Your first television crush? Post a photo.

[bertha katzenengel]

Mine:

[Deja Q]

1. Represented as my desktop background

:9 O8)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. And she's still my #1 TV crush. Thank God for repeats.

:9

[Aristus]

3. Karen Valentine:

I was SO in love with her!

[bertha katzenengel]

6. Room 222!

Also "Love, American Style."

Ah, the Seventies. :bounce:

[Sequoia]

108. Ha, that's funny!

I had a summer job in a sewing factory and would daydream about my estate with panthers and lots of handsome men to entertain me. When I told the guy I was dating about that he got real upset and told me he had a crush on Karen Valentine. I said, she's not so hot and I could never be jealous of her which made him even more upset.

[Kutjara]

4. MIne.

The kangaroo, not the kid. I'm not a pervert or anything.

[Guava Jelly]

5. Kate Jackson

I was so in love

[RevolutionaryActs]

7. When I was five I was in love with MacGuyver

[ThomCat]

84. What wasn't to love. He's hawt!

Always was. :P

[Left Is Write]

123. My friend had a crush on him when he was Jeff Webber on General Hospital.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb....

Edd Byrnes from 77 Sunset Strip. I was really young at the time.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0126318/

[DemoTex]

21. An old Delta captain friend of the family owned 77 Sunset Strip.

He was one of the first Delta pilots. Retired in 1966 at age 60. 77-Sunset Strip was in his real-estate portfolio until he cashed-out in the late 1960s (the early Delta pilots had no retirement .. full circle, eh?).

[av8rdave]

118. We don't now! You're right...funny how the more things change...

[NewJeffCT]

9. Mine, too!

Nobody else can take her place... she filled the role to a T

[WhollyHeretic]

10. From when I was in middle school

[ikojo]

17. Danica McKellar has a mathematical theorem

named after her...she's quite the math genius.

[WhollyHeretic]

28. I never knew that

I just googled her, she's got some impressive credentials and I guess she offers free math tutoring on her website. I think I might have a crush on her all over again :-)

[last_texas_dem]

81. Oh yeah

She's my first TV crush, too. I was only six years old at the time I took notice of her. The Wonder Years was my first "grown-up" show I watched regularly. Danica "Winnie Cooper" McKellar is still quite the hottie, though, and very smart to boot.

[u4ic]

11. Very first?

:rofl:


First actual human being...

Randolph Mantooth from "Emergency":

[idgiehkt]

50. Oh. My. God.

Randolph Mantooth.

I hear you.

I was in LOVE with that man. Do you remember the episode where the spitting cobra got loos in the hotel room and they had to hold up those ashtrays to keep it from hitting their eyes? That was my favorite. *thud*.

[u4ic]

54. I don't recall that one

It's been 30+ years since I've seen any of them, and my memory isn't that good at the best of times. ;-)

I found this pic of him on the net...I don't know how recent it is, but he's still looking mighty fine...

[ThomCat]

85. Very good choice. I think I may have had a crush on him too.

I was kind of young at the time so it's hard to recall. But Damn! He's easy to look at. :)

[u4ic]

94. Barney or Randolph?

;)

[ThomCat]

95. Ouch!

:rofl:

[DemoTex]

12. Annette Funicello

Ironically, Annette's cousin - Tony Funicello - was my chief pilot at my first base with Piedmont Airlines .. Syracuse, NY. He was an Empire guy (pre-merger).

No pics of Tony. But he was a great and E-Z-going guy.

[Gormy Cuss]

13. Look! Up in the Sky!

I was crushed when my older sister told me that he had been dead for years.

[spacelady]

14. My first one was Popeye, then Gilligan. Not Kidding. n/t

[MrScorpio]

15. Hail, Uhura

[Aristus]

24. Wow! She looks hot in that pic!

:wow:

I loved the way the mini-skirt showed off her gorgeous legs.

[pokerfan]

154. Doesn't she has the most incredible eyes?

From wiki's biography of her:

Meeting with MLK:
However, it was in Star Trek that Nichols gained popularity by being the first African American woman to be featured in a major television series. During the first year of the series, Nichols was tempted to leave the show as she felt her role lacked significance, but a conversation with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. changed her mind. Dr. King personally encouraged her to stay on the show, telling her that he was a big fan of the series and told her she "could not give up"... for she was playing a vital role model for young black children and women across the country. After the first season, Uhura's role on the series was expanded beyond just manning the communications console.

The Kiss:
In her role as Lt. Uhura, she participated in the first interracial kiss on U.S. television, with Canadian actor William Shatner (as Captain James T. Kirk) in the 1968 Star Trek episode "Plato's Stepchildren". The scene provoked protest and was seen as groundbreaking, even though the kiss was portrayed as having been forced by alien mind control. The episode was not telecast in some Southern cities as a result of the protests in those states; nevertheless, it caused many viewers to contact the broadcaster and the majority of the feedback of the incident was positive. It was over twenty-five years before it was broadcast on British television.

[bertha katzenengel]

68. Hubba, hubba!

MrS, is it weird to hear a woman tell you that we have similar taste in women? ;)

[ikojo]

16. When I was five I LOVED this guy

[WCGreen]

18. Petticoat Junction...

Those girls put the hooter in Hootersville....

[PhilYerHead]

19. Kristy McNichol

[Canuckistanian]

20. Bet no-one else has this crush.....

Oh yes, it's Dr. Helena Russell, MD. from Space:1999 (1975-1977).

She played opposite Martin Landau's character of Commander John Koenig, leader of Moonbase Alpha.

But she didn't like him.

Oh, no..... she liked ME. I knew that underneath that cool, polished exterior, professional, rational mind beat the heart of a TIGER....... *ahem*.....

So, that's my contribution.

Thank You for your consideration.

(shudder)



on edit: Had to remove a comma. Sorry for any confusion. At all. No, really, I mean it.

[WCGreen]

23. She was the make-up lady on Mission Impossible....

Married to Martin Landau...

[Canuckistanian]

26. Shut up! She... she was not!

she... she didn't LIKE him...... it was all for the studios! They despised each other!

*sob*.........

go away!

[WCGreen]

32. I'm so sorry....

Your right...

I was just being mean...

[Canuckistanian]

34. ..sniff....Thanks....

It's been rough. The denial. The bargaining. The ..... I forget what comes next.....

Thanksh, pal, yoou're all right.

Can I buy you a little drink? I...;'slfsl;;f;efoi';esfo

[BrotherBuzz]

22. Penny, she be the one!

[WCGreen]

25. Fuck her Sky King....

she's not really your niece.....

[BrotherBuzz]

27. Sky was gay and that's not his nephew

Penny's MINE, hands off!;)

[WCGreen]

30. I just remember an old National Lampoon comedy album

with that little tid bit on it...

I can baely remember the show..

[BrotherBuzz]

37. I remember it like yesterday

http://members.cox.net/skykingtv/skbksnd.wav

[Canuckistanian]

44. Well, now that you mention it.....

She IS kinda...... foxy.

[DemoTex]

33. I preferred the Bobcat version. Cessna T-50.

Round motors.


Original Songbird

[BrotherBuzz]

43. Indeed, and a tail dragger

Mac, I met a busted up pilot (bum ticker} who flew one of the two T-50's to Apple Valley from LA basin. They had a one day ticket from the FAA, or some sort of restricted license. Spent the day filming air shots to stick in the can. At Apple Valley, one was parked on the tarmac for airport/ranch ground shots, the other was chopped up for the studio work. The original Songbird had more appeal to me, too.

Round motors mean radial engines?

[Mutley]

29. Na-nu na-nu!

:7

[Madrone]

31. Fo'serious.

:shrug:

I ADORED Wonder Woman when I was little - but I had a major, heart wrenching crush on Julie.

[Oeditpus Rex]

35. Boop-e-doop-e-doop-e-doop

Boop-boop-e-doop. :loveya:





Come to think of it, I still crush on her. :evilgrin:

[RevCheesehead]

36. Ah, the memories....

:loveya::loveya::loveya:

[BlackVelvetElvis]

39. I had that David Cassidy haircut in the early 70's...anyway...

Here's mine, the greatest Catwoman:

[RevCheesehead]

40. Tease!

Post a pic! :P

[BlackVelvetElvis]

46. I think there may be one in the archives from a couple of years ago!

That haircut was so in, so now, so hot. It was my first grade picture.
Actually, the stylist butchered me and it stuck up all over my head. After a few months, I had that Cassidy shag.
Badass.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

45. I respectfully disagree

The GREATEST Catwoman:

[BlackVelvetElvis]

48. I'll respect that.

Seeing Bataman now however... Eatha Kitt had it going on! Maybe she was too sophisticated for a 6 year old.

[Canuckistanian]

51. My wife has a crush on HER

And I LOVE "Santa Baby"

[Frank Cannon]

77. Newmar's Catwoman was my first TV crush

And I was barely out of toddlerhood at the time.



