Most everybody on here had a TV around when they were a kid, so I thought it'd be fun to remember what your favorite show was when you were little. Or, even what was the first show you remember watching.

Mine was Emergency. I loved watching it every week parked in front of our big Motorola Quasar set. It was always exciting. I think that was about the first program that showed people dying, so you didn't always know that a situation would turn out good. I used to cling to the chair cushion watching it.

The first show I can remember was Green Acres. I still enjoy watching reruns and still say things like "plug that into the electrisicle."

Showing my age!

The Phil Silvers Show.

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The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You'll Never Get Rich, is sitcom which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959 for 142 episodes, plus a 1959 special. The series starred Phil Silvers as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko of the United States Army.

Peter :tresbon:

My favorites were Beverly Hillbillies, Lost in Space, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Bewitched, I love Lucy, Disneys World of Color, Family Affair, Dr. Welby, MD, and Emergency to name a few. I also couldn't wait until the next Saturday night when I was able to watch Dr. San Guinary's, Creature Feature movies.

My favorites were Beverly Hillbillies, Lost in Space, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Bewitched, I love Lucy, Disneys World of Color, Family Affair, Dr. Welby, MD, and Emergency to name a few. I also couldn't wait until the next Saturday night when I was able to watch Dr. San Guinary's, Creature Feature movies.

These, minus the Creature Feature-Never watched that til I went off to college, in Richmond. There they had one w/this AWFUL local guy, Bill Bowman, AKA "The Bowman Body". His claim to fame was a re-write of the song that the Darlings sang on "Andy Griffith", "Dooley".

My favorites were Beverly Hillbillies, Lost in Space, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Bewitched, I love Lucy, Disneys World of Color, Family Affair, Dr. Welby, MD, and Emergency to name a few. I also couldn't wait until the next Saturday night when I was able to watch Dr. San Guinary's, Creature Feature movies.

All of the above plus we had Chiller Theater, Honeymooners, Life of Riley, Burns and Allen Like them a lot, Benny Hill, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theater, That other twilight zone like show I can't think of the name... The Rockford Files Never missed it, Simon & Simon, also never missed it, Magnum PI, Adam 12, Dragnet, Car 12 where are you?, And I usually watched each station sign off at night.... Then turned the set off and watched the dot.....

Never missed Lost in Space, Loved it, got the collection on VHS.

I guess my favorite of all was The Dukes of Hazzard; I was also a big fan of Real People. I rarely watched dramas, though I did like Quincy. Discovered SNL when I was about 10 or 11 (early 80s) and that was a really big deal to me.

One of my earliest TV memories is a scene from Holmes & Yoyo (!) where Yoyo jumpstarts an elevator. Not sure why that ended up in my memory bank, but there it is!

The Outer Limits (1962-1965), One Step Beyond, The Twilight Zone, Survival!, The San Francisco Beat, Night Gallery.

When we were kids (me and my six brothers and sisters) used to love stuff like Gilligan's Island, The Invaders, Lost In Space, It's About Time, Outer Limits, I Love Lucy, Saturday morning cartoons of all types but especially The Road Runner Bugs Bunny Hour, pretty much anything that was on back then we watched.
Man From Uncle and Mission Impossible were big favorites of my youngest sister and I, we used to play spies after watching that.

The back was never on our set because it broke down so much, I used to like to look through the neck of the CRT and watch it from the back side of the screen.

The TV (http://vintagetvsets.com/images/1959ge/GE1.jpg) was located at the end of our 10 foot long dinner table my Dad had built to accommodate our huge family and we would all sit around it to watch.
Reception was terrible back then, (we were 120+ miles from Los Angeles) I remember my older brothers going outside to turn the antenna for the best signal, when you changed the channel they had to do it again. :D
One channel that was clear was UHF KBAK 29 from Bakersfield, they had a Tom Hatten like host who would play movies and have games with prizes for people who sent in their names. Every channel had a local host who did stuff like that back then, I miss the hokey little local stations with no Network affiliation.

