Shows you watched as a kid and still enjoy?

[BuelahWitch]

I was rustled out of my post-election depression by, of all things, old kinescopes of Kukla, Fran and Ollie. The community college I attend was doing a performance of "Love for Seven Dolls" which is kind of a "Lili" without the music. I was reading the history of it and the article mentioned that the play was based on Kukla, Fran and Ollie! I remembered that I loved them as a child (even though I'm too young to have seen the early TV show, I caught most of their guest appearances from the mid-'60s onward) and went to a website with all kinds of articles and clips from the black and white TV show. I still find them entertaining after all these years (even more so now that I'm old enough to appreciate that Burr Tillstrom did all the voices by himself).

[NMDemDist2]

1. Get Smart, I Spy and Mash (not in that order) n/t

[Longhorn]

2. The Andy Griffith Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show

They're both still so funny and I can watch both of them over and over again!

[TexasSissy]

19. I vote for these two. My favorites. But there are others, too. That

was a time for good TV sitcoms, wasn't it? Ahhhhh. A great time.

Andy Griffith
Dick Van Dyke Show
I Love Lucy reruns
That Girl
My Favorite Martian


Later....
The Mary Tyler Moore Show

and on and on and on. Just great. They have stood the test of time.

[Maeve]

3. Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies, CBS's flip side shows

And from ABC, The Addams Family.

Odd that I remember the networks those were on...one of the oddities of memory, like all the cigarette commerical jingles I remember thirty years after they were pulled from tv...

[radfringe]

4. Dick Van Dyke...

sometimes I'm able to catch the Danny Thomas show -- Make room for Daddy (remember that one?)

at Christmas -- I drive my partner crazy because I still like the Mr. Magoo Christmas Carol cartoon...

anyone remember Tom Terrific and Mighty Manfred the Wonder dog?



as a kid I made my grandfather buy me a funnel so I could wear it on my head

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Good Life TV (which I believe is run by the Moonies)

has one redeeming feature: it shows reruns of 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, and Surfside Six. These are a real nostalgia trip!

[Eloriel]

13. Kookie, Kookie, Lend me your comb!

ROTFL. (Do I have the right TV show -- 77 Sunset strip? )

[non sociopath skin]

6. The Phil Silvers Show ("Sergeant Bilko") ...

... still gets regular runs on the BBC and is as funny as ever.

The Skin

[TexasSissy]

20. I HATED that show, for some reason. I found Silvers very

irritating....and not funny. Of course, I was just a child at the time (really), so maybe that was part of it.

[Eloriel]

7. I Love Lucy

which I probably appreciate way more now than I did back then when it seemed a little silly to me.

There are a number of others but I can't think of them.

Hogan's Heroes. And Mash, but I wasn't a kid anymore for either of them, well maybe a teenager during Hogan's Heroes.

[Eloriel]

14. And I'll add Andy Griffith

which I DEFINITELY appreciate a lot more than I ever did when it was first on. Very classic, classy, sweet, dear show.

[Baja Margie]

8. Gosh, so many

I'm going to go with The Jackie Gleason show.

[bearfan454]

16. Live, from Miami Beach !

[Trailrider1951]

9. My very favorite was Twighlight Zone

Some of the episodes scared the crap out of me, but I still love the show to this very day!

[TexasSissy]

23. Twilight Zone marathons in my area almost every New Year's Day!

I love 'em. Just love 'em!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

29. Twilight Zone was one of my favorites. I will occassionaly watch

reruns and it's amazing how some of those episodes have stayed with me all these years.

My brother also used to read Charles Beaumont short stories to at bedtime. Beaumont several episodes.

[naryaquid]

10. Twilight Zone, Mod Squad, and Combat!..loved Vic Morrow

with his blond hair and world-weary wonderful-ness...I was only 13, but I knew quality when I saw it!

[CBHagman]

11. Humiliating moment.

One night last year, I was walking on the treadmill in our community fitness center with "Rudolph, the Red-nosed Reindeer" on TV. A young woman came in to work out and didn't make any smart remarks, but I was still a little embarrassed.

Still, the story is timeless, and it's such a wonderful little feature. I left it on.

[Blue Gardener]

12. Bewitched

I always wanted to be Samantha.

[TexasSissy]

21. I like it more now than I did then. Then, even though I was pretty young,

I thought it was silly to expect me to believe that she'd give up her witch powers, and all the wealth, fun, and excitement that go along with them, for that nerdy looking guy, and a bland life of housecleaning and cooking.

I still think that's a silly premise. But it's sort of sad to watch, now, since the lead actors are for the most part dead now. Very sad.

I always DID like Agnes Moorhead the best, though!

[CBHagman]

25. Hey, have you been to the Classic Films Group?

I can't recall if I've seen you there, but I can tell you that Agnes Moorhead has a decided following. There's even DUer who wrote a book on her.

Of course, that would be focused on her pre-Bewitched life, but still.

Maurice Evans, the Shakespearean actor, also appeared on Bewitched.

[AlwaysDemocrat]

15. I Love Lucy - never gets old

I don't remember the original broadcasts at night but I have watched the reruns most of my life. I'm also loved to watch the "Twilight Zone" as a kid and now I and never fail to watch "way too many" of them when the Sci-Fi channel has marathons (usually on Labor Day and New Year's).

[TexasSissy]

22. Vitamedavegimen! nt

[yorkiemommie1]

17. still in my post-election depression

TvLand, Nickolodeon, Lifetime ( only for the Nanny and Golden Girls )

what is really weird is that i never paid much attention to Leave It to Beaver, but now, as a adult, I find myself even learning from it. When Ward Cleaver says to Beaver, " I speak as an adult but you hear it as a child "... well, that would have gone right over my head years ago!

[Imalittleteapot]

18. Lucy, Leave It To Beaver, Perry Mason and

(don't make fun) Donna Reed. Later on -- All In The Family and Mash.

[dajoki]

24. green acres

is the place to be... and many more

[Logansquare]

26. This is embarrassing: Cagney and Lacy

I refused to watch it when it was originally on, but there's a new reruns-only station in Chicago that has it on every weekday. Wow, women are main characters in the show, and they aren't extremely thin or glamorous. And all of the great shots of NY in the 70s.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

27. Sky King

[MrBenchley]

31. Sky King was a weird-ass show

About 15 years ago, one of the Christian channels (maybe Robertson's own) was showing re-runs in the afternoon...

Some episodes consisted of almost nothing except Penny getting tied up and trying to wiggle free...if you tried to make those today they would be considered bondage porn (snicker).

My favorite episode, though was one in which the mystery had three suspects, and when it came time to solve it, Sky King said to Penny, "Well, you know, any one of them might have done it, but I think it was Dan, because I just don't like him." He then jumped in the Songbird, flew over to Dan's place, and beat him up.

[Branjor]

28. Dr. Kildare, The Fugitive

Can't enjoy Dr. Kildare anymore though. There are no reruns or DVDs. I do have one videotape with the last episode of The Fugitve on it.

[annabanana]

30. Love that Bob

In spite of it's oogling photographer and love sick ugly secretary schtick (when Alice was Schultzy), the gags hold up..

[CBHagman]

32. Interesting link for old Kukla, Fran & Ollie/CBS CFF fans.

Does anyone else remember the old CBS Children's Film Festival that they ran on Saturdays? I found this interesting link. There are times when movies like Fatty and Skinny, Hand in Hand, and The Magnificent Six and a Half seem like a far-off dream.

http://users.ultinet.net/~kfo/cbs.html

[ThoughtCriminal]

33. Star Trek - TOS

Here's to the future.