Newmar IS the greatest Catwoman ever. Her hotness constantly pegged at about 20 dB off the sex meter. She's the only Catwoman I know who has almost turned gay guys straight.

[cobalt1999]

79. same show, different person...

[Arugula Latte]

82. David was mine, too.

...also Bob from Sesame Street. :rofl:

[dolo amber]

86. Oh yeah, that's the one

I had the lunchbox, the notebook, the t-shirt... :D

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

38. Mine (yes, I'm old).

I had a HUGH!!1!1 crush on Dr. Kildare when I was in junior high -- long before Richard Chamberlain came out. All us girls were crazy about him. He was pretty hot in those days...

[ChickMagic]

113. Oh Gawd!

Dr. Kildare!!!!! I was probably 6 or 7 at the time, but
man, oh man! Oddly enough, the guys I went out with in
high school turned out to be gay. I always thought I
turned them gay, but maybe I just liked 'em a lot.

[GCP]

132. He was mine too

I was around the same age as you - OMG when Dr. Kildare was on TV I was in heaven!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

41. Even though I felt sorry for the raccoons...

[bertha katzenengel]

69. Broken link, Goddess . . .

. . . raccoons? You're too young for Daniel Boone!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

105. I was very young...

6 or 7...

[bertha katzenengel]

115. All right.

I figure we're about the same age, and I don't remember Daniel Boone. :freak:

I've seen your picture! You're young! Like me!

I'm not asking you to tell, just . . . dang, you must've caught it in reruns.

:7 :bounce:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

124. I like to think I'm young, but

I'll be 48 in November. My parents had us watch it every week... :-)

[bertha katzenengel]

126. You ARE young. I've seen your picture.

You're only five years older than me.

All I remember watching when I was very young is "The FBI." How boring. I woulda rather seen an outdoorsy type show. :(

:pals:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

137. The FBI, with Efrem Zimbalist Jr

His father was a great concert violinist...

[unsavedtrash]

42. Bionic Woman

and of course

[bertha katzenengel]

70. Well hello there!

;)

Dig your user name.

[Broken_Hero]

47. ever since I saw

Porky's...at the wee age of 7 or so, and seeing her in Mannequin sealed it...:)

[sakabatou]

49. "It's morphin' time! Pteradactyl!"

[LiberalHeart]

52. Okay, so I was a strange kid...

[SammyWinstonJack]

53. Don't know how to post a photo but it was Johnny Crawford from

"The Rifleman" :yoiks:

[bertha katzenengel]

72. The Rifleman

[BlueJazz]

55. Jan Smithers from "WKRP"....sigh.....

[mac56]

75. Bailey!

She wasn't my first TV crush, but she's my all time crush.

James Brolin = What an idiot.

[driver8]

146. Mine, too. Did you see her on "Battle of the Network Stars"??

She was in a bathing suit (in a dunking booth, I think) and looked absolutely amazing.

[Broken_Hero]

56. I think I misunderstood the OP...

So, here is my first tv show crush...



Peg Bundy...I never understood why Al would always be upset with being intimate with Peg...I thought she was...smokin...:)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

89. I just realized that the other day

Hadn't seen that show in years (used to love it when I was in jr. high/high school, though).

Anyway, I watched it as an adult and realized that Peg was HOT. Way HOT.

Damn shoe salesmen...gettin' all the women...
:wtf:

[Drum]

57. Aaaah,

Tina Louise as "Ginger Grant" on Gilligan's Island...devastating!


Honorable Mentions to:
OP's choice, Wonder Woman,
and
Barbi Benton (yes, it was HeeHaw...I grew up out in the sticks, only 3 TV channels!)

[SammyWinstonJack]

58. My nephew said his first crush was Maryann.

[Drum]

59. Heh heh heh,

I recall that being a big barstool debate in college: Ginger or Maryann. A true dilemma!
I used to enjoy derailing their talk by saying I preferred Mrs. Howell. Next topic please!

[speedoo]

60. My first TV crush was either..

Arlene Sullivan:

http://www.history-of-rock.com/arlene_sullivan_and_kenny_rossi.htm


or Justine Carelli:

http://www.history-of-rock.com/girl_next_door.htm



I'm pretty sure it was Justine first, then Arlene.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

61. The Original - don't settle for cheap imitations

[mac56]

62. Hi Bertha!

:pals:

Here's mine:

[bertha katzenengel]

73. Aw, Shari

RIP Shari

LOVE her.

Hi, Mac :pals:

[ScreamingMeemie]

63. Andy!!! I'll always love you!

[MissHoneychurch]

64. I admit it

I was young and foolish, is that an excuse?

:hide:

[ScreamingMeemie]

66. Yes! And the fact that he was HOT!!!

I loved that show!

[MissHoneychurch]

67. He was really hot in that show

I loved to watch it too. Thanks for letting me know I wasn't the only one :D

[Anarcho-Socialist]

65. Grace Lee Whitney (Janice Rand from Star Trek)

I watched Star Trek reruns in the late '80s and early '90s and had a huge crush on her.





From the Motion Picture:

[LostinVA]

71. Pamela Sue Martin as Nancy Drew

[seemunkee]

74. One of these two

or

[HughBeaumont]

76. Yep, I sure can pick em . . .

http://www.dreamstarlets.com/features/!bios/jodie_foster22.jpg



Yeah, I didn't develop a gaydar until around about 20 . . .

[martymar64]

148. I'll second that on Jodie!!!

She's close to my age, so I had a BIG crush on her. I also had a thing for Kim Richards from Escape from Witch Mtn and Hello Larry!

[calico1]

78. Peter Tork!

And I never missed an episode of the Monkees!

:D

[LibDemAlways]

139. Me too....At the height of the Monkees' popularity

I was at a non-Monkees concert(Buffalo Springfield, I think) with a friend, and the MC mentioned that Peter Tork was in the audience. That's all we needed to hear. We jumped up and searched the theatre until we found him standing against the back wall with his girlfriend watching the performance. Like the little teeny-bopper I was, I literally stood at his feet just staring up at him. He didn't say a word, but his girlfriend asked me if I had a seat. LOL. I remember it as though it was yesterday.

[Richardo]

80. Barbara Feldon *sigh*

:loveya:

[speedoo]

83. I actually met her once.

A long time ago.:hi:

[Richardo]

87. I NV U

:hi:

[speedoo]

91. Well, you might not like this but...

she was much better looking on TV than in person.

On the other hand, she seemed like a very nice person. Self-deprecating, with a great sense of humor. Which is far more important than looks, IMO.:thumbsup:

[Richardo]

114. I always liked her personality...

..I agree, speedoo.

[Call Me Wesley]

88. Diana Rigg from the 'Avengers.'

[Rosco T.]

96. I'll second Diana... but I got a better picture for the crushing ....

[deucemagnet]

90. I'm sure I'm not alone on this one...

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

92. Johnny Depp-21 Jump Street

[Haole Girl]

93. Anyone remember Manolito, from High Chaparral?

Something about those dimples and the way he was always getting into trouble. Even though I was only about 11 years old, when I first had a crush on him!

[Sequoia]

111. Oh, Yes!

He wasn't my first but I sure liked him in 5th or 6th grade. I used to write poems about him and the other girls made fun of it. Later on in high school my BF said it was because they were jealous. Funny thing is, the man I married sort of looks like him.

[Haole Girl]

112. Now THAT is quite a coincidence, because my husband looks

a little like him too...at least his eyes! That's funny! :D

[Sequoia]

116. Hm-m-m, so that's where he goes when he tells me he's

running to the store...your house! Ha!

[Haole Girl]

119. lol

And, the real reason he doesn't let me post his pic on the internet!

:rofl:

[Sequoia]

120. Heh, heh...men....!

Oh well, back to the ranch. I used to wonder why his pretty sister married that old man, John. I mean...come on...get yer paws offa me.

[Haole Girl]

121. You know it was because of the land/deal right?

Remember their trip to San Francisco? I thought that was romatic...when they started to fall in love anyway. The silly things I remember!

[Sequoia]

125. Didn't see that part.

Now that "old man" is probably getting close to my age (scream).

[NewWaveChick1981]

97. Here's mine:

I was madly in love with Col. Hogan at the tender age of 5. :rofl: Dad used to watch Hogan's Heroes on a regular basis, so we watched it too. :P I couldn't get enough of the reruns when it came on in syndication.

[masshole]

129. Did you see "Auto Focus"?

He was dark-sided! :evilgrin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9jqevDoJ0c

[NewWaveChick1981]

153. Yes indeed.

Bob Crane had some real issues... but who knew back then??? :P

Auto Focus was really creepy, and I'm sure it was accurate. I remember being devastated when I heard he'd died, but when the details of his life and his death started to emerge, I was a little less enthralled with him. :(

[youthere]

98. Will from Land of the Lost:

[Left Is Write]

122. Oh, I loved him too!

[kwassa]

99. Bewitched, and I was.

[livetohike]

100. George Maharis (Buz on Route 66)

[BrotherBuzz]

134. I had a crush on the car

:shrug:

[snacker]

101. Sandy, from "Flipper" nt

[texas1928]

102. Wonder Woman was hot, but this woman just made me happy.

[Left Is Write]

103. Here he is...

[Pendrench]

107. Is that Brett Hudson? I used to love that show - very funny!

I remember the emu, and the kid TV executive who always offered them something to eat ("No thanks...we're trying to cut down). I also remember they had a really good song that they played on the show called "Rendezvous".

