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Old TV Shows you watched?

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What are they?

Gilligans Island
Six Million Dollar Man
Wonder Woman
I Dream of Jeanie
Bionic Woman
CHIPS
Starsky & Hutch
Original Batman
Kaptain Kangaroo
BJ & The Bear
Knight Rider

I'm sure I'm missing a few.
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I don't really watch too much TV, but if I see a TNG or DS9 marathon on, I'll usually watch them for a bit.
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Gilligans Island (Mary Ann, always Mary Ann)
Six Million Dollar Man (The escence of cool in the 70's)
Wonder Woman (mmmmmmmm)
I Dream of Jeanie (lusted after the unseen bellybutton)
Bionic Woman
CHIPS
Starsky & Hutch (loved the hood slide)
Original Batman (POW, BAM)
Moving On (made me want to be a trucker)
Thunderbirds (never saw the strings until I was an adult)
Speed Racer (who couldn't sing that theme song?)
Hill Street Blues
Mash (if I could pick only one show to watch, this would be it)
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Rat Patrol
Garrisons Guerillas
It Takes a Thief
Rowan and Martins Laugh In
The Dean Martin Variety Show
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Night Rider
Magnum PI
Giligans Island
3's Company
Airwolf
Battlestar Galactica
Star Trek (original)
Buck Rogers
Transformers
Gobots
Starblazers (long time ago)
CHIPS
M.A.S.H.
Wonderwoman
Superman (yes, there was a T.V. series)
Six Million Dollar Man
Fragle Rock
The Muppet Show
Family Ties
All in the Family

and on and on and on
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Old Suzanna!
I Love Lucy
Leave it to Beaver
Father knows Best
Cisco Kid
Lone Ranger
Original Superman
The Jackie Gleason Show (with the Honeymooners)
Ed Sullivan (saw the first appearance of Elvis and the Beatles on the show)
Ozzie and Harriet
Micky Mouse Club
Howdy Doody Show
American Bandstand

I could go on. Remember all these I saw as originals and not re-runs. The fifties were the glory years of television even though it was all in black and white.
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Post by Testiculese »

I think I've seen about 5 episodes each of what Lobber posted, except MASH, I saw maybe 10. The only thing I saw consistently was Star Blazers. TV held almost nothing for me even back then.
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Post by CDN_Merlin »

Lobber, man I forgot about Battlestar, Airwolf and a few more. I also used to watch Blue thunder which was an Airwolf clone.

I also watched the old Star Treks.
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Ancient:
The Burns & Allen show
Dobbie Gillis
Love That Bob
The Honeymooners

Classic:
Andy Griffith
I love Lucy
Dick Van Dyke
The High Chapparael
Gunsmoke
MoO's Wild Kingdom

Old:
The Odd Couple (Still great!)
Sanford & Son (Red Foxx Rules!)
Mary Tyler Moore
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Mork & Mindy
Barney Miller
The Jeffersons
Three's Company
Different Strokes
Whats Happening
Dukes of Hazzard
6 Million Dollar Man
M*A*S*H
Baretta
Quincy
Colombo
Charlies Angels
Hee Haw
and MTV when it had videos and Saturday night Concerts....
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T... V??? Whazzat?

Seriously, the only things I watch on TV are disaster movies (I.E. fire, flood, earthquake, hurricanes, volcanoes, etc).
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Champion the wonder horse.
Tales of the unexpected. (UK i think)
Thunderbirds.
Doctor Who.
Star Trek.
Blakes Seven.
Captain Scarlett.
The Young ones.

Those are the ones i remember with fondness.

The best for me though was every wednesday evening with a cup of cocoa, tucked up in bed watching on an old black and white was M.A.S.H. Absolutly wonderful.
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You boys and girls go back further than myself, but here's a few ol faves:

Perfect Strangers
The Commish
Full House
Viper
Beakman's World

There was also a Mario live action show I wateched before school in the morning, which was followed by a Link/Zelda show: "Well excuse me Princess."

Also, there was some Nintendo cartoon, can't remember, but I remember the intro had a live action guy being sucked through a TV, and the whole thing was a cartoon. The main character had a NES control for a belt buckle, and could pause the whole world. I think the guy from Castlevania was a character, and Motherbrain was the main villain.


