As a child, what was your favourite TV programme?

[PartyPooper]

I grew up in the 1950's. So, I had a special favourite: Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob. This was the first show I really remember. (Later, as an adult, I met Buffalo Bob and had my picture taken with him. What a delight that was!)

Also, I liked Rin Tin Tin, Roy Rogers, Lassie, Mickey Mouse Club and all of the black and white westerns of the day. (Remember, there was no colour TV!)

What was your earliest memory / favourite childrens' programme?

:-)

[Career Prole]

1. Sky King!! n/t

[PartyPooper]

5. Oh, yes! And, I remember Penny!

:-)

[RebelOne]

55. I met him in the '70s.

I was working for a magazine in Miami. He came into our office for an interview. At that time, he was working at a resort in central Florida doing public relations. Wonder what has happened to him since. I supposed he is dead by now.

On edit: He was a really nice guy.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

2. My favorite was the Sonny and Cher show.

Kids shows: The Electric Company!

[scucci]

7. I always forget about the Electric Company!

I loved that too!

[scucci]

3. Bugs Bunny Cartoons

[Streetdoc270]

4. Battle of the Planets!

n/t

[nini]

6. A lot of local shows in L.A.

Sheriff John
Engineer Bill
Hobo Kelly


When I was a little older we got into Dark Shadows! :-)

[SarahB]

8. The Love Boat

Why my parents let me watch a show about one night stands on a cruise ship from ages 7 to 12 beats the Hell out of me though. :shrug: I wouldn't do the same.

[PartyPooper]

11. LOL!

:D

[TheMightyFavog]

42. I had a weird-ass dream about this show a couple nights back....

Crew mwmbwers of the USS Nimitz doing a choreographed song-and-dance nuber to the theme song of this show...

[Bundbuster]

9. The Rifleman

starring Chuck Conners. Also liked Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, & Ed Sullivan. A few years later StarTrek became my alltime fave.

[PartyPooper]

21. Remember "Bonanza" and "Have Gun Will Travel"?

*Sigh*

:-)

[Bundbuster]

26. They were high on my list

Paladin was also such a stone badass.

After watching all those series, especially Bonanza and Gunsmoke, it's a wonder we're not freepers, huh?

[madrchsod]

10. "andy`s gang"-andy devine

i was 4 yrs old and i still remember that show-probaly no more than 10 seconds of it. milton berle in drag....

[togiak]

12. He-man

When I was a kid I used to watch He-man, Master of the Universe. Heck, I used to get up at 4 in the morning on school days to watch it (then I would watch Mousercise)

[CrownPrinceBandar]

13. "Space:1999"

They lied.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Speed Racer!

and Dastardly and Mutly (the old one, with the pigeon with the secret pouch thing) and the original Adam West Batman series.

[SmileyBoy]

15. I have a confession: Darkwing Duck.

I recently saw reruns of it on the Toon Disney Channel (DirecTV) when I was at my parent's house recently. I felt like I was transported back to the 5th grade in 1993.

I used to come home from school EVERY DAY and watch that show.

[Kathleen04]

28. That was my favorite show too!

:)

I haven't seen it in so long though...

[7th_Sephiroth]

36. oh yes

that and chip n dales rescue rangers, and ronin warriors, power rangers and transformers were what i watched as a child, cant forget voltron and macross (i refuse to call it robotech)

[TheMightyFavog]

41. Two words: Twin Beaks

Funniest. Episode. Ever.

Launchpad wearing the pyramid on his head and sounding like he's fucking stoned out of his gourd... "The Cows... are not what they seem."

"We come from the Planet Larson on The far side of the galaxy!"

[philosophie_en_rose]

59. Disney afternoon.

When I was little, they use to play Gummi Bear, Rescue Ranger, Tail Spin, and Darkwing Duck. I use to watch it after school.

When I was very little, I loved Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Brite, He-man and She-ra, JEM, for some reason, GI Joe.

*Remember kids, we all know that George W. Bush is a lying liar. But knowing is only half the battle.*

[Alenne]

16. The Phil Donahue Show

I didn't like cartoons as a child.

[PartyPooper]

17. But, wasn't that more of an 'adult' show?

I hope it didn't do you any harm. *Sigh*

Gee, is that all you could find to watch?

:-(

[Alenne]

20. There were a lot of things I could have watched

but I didn't want to. It probably made me the liberal person I am today. It was the first place I saw gay people, transsexuals and interracial couples. They all were portrayed positively and I saw them before anyone was able to put negative thoughts in my head.

[PartyPooper]

23. I admire you for your maturity, courage, and wisdom!

You are one smart person!

:hug:

:toast:

[Alenne]

24. Thank you. nt

[Katha]

18. I'm so damn young

I loved Nickelodeon's early 90s lineup -- Clarissa Explains It All, All That, You Can't Do That On Television, Double Dare, etc.

[SmileyBoy]

38. Remember Salute Your Shorts???

The 2nd funniest show in Nickelodeon's history behind Ren and Stimpy.

Oh, Bobby Budnick. The things you get into...

