Old TV shows

[dreadnut]

So another thread got me thinking of some of the more obscure old TV shows I used to watch in the '60's:

Lost In Space

The Time Tunnel

Land Of The Giants

My Favorite Martian

My Mother The Car

F-Troop

Get Smart

My Three Sons

McHale's Navy

Petticoat Junction

 

[GGJaguar]

Yeah, all those, but I preferred Green Acres to Petticoat Junctions. Also, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy and, of course, The Monkees show and Batman.

 

[Stuball48]

Ed Sullivan
Red Skelton
Lassie
Rin Tin Tin
Beverly Hillbillies
Zorro
Lone Ranger
Car 54 Where Are You
Dragnet
Lawrence Well wunnerful

 

[walrus]

I'm good with the shows listed - watched most of them religiously. And +1 on Batman and The Monkees. Remember Batman has two nights in a row? With the "cliffhanger" at the end of the first night!

Used to love F-Troop!

walrus

 

[Cougar]

Have Gun Will Travel

77 Sunset Strip

 

[Guildedagain]

Sesame Street
Star Trek with Capt Kirk
Twilight Zone
Hogan's Heroes
MASH
Gilligan's Island
Happy Days
Mork & Mindy
Barney Miller
Odd Couple
Welcome Back Kotter
Taxi
Fish
Starsky & Hutch
Charlies's Angels
Dukes of Hazzard
Hawaii 5-0
Beretta
McCloud
Columbo
Bewitched
I dream of Genie
Beverly Hillbillies
Gunsmoke.

 

[Westerly Wood]

The Monkeys
Giligans Island
Brady Bunch
Dukes of Hazard
Beretta

 

[gjmalcyon]

Many of these old shows are on the air now on any one of the bazillion new over-the-air channels popping up. I re-scan for new channels every couple of weeks, and I'm finding new ones all the time. Unfortunately most are home shopping channels but are a few are worthy of not deleting from my channel lineup.

For example, here's tonight's lineup on MeTV:

 

[F312]

Science Fiction Theater
Death Valley Days
A&A, the first show lost to CC
Have Gun Will Travel. more than a western, but a lesson in life, a must-watch for the Woke.
Stooges, I should be offended, but I'm not.

Ralph

 

[dreadnut]

The Life Of Riley

Combat

Naked City

Outer Limits

The Dick VanDyke Show

The Danny Thomas Show

The Donna Reed Show

 

[Westerly Wood]

M*A*S*H*

 

[silverfox103]

Ed Sullivan
Red Skelton
Lassie
Rin Tin Tin
Beverly Hillbillies
Zorro
Lone Ranger
Car 54 Where Are You
Dragnet
Lawrence Well wunnerful

That's a good list, Shelby, you've got to be my age (72 next week).

I would add:

The Jackie Gleason Show
Mr. Ed
The FBI
77 Sunset Strip
The Fugitive
Gunsmoke
Palladin
All in the Family (early 70's)
Jack Benny Show
Amos and Andy


On a related note, this one floored me:
Everyone remembers Mary Lou Retton, the little pixy, who won the gold medal. Seems like just yesterday. I was listening to the radio and she comes on doing an ad for a post menopausal pill / vitamin.

Tom

 

[Rambozo96]

I watch reruns of Taxi. At this point when I see Christopher Lloyd I no longer see Doc Brown but an aged Reverend Jim. I originally watched it just for Andy Kaufman but found most of the cast were pretty interesting too.

 

[Stuball48]

Tom:
Great Job with deductive reasoning. I was 72 last September.
Remember the horizontal lines on the screen until picture tube warmed up and the stations signing off at midnight.
Route 6

 

[spoox]

Sgt. Bilko
Abbot & Costello TV Show
Peter Gunn
Mr. Lucky
Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
The Addams Family (I have a life size painted wooden Lurch an artist friend made for me)
Have Gun Will Travel (on our 3rd. date Vicki realized we'd both had had Paladin cap gun sets years before--when I gave her one of the cards from my set)
Perry Mason (again not long after we'd started dating we'd found that it had been the favorite of us both)
Rockford Files
Bob Newhart
Newhart
NewsRadio
NYPD Blue
DS9
Frasier
Married With Children
These are the ones I can watch over and over--especially Perry Mason--thanks MeTV!

 

[davismanLV]

When I was really young, like 5-6is we lived down from the elementary school K-6, and for that one year in kindegarten I came home for lunch, if you can imagine!! My mom would make me something for lunch (not great stuff, but....) and I'd sit in this huge chair with this board she put across the arms and eat my lunch, and watch "I Married Joan" which was old by then. I thought Joan Davis was the BEST!!! Now of course, not so much.... but it was great when I was a kid!!



I'd laugh and smile and eat my food, and go back to school in a good mood!! But Jeeze!!! But golly gee!! I can't watch this now!! Can you??

 

[silverfox103]

And all the shows were with 3 networks and later on a PBS station and an independent or 2 were added. But today with 100's of stations, it's an effort to find something on.

Tom

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

All those shows and you missed two of my favorites:

Mannix

Judd for the Defense

The theme song for Mannix Rocked!



It's interesting how they completely changed Mannix from the original premise.

 

[spoox]

When I was really young, like 5-6is we lived down from the elementary school K-6, and for that one year in kindegarten I came home for lunch, if you can imagine!! My mom would make me something for lunch (not great stuff, but....) and I'd sit in this huge chair with this board she put across the arms and eat my lunch, and watch "I Married Joan" which was old by then. I thought Joan Davis was the BEST!!! Now of course, not so much.... but it was great when I was a kid!!



I'd laugh and smile and eat my food, and go back to school in a good mood!! But Jeeze!!! But golly gee!! I can't watch this now!! Can you??

Yes...yes I can--and do. I still think Joan Davis was much funnier than Lucille Ball. I liked everyone else on "I Love Lucy" but even as a kid I thought Ball was too obnoxious. A number of the older "I Married Joan" plots somehow wound up on later shows--even on Lucy's. Joan Davis was the highest paid female
performer in the '40s--she was paid a million dollars a year for her radio show (she had to pay all the production coasts and salaries out of her paycheck--but still that was a cool mill back then). That Dick Van Dyke episode where snoopy Laura opens a package to Rob with the rubber boat? Direct rip-off of Joan's
original, which is funnier as she is trapped inside a closet with the ever expanding raft.

 

[Westerly Wood]

I liked everyone else on "I Love Lucy" but even as a kid I thought Ball was too obnoxious.

oh gosh, i thought i was the only one who thought this too.