Our favorite TV show

Growing up what was your very favorite TV show? I could hardly wait until Sunday night because we watched the Wonderful World of Disney. (or maybe it was just called Disneyland?)

I remember before going to school watching The Flying House Exciting Cartoon Bible Stories, i loved those and then when i got home from school watching "the littles" and the "smurfs".

I just love reliving those moments.


Char

Saturday morning cartoons! Bugs Bunny, Foghorn Leghorn, the whole bunch.

One of my favorite shows from an early age was 'Bewitched'.

I'll never forget the day my mother insisted we visit the grocery
store in the middle of the episode. She told me I could watch
it when we arrived home. I fell for it, thinking that as long as we
turned the television off, the show would stop.

Later, 'All in the Family' came along, which my father watched, so
while it was not one of my favorites, it was frequently on the television.

KM

Smurfs...LMBO!!! DH and I call anyone who is of a small stature a smurf. Last Thanksgiving while at my DB's house we made reference to a relative and said she was a smurf. My 12 yr old niece asked what a smurf was...I told her it was an old TV show. I thought it was funny that she didn't know what a smurf was. Her response was, "Well, Aunt Heather, like I watch these kinds of shows that YOU do!" All the adults howled....no one ever told her it was an old cartoon, lol. I wonder what she thought it was?

My favorite shows were all reruns...Brady Bunch, Andy Griffith, Leave it to Beaver. Those shows were so nice...always something to learn, no bad language and any age could watch it and you didn't have to worry about covering their eyes. DH and I still watch those shows today and enjoy them.

It was the "Wonderful World of Disney" and it started with Tinkerbell and her wand. I went to Disneyland in 1956, then again when my dd was a teenager. I have been a couple of times since then. Before the fireworks show, when they have Tinkerbell (on a wire) fly across and start the show with her wand it takes me back to how excited I was as a kid to see her on our 12 inch black and white screen!

Ok, I've been thinking about it...and my favorite show when I was a kid was "The Wizard of Oz". Oh, I remember my DS and I getting all excited waiting for the night it would be on, and our DB's teasing us about it. Then we'd make the popcorn and lay out our sleeping bags and pillows on the floor in front of the TV. It was such a big deal then because you couldn't go rent whatever show you wanted to watch whenever you wanted to watch it. It was a once a year showing, and it was a BIG DEAL! What made it all the more special is that my DS is 7 years older than me, and it was one of the few things we shared...and didn't fight about, lol.

Little House on the Prairie was always another favorite of mine and DS's. Plus I shared the same hair-do as Laura Ingles....oh, so many reasons for therapy.

Oh just thought of a few more that i liked....

The Jeffersons
Good Times
The Waltons
One Day at a Time

Char

Oh, sheesh, The Waltons. We used to do the goodnight thing all the time. :)

Some that DH talks about a lot are
Speed Racer
Petticoat Junction
Father Knows Best
Little Rascals
Dennis the Menace

He's one of those guys who can quote a movie...and expects you to know exactly what show and actor he's talking about...and of course, I have no clue.

I do that, Heather! The movie quote thing. I have one for every occassion.

catcuspatch, Tinkerbell was on a wire? Oh MG you've spoiled it for me!!I've alway thought she could fly!! LOL
My Friend Flicka
The Rifleman
Chip and Dale ...
The Jetsons meet George Jetson...
jo

Of course the "real" Tinkerbell can fly! But they have an actress on a wire at Disneyland when she is not available. ; ) I loved Father Knows Best. My own Dad was very strict and I so wanted to trade him in for that one.

Leave it to Beaver
Howdy Doody Time
My 3 sons
oooopppsss, my mind went blank..(gentleman who usually does New Year's Even..had a show with the top new rock/roll stars..and the newest dances) was on every night...lol

Loved those 3 shows Betty! It was Dick Clark and American Bandstand. I so loved it and also the Monkees. Dad hated them both and wouldn't let me watch if he was home.

Thanks, now I should have known that..mind went blank..gee I looked great at local teendance doing latest moves..lol

I was a perfect dweeb...me & two of my girlfriends ran home from school to watch "General Hospital". The other favorite was Wagon Train & the Cisco Kid.....Deb

Little House on the Prairie reruns. Every weekday at 4:00.

Dukes of Hazzard, KnightRider, I remember my mom being addicted to HiIl Street Blues

And of course the Looney Tunes on Sat AM!!

Janis

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We would race home from school just in time to watch "Dark Shadows"...the "kids soap opera"...which has to be the tv show with the all time lowest production budget in history, as well as the worst production quality...but we didn't care.

Our parents would just sit there and laugh at the poor quality of the show, like the fact that you could see the cameras in the background, electrical cords on the floors, tape marks, people talking in the background, the actors flubbing their lines, really bad sound effects (which were always a few seconds "off " from the action), vampires who had reflections in mirrors, and characters that would come in from the driving rain BONE DRY !!!