Mine were: Lost in space,The Time Tunnel, Hogans Heroes, Combat!,Gilligans Island to name a few!:thmbsp:

I grew up in Hong Kong, but do very deffinately remember I Love Lucy, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley. I think I wasn't watching much "regularly" until I was maybe nine or ten. I'd stay up for the "Hamburger Hours" when a channel would switch to American programming and I'd see CHiPs, UFO, Space 1999 and some others.

Wow.....Night Gallery was so scary as a kid. I still think of a particular one where a guy gave this girl a little lapel pin that looked like a tiny mouse.....and it started growing. The end of the episode, the thing was big as a large dog and attacked her. I have ONLY seen that the one time when I was a lil kid....but I think of that ONE episode every time I hear of Night Gallery...or that theme music.

I'd be curious to find a YouTube of that episode....and watch it NOW. Always fun to see something that was so scary as a kid....and see how cheesy or trivial it looks now. That 1953 War of the Worlds movie had me absolutely terrified as a kid. The ships and the alien weren't so bad....but for some reason that camera thing with the RGB triad lens scared the HELL outa me :yikes:

I remember watching The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family on Friday nights on our 23" black and white Zenith.

Oh, "Night Gallery" had some DOOZIES. One, I recall, had to do w/this horrible insect that you put in a victim's ear & it ate its way thru his head..."The Earwig"...Another had a kid who predicted the future-And saw the Sun turning into a supernova...There was the one where a bunch of derelicts & drunks stumbled across a Doctor's bag from the year 2500 or so that mistakenly got sent back to the 20th century.. A guy who could fake death, & could only be brought back by a certain series of "Raps" on a wooden board..

A lot of you posters are a lot younger than me. A lot of those programs you watched, never interested me.
The programs mentioned, were on in the evening and I generally worked second shift.
Two of my real favorites were the Munsters and The Untouchables.
The episodes with Bruce Gordon, playing Frank Nitti were the best.
RIP, Robert and Bruce. :thmbsp:

We never missed the Ed Sullivan show and in early '66 it went to color pretty much right after we got the ctc-16, also Gilligan and Batman.

Soupy Sales out of Detroit. 1959 or so.

The Fugitive, Car 54 Where Are You?, The Lone Ranger, Sea Hunt, Mighty Mouse, The Three Stooges, Gunsmoke, Bonanza and The Adventures of Superman.

Quote: "Soupy Sales out of Detroit. 1959 or so". Yes, but into the sixties too!

Watching Our Gang, Three Stooges, living for Saturday morning cartoons. Mission Impossible always came on late Sunday nights and as a kid that meant bedtime for school so it was a real treat during the summer!

Sundays in general were always a good day for TV and relatives being over and having color tv in the sixties. Good memories!

It's hard to say just one favorite show when programming was really good then. Nowadays, not so much...

star trek,I dream of jenie,bewiched,get smart,outer limits,TZ,columbo,mannix,dr kildare,pettycoat juntion,rawhide,science fiction theater,mickey mouse show,WW of disney,batman,geez there was SO much good stuff, now I get over a thousand channels and pure garbage on network tv, Metv RTV etc.. is good but I notice they chop out parts for more commercial :sigh:

oh ever notice how commercial are totally out of bounds, besides way too many and way too much, there is way too much info (no standards being applied). I think I would prefer the cigarette commecials over the stuff that comes on now.

You really have a hard time sitting down with your kids and watching a decent show these days (young ones anyway).

MacGyver was my favorite show as a kid and I recorded most every episode on VHS tape. Over the years, I watched the tapes to the point where they were worn out and I eventually bought the show on DVD.

I also liked Dukes of Hazzard, Incredible Hulk, Knight Rider, A-Team, Jake and the Fatman, Magnum PI, etc. I also liked reruns of the older shows such as Kojak, Emergency, Marcus Welby, Rockford Files, etc. The last "current run" shows that I watched were the Commish and In the Heat of the Night. When those two shows went off in the mid '90's, I pretty much lost interest in anything "current" and my main TV watching since then has pretty much consisted of watching the news and reruns of older shows on tape or DVD.

The first favorite show of mine was the Road Runner Show, cartoons on Saturday morning. Also, Garfield Goose, a local show on WGN-Channel 9 on weekday afternoons in Chicago.

One of my earliest TV memories is a scene from Holmes & Yoyo (!) where Yoyo jumpstarts an elevator. Not sure why that ended up in my memory bank, but there it is!
Wow... So, there are two of us who remember that show! I liked it, but it wasn't on for very long. The ads described it as "Holmes, not at all like Sherlock, and Yoyo, not at all like anyone!" (The bunco squad... The bunco squad... The bunco squad... whack!) I am just old enough to have recorded episodes of that on my first VCR, but I know I didn't.

I did record The Dukes Of Hazzard while I watched The Rockford Files (or the other way around), both on at 8 PM on Fridays if I remember right.

So many that I could name have been listed above already, so I'll just stick with shows I (and perhaps I alone...) doted on that haven't been mentioned.

Ghost and Mrs. Muir--which I recall best from its brief run in syndication on a local UHF station in the early 70s, although I'm utterly certain I had watched it on the network in 1970 when it followed Brady Bunch.

Mr. Ed--I mean come on, did somebody already bring this up and I just missed it? Classic Filmways stuff.

Arnie--Herschel Bernardi in a sort of fish-out-of-water tale as a blue collar guy who gets kicked up to management. Sandwiched between My Three Sons and Mary Tyler Moore on Saturday night--whereby the Nielsen tracking had the outline of an elderly horse :sigh:

New Dick Van Dyke Show--as close as any "New" show ever came to being a hit on network prime time.

When Things Were Rotten--Mel Brooks gets smart with the Robin Hood legend.

Salvage-1--Andy Griffith is a junkman who builds a rocket out of junk to salvage the junk NASA left behind on the moon. Since all that happened in the pilot, well....

Turnabout--might not have thought to mention this one if nobody had brought up Holmes & Yoyo. John Schuck again, this time as Sharon Gless' wife--and she as John's husband--after a little statue they bought from Mother Nature places a spell on them.

Eischied--Should have lasted much longer, but was stuck following Rockford Files (when it was on its last legs) and pitted against Dallas (when it was just taking off).

Barnaby Jones--because again, apparently nobody else mentioned it.

That's a brief list, there are others I'm too embarrassed to mention. :stupid: Besides which it chronologically takes us up to when I was 16 and so no longer really 'a kid'.

Mine was Emergency. I loved watching it every week parked in front of our big Motorola Quasar set.Yes that is a good show!

I also like Land of the lost! (Original series)


Thats just 1 I like,there are many!!

phil silvers,twilight zone,alfred hitchcock,gunsmoke,cheyenne were favorites.then along came the 60s and brought route 66,naked city,east side west side and my all time best show-the fugitive

Garfield and Friends, TaleSpin. I haven't learned much more about planes now than what I learned from the latter, so I won't be a bush pilot anytime soon. The Air Pirates' planes were called CT-37s; sounds like an old RCA set.

Hogan's Heroes, Sanford and Son and The Beverley Hillbillies all come to mind. :-)

Barnaby Jones was cool..... Always polite, and near the end - one hip shot with his itty bitty 6 shooter always got the bad guy in the shoulder.....

Did he ever fire more than one shot per show..... ??

I liked Colombo too.... Best was the murder with the automatic record player and the umbrella up the chimney.... No cop today would ever solve that one....

Did he even have a gun....?

I watched Arnie too..... Short lived as it was...

I developed a liking for detective shows when I was a teenager in the 1970s. Watched almost every detective show that came out on the networks--Columbo, Banacek, McMillan and Wife, et al., including Quincy, M. E. (I have the first season of the first four shows I mentioned on DVD--that's how much I enjoyed them.) I still watch those shows in reruns on MeTV. They were so well made I don't mind seeing them over and over again. I don't get Quincy on MeTV (yet), but I do have six seasons of the show on DVD, and am waiting for the last two to be released; who knows, one of these days it just might show up on MeTV or even AntennaTV. When and if it does, I'll be here to watch it.

I also liked the comedy series of the '70s, such as The Odd Couple. I have all five seasons of the series on DVD, and again, like the old detective shows, The Odd Couple was so well made I could (and do) watch those shows over and over and never get tired of them.

They don't make TV like that anymore. This afternoon, however, I was thinking about the remakes that have been made of shows like Kojak, Ironside, et al. Ironside's remake is just about done on NBC (the network will show the last episode this week some time, if they haven't shown it already); the Kojak remake ran for just one season on one of the networks, can't think which one at the moment. The reason these remakes don't do well on network TV, IMHO, lasting only one season if they are lucky, is that the shows they are based upon were one of a kind, and were not meant to be remade for the 21st century and its new TV technology. Note that there have not been any attempts (yet, anyway) to remake other '70s detective series such as Mannix, Quincy and the like. I say just wait--these shows may well have remakes eventually, but like Ironside and Kojak, if Mannix and Quincy (to name but two) are ever remade for this century, they may very well suffer the same fate; that is, the shows may run on one of the networks for a season or two, then they will be canceled and will never be seen again.

BTW: It's probably not fair to compare news broadcasts and documentaries to comedy series, but I saw Rock Center, a newsmagazine program on NBC, disappear after only one season--or was it two? :scratch2: Maybe NBC, after seeing "Rock Center"'s ratings (which couldn't have been very good if the show was canceled after only one season), decided that its one remaining magazine, "Dateline", was enough. (Rock Center's downfall was probably the manner in which it tried to emulate CBS's "60 Minutes".)

NBC has been #4 in the ratings for some time behind Fox, and I can see why. If they want to be #1 again (as they were in the '70s-'80s), they had better get on the stick and start showing programming that will last more than a season or two (or even less), and will beat the other three networks at their own game. NBC was (and still is) my favorite TV network for news, but I will not watch their prime-time entertainment offerings until or unless they improve their programming--drastically. I may be asking far too much, since I am 57 years old and most TV programming these days is geared to 25-54-year-old viewers. However, this is why I have a collection of DVDs and VHS tapes of shows I enjoyed in the '70s and '80s.

I read just recently here on this forum (in another thread) that broadcast television's days are probably numbered, to be eventually replaced by video on demand and other non-broadcast formats. If and when broadcast TV fades into oblivion, I won't miss it, as I will still have my DVDs and tapes of programs which, by that time, may well have been long forgotten. One of the reasons the TV networks' ratings are slipping is because of the popularity of VOD, satellite, cable, et al., and the networks cannot keep up with these changes. These new technologies may not be eating the networks alive (yet), but they certainly aren't doing much (if any) good for ratings. Those things called DVRs are not doing the networks any favors, either, since they allow viewers to record a show and watch it at a later time (time shifting)--I'm sure this all but drives the programming executives at all four networks bonkers.

This is not new, however, as it's been going on since the days of VCRs; however, in the beginning of the VCR era, there were few shows on prerecorded tapes; until 1975, there was a controversy over the legality of recording television programs off the air (remember that warning the TV stations used to show at sign on and sign off, "The programs broadcast by this station may not be used for any purpose except ehibition at the time of broadcast.....", which was supposed to prevent showing of [and charging for] TV programs shown on standard television receivers in public establishments). This controversy ended when the courts found in favor of Sony, the motion-picture producer that was so dead-set against the possibility (now a reality) of TV viewers taping shows and watching them at any hour they chose, and to archive such programs if they chose to keep them.

Hogans Heroes - Operating a radio antenna by extending a flagpole LOL

The Munsters - granpa Lewis' basement was just the beginning of my interest in electricity.

The Addams Family - uncle fester and the light bubs

The sheer outragesness of Lost in Space prepared me for the serious consideration od Star Trek later.

And that's just on the 1962 Motorola, as far as the 70's, I liked most of what you guys mentioned here though we only had 4 good channels, in color on the '71
Zenith, but that changed in '74 when my dad finally admitted that the JFD all-in-one VHF-UHF-FM antenna was a dud for UHF and we were missing out.

Once we could get the UHF independents from Philly, every funny cartoon or sitcom made since the early 60s was on one of those "new" channels at one time or SO, plus great horror and science fiction movies every weekend!

I would hardly ever watch a drama as a kid, aside from Quincy and maybe Trapper John, MD...now, thanks to MEtv I'm catching some of what I missed. I like Columbo and, in recent weeks, I've started watching Kojak. My wife has been teasing me about that-man, Theo was a cool dude!

Hey my favorite programs as a kid sanford and son, make room for daddy , leave it to beaver ozzie and harriet, gomer pyle,

I'm currently watching season 4 of Emergency on DVD, loved that one as a kid.
Just remembered "Medical Center" starring Chad Everett, that ran from 69-76!

Anybody remember The Chicago Teddy Bears? It was a period comedy set in Chicago in the 1920s. Dean Jones and John Banner were the biggest names in a fairly big cast.

Even though I don't recall lots of exterior shots, there was a Sunday Section-type spread published with pictures and descriptions of the various characters' cars. It was the first nighttime show that I doted on bigtime and I was so disappointed when it was canceled after half a season. The first such experience of many....

They don't make TV like that anymore. This afternoon, however, I was thinking about the remakes that have been made of shows like Kojak, Ironside, et al. Ironside's remake is just about done on NBC (the network will show the last episode this week some time, if they haven't shown it already); the Kojak remake ran for just one season on one of the networks, can't think which one at the moment. The reason these remakes don't do well on network TV, IMHO, lasting only one season if they are lucky, is that the shows they are based upon were one of a kind, and were not meant to be remade for the 21st century and its new TV technology. Note that there have not been any attempts (yet, anyway) to remake other '70s detective series such as Mannix, Quincy and the like. I say just wait--these shows may well have remakes eventually, but like Ironside and Kojak, if Mannix and Quincy (to name but two) are ever remade for this century, they may very well suffer the same fate; that is, the shows may run on one of the networks for a season or two, then they will be canceled and will never be seen again.

I think one of the most unplanned and yet successful remakes that is still on today, but not the same as the first few years is "two and a half men" Of course this is the unplanned un identified remake of the Odd Couple.... IMAO.

Comment as you see fit....

I liked Topper, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Roy Rogers, Sky King, Fury, Flicka & Tin Tin Tin-- wow am I dating myself here!!
When I was a bit older I loved Route 66, Twilight Zone, Ben Casey & Alfred Hitchcock Presents

I still watch Burns & Allen, and downloaded lots of their radio stuff too ! Like the Twilight Zone, and Alfred Hitchcock too...... Love AntennaTV Network ! It's great that there is enough interest in those older shows to sustain a few networks with that great content....

You can stream many of these shows on www.hulu.com for free. I bought a pc to tv converter, hooked that to a rf modulator, then to my
Blonder Tongue Agile Modulator . Now I can broadcast to any anolog tv in the house. Works great.

pc to tv converter....? What's that like SVGA plug to those 3 colored RCA jacks on a lot of tvs, VCR's and DVD players have...? Is this on ebay? What brand and model did you get, and how would you rate it??? I have watched a few Rockford Files on hulu, but not much.... I would, though if I could get it on to a tv screen.... Thanks....

Ok, found them on ebay, but still interested in what you have model/ etc..... Is it a good one...? thanks....

So you have to use a modulator to get the sound to come through the tv.....

This is the one I bought. It works good:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sewell-PC-to-TV-Converter-w-Built-in-Audio-Cable-/140379884792?pt=US_Video_Cables_Adapters&hash=item20af4b0cf8
out of that to the 3 colored RCA jacks to an audiovox a/v modulator then coaxial cable to Blonder Tongue agile modulator

So you have to use a modulator to get the sound to come through the tv.....[/QUOTE]

I use the a/v modulator just so I can get from 3 RCA plugs to coaxial cable for input on the agile modulator. On rf out of agile modulator I split the signal and went to broadcast antenne and coaxial directly into my home tv coax network. So if I turn off my digital converer box on any of my anolog tvs and turn tv to whatever channel I program agile modulator to (mines on channel 2), I can pick up the computer stream either off cable network or rabbit ears.
All you really need is the tv to pc converter if you don't mind running wires from computer to tv. I hope this makes sense, I'm not the best at explaining what I mean sometimes.

Thanks Paul ! I see from the model you posted, that it takes the sound output from the computer speakers, and the converter sends that to the rca jacks. Saving one set of cables.... From that I can run those three rca wires over to one of the tv's that has those inputs, or a VCR/DVD player with those plugs, and then to my tv via the rf jacks I use regularly.....

Well I'm sure you did not intend to spark up a mini-thread on those converters, but I thank you for it, I was unaware of such a device, and am now quite interested..... I had found those small devices in a CL ad locally that would play hulu on your old tv, but you needed a subscription to use those boxes.... But hulu allows you to watch for free on a desktop, or laptop computer, so when I'm really, really really board and there is absolutely nothing I'm willing to sit through on tv, I use to do a Rockford, or Magnum on the laptop, or imac desktop..... This little converter has me interested in possibly watching some hulu on a real tv.....

Thanks again !

Anybody else remember the 1970-71 Saturday morning-Really, more like Saturday AFTERNOON-offering, "Tomfoolery "? It was a Rankin-Bass offering, a sort of "Stream-Of-Conciousness" kiddie show, that appealed to kids like me who were kinda "Weird", I guess... IIRC, it came on Sat afternoon, 1-1.30 PM, & was often kicked off by Phootbawl, which is sort of a RELIGION down here in the South..

I think one of the most unplanned and yet successful remakes that is still on today, but not the same as the first few years is "two and a half men" Of course this is the unplanned un identified remake of the Odd Couple.... IMAO.

Comment as you see fit....

At least the Odd Couple could be watched by both children and elders together. Two and a half twits is not meant for children to watch. No moral values.

Felix and Oscar was a clean, funny show that also taught values, even just the value of a very good friend.

Thanks Paul ! I see from the model you posted, that it takes the sound output from the computer speakers, and the converter sends that to the rca jacks. Saving one set of cables.... From that I can run those three rca wires over to one of the tv's that has those inputs, or a VCR/DVD player with those plugs, and then to my tv via the rf jacks I use regularly.....

Well I'm sure you did not intend to spark up a mini-thread on those converters, but I thank you for it, I was unaware of such a device, and am now quite interested..... I had found those small devices in a CL ad locally that would play hulu on your old tv, but you needed a subscription to use those boxes.... But hulu allows you to watch for free on a desktop, or laptop computer, so when I'm really, really really board and there is absolutely nothing I'm willing to sit through on tv, I use to do a Rockford, or Magnum on the laptop, or imac desktop..... This little converter has me interested in possibly watching some hulu on a real tv.....

Thanks again !

Some older desktop towers (which you can get dirt cheap if you look) support and or come stock with video cards that have VGA, Composite, and S-video outputs. I have a 2002 HP that I trash picked that has all of those outputs and can run all of them at once when ran in dual monitor mode (The S-video and component show the same thing but ARE both active).
It was a pretty decent media viewer duty PC for me until the USB system started crapping out intermittently and giving me the blue screen of death. At some point I'm going to try to fix that and or get a new mother board of that generation so I can use that unit again.

i liked watching when i was growing up in the 70's pretty much what they show on Metv now star trek with kirk and spock, the monkey's bugs bunny on sat. morning . there was only 3 stations and pbs stuff like dr who ,montypython fliying circus was on at night ,or we sometimes could pickup chicago station 9 & 32 ,from our 50 foot tower with a bedspring type ant. on it. i had about 20 tv's in my bedroom in different stages of being apart and being worked on, or modifying i had a small path to my bed ,it drove my mother nuts she wouldnt even go into my room most of the time ,she hated solder in the shag carpet and small screws [lol ] i would pickup any peace electronics and drag it into my room ,i built a full size robot once when i was 13 yrs old that could move around remotely mom thought that was cool girls dint though .

I really liked Three's Company. What 12 year old boy didn't like "jiggle tv". LOL. That is until the Dukes of Hazzard came out. Still some jiggle, coulpled with the best looking car of the musle car era and lots of action.

I didn't know what color the General Lee was for the first season as I had to watch it in my room on my 12 inch b&w set. When it moved to the 8 pm timeslot for season two, I got to see it in color in the living room. Then my mom would watch Dallas.

Al

At least the Odd Couple could be watched by both children and elders together. Two and a half twits is not meant for children to watch. No moral values.

Felix and Oscar was a clean, funny show that also taught values, even just the value of a very good friend.

Amen to that. Two and a half men came on last night and within 30 seconds the guy was talking about his junk :puke:

Couldn't change the channel fast enough.

Al

Amen to that. Two and a half men came on last night and within 30 seconds the guy was talking about his junk :puke:

Couldn't change the channel fast enough.

Al

True the quality of the content is not quite up to "Odd Couple Quality" They were very talented actors..... But if you get past Charlie's one track brain, there are similarities between the two shows, especially the older 2 1/2 jerks episodes..... But I'm not implying the two shows nearly equal, just a pretty good successful remake as far as the basic compatibility issues go.

Depends on what age as a kid , there was all kinds of great shows including cartoons like kimba and gigantor , spiderman too , batman , superman , Jeannie and so on but heres one that might trigger memories or maybe not , when I got my first tape recorder in 74 my mission was to record every episode of my favorite Saturday morning show run joe run , I still think I have all those audio cassettes , this show wasn't repeated in the new York or boston area , then around 88 or 89 I got my hands on two 16mm films of the series - it was such a thrill to see it again, in 74 was also when I was introduced to uhf and there was a station in long island wsnl 67 , wow talk about putting other channels to shame , they only ran a couple of series every day , spiderman and voyage and perhaps a couple others but everyday was a different line up especialy in prime time , car 54 on once a week on like a tuesday , time tunnel once a week on like a Monday and other shows , they had like their own network style of different shows every day , I think this helped put them under as a station , they spent too much on having such a vast library of things to show on top of going by some audio tapes made back in the day they weren't cutting the shows , so they ran them complete which meant less commercials , when they did promos for different shows that were on they would just put up a slide and a voice would say yack yack yack at whatever time , oh almost forgot captain Ahab , he was like one of the last ny area cartoon hosts , he played things like little adam and other stuff , if there was only a way to get transmissions from year ago , so much more entertainment.

http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper4/Sayville%20NY%20Suffolk%20County%20News/Sayville%20NY%20Suffolk%20County%20News%201973%20O ct-Aug%201974%20Grayscale/Sayville%20NY%20Suffolk%20County%20News%201973%20O ct-Aug%201974%20Grayscale%20-%200075.pdf

I found that in a search , mentions Ahab , forgot about cisco kid .

http://dontparade.blogspot.com/2009/11/ahoy-ahab.html

one more , I finally know something about the captain.

mike

I always liked "Get Smart!" as a kid. It's one of the few early series I've picked up on DVD.

Watched a few episodes last night, and in the face of the conversation about "Two and a Half Men" and the gutter humor that's on TV today, I got to thinking that some of the dialogue in "Get Smart!" was probably pretty "racy" for the time.

I mean, having the "oriental" bad guy, called "The Claw", pronounce his name so that it sounds like "The Craw"..and then have Maxwell Smart refer to him as "The Craw" repeatedly, and then having the "bad guy" trying to correct him by loudly proclaiming "NO! Not "The Craw...THE CRAW!"...

Then having the "oriental bad guy" make a statement about kidnapping a bunch of the wrong blond women by saying something like "they all look alike to us"....

That's just really funny stuff to me.

