Ok boys and girls. Here is a thread where we can talk about our favorite childhood tv shows. I reckon the majority of the people here are in their 40s - 60s so I'm hoping to share some common interests with you. Some of you might be younger but certainly well past your childhood.
So what were the 3 most favorite shows you absolutely loved to watch as a child? I'm talking about the top three shows you couldn't live without as a child. (otherwise I'm sure the list would be very very long)
Mine were ranked in order of importance to me:
1. Speed Racer
2. The Monkees
3. Kimba the White Lion
Various iterations of Loony Tunes (although the post 1940s Road Runner ones kinda sucked)
Scooby Doo (the ones without Scrappy)
Gilligan's Island
1) Batman
2) Lost in Space
3) Hogan's Heroes
in that order....
In no particular order:
Animated:
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
GI Joe
Robotech
Voltron
Star Blazers
He-Man
Transformers
Sitcoms:
Different Strokes
Silver Spoons
Growing Pains
Brady Bunch
Family Ties
Bosom Buddies
CHIPS
Dukes of Hazard
Knight Rider
Street Hawk
Air Wolf
I could go on, but you get the point...
The first two to come to mind are:
I Dream of Jeannie
Gilligan's Island
...have to get back to you for #3
Lol. Would have to say that the only thing no one has mentioned yet is the Sid & Marty Krofft stuff (but to be fair, I caught bits and pieces of those things in, perhaps their 1st or 2nd re-running in much the same way I caught the original Star Trek series). Even then, I only glimpsed a smidge of their weirdness.
Musta been hard as hell as a kid to convince their family to turn over the tv to that as opposed to Hee-Haw.
-says the guy while watching the "Buck Owens Show," on YouTube as we write
Combat!
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Rawhide
And later on, Star Trek, Hogan's Heroes, Batman.
Leave it to Beaver and Superman were in there somewhere.
Aw shit, "Rat Patrol!"
Would lay money down that there is a scene in one episode that is the idea of the Death Star trench run, but with jeeps, .50 calls, and nazis but the specifics elude me. Dudes are bombing down between trains and causing grief but I'd swear that's where Lucas got his idea from.
Three's Company
Good Times
The Jeffersons
All in the Family
Taxi
Eight is Enough
What's Happening
The A-Team
V
The Carol Burnett Show
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Sanford and Son
Benson
Gimme a Break!
The Muppet Show
Sesame Street
Emergency!
SWAT
Mission Impossible
Amerika
*MASH*
So many more...
"It comes most often at night.
That niggling memory, gnawing in some corner of your mind like a rodent chewing the corners of the drywall. The memory of some brightly lit cartoon funland, or a world of puppets. A memory of a tv show, you would watch, seated cross legged on the living room floor with the fixed enthusiastic attention only a child can give.
Attention that you wish now, you perhaps hadn't given so freely. For there is something about that show, something about the discordant music, the details of the characters, their motivations and the storylines, the fixed maniacal grins that seems, looking back, to be altogether too sinister to be a children's show. You try to block the memory out and yet, there in the back of your mind, most often at night, the puppet's fixed grin, keeps on smiling."
Quote from: steve58 on September 20, 2022, 04:44:16 PM
The first two to come to mind are:
I Dream of Jeannie
Gilligan's Island
...have to get back to you for #3
Imagine, if you will...
#3 The Twilight Zone
Wow there are a lot of shows on everyone's list that I also enjoyed. I had a big crush on Becky from Huck Finn that was on Banana Splits and the girl from Danger Island.
Becky
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Girl from Danger Island
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Tales from the Dark Side!! I couldn't even watch the opening credits of that damned show.
I'll stick to pre-teen years.
Robotech
Star Blazers
Dr. Who
I guess I'll give a real response instead of a creepypasta...
So...
Speed Racer
Star Blazers
Twilight Zone
MASH
Star Trek
Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century
Battlestar Galactica
Dr. Who
The A-Team
Knight Rider
Airwolf
TV Movies or miniseries...
The Day After (TRAUMATIZED)
V
Those were the formative ones.
I was not allowed to watch The Day After and still have not seen it.
Quote from: SirAndrewD on September 20, 2022, 08:23:34 PM
I guess I'll give a real response instead of a creepypasta...
So...
Speed Racer
Star Blazers
Twilight Zone
MASH
Star Trek
Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century
Battlestar Galactica
Dr. Who
The A-Team
Knight Rider
Airwolf
TV Movies or miniseries...