Wow...great memories.

Do you know what Brett's doing now? I think that Bill Hudson was married to Goldie Hawn for awhile (pre-Kurt Russel) and Mark Hudson was working with Ringo Starr (although I heard somewhere that they had a falling out).

Tim

[Left Is Write]

109. Yes, that's him.

I loved the Hudson Brothers Show, and I developed a crush on Brett when I was about 8 years old. I have no idea what he's doing now.

Bill was indeed married to Goldie (he is Kate and Oliver's father).

[edbermac]

104. Barbara Eden and Yvonne Craig

Yowza...:loveya:

[Sequoia]

106. Look! Up in the sky.....

4th grade.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

110. Red from 'Fraggle Rock'

First human was probably Charlene (Kylie Minogue) in Neighbours:

[Jamastiene]

117. Ann Jillian...I'm glad my taste improved.

It's sad, but while I was looking for her photo online, I discovered how drippingly right wing she is. Yuck. I'm glad my taste improved quickly when I discovered Deborah Harry later. :thumbsup:

[bertha katzenengel]

127. "Celebrates America?" Obviously she's never heard of US Code Title 4

U.S. Code Title 4

Title 4, Section 8(d):

The flag should never be used as wearing apparel . . .

I know Abbie Hoffman did it, too. I'm just as pissed when liberals do it as when conservatives do. :mad:

[Jamastiene]

128. Exactly right.

My aunt has multiple sclerosis now, but she's a veteran who taught me from an early age that you do not wear the flag as an article of clothing. It's just plain disrespectful if nothing else. It burns me up too. Of all the things people do to it, to wear it as a sign of "patriotism" just smacks of hypocrisy to me. Patriotism, my ass. It proves otherwise.

:pals:

[hickman]

130. George Harrison.

I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, and it was George. I'm so sorry, I don't know how to do pictures yet. Most of my friends loved Paul, a few loved John, but I loved George.

[LibDemAlways]

140. You and my cousin. As a teen her mother would

send her to Europe to stay with relatives for extended periods over the summer. She'd always manage to spend a couple of days in London camping out at the foot of George's driveway. She met him a couple of times and Ringo as well. Amazingly enough, she won't even talk about it now. Says it's all in the past, so why bother. Paul was my favorite, and if I had been lucky enough to meet him back then, I'd still be talking about it.

[newsguyatl]

131. back when i was straight

[driver8]

133. The one and only...Bailey from WKRP!

If any of you saw her in a bathing suit on "Battle of the Network Stars"...you know what I'm talkin' about.

[Xipe Totec]

135. Anne Francis as Honey West

[libnnc]

136. "Oh Bob..."

Suzanne Pleshette--She's 60 something now, but she still gets me :loveya: :loveya:

[ChoralScholar]

138. Candace Cameron

Maybe even earlier than that:

Valerie Bertinelli from 'One Day at a Time'

[Blue_In_AK]

141. Ricky Nelson

but I don't have a picture.

[pokerfan]

142. Mine

Anyone recognize her?

[Spirochete]

144. You mean

That girl?

We're on the same page.

[pokerfan]

145. Yeah

She's like twenty years my senior and I fell in love with her when I was eight.

[Elidor]

143. Not the first, but one of the longest-enduring

Vina (Susan Oliver), the Orion slave girl:



:loveya:

[enigmatic]

147. Barbi Benton

Before I found out she was in Playboy (and Hugh Hefner's girlfriend for awhile), I saw her on a horrible 70's sitcom that lasted a few weeks called "Sugartime". I watched because of Barbi Benton; man, I was in love..

[Guava Jelly]

149. Thinking back I did have another

Isis

JoAnna Cameron

[Fox Mulder]

150. Topanga from "Boy Meets World":

[dpbrown]

151. Susan Dey

[TOhioLiberal]

152. Mine was...

...Scotty from Star Trek.


Now? All you have to do is look at my avatar...:blush:

[mvd]

155. I believe it was Molly Ringwald

Even before Alyssa Milano. Though my crush on Alyssa has endured more.