Voyage to the bottom of the Sea,is my favorite show. I have many other 60s tv shows on dvd. The main thing that continues to amaze me is the sharpness and detail that I see on my 43'' plasma . Sweat pouring off the actors faces, the wires on I dream of Jeannie.The fake settings on Gilligans Island.I never saw these as a kid ,watching on network channels. I think these show up because of the increased resolution of dvds and large size of tvs today.It is fun too see things that were not intended to be shown back then. Plus no commercials and no editing the shows real running time.

Any shows from the 1950's to the 1980's and some of the 1990's.
2000's a handful.

Thank goodness for the internet I've able to relive my young life over again and watch them for free on Youtube,Hulu and other sites.


I end up dropping the extended cable which was a big waste of money since I can watch my favorites online.I dont want to pay $80 bucks plus for reality crap programming other rubbish shows and sports programming that I have no interest in.

The first show that I remember as being "appointment TV" for me when I was small was, of course, Batman.
A close second? Red Skelton every Tuesday night.

Not Craw, CRAWWWW!!!!!

Awesome. Don't forget the Charlie Chan one where the Chinese detective kept looking at Max and saying "Amazing".

Totally unrelated, this show was like going to church but better cuz you got to see the evil guys get their butts kicked by the religious guy:

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...An' Don't Forget, "Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp !" "Stands for Justice, has no fears, he's the Agent to call when Trouble is Near... Oh, Lance Link, whatcha gonna do, when Mad Dr Strangemind comes after You ?!?" 45 years later, & that shit is STILL burned into my 2 volt mind...

I had a Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp ! Lunch box..... Great show ! !

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I had a Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp ! Lunch box..... Great show ! !

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Hey squirrely I figured your fav show would be Rocky and Bullwinkle :scratch2:

Somewhere in the attic is two large 16mm reels of Crusader Rabbit episodes. Crusader had two lifetimes. Late 40's to early 50's in BW. A few years later and another owner, he came back in color. All in syndication. I forget which I have but is probably the later color version. Now off to the attic.

Anybody remember Gigantor, Clutch Cargo, et al ? They were early sixties Japanese imports that had a "Gimmick"-They used pictures of someone's actual mouth saying the dialog... Synchro-Vox, I THINK they called it.. I DO remember they were in B/W...

Hey squirrely I figured your fav show would be Rocky and Bullwinkle :scratch2:

I remember all those fun cartoons.... I think I consumed way too much tv as a kid....
Fav. was roadrunner I would have to say, and the Acme company, which delivered to
the middle of nowhere, in microseconds after the need for a product pooped
into coyote's head.... I think the guy from google, or amazon is now just thinking
that is a good idea..... Hope they already know I want a time machine just as
soon as one's available.....

Can you just imagine what coyote's visa bill looked like......
A rocket-car can't be cheap.....

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I remember all those fun cartoons.... I think I consumed way too much tv as a kid....
Fav. was roadrunner I would have to say, and the Acme company, which delivered to
the middle of nowhere, in microseconds after the need for a product pooped
into coyote's head.... I think the guy from google, or amazon is now just thinking
that is a good idea..... Hope they already know I want a time machine just as
soon as one's available.....

Can you just imagine what coyote's visa bill looked like......
A rocket-car can't be cheap.....

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What kind of stupid credit card company would give a Coyote an account anyway?

3D printing will make near instant delivery of some things a reality soon I think.

A lot of you posters are a lot younger than me. A lot of those programs you watched, never interested me.
The programs mentioned, were on in the evening and I generally worked second shift.
Two of my real favorites were the Munsters and The Untouchables.
The episodes with Bruce Gordon, playing Frank Nitti were the best.
RIP, Robert and Bruce. :thmbsp:

There's a new OTA digital sub-channel that came on, just recently.
For four days running, they ran every Untouchables episode made. The service is called "Decades". They're referring to the programming as "series binge, countdown to decades".
Last week, they ran every, "I Love Lucy", from the oldest, to the last.
Anyone else get it?

LOVED the musical score in "The Untouchables"...HYSTERICAL Fifties TV music at its finest..