The Day After (TRAUMATIZED)
V
Those were the formative ones.
I actually liked your creepy pasta. You made some good points.
A few of you mentioned Star Blazers. That was a good show. Here is a little treat...
Quote from: Gusington on September 20, 2022, 08:36:44 PM
I was not allowed to watch The Day After and still have not seen it.
Watch it. Seriously.
It's a massively important historical document.
In my published paper on Reagan and Dobrynin and the end of the Cold War, I did an entire section on The Day After and on what it did mentally and emotionally to Reagan.
Only watch it once though....it's rough. But it's one of the most historically important films of the 20th Century on how it influenced American policy and the Cold War.
pfft... watch Threads and get even more scarred.
or watch both in the same afternoon and become a prepper.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 20, 2022, 09:21:06 PM
pfft... watch Threads and get even more scarred.
or watch both in the same afternoon and become a prepper.
Yes, Threads is worse.
I didn't see that till I was an adult though, and this is a thread about childhood films. I don't think Threads aired in the US.
I mean, want to talk about Nuclear War films, lets bring in When the Wind Blows. YEEESH. I mean..baby's first intro to stress induced alcoholism.
^I have seen Threads and wish I could un-see it, especially in light of Russian behavior the last...100 years.
I remember seeing The Day After when it came out. It was a long overdue look at the topic but I found myself disappointed by Hollywood's gross lack of understanding of some of the realities and the magnitude of such an event as well as some really cheesy scenes. The poor acting and directing near the end where a dying Jason Robards (?) gets a hug ruined the whole show for me.
theres also By Dawns Early Light which is almost light nuclear storytelling.
^I still have to watch that...queued it on Amazon on your recommendation.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 21, 2022, 04:49:05 PM
theres also By Dawns Early Light which is almost light nuclear storytelling.
Dawn's Early Light was really really solid.
I was very excited when I heard AMC was doing The Last Ship, which was an amazingly good novel of nuclear war and its horrendous aftermath.
My disappointment when I heard they were deleting the entire nuclear war storyline was.....extreme. I heard some that said the show was good anyway, but that was a lost opportunity to adapt a very solid and at times disturbing novel.
Here are the shows i loved as a child (maybe i forgot one or two). It's a very tough choice so i'll make a top selection but they could almost all fit in.
- Grendizer (Goldorak)
- Captain Harlock (Albator)
- Once Upon a Time... Space
- Battle of the Planets
- Star Blazer
- Star Trek TOS
- The Persuaders
- The Saint
- The Avengers (with Diana Rigg and Patrick McNee)
- Magnum p.i.
- The Fall Guy
- Battlestar Galactica
- Buck Rogers
The Last Ship was an excellent book. :bd:
I toughed out the first season and then let myself forget about the tv series.
Battlestar Galactica
Space 1999
Blake's 7
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
More teen than childhood : V
I have a lot of those old series on DVD but some things are better left in the past.
^V is definitely better left in the past.
I split time between UK and Australia and caught up on US shows during family time with my cousins in the US so my list is a bit different
Skippy
Monkey
Battlestar Galactica
The Goodies
A team
MacGyver
Hitchikers guide to the galaxy
Dangermouse
Day of the triffids
Yes Minister
Only fools and horses
Blackadder
Allo Allo (my German mother hated it)
Hogans hero's (for some reason my mother loved this one)
Grange Hill
Blake 7
Dr Who
Max Headroom
Adventures of Morph
Rentaghost
Tomorrows People - which is still terrifying - look it up
only one mention of Airwolf. you people are a disappointment sometimes.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 22, 2022, 05:58:38 PM
only one mention of Airwolf. you people are a disappointment sometimes.
Re: Airwolf
Love the "head cheese," guy with an eyepatch and all white 3 piece suit. So, so, sooooooo 80's.
And who thought it was a good idea to have Ernest Borgnine as the sidekick?
^I did!
Emergency
Black Sheep Squadron
CHiPs
The Baseball Bunch
This Week in Baseball
Facts of Life (I had a thing for Joe)
Saved by the bell (I had a thing for every chick on that show!)
Fall Guy
You cant do that on television
A-Team
MacGyver
Riptide
Combat, The Rat Patrol, and...The Invaders. All were on ABC and I had to use the tinfoil on the rabbit ears thing on my B&W TV to see them. :bd: