Category: Elder Folk
I'm a big fan of TV shows I grew up with. Actually, many of them seem to be a little older than I am, because outside of some TV shows there wasn't much Seventies TV I enjoyed. Guess I'm mostly a Sixties TV fan, such as Bewitched, the Munsters, Lost in Space, Star Trek, and others. I even remember, and yeah, this is a really geeky thing, how network programs used to sound compared to local programs. This was before about 1977 when TV stations started getting their network shows from satellite. Yeah, I'm talking about the sound of those high fidelity AT&T phone lines the networks used to use. It had this unique undescribably quality to it but you always knew you were watching something from a network as opposed to something on video tape or on film. I'm also a big cartoon fan. Flintstones, Johnny Quest, lots of superhero stuff, even Gumby even though he can be visual, but I liked the sound design and background music. Plus I just found out some old Batman and Superman TV cartoons will be released on DVD this summer.
The incident with baby Elephant on Blue Peter sticks in my mind
Hmm Star Trek I love the Klingons.
Jackanory
hi Godzill-on-toast, I liked the flintstones, and the jetwons. those were the only cartoon shows i liked. as for old shows, I liked marcus welby m d, and medical center, and wish they'd bring those shows back. they had marcus welby on tv land for a while, but they took him off and as far as i know, they haven't put him back on. I wonder why they never put medical center back on. that was the show where chad everet played doctor joe gannon, and it was a good show.
wonderwoman
Marcus Welby? Haven't thought of him in years. I always preferred Ben Casey.
My favorite Saturday morning television circled around "Fury, the story of a horse and a boy who loved him." I also liked "tales of the Texas Rangers".
That's all I can think of now.
Bob
Well, godzilla, I loved Andy Griffith, Lost in Space, and those crazy cartoons with Bugs Bunny, and that crazy hawk. What was his name? Does anyone know? And Star Trek, Gilligan's Island, and who can forget the Donna Reed show, Father Knows Best, The adams Family, and as already mentioned, The Munsters. Of course there was Weird Theater, and what about Mary Heartman Mary Heartman? lol. I'm watching Star Trek right now on Tv Land. Not the same though. lol.
I remember when color tv first came out. There was The Wonderful World of Color straight from Walt Disney, and who can forget Sesame Street? That's what my kids watched. I still love those old shows.
Most of the shows I like have been mentioned. But I must say that TV is not the same today. I truely miss seeing things lke Green Achers, Mary Tyler Moore and the like. There aren't anything like them on any more. The kids have no imagination it seems. All there seems to be are reality shows that aren't reality at all. Well, enough griping for now. I do love the old shows and wish they would come back.
I know what you mean djmom, I don't watch any of the reality shows, nor what passes for today's comedy. None of them are funny. there are 2 shows i watch now, ghost whisperer and tooclose to home, but thats about it. tv isn't what it use to be.
wonderwoman
I think the writers just ran out of sitcom plots, murder mystery twist endings, medical thrillers and the like, so we have these surreality TV shows. I dunno, I don't complain about today's TV because asking for it to be like it was is impossible. I just try to find the older shows or buy as much as I can on DVD and watch those. The only constant thing is change, like it or not.
I just thought about what I watch today. The only thing I watch these days is "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader". Nothing else seems to interest me. I still like the older things as I said before. But I think its good that thy're still around on reruns.
the only shows i watch now are ghost whisperer and too close to home. I liked some of the old comedies, the jeffersons, good times, all in the family, bewitched, and the dramas I liked were marcus welby, medical center, and the waltons. I don't watch any of th ecomedies nowadays. they're nothing but silly junk.
wonderwoman
Well, I like many of the shows mentioned. I'm a flintstones trivia adict. One year, my wife found this wonderful CD at Christmas time. She thought it would be my least favorite gift, and I can't remember anything else I got that year. It was a CD with lots and lots of Flintstones music. All the "Incidental" music they would run in the background like when they were walking or rding in the car together or when Fred was operating the digger at work. They also have some of the "hits" if you will like "Listen to the rockin bird" "Dino the Dinasaur's Christmas" and the song the waitresses sang when Fred and Barney ran the Drive-in Resturant. There are lots more, but they escape me. Only new show I watch now is Law and rder.
Lou
Hi all,
I'm nineteen and absolutely abhor any of today's TV--and i don't watch it.
But here's what I do watch and like:
1. Jeffersons
2. Sanford and Son
3. happy Days
4. Mary Tyler Moore--it's never on anymore though
5. Waltons
6. Little House
7. Andy griffith
8. some of the older cartoons which yall've already mentioned
9. Bob Newhart
10. Dick Van Dike
Things that used to be on TVLand and aren't anymore. It used to be that Nick at Nite rans shows I never knew of now they are running shows I watched growing up--RoseAnne ETC--so TVLand had to revamp too, and all that stuff they used to have disappeared. I used to like Pettycoat Junction a lot too, and Saint Elsewhere.
Thanks for this thread.
Shanda
I liked a lot of those shows too, but as new tv shows become old tv shows, I'm afraid tv land is going to start putting on some of the junk stuff they have on today. it will probably be in five years when they start doing that. I also liked the jetsons too, just the ooposite of the flintstones, the flintstones lived in the stone aga, and the jetwons lived in the space age. I wish they'd put marcus welby and medical center back on.
wonderwoman
I was surfing on the TV today, and found Matlock. I didn't really appreciate it till after it was off the air.
Lou
Saturday morning was the wide-awakw show. I have a lot of musical memories from when I was tiny, I think because I'm a very musical person still and the wide-awake theme tune still runs round and round my head to this day along with Blockbusters, Batman and Country Practice.
Jen.
well, I wouldn't watch the show one day at a time again, i mean, not in itsentirety, from the beginning of th eseries to the end, but I always liked that song they played before the start. can't remember any of the words, but remember the upbeat, and the tune.
wonderwoman
I am 32, and I am a huge fan of TVland. "I Love Lucy" is a big favorite of mine, and I like "Family Affair" too. They need to bring some of those back. TVLand plays too many western shows and Mash and stuff. That's all well and good, but not much variety.
I cut my eye teeth so to speak on shows like howdy doody. At that time most tv was live and stations were on the air for a maximum of six hours a day.
Bob