Old TV shows

[maliakei]

How many shows can we come up with that we USED to watch that are no longer on TV? This should be fun and jog our memories. No repeats on the shows please. Add one and keep it going! Here's a few to get it started:

Hawaii Five-O
Magnum P I
Fantasy Island
Magilla Gorilla (60's cartoon)
Dastardly & Muttley (60's cartoon)
Queen For a Day (50's reality show)
Ozzie and Harriet
My Three Sons
Welcome Back Kotter
Room 222
Rhoda
Laverne & Shirley

[lordshipmayhem]

Emergency!
Adam 12 (and the New Adam-12)
The Newhart Show
WKRP in Cincinnati
Hollywood Squares
Hawaii 5-0
Magnum P.I.
Murder She Wrote
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Sanford & Son
Green Acres
SeaLab 2020
Chico and the Man
The Carol Burnett Show

A wonderful trip down memory lane...

[maliakei]

Wow! I loved those old TV shows! Thank Goodness for TV Land!

*Remember, no repeats! I thought of a few more:

That Girl
The Facts of Life
Good Times
Match Game
I Dream of Jeannie
Candid Camera
The Munsters
Happy Days
Romper Room - (kiddie show)
Captain Kangaroo - (another kiddie show)
Dark Shadows
Speed Racer - (60's cartoon with Racer X and Trixie)
Bewitched

[miracleman]

Alias Smith And Jones.

Hill Street Blues.

[baregreg]

The Andy Griffith Show
Leave it to Beaver

[HappyCrow]

Jabber Jaw (cartoon)
The Great Grape Ape (cartoon)
Underdog (cartoon)
Little House on the Prairie (1974)
Incredible Hulk
Knight Rider
Hee Haw
Dragnet

[Quietman1951]

I agree this is a trip down memory lane. Here are a few I can quickly recall.

Then Came Bronson
Quantum Leap
Charlies Angles
The A Team
Sky King
My Friend Flicka
Rin Tin Tin
The Rockford Files
Maverick

[Navigator]

Adventures in Paradise
Wagon Train
Gunsmoke
Death Valley Days
Palledin
The Rifleman
Davy Crockett
The Red Skelton Show
Sky King
Flash Gordon...now THAT's and old one!
I love Lucy
The Brurns & Allen Show
The Jack Benny Show

[Navigator]

Rawhide - How could I forget Rawhide? Rowdy Yates...Clint Eastwoods Starting role...long before Dirty harry and his Spaghetti Westerns

The Whirlie Birds
Sea Hunt
Laugh-In
Dobie Gillis
Gilligan's Island

[Edmontonnudist]

-Hogan's Hero's. They never did send Klink to the Russian Front
-McHail's Navy. Name the guy that would allways shoot himself in the foot
-All In The Family. First sitcom to have sound of Flushing Toilet
-Beverly HillBillys.

-Allo Allo. British sitcom. What did the Onion Sellers do?

[Qikdraw]

Automan... (why does nobody but me ever remember this show??)
Benny Hill
The Rat Patrol
Star Trek
Fireffly
4400
Trapper John MD
TJ Hooker
Fall Guy
SCTV
The Beachcombers <-- For us Canadians out there. :)
The Quick Draw McGraw Show :D
The Waltons
Dallas
Twilight Zone
Andromeda
Faulty Towers

Thats just off the top of my head right now... :p

[baregreg]

-McHail's Navy. Name the guy that would allways shoot himself in the foot

Ensign Chuck Parker (Tim Conway)

Anyone old enough to remember - Captain Kangaroo

[eagle59]

The flying Nun
The Partridge family
Family Affair
Pettycoat Junction
My Favorite Martin
Sonny & cher Show
Flip Wilson
Leave it to Beaver
The three stooges
Rocky and Bullwinkle
The Twilight Zone...
I could go on and on. Todays youth do not know what they are missing. All this reality show crap is for the birds. I have enough drama in my life, i certainly dont want to watch other people whine about their drama. I watch TV to veg out!!