Being young and stupid, none of this bothered us in the least, and we were loyal fans until it finally (and mercifully) was taken off the air...but it ran for something like 6 years...a few notable actors got their starts on that show i.e.: Kate Jackson, David Selby, and Lara Parker. Converesely, I think it was also the demise of the careers of Joan Bennett and Grayson Hall.

It's still a fond memory though, in spite of it's shortcomings !

Paladin
Gunsmoke
Have Gun Will Travel
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
TWILIGHT ZONE...
and...
Tuesday, Johnny Mathis at 3:00pm for an hour ON THE RADIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Dark Shadows was good. I don't care that it was bad. Have you seen the badness coming out of the tube these days?

Brady Bunch, My Three Sons, Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Alfred Hitchcock, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Incredible Hulk. My mind just went blank. Again.

The Courtship of Eddie's father.

Oh my gosh, Kwan, yes!

"People, let me tell you 'bout my best friend..." I still sing that song!

Twighlight Zone. "My name is Talky Teena, and I'm going to kill you."

The ABC Afterschool Specials.

Seems there's a nice group of you who remember alot of stuff. I don't remember until I'm reminded of something. Like all those Great shows listed. I couldn't've named half of them, but loved 'em all.
There was a show on once several years back, that I would really like to rent, but have no idea as to it's name. It was about a women who bought a wooden "doll" that was carrying a spear. Long story short, after she got it home it came to life and attacked her. As stupid as it sounds, it made pretty good story. Ya know the name?

Trilogy of Terror. It starred Karen Black. I loved that movie. It's on VHS and DVD.

YES! Thank you
jo

I loved the Smurfs!! Papa Smurf & Brainy :) Also, anyone remember the Pac-Man cartoon?

Elizabeth

I remember lotsof those mentioned. Besides them, how about My Favorite Martian, and the Man from UNCLE? the two spies. and Wild West.
Green Acres was hysterical at times.
When my kids zone out on something stupid, I think, oh well, Gilligans Island..........
Hey Hey we're the Monkees! had the lunchbox.!

Land of the Giants, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, Shari Lewis and Lambchop, Soupy Sales, Flip Wilson, Laugh-In, Route 66, Muppet Show, Winchell Mahoney Time...

Carol Burnett

sallyg, I still have my Man from UNCLE official top-secret ID badge. And a letter from the network saying they were sorry but they are taking the program off the air, even though, I'd wrote and asked them not too.

a fellow fan- so did you want the blond one or the brown haired one?
another ladies personality test- which Carwright brother did you want to marry? or Ben...

I love the blond guy on Man from Uncle and of course Michael Landon who was Little Joe. So what does that tell you about my personality? LOL!

Everday I would come home from school to watch Gilligan's Island, Let's Make a Deal and then Star Trek. But for many years my favorite show was Perry Mason.--(what a guy!!)

Little Joe was so cute but then Adam was the man of the bunch. Poor Hoss.

My Mom actually met Hoss. He was staying in a resort where she worked in Texas. It was before he was in Bonanza. She thought he was sweet but noisy. When he tried to flirt with her and she just did her job, she was a waitress, she said he grabbed her arm and bit her! Not hard but just wanted to make her notice. So we used to tease her that she could have had him and we would have had a "rich Daddy!" LOL!

Yes...Green Acres was pretty funny. One of my sisters had an Arnold Ziffel lunch box. Whenever Arnold was in some sort of trouble, Fred would always look at Doris and say, "Well...you're the one who wanted KIDS" !


The Carol Burnett Show was great. I loved it when she was Marian from Canoga Falls in "As the Stomach Turns".

The old Mary Tyler Moore shows have to be the best...all the spin off's were good, too. Nancy Walker was excellent as Ida Morganstern.

sally, the blond guy..I don't even remember anyone else on the show! and ..Adam..
Another tid-bit about letters I still have; a thank you note from Jackie Kennedy for a condolence note I sent. (off the track here)
How about good ole Lassie, Rin-Tin-Tin and Fury; Great pets!

Those are good ones, too.

Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Night Gallery, Sonny and Cher, X-Files, Fractured Flickers, Sherman and Mr. Peabody, Fractured Fairytales..."Help me , Mr. Wizard!"

Rocky and Bullwinkle
"WhatsamattaU"
I loved loved loved that series.

This message was edited Oct 26, 2007 9:47 PM

Blonde guy on Man from UNCLE was David McCallum....who now plays Duckie on NCIS...loved him then, love him more now.

Sorry, don't want to be a butinski...but had to share.

Not butinski at all!! I knew blonde guys name was d. mcsomething but couldn't remember it. Certainly was my first McDreamy.