Favorite Classic TV Shows
POSTED BY: RMMC
UPDATED: Monday, April 17, 2006 17:00
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Oh, well I grew up with all of these shows, so there are so many...
early 60's:
Mr. Ed, Beverly Hillbillies, Dick Van Dyke, Jonny Quest, Bullwinkle, The Flintstones (hey, I was a kid)
mid-to-late 60's:
Batman, Green Acres, Green Hornet, The Herculoids, Get Smart, I Dream of Jeannie, Secret Agent, The Prisoner, (still) The Beverly Hillbillies, Lost In Space, The Avengers, Star Trek
The 1970's went ultra realistic with cop and hospital shows which bored me to death. I prefered the escapist fun of the 60's, so while I watched a lot of TV in the 1970's, most of it was reruns of older shows I'd previously watched first run -- and, of course, re-runs of The Honeymooners (which were a few years before my time), and probably my one favorite from the 1970's -- Barney Miller.
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OMG! How could we forget about Barney Miller. I LOVED that show. I have a few of my fav episodes taped. The all time classic is when WoJo brought in the hash brownies. Nick was so stoned he was going "Mooshy mooshy", and "Has anyone seen my legs? They're about this long"
Oh, I gotta go watch that one again right now.
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Originally posted by bluemoonstuff:
OMG! How could we forget about Barney Miller. I LOVED that show.
I know how I forgot it. My sieve-like mind.
Which is also how I forgot The Carol Burnett Show--and geeze, I just had a Carol Burnett moment last week. I needed to make a peroid costume and went to a budget 2nd hand store. I struckout finding a dress I could butc--er, redesign. Then i had a vision of Carol wearing the draperie with the curtain rod. I didn't end up with that, but I did sacrifice a table cloth. 
I don't remember when Lou Grant was on exactly, either, But I remember loving the first season of that.
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re: Barney Miller
I have a few of my fav episodes taped. The all time classic is when WoJo brought in the hash brownies.
Yeah, I remember that one as well.
Did ya buy the first season on DVD, friend? RMMC
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Originally posted by DonCoat:
RMMC, did you mean the Jackie Gleason Show, or The Honeymooners? Two rather different things...
I meant the Jackie Gleason Show of which The Honeymooners was originally just one of several re-ocurring skits. My fav skits were the Poor Soul and Joe the Bartender.
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WKRP In Cincinatti -- excellent choice! Who could forget Les Nessman's pronunciation of "Chi Chi Rodriguez", or his immortal words as he reported on the "turkey drop"?
Certainly not anyone from my family.
I also loved the ep with Johnny hiding at the transmitter tower, terrified that the 'phone police' were after him. *giggle* And then there's Scum of the Earth...
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And here's a tip of the cunning hat to Monday Night Football. Inconsistent, but some of the greatest games ever have been played on Monday.
Only if I can have Hockey Night in Canada.
Yeah, it qualifies; it debuted in the 1950's.*****
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Alias Smith and Jones
Here Come The Brides
Starsky and Hutch
Combat!
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I'm still a Twilight Zone/ Outer Limits junkie. Being I was born in '79, I've had to come across "classic" TV after the fact, though. Lately, I've found myself watching The Andy Griffith show fairly regularly. "Oh Barney..."
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-The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. (Was the first time I saw Tuesday Weld, and fell completely in love.) (Also, Maynard Krebs (the late Bob Denver) went on to become Gilligan.)
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-I HATE Lucy. Always have. Liked Desi Arnaz and his music, though.
-Topper was great, but seldom saw it.
-Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town
-Gleason (Honeymooners, but also later show)
-Milton Berle (Live, BTW. One night, he ran out of material with 20 minutes to go, so he ad libbed for all that time, and was just wonderful. WHO can do that today??? On Live TV?!)
-Jack Benny
-The Metropolitan Opera
-The first Twilight Zone
-Tales from the Crypt
-The Fugutive (David Janssen)
-Amos 'N Andy
-Gunsmoke
-Have Gun, Will Travel
-Bonanza
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I recall watching Monty Python w/ my girfriend, living in Alaska at the time, and we saw The Spanish Inquisition. We laughed so hard we nearly cried, and laughed about it for well over a year. Must have been in 1983, a bit late for this thread maybe.
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M*A*S*H* is second only to Firefly in my books, as far as TV series go. Hawkeye Pierce a serious hero contender even for Mal.
I've also recently become a fan of Gunsmoke. Damn good show.
My family always used to watch a fair sampling of WKRP in Cinncinnati and I Dream of Jeanie, too, and I enjoyed them well enough. TV ain't what it used to be, that's for sure (generally speaking)
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