[maliakei]

Ensign Chuck Parker (Tim Conway)

Anyone old enough to remember - Captain Kangaroo

Heck yeah! I used to watch Captain Kangaroo with my sisters!!

Here's more favorites:

Banana Splits (after school kid's show)
Streets of San Francisco
St. Elsewhere
Here Come the Brides
Peyton Place
Topper
China Beach
I Remember Mama
The Red Skelton Show
Lassie
Gunsmoke
Laugh In (60's)
The Dean Martin Show
Sky King
Dr. Kildare

[maliakei]

I could go on and on. Todays youth do not know what they are missing. All this reality show crap is for the birds. I have enough drama in my life, i certainly dont want to watch other people whine about their drama. I watch TV to veg out!!

Really! There are far too many reality shows on TV today!

To backtrack . . .
I wasn't around in the 50's, however.. if anyone has ever watched "Queen for a Day" now that could have been America's first TV reality show! read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_for_a_Day

[Qikdraw]

Baa Baa Black Sheep (Black Sheep Squadron)

[harveym]

Captain Video
The Milton Berle Show
Sid Ceasar's Comedy Hour
Carol Burnet Show
Your Show of Shows

[Dolby]

Let's not forget:

Mary Tyler Moore
The Dick van **** Show
Bob Newhart Show
Maude
Good Times
The Jeffersons
Quincy
The Odd Couple
The Tony Randall Show (he played a judge, didn't last long but really funny)
Wait 'til your Father Gets Home (short lived prime time cartoon)
Get Smart
Love American Style
Phyllis

Too tired to think of more...it's Monday...

[Midwest Buck]

There's reality shows on TV today? I've never noticed.

Combat
SWAT

[Dolby]

OMG the system censored the 60's classic. LOL! Dick van Lesbian? Will that work?

[FireProf]

The Donna Reed Show
Father Knows Best
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Spin and Marty
Zorro
Wonderful World of Disney
Branded
The Highway Patrol
Rescue 8

Sheriff John ( a friends father)
Engineer Bill
Clutch Cargo

My minds a little burnt, can't remember any others at the moment,....spent the day in the sun at Glen Eden!

[Naturist Mark]

l
Clutch Cargo

YIKES!

Clutch Cargo was the cause of many nightmares - not because of its stories, but because of its creepy low tech animation technique.

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the horror ... the horror

-Mark

[FireProf]

Mark,

It was creepy! But as a kid........I watched it all the time.

FP :)

[baregreg]

Really! There are far too many reality shows on TV today!

To backtrack . . .
I wasn't around in the 50's, however.. if anyone has ever watched "Queen for a Day" now that could have been America's first TV reality show! read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_for_a_Day
Sure I remember that. Watched it with my mom.
Back in those days we only had about 4 or 5 channels to choose from.

Anyone watch "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" ?
Not sure if "Flipper" has been mentioned yet.

Creature Features (may of been S.F. BayArea only)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_Features
Then there is Elvira.
The Mike Douglas Show.
Merv Griffin.

Damn we had good T.V. back in them days. :)

[nakedfrog]

I remember rushing home from school to watch Dark Shadows in black and white. We were talking about old TV shows and got on one that was called Tales of the Golden Monkey. We found that there is a web sit <www.goldmonkey.com> that goes in to detail about it. But the coolest thing is that he also runs a store that has a lot of odd TV shows that only lasted a season or two on DVD and they are very reasonablly priced. Even if you are not interested in buying, it might be worth taking a look to see how many you can remember.


ribit--ribit.

[usuallylurk]

If you want to talk about British sitcoms --

"Doctor in the House" was the prototype for "Temperatures Rising"
"Man about the House" was the original "Three's Company"
"Steptoe and Son" was the show that spawned "Sanford and Son"
"Till Death Do Us Part" was Americanized and became "All in the Family"

A lousy US show from the 60s = "Many Happy Returns", became the basis for "Are You Being Served?"

Four US shows dealt with people of one class background trying to co-exist with another ... "Beverly Hillbillies", "Green Acres", "The Baileys of Balboa" and "Pruitts of Southhampton" (latter two failed miserably) -- gave someone the idea for one of the greatest shows of that genre ever made =

"Keeping Up Appearances", with Hyacinthe Bucket (but pronounce it "Boo-kay").