[sarahbellum]

64. ah, memories.

i'm very young too and grew up with all that crap.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. Superman - my very favorite

I also liked Howdy Doody. The last Howdy Doody show where a sad-faced Clarabelle the Clown finally spoke for the very first time (he normally communicated by honking a 'yes' horn and a 'no' horn), saying "Goodbye Kids" was purely sadistic on the part of Buffalo Bob, doing something like that to little bitty kids. I cried for weeks.

I loved "Don Winslow of the Coast Guard" and "Flash Gordon" episodes (movie house serials shown as episodic TV in the '50s).

I loved Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, the Cisco Kid, the Lone Ranger, and especially the Red Ryder.

I loved Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion (with his boy sidekick "Cuffy") and of course Rin Tin Tin.

I loved "Charter Boat" and "Sea Hunt", two great series involving action and murder set in the ocean.

I loved "I Love Lucy" and the Red Skelton show and especially "The Life Of Riley" (with William Bendix - a truly wonderful old show). I also absolutely loved Sid Cesar and Imogene Coca ("Your Show Of Shows"). There was an episode that I still remember quite well even though I was only about 4 years old when I saw it, about "Vacant Holsters and the cowboy who loves you so true" where Sid was a comical cowboy who didn't believe in guns.

Even though I was preschool and even prekindergarten at the time, I really really dug the daily Hit Parade hour, where the latest hit songs of the day (many of them absolutely idiotic) were presented. I remember a lady singer, I think Carmen Miranda with a bowl of fruit on her head singing something like "Mama I like la Chupeta" and another who was on week after week singing on a pair of skis about his auntie teaching him to zig and zag (the hit parade had some real weird tunes in that era).

[Syrinx]

22. Star Trek and Lucy

In reruns, though the Star Trek ones weren't very old.

Oh yeah, and the Saturday morning show "Land Of The Lost." I was "in love" with the little girl on there.

[strategery blunder]

25. Tom and Jerry

I'm only 18.

I have changed a lot since shrub bought this country, though, and among other things, I no longer enjoy Tom and Jerry.

How sad...:cry:

[mvd]

27. I watched Sesame Street regularly

I learned quite a bit from it, too. The alphabet was made easy.

[WilliamPitt]

29. Either The Barba Poppas or Star Blazers

[VelmaD]

50. Oh my GAWD! I loved Star Blazers too

My little brother and I would rush home from school every day to watch it. There was just something about the whole count down aspect of it that grabbed us. Plus I had one of my earliest childhood crushes on one o fthe Star Blazders characters. *embarassed grin*

[Zookeeper]

30. Soupy Sales,

Old movies (especially Gangsters, Monsters, 50's sci-fi and Bette Davis or Joan Crawford), Bullwinkle, Fractured Fairy Tales (I think it was called..), anything wacky or irreverent. I missed any cartoons that were on early in the morning, as I always preferred to sleep.

[Kool Kitty]

31. OMG, I loved Soupy Sales!

What a great show that was. Loved Rocky and Bullwinkle, too. And the Beatles cartoon show.

[Zookeeper]

33. I can just hear White Fang and Black Tooth... n/t

[Kool Kitty]

35. And the guy who always came to the door and needed Soupy

to help him: You gotta help me, you gotta help me. (very distraught man) What's the matter? (Soupy) My wife thinks she is a piano. (Very distraught man) Why don't you take her to a psychiatrist? (Soupy) Are you kidding? Do you know how much it costs to move a piano? (Distraught man again)
Geez, I loved that show. What about Pookie the lion?

[Zookeeper]

39. I loved Pookie!

As a child, I was convinced that his show was local. Comparing notes with friends who grew up in different areas, I've found that they all thought the same thing. His casual manner made him so real, that it was easy to think he was one of "us."

Great joke! Where you aware that his show was temporarily suspended after he (jokingly) told his little viewers to sneak money from their parents and mail it to him?

[Kool Kitty]

70. Oh, yeah-remember that?

Such a scandal that was.

[Kathleen04]

32. Lots of shows..

I was born in the latter part of the 80's so I watched a bunch of 90s shows on the Disney channel..I liked cartoons like Rescue Rangers, Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, and I watched "Under the Umbrella Tree" a show about a lady who lived w/ a gopher, iguana, and a blue jay!:



:)

[mykpart]

34. Fury, The story of a horse and the boy who loved him.

Also a local show which featured hand puppets Micky Mudturtle and Amanda Possum.

[TheMightyFavog]

43. Sesame Street!

Watched it in the mid 80s just at the end of the New Stoner Age, and the beginning of the Post-Stoner Period.

OK, if you don't know what the fuck I'm talking about I'll post a thread on my divisions of the History of Sesame Street.

[pagerbear]

37. The Brady Bunch!

[BrotherBuzz]

40. Crusader Rabbit, and Brother Buzz...

were the earliest memories, but there were many many others. I watched a lot of TV in the fifties.

[Dogmudgeon]

44. My weird taste in TV

Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
Time Tunnel
Lost In Space
Captain Nice
Mr. Terrific
The Prisoner
My Mother The Car
The Pruitts of Southampton
Get Smart

Comedy, Sci-Fi, and Espionage.