I used to always catch the TGIF that included:
That Urkel Show
Step by Step
Hanging with Mr. Cooper
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Space 1999
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CDN_Merlin wrote:Space 1999
Martin Landau at his best.
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The A-Team ("Don't you put me on no plane Ace!")
Lost In Space ("Danger, Danger Will Robinson, Aliens Approaching!")
Speed Racer (!!!)
Dr. Who (in Black and White!)
Bewitched
Joker's Wild
The Two Ronnies
Battlestar Galactica
The Tomorrow People
The Flintstones
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Hey Woody, you forgot Hopalong Cassidy. :D

Twilight Zone
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Ed Sullivan
Sid Ceasar
Jackie Gleason
The Red Skelton Show

And, if ya really wanted to hurl, there was always the Lawrence Welk Show. "And here's Larry on the accordian". Blechhhhhh!
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Flabby Chick wrote:Thunderbirds.
Star Trek.
Captain Scarlett.
x2
+ UFO
+ Stingray
+ Space 1999

Jerry Anderson stuff was so good to watch as a kid :P
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BigSlideHimself wrote:There was also a Mario live action show I wateched before school in the morning, which was followed by a Link/Zelda show: "Well excuse me Princess."
You mean this show.
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Post by Top Gun »

Zelda Universe actually has the episodes of the Zelda animated series available for download. I watched the first one...and was too scared to try any of the others. :P
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Get your fix here:

http://retro.vandegrift.net/
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Pretty much everything above I watched...

But I can't beleive for the life of me that no one mentioned Benny Hill!!! yes, I watched that too.
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land of the lost
soul train
the electric company
the streets of san francisco
the dukes of hazard
sesame street
good times
the jeffersons
mary tyler moore
barney miller

oh gawd... tv sucks... i watch it for bad love song ideas now.
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Robo wrote: + UFO
+ Stingray
+ Space 1999
Yo! How could i forget those.
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A-Team
McGuyver
Full House
That sitcom with Balki and that other guy. (Perfect Strangers?)
Family Matters ("Did I do that?")
Most of the TGIF programs that were put out (Step by Step, Mr. Cooper, ect.)
ST:TNG
Tom and Jerry Cartoons
Another sitcom with Tony Danza
Knight Rider
The Jetsons
Bewitched

Thats all I can remember for now. Ahhh the memories...
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Almost all the above *wimper*

Boy, I wish I could have a little bit of that time back (!)

dedman: x2; Mary Ann was it.
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MacGyver (seriously, who HASN'T watched atleast one episode of this show?)
Battlestar Galactica (the REAL one, not the re-make)
Fraggle Rock
The Muppet Show
Happy Days (Fonzie kicks ass!)
A-Team
Knight Rider
M.A.S.H. (Mainly for Hawk's quips)
Mork and Mindy (which is out on DVD believe it or not!)
Airwolf
Magnum PI
Gilligan's Island
Battle of the Planets
CHiPS

BigSlideHimself: That'd be "Captain Nintendo" IIRC...

I watched that too. He even used the yellow star powerup from Mario Brothers when he got smacked around.
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Another sitcom with Tony Danza
Taxi or Who's the Boss?

McGyver rocked.
Eight is Enough
Brady Bunch
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Post by Fusion pimp »

Ages are starting to show.


Leave it to Beaver.
Andy Griffith.
Father knows best.
Superman from the 50's
It takes a thief.
Dragnet!

Cartoons:
Speed racer!
Ultraman(not really a cartoon)

Does anyone remember The Bannana Splits?
Captain Kangaroo.
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Does anyone remember The Bannana Splits?
1 bananna, 2 bananna, 3 bananna 4

You bet, with the sub-shows like 'Danger Island' (Watch out Chongo!) or Tom of T.H.U.M.B. , King Kong, and didn't George of the Jungle get his start on that show?

Does anyone remember "The Great Space Coaster"?
"No news is good News with Gary Gnu"

Cant believe I forgot 'It takes a Thief', and 'Kochak, The Night Stalker' as well as 'Soap' & 'Benson'. The list is just too long...
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Fusion pimp wrote:Does anyone remember The Bannana Splits?
Yep we used to get that in the UK...dead wacky!
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Post by CDN_Merlin »

Fusion Pimp, check my original post, I included Capt Kangaroo.
Also, the original HULK with Bruce Baxter.


As for ages, I just turned 35 last month.

As for cartoons, The original D&D cartoon from the 80's rocked. Looney Tunes, Spiderman, Justice League.
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Yea thats it, who's the boss.
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Happy Days
Three's Company
All in the Family
I Love Lucy
I Dream of Jeanie
Bewitched
The Jeffersons
Mork and Mindy

Forgot one
Taxi
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Fraggle Rock
The Muppet Show (nice ones MD ;))

(regularly watched anime)
City of Gold
AstroBoy

notable movies
never ending story
ET

oh and "the cartoon with that american jet fighter pilot guy who took proton pills and smashed communists. his sons were also pilots" only went for 5 mins or so an episode but it was damn funny - probabaly a throwback from teh coldwar. oh yeah i remember: ROGER RAMJET! :lol:


that's all i can remember atm (and wish to admit to).
City of GOOOOOOooooOOOOOoooOOOoOoOOoOOOOOLD!

i wasn't allowed to watch He-Man much like all the cool kids were :(. he was the ★■◆● at the time.
by greyskull was i pissed!
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Space Giants (japanese)
Kung Fu w David Carradine
original Star Trek
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Forgot Adam 12.
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Most of what has already been mentioned sans a few shows here and there.
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Get Smart! Agent 99 was hooooot
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Probably best summarized by anything on Nick at Nite before they started focusing on 1980s programming.

- I Love Lucy (The absolute classic. It's really a wonder the cast of the show never got along in real-life)
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show (You're going to make it after all. It had a lot of great episodes and characters, especially the bumbling anchorman Ted "Meanwhile, in the Hall of Justice" Baxter and the sultry "happy homemaker," Sue Ann Nivens)
- The Dick Van Dyke Show (He didn't always trip on that ottoman. Interesting, it's a sitcom about a writer for a sitcom. Ooh, feel the meta-universes collide)
- Happy Days (The definitive halcyon sitcom about the 1950s)
- Dragnet (Memorable theme song, unforgettable protagonist. This was Cops before we had Cops. Joe Friday was also the man)
- Taxi (Latka and Reverend "What does a yellow light mean?" Jim are classic.)
- WKRP in Cincinnati (About a radio station used to play old time music, until it went rock and roll. Mainly a comedy based on the idiosyncracies of its characters)
- M*A*S*H (Finding humor in cynical and bleak circumstances. A carefully written sitcom)
- Laverne and Shirley (In the same universe as Happy Days, two women worked at a bottling plant. Slapstick)
- Get Smart (come on, it's Mel Brooks, of course it's wacky! A total send-up of spy shows and movies. Maybe one day, someone will have the gumption to do this to the ubiquitous crime dramas of today)
- Gilligan's Island (The neverending three hour tour. The Professor was often asked in real-life "Why couldn't the Professor just patch the hole in the boat and escape?" To which he replied, "Look, if you were on an island with Ginger and Mary-Anne, would you want to leave?")
- Bewitched (I never understood why Darin wouldn't want Samantha to use her powers. I mean, if your wife could materialize any wish you had, why the heck wouldn't you ask?)
- I Dream of Jennie (Back when belly buttons were taboo. Astronaut's space capsule lands on a deserted island where he finds a genie in a bottle. Hilarity ensues)
- The Jetsons (Gotta love the 1970s version of this century. Where's my flying car?)
- The Flintstones (Willllmmmmaaaa!)
- The Munsters (They lived in a creepy mansion on Mockingbird Lane with a perpetual storm overhead. Everyone was a monster except for Marilyn who was completely normal. They thought of her as the ugly duckling)
- Batman (The show was kitsch and it totally reveled in its own cheese)
- Superman (The old black and white ones. Hey, it was pretty well done for its time)

And these which technically aren't that old:
- Cheers (Apparently, everybody knew your name here)
- Coach (Sitcom about a college football coach)
- Night Court (Wacky comedy about a night court in New York City. Very offbeat)
- Matlock (He never loses a case... unless his client really did commit the crime, but that doesn't count!)
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