[minitim]

I used to say that if something was on TV once, then I saw it. Since I haven't had cable since 1996, I'm getting a bit behind.

Here are some of my favorites, for different reasons.
ABCNews Our World
The Charmings
I'm a Big Girl Now (Martin Short was a cast member)
Bosom Buddies
Soap (In the Summer, reruns were shown Fridays at 11:30, so kids couldn't see it in Prime time. Mom encouraged us to watch. It was too funny.)
Dean Martin
Jackie Gleason
The Hudson Brothers Comedy Hour
Barney Miller
The Sunday Mystery Theater
... I could go on, but I'll leave it for the next poster.

[Fitz1980]

Babylon 5
Battlestar Galactica (the original)
Highlander
The X-Files
Firefly
Seaquest

Hey is that how you figure out you are getting old, when all of your favorite TV shows are shows that have been off the air for years? Seems that these days I would rather watch reruns and DVDs than most of today's stuff.

[maliakei]

Sure I remember that. Watched it with my mom.
Back in those days we only had about 4 or 5 channels to choose from.

Anyone watch "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" ?
Not sure if "Flipper" has been mentioned yet.

Creature Features (may of been S.F. BayArea only)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_Features
Then there is Elvira.
The Mike Douglas Show.
Merv Griffin.

Damn we had good T.V. back in them days. :)

Yeah, growing up we were lucky enough to have a black & white TV, the kind with those rabbit ears you had to keep adjusting!

No, I don't recall ever watching "Mutual Omaha's Wild Kingdom" but heard of it. "Flipper" we watched, although we weren't allowed to watch too much TV.

Oooh.. Creature Features scared me as a kid! Unfortunately my mother used to make us watch scary movies with her.. I didn't realize "Elvira" was a TV show/sitcom. Her movie, "Elvira Mistress of the Dark" was very funny though!

Here's a few more!

The Brady Bunch
The Honeymooner's (with Jackie Gleason)
Northern Exposure
Car 54, Where are You?
Lawrence Welk Show
Dukes of Hazzard
Mork & Mindy
Howdy Doody (as Chief Thunderthud would say "Kawabonga")

[dan t]

F-troop
The fling nun
Gigit
HR-Puff n stuff
The Monkeys
Denice the Menace
Thunder-Birds
Parrie Mason
Iron Sides

I dont know if I got all the spelling right Sorry!

[Quietman1951]

Sure I remember that. Watched it with my mom.
Back in those days we only had about 4 or 5 channels to choose from.

Anyone watch "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" ?
Not sure if "Flipper" has been mentioned yet.

Creature Features (may of been S.F. BayArea only)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_Features
Then there is Elvira.
The Mike Douglas Show.
Merv Griffin.

Damn we had good T.V. back in them days. :)

Yeah, I remember those shows. You had 4 or 5 channels? You were blessed. We had 2 VHF channels (NBC & CBS) out of Toledo, later a UHF (ABC) station started up.

Another old show has come to mind, The Millionair. My father loved to watch Outer Limits, but it gave me nightmares. So I would go watch Gallent Men on the old set.

[maliakei]

I remember "Gidget" and "The Flying Nun". Both with Sally Fields. I Loved those shows!

Last night I was browsing through the channels and noticed an old sci-fi comedy is returning:

"3rd Rock from the Sun". It's kind of silly but entertaining.

Speaking of sci-fi comedies, I remember these:

Alf
Lost in Space
Small Wonder (about a family who has a girl robot named Vicki)

I almost forgot..

The Bionic Woman (with Lindsay Wagner)
Six-Million Dollar Man
Nancy Drew (mystery series)
Hardy Boys (mystery series)
The Little Rascals
Gimme a Break
Richard Simmons (exercise show) -- Anyone actually watch this show?!

There was another older exercise show "Jack LaLaine", back in the 60's with wife Jane LaLaine. What an inspiration. Jack LaLaine is still alive and well, in his 90's!

