CONFESS!! What variety show did you watch faithfully when you were a kid?

[LynneSin]

Me - I loved Tony Orlando & Dawn show. I had a super crush on Tony Orlando.

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. Hee-Haw

Sa-LUTE!

[arcane1]

2. Carol Burnette, baby!!!

[wtmusic]

3. Carol Burnett n/t

[elshiva]

4. Lawrence Welk.

[MrModerate]

5. Not only Carole Burnett -- but Laugh-in! and Garry Moore Show

Bet you haven't even heard of that last one.

[LSparkle]

6. "Carol Burnett" and "Sonny & Cher"

Great sketch comedy on both -- Harvey Korman and Tim Conway together in any sketch were brilliant.

[libnnc]

7. The Carol Burnett Show

Captain and Tennile
Shields and Yarnel (I have to cringe at that one)
Tony Orlando and Dawn
Donny and Marie Osmond
The Flip Wilson Show

...God, that was effing good television.

[LSparkle]

21. Forgot about Flip

Loved him as Geraldine!

[ET Awful]

8. Does the Muppet Show count?

:)

[libnnc]

9. hell yes!!

It's time to play the music
It's time to light the lights
It's time to get things started on the Muppet Show tonight!

[mike6640]

26. Muppet Show!

Overhand Bowling! ANIMAAAAAL!

Carol Burnette, Coughs into sleeve(the Osmonds), Who could forget the Gong Show.

M

[Nikia]

29. I watched that with my grandparents

It was one of the few, non cartoon, shows that I would sit through from an early age.

[Texasgal]

10. I am afraid to admit

That I loved Donnie and Marie!

" I'm a little bit COUNTRY, and I'm a little bit ROCK N'ROLL!"

[LynneSin]

12. I loved them too: Puppy Love & Purple Socks

But I found Jimmy Osmond to be irritating as hell!

[Burma Jones]

11. Sonny and Cher

I had a wicked crush on Teri Garr.................

[grumpy old fart]

20. Yeah, me too...hot momma in her day....

[LSparkle]

22. Olivia in the laundromat!

I LOVED those sketches ... I can still hear Cher doing her hoarse, fishwife voice: "Oh, Olivia ... "

[steve2470]

13. Ed Sullivan nt

[mitchtv]

23. Me Too, Ed Sullivan

Arthur Godfrey a lot too

[ZenLefty]

14. Little House on the Prairie

Deep, dark secret of mine. :o

I think I had a crush on one of the girls, too.

[LynneSin]

15. That's not a variety show

:eyes:

[Hepburn]

16. Ed Sullivan. n/t

[grumpy old fart]

17. Carol Burnette, Smothers Brothers, Laugh-In, Ed Sullivan....

Thankfully I was old enough to realize how fucked up Tony Orlando & Dawn was....

[MrBenchley]

18. Garry Moore

He's almost forgotten now but he was big news on TV in the 1950s...host of the I've Got A Secret quiz dhow AND host of his own variety show....

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/mooregarry/mooregarry.htm

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Donnie and Marie; Captain and Tenille; Hee Haw; Sonny and Cher; Muppets

We didn't like the Tony Orlando show as much, but we did watch it.

[Hobarticus]

24. Wolfman Jack and the Midnight Special!!!

Classic, classic stuff....that was my fave.

But there was Carol Burnett, Sonny & Cher, Flip Wilson, Donny & Marie, Capt. & Tennille...the list goes on.

[GalleryGod]

25. Laugh-In !

Verrrrrrrrrry in-ter-est-ing...but SCH-TOOOP-ID!:smoke:

[leftynyc]

27. Carole Burnett without fail

hysterical every week.

[KurtNYC]

28. Flip Wilson - and do you know why I watched?

The devil made me do it!

[NC_Nurse]

30. Sonny and Cher

Flip Wilson
Carol Burnette
The Muppets

I wish they'd bring these back instead of those stoopid reality shows!

[calico1]

31. Carol Burnett, Flip Wilson,

Ed Sullivan and yes, sometimes Tom Jones. There! I said it!

Oh, yeah. Also Sonny & Cher and The Hollywood Palace which was a variety show hosted by a different celeb every week.

[flamingyouth]

32. Sonny & Cher, Flip Wilson, Carol Burnett

Even (shudder) the Hudson Brothers if I was desperate...

[SarahB]

33. Donnie and Marie

:scared: