Favorite TV shows from when you were young

[BIGNASTY]

MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
U.N.C.L.E. United Network Command for Law and Enforcement,

 

[BIGNASTY]

The sad thing is that many of these shows satire is now called Bullying, Racial, Criticizing. I was listening to a Stand up comic when he said that Standup Comedy is a dieing form of entertainment because people take things to serious and have forgotton how to laugh at themselves.

 

[Mike Ellis]

As a younger kid I missed out on a lot of the after-school type shows, too many farm chores. Saturday morning cartoons and re-runs of old comedy shows were my favorites (Looney Tunes, Three Stooges, etc) Watched a lot of the night-time dramas and news with my parents. Loved all the Westerns -
- Have Gun Will Travel
- The Rifleman
- Rawhide
- Branded
- Laredo
- High Chaparral
- etc

My rating system was a lot like the one Joe Bob Briggs used later on in the 80s. If it had cowboys riding and shooting, girls, huddled bosoms yearning to burst free, monsters, aliens, jets, or space ships I was all over it. Still am, to the horror of my own kids and more sophisticated friends and family.

My kids claim to have been badly scarred by Hee Haw growing up, but I think they are exaggerating. Banjos, fiddles, accordions, polka, Western swing, hillbilly pickin' and grinnin' -- yessir DO LIKE

 

[TFucili]

My son leaves the room when I turn on Hee Haw. My wife tolerates it. But if Molly B Polka Party comes on, she's out

 

[Mike Ellis]

I watch more "old" stuff now, than I did back when it was new. I can't stand most of the newer shows on TV, compared to the modern dreck the Stooges and the Honeymooners are Shakespeare. Thanks to Amazon Prime and other streaming services, and the magic of DVD/Blu Ray, I can watch tons of awesome shows.

One of my bigger surprises was watching Route 66. I ignored it back in the day, always assumed it was just a situation comedy about a couple of Beach Boy types. Was amazed when I finally started watching it, to learn that every episode was a drama shot on location somewhere in the USA (rarely if ever on Route 66). They went all over the place, and the boys were shown working at actual jobs. It is fascinating to look at how different the towns were back in the early Interstate days before Generica took over and made everyplace the same.

 

[Mike Ellis]

How about "My Living Doll" with Julie Newmar as the computerized robot? My my my she was smokin' hot and really funny as well....

 

[BIGNASTY]

It is fascinating to look at how different the towns were back in the early Interstate days before Generica took over and made everyplace the same.

This is why on my drives for work OR pleasure here in Indiana I take the roads less traveled. Lots of really old small towns that aren't shown on any map and most don't have anything more than a sign with the name of the town and change of the speed limit USALLY ON THE SAME POLE!!

 

[Mark31]

I frequently give my phone number as BR 549 to see who is paying attention and who knows or remembers what. I get everything from "deer in the headlights" to "what time to you have to be back at the facility?" looks. Got no plans to stop. My Junior Samples accent is coming along

 

[mwilson]

MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
U.N.C.L.E. United Network Command for Law and Enforcement,

One of my favorites!! Forgot about that one.

 

[mwilson]

Anyone catch the two colorized episodes of the Dick Van Dyke show last night? Kicked the tv on while waiting for the wood stove to settle down and there it was on CBS..

He was a limber bugger, I’d forgotten his moves...

 

[Mike Ellis]

I forgot Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom". I loved how unflappable Marlin Perkins and his sidekick Jim Fowler were. Perkins could stand there facing the camera and let a honey badger chew his knee cap off and I bet he would just keep smiling. Just the kind of behavior you would expect from a guy that was the zoologist for a Himalayan expedition searching for the Abominable Snowman (aka the yeti)

 

[jhenderson]

I forgot Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom". I loved how unflappable Marlin Perkins and his sidekick Jim Fowler were. Perkins could stand there facing the camera and let a honey badger chew his knee cap off and I bet he would just keep smiling. Just the kind of behavior you would expect from a guy that was the zoologist for a Himalayan expedition searching for the Abominable Snowman (aka the yeti)

The joke around here was Marlin doing a commercial while Jim wrestled with the wildlife. I.E. Much the same as the Anacodas coils surround Jim, Mutual of Omaha surrounds you with protection,

 

[jhenderson]

This is why on my drives for work OR pleasure here in Indiana I take the roads less traveled. Lots of really old small towns that aren't shown on any map and most don't have anything more than a sign with the name of the town and change of the speed limit USALLY ON THE SAME POLE!!

My wife complains that after 33 years of living here she still can’t find her way to some occasional destinations because I never go the same way twice. I like the road less traveled.

 

[chipster]

when I was in Viet-Nam `67/`68 we would watch the Dick Vandyke show and make bets to see if he tripped over or went around the foot stool when he came in the front door. things one will do when BORED.