[baregreg]

I remember "Gidget" and "The Flying Nun". Both with Sally Fields. I Loved those shows!

Last night I was browsing through the channels and noticed an old sci-fi comedy is returning:

"3rd Rock from the Sun". It's kind of silly but entertaining.

Speaking of sci-fi comedies, I remember these:

Alf
Lost in Space
Small Wonder (about a family who has a girl robot named Vicki)

I almost forgot..

The Bionic Woman (with Lindsay Wagner)
Six-Million Dollar Man
Nancy Drew (mystery series)
Hardy Boys (mystery series)
The Little Rascals
Gimme a Break
Richard Simmons (exercise show) -- Anyone actually watch this show?!

There was another older exercise show "Jack LaLaine", back in the 60's with wife Jane LaLaine. What an inspiration. Jack LaLaine is still alive and well, in his 90's!

WOW we may be twins or at least about the same age. I'm 54 :)

"3rd Rock from the Sun" off the wall comedy. I loved it. :)

Mom watched and did all the stuff on the the Jack LaLaine show. She (my mom) would get her chair out and do the exercises. :)

As to the Hardy Boys, I don't remember that as a TV show, but I think I read just about every book that was published. My sister was into Nancy Drew.

As to "Richard Simmons" yep watched that too. I saw him on a TV commercial last night. I always thought there was something a bit strange about that guy. :eek:

Also never missed the "Little Rascals" show.

I can't remember the name of the show. But on Saturday morning there was a few hours of cartoons that we always watched.

Jetsons
Casper
Flintstones
Underdog
Atom Ant
RoadRunner (my favorite)

There's more here.
http://www.tvparty.com/sat66.html

Not sure if these 2 have be mentioned yet.
Sonny & Cher
Smothers Brothers

Anyway I remember all you posted, except "Gimme a Break"

[BinCo]

Now this is funny. I remember having 4 channels in Chicago in the 70's.

Sesame Street
Electric Company
Muppet Show-my favorite and the most widely viewed show in world history. I heard once after Jim died that it was translated in over 100 langauges.

Oh, Oh. How about BJ and the Bear? Ha Ha Ha. I wanted to be a trucker after this show came out.

Most of my other favs have been listed.

[alfredr]

baregreg just mentioned "Smothers Brothers"

TW3 - "That Was the Week That Was"

Red Skelton
Jack Benney
George Burns and Gracie Allen
Jack Parr

[Baretodabone]

How about

The Howdy Doody Show
and
My Mother the car

[Procrastinator]

"Keeping Up Appearances", with Hyacinthe Bucket (but pronounce it "Boo-kay").

The boo-kay residence .... (http://kuacentral.com/sounds/wavs/top1.wav)

"Daddy" was a naturist. (http://kuacentral.com/sounds/ra/131.ra)

[maliakei]

WOW we may be twins or at least about the same age. I'm 54 :)

"3rd Rock from the Sun" off the wall comedy. I loved it. :)

Mom watched and did all the stuff on the the Jack LaLaine show. She (my mom) would get her chair out and do the exercises. :)

As to the Hardy Boys, I don't remember that as a TV show, but I think I read just about every book that was published. My sister was into Nancy Drew.

As to "Richard Simmons" yep watched that too. I saw him on a TV commercial last night. I always thought there was something a bit strange about that guy. :eek:

Also never missed the "Little Rascals" show.

I can't remember the name of the show. But on Saturday morning there was a few hours of cartoons that we always watched.

Jetsons
Casper
Flintstones
Underdog
Atom Ant
RoadRunner (my favorite)

There's more here.
http://www.tvparty.com/sat66.html

Not sure if these 2 have be mentioned yet.
Sonny & Cher
Smothers Brothers

Anyway I remember all you posted, except "Gimme a Break"

Not quite, just 'nipping your heels' by a few years though..

If you've ever noticed, Jack LaLaine is about 5' in height. In an interview way back.. As a kid, he got beat up by the other boys in school. Afterwards he ended up training to where he could defend himself then worked his way upwards. He mentioned years later how most of those kids were either so out of shape or dead. Yeah, we'd get out our chairs and do those stretching exercise with mom too. All I remember is that navy short-sleeved jumpsuit Jack always wore. He'd do jumping jacks to the tune of that organ music, sometimes with Jane and their white german shepard! Ha ha! Jack doesn't compare to Richard Simmons, although Simmons helped alot of people get back into shape. Yeah, he's a strange dude alright . . very feminine-like. .

Speaking of cartoons...

Batman
Ritchie Rich (original version)

Some kid's shows...

Major Astro (1960's)
Amos 'n Andy (1950's)
Roy Rogers Show (1950's)
The Lone Ranger (with Tonto)
The Muppets (with Miss Piggy, Kermit The Frog...)
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood


I Love Sonny & Cher!

[maliakei]

Now this is funny. I remember having 4 channels in Chicago in the 70's.

Sesame Street
Electric Company
Muppet Show-my favorite and the most widely viewed show in world history. I heard once after Jim died that it was translated in over 100 langauges.

Oh, Oh. How about BJ and the Bear? Ha Ha Ha. I wanted to be a trucker after this show came out.

Most of my other favs have been listed.

Oh, The Muppet Show was already listed! Now that was Great television.. Good clean entertainment for all ages. Interesting it was translated in so many languages..

Yeah, I remember BJ & The Bear (with Burt Reynolds, i think?)

[maliakei]

How about

The Howdy Doody Show
and
My Mother the car

I've never seen these shows, only heard of them!

[Naturist Zoar]

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

[baregreg]

Real People
Fernwood 2 Night
America 2-Night

[Nu]

Mission Impossible

This TV series was the real thing.

The movies-garbage.

[Bob S.]

The Adventures of Pete and Pete
You Can't Do That on Television (Nickelodeon's first big hit)
Eerie, Indiana
The Odyssey (a CBC show that was on Sci-Fi here)
MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000)-(best episodes were on Comedy Central, it got worse on Sci-Fi)
Blossom (yes, I liked that show)
Party of Five
MacGuyver

Saturday Morning:

Smurfs
Snorks
Fraggle Rock (I think it was Sat morn)
Garfield and Friends
Saved By the Bell

There was also a show but I am not sure if it was just part of a larger themed show or what, but I remember these shows (titles approximate):

The Third Eye (a family--boy, girl, and either father or uncle) who could do magic. I want to say that the girl had a bad reaction to water.
The Labyrinth (not the movie)

Bob S.

[Edmontonnudist]

The car from this show now resides in Edmonton Alberta. I got to view it before anyone else did. I was at the antique auto repair shop getting some parts for my Model'A' and the owner of the shop invited me back to look at it. It is a missmash of different makes and I was not impressed at all with the craftsmanship. UNTIL........the shop owner pointed to the wierd looking RADIO SET.

For about 10 seconds I could feel my hair stand on end,very funny feeling,and then it hit me! This is the car from that Show! The shop owner started laughing! Then he said 'Ive been having fun all week with customers,pointing to the RADIO SET.

It's funny how you can COMPLETELY FORGET about a show,and it only takes one little thing to jog your memory. If that RADIO SET had been missing I would have been STUMPED!

Hey! Nobody has mentioned 'The Ed Sullivan Show' I remember when the Beatles made thier North American Debut on the Ed Sullivan Show.

[NEKKID-KAYAKER]

The Fugative
Harry O
Flipper
Gilligan's Island
Gentle Ben
UFO

[baregreg]

Hey! Nobody has mentioned 'The Ed Sullivan Show' I remember when the Beatles made thier North American Debut on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Don't think the family ever missed one of his programs.
I also remember the one with the Beatles. My dad laughed hiss *** of at the ladies reaction to them.

Yep, that was - "A Really Big Shew" :D

[threadbare]

Sorry, Ive been on Ocracoke for the last 2 weeks & missed out on this thread.
I'm surprised with all this great brain-power you all forgot HELLO.....I'm Johnny Cash (or it could of been intentional)
And the one I know you all watched M*A*S*H !!!!