What’s a TV show you recall fondly from when you were younger?

[EmilyMiller]

Please don’t publish ages (avoid “I was ten when X premiered”), but something from when you were younger.

I’ll go for Lost, which I kinda felt I grew up watching. Might have been something to do with this lady (certainly as I got older and um… began to figure stuff out):



Though I quite liked Jin-Soo as well:



Not a big a fan of either Jack or Sawyer.

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I should probably add this was prompted by beginning to watch Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue.

 

[iwatchus]

I will just say younger days, but I remember being a fan of the original Star Trek and Johnny Quest in the mid-60's. Or AstroBoy before that. I was geeky from way back when.

 

[EmmAgain]

Masters of Sex on Showtime! I had to watch it on the sly behind my mom’s back (usually in hotel rooms). It was just so darned interesting and sexy. By reducing sex to something normal and clinical, it did a lot to dispel the guilt I felt over my chronic masturbation and need to make out with boys in every dark corner.

I was just horny, not possessed by the devil, and seeking relief at my own hands and those of others was perfectly normal.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Darkwing Duck. It was funny. And there was just something about the way he'd say, "Let's get dangerous." that had me completely hooked.

 

[BDA73]

The original MacGyver

 

[kreemi_pi]

White Collar.

Might have already been syndicated by then

 

[MelissaBaby]

The Gilmore Girls. It was an idealized version of a single mom and her teenage daughter in a small New England town, where nobody was on food stamps or lived in shitty trailers in the woods.

 

[TheWorldBuilder]

Too many to mention, but a top five would include:

Morecambe and Wise, Porridge, The Good Life, UFO, Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister

 

[SimonDoom]

I watched Creature Features as a kid (OK I won't say how young). It featured classic science fiction, horror, and monster movies of the 50s and 60s and early 70s. These were the days before Star Wars (reports of dinosaurs still roaming the land were common), so the special effects for these movies were, by later standards, almost without exception terrible. I watched movies like The Blob, the various Godzilla/Kaiju movies, Them, The Thing, The Giant Gila Monster, Bride of Frankenstein, and on and on. I enjoyed the movies but also feel like I learned about an earlier era because so many of the movies were made in the 50s, an earlier, more innocent time.

Also, the original Star Trek. It was in syndication when I was old enough to watch TV. I'd watch the reruns on TV after school. Again, this was before Star Wars, so although I could tell the special effects were cheap I didn't have much of an alternative standard against which to hold them.

 

[Bloodandglitter]

The Jetson's, Brