• ...just to mention a few ;)

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This looks a lot like that list of shows/movies I couldn't remember..... d;-)

My Favorite TV Shows:

Past:

Turkey TV, Snick, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Clarissa Explains It All, Pete and Pete, Weinerville, You Can't Do That On Television, Zoobalee Zoo, Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, Rainbow Bright, Garfield, All Peanuts Gang Specials, Care Bears, Solute Your Shorts, Hey Dude, Roundhouse, Rugrats, Doug, Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, A guilty teen pleasure of mine was Beavis and Butthead, I'm ashamed to say! Home Improvement, My Two Dads, My Dad's An Alien (I think that was the name of it) , Metamorphs, Alf, Perfect Strangers, Cosby Show, Northern Exposure, Dr.Quinn, Due South, Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazzard, Star Trek: original, TNG & DS9, Babylon 5, Quantum Leap, mini series The 10th Kingdom, Gilmore Girls, West Wing, Head of the Class

Now:

Scrubs (is the best!), Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Mad Men, (I already miss Cashmere Mafia and The Riches), Pushing Daisies

My Fav Movies:

Past:

Explorers, Flight of the Navigator, Short Circuit, The Little Mermaid, all Pixar films, Stand By Me, all John Hughes films, Dazed and Confused, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Pretty Woman, all cheesy B movies with Bruce Campbell especially Army of Darkness, The Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal, The Fox and the Hound, Disney's Robinhood, Shag, all Indiana Jones, all Star Wars, all Star Treks, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Hook, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valiant, St. Elmo's Fire, The Class, Ghostbusters, Goonies, Mousehunt, He Said She Said, Wayne's World 1 & 2, all John Cusack films

Now:

Birdcage, Love Actually, M.Night Shymalan films, Jackie Chan films, LOTRs, HPs, Eurotrip, Accepted, High School Confidential, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Story of Us, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 1& 2, all Stephen Sumner's films especially Van Helsing, The Grinch, Being John Malkovich, An Inconvenient Truth, Sabrina with Julia Ormond, The Notebook, Little Black Book, Ten Things I Hate About You, most Olrando Bloom films, most Mark Wahlberg films, A Knight's Tale, all Pirates of the Carribeans

. . . Hew, this would be way longer if I could remember them all, so I should probably stop!

 

 

bkovas said: I was a big Star Trek fan. . .

   Did you know that when Lucille Ball gained Desilu Arnez Productions and turned it over to Paramont Studios, she was the one who gave the go ahead to start filming the Star Trek series!?! Pretty cool, huh!?! . . . I think so anyway! ;o)

   I'm not a big car enthusiast and I find myself watching Top Gear quite a bit. BBC's Robin Hood is real enjoyable, too.

How did I forget!?!?!? (as Jo quoted: was...a tv fanatic - still am. As a little kid I loved Captain Kangaroo and the woman who looked at us through the mirror) ... Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room and I must add Mr. Rogers!

Wow ..... I don't think I can name them all. Romper Room, Lassie, My Friend Flicka, Captain Kangaroo, Skyking, Bozo, Disney, Mickey Mouse Club, The Little Rascals, Abbot and Costello, Flipper, Star Trek, The Circus, The Jerry Mahoney Show, I Love Lucy, Mighty Mouse, Underdog, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Beverly Hillbillies, My Favorite Martian, Laugh In, My Three Sons, Father Knows Best, The Donna Reed Show .... No I'm not old. I was born at the end of "the baby boomers", the Waltons, Monty Python's Flying Circus, ..........

cmohr80 said…

bkovas said: I was a big Star Trek fan. . .

   Did you know that when Lucille Ball gained Desilu Arnez Productions and turned it over to Paramont Studios, she was the one who gave the go ahead to start filming the Star Trek series!?! Pretty cool, huh!?! . . . I think so anyway! ;o)

   I'm not a big car enthusiast and I find myself watching Top Gear quite a bit. BBC's Robin Hood is real enjoyable, too.

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I knew at the time that Desilu was the studio run by Desi Arnez and Lucille Ball... I hope they got some good money for Star Trek when they sold the operation to Paramount. They probably didn't, though.

Top Gear is a lot of fun and it's the sort of male show that women seem to enjoy a lot. There's always lots of women in the studio audience, and they occasionally have a woman as the celebrity driver -- one I saw recently had Helen Mirren as the driver. Anybody reading this should check out an episode of Top Gear on BBC America.

--Bob

Oh yeah!! I forgot about that cartoon, "Mighty Mouse." It was one of my favorites. :)

I miss old school nickelodeon! Mighty Mouse was one of their best!

Okay, so this is the place where we can go crazy with a list.  I grew up with parents that supervised television viewing and we didn't have TV's in our room so everything we watched was as a family or while my dad was out of town.  Here goes:

LHOP, Waltons, Alice, C.H.I.P.S., BJ and the Bear, Saturday cartoons, Lawrence Welk Show, Wonderful World of Disney (the Sunday night movie), Mutual Omaha Wild Kingdom, Capt. Kangaroo, Brady Bunch, Bewitched, Facts of Life, Growing Pains, Charlie's Angels, Saved by the Bell, Full House, Family Matters, Sanford & Son, All In the Family, The Jeffersons and Good Times, Gilligans's Island, Hawaii Five-O, Magnu P.I., The Mickey Mouse Club, Rocky Road, Safe At Home, Charles In Charge, Wonder Woman, Incredible Hulk, WWF on Saturdays, Touched By An Angel, Dukes of Hazzard, My Two Dads, Step By Step, Dallas, Knots Landing, Knight Rider, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Greatest American Hero, Laverne & Shirley, Designing Women, Three's Company, The Carol Burnette Show, Mork & Mindy, Alf, Tom & Jerry Show, Punky Brewster, Happy Days, Golden Girls, My Two Dads, Who's The Boss, Rainbow Brite, Smurfs, The Gong Show, Family Ties, Gomer Pyle, Leave It To Beaver, Andy Griffith Show, Beverly Hillbillies, I Dream of Jeannie and The Honeymooners...If it was wholesome we could watch it. 

Every Christmas we watched all of the Christmas classic cartoons (Frosty, Rudolph...).  We also watched Wizard Of Oz, Sound of Music and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang every Christmas.  My family would watch It's A Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th street but I didn't like those.  They also loved The Twilight Zone but the music alone was enough to creep me out!

Does anyone remember the tv show from the 80s in which a nun lives in a children's home?  Amy Grant sang the opening song that ended with "Maybe an angel's watching over you."  And my Daddy was furious when in one year they introduced and cancelled: Safe At Home, Rocky Road, and Down To Earth after just one season.  Does anyone remember those?

Today I love watching all the above in syndication as well as Touched By an Angel, 7th Heaven, the Nanny, and Reba.

Oh I forgot "Silver Spoon." That's one of my earliest memories. :D

Oh yeah, Ricky Shroeder--he was a hottie when he was younger.  I think he outgrew his cuteness. 

Wow, I think so too. :D