Around 1972, when I was 15, I started to write, and stopped watching almost all TV. Since then, I've watched a few things selectively, including several runs of SNL (start-1982, 1988-1991, 2000-now), Alien Nation, Space: Above and Beyond, the new Outer Limits, most of which I taped so I could watch them at my leisure.

Broadcast TV these days has gotten much better (probably from competing with cable programming), but I think its days are numbered.

--bkl

[Feanorcurufinwe]

45. The Little Rascals

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

46. Garfield Goose, King of the United States

It was a local puppet show with a goose who thought he was king, a rabbit named Romberg and a mouse named Macintosh. None of the puppets talked; the only one who understood them was Garfield's human Prime Minister, Frazier Thomas, and he kept all the storylines going. Every once in a while he'd break away to show a cartoon like Clutch Cargo. Every Christmas he showed three cartoons that every Chicagoland boomer still loves: Suzy Snowflake, Frosty the Snowman, and Hardrock, Coco and Joe.

It aired opposite American Bandstand and I would fight with my older sibs over which show we watched. But we all loved Soupy Sales, and Rocky & Bullwinkle.

I liked other local shows like Ray Rayner & Friends, and the Bozo Show, which aired at noon (this was back when kids went home for lunch). And I'll bet you my bologna sandwich and all my Oreos that our local Bozo was better'n yours. :P

[Nile]

47. Plunk the magic twanger Froggy

Boingggg!!! Hi ya kids, Hi ya, Hi ya, Hi Ya.. Andy Devine and Froggy. Froggy always made me laugh.

[bearfan454]

48. The french Chef with Julia Child

I used to watch it when the other kids were playing baseball outside. My Dad had a sweettooth and I would make chocolate cakes on Saturdays for him. weird, huh ?

[wickerwoman]

49. GI Joe. It's been a long strange trip.

I can't even watch it now. They don't even bother animating the lips moving.

[noonwitch]

51. Gilligan's Island and The Bugaloos

I was about 4 when Gilligan was on prime time. I loved that show, and watched it in syndication throughout my childhood. Yeah, it's stupid, but it is funny.
The Bugaloos was one of those Kroft shows like Pufinstuf, which I also liked. They were obviously written by people who had taken way too many hallucinogenic drugs, and had weird, trippy puppets and costumes. The bugaloos were people with bug wings who also sang. The villain they feared was Benita Bizzare, played by Martha Raye.

[SCDem]

52. Chips and Dukes of Hazzard

Of course there was not the big variety that we have now adays. Our only options were Chips, Dukes of Hazzard and Little House on the Prarie.

[notadmblnd]

53. Romper Room

Romper Room was the best.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

69. What About Ding Dong School?

Ding Dong School, along with Romper Room and a little later Capn' Kangaroo ruled the mornings. Miss Frances of Ding Dong School was kind of a forerunner of Mr. Rogers and every little kid watched her because she looked right into the camera and talked to them and pretended to be hearing their answers.

[TOhioLiberal]

54. Star Trek...

Lost in Space, Rocky & Bulwinkle (ah, the puns!) The Electric Company..

Trekkerlass

[sweetheart]

56. Kung Fu & 6 million dollar man

6 million dollars used to buy you an atomic power plant and a whole
bionic body. Purchasing power has clearly declined ;-)

Kung Fu really was, and is, an outstanding series, conceived by
Bruce Lee, if i know correctly.

[Stockholm]

57. Drutten och Jena no question about it....

[Kadie]

58. Welcome Back Kotter.

First show I remember getting upset about if I missed it.

Although Vinnie was "it", my heart was with Arnold.

Hewwo, How are Ya? My name's Arnold hORshack.

[Aristus]

60. Here's a list of them:

The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (anyone remember that?)
Star Blazers
Speed Racer
Bugs Bunny cartoons
The Electric Company

[BigMcLargehuge]

61. Five!... Four!... Three!.... Two!... ONE!!!!

THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!!!!!!

I lived for this show as a kid, and rediscovered it when I lived in England in college.

Gotta get me them DVDs.

I also loved Star Blazers, Force Five, Kolchak the Night Stalker, and The Space Giants.

[Butterflies]

62. Astro Boy

was the first favorite that I remember. I was about 5, I think.

[SiobhanClancy]

63. Flintstones...

and oddly,the Jetsons:)

[sarahbellum]

65. rocko's modern life!

[SammyWinstonJack]

66. All of those and

Sea Hunt
The Rifleman
Bonanza
Sky King
The Lone Ranger
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
Sheriff John
Captain Kangaroo
Flipper
Andy Griffith show

and of course all of the Loony Toons saturday morning cartoons

[non sociopath skin]

67. I loved Hanna-Barbera cartoons...

From the popular ones like Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Top Cat and the Flintstones to the more cult-y ones (at least here in the UK) like Augie Doggie and Snagglepuss.

Liked the comic books too.

The Skin:loveya:

[livetohike]

68. Tarzan movies!

Also, local children's programming - The Josey Carey Show, Mickey Mouse Club, Superman (had picture taken with him), Howdy Doody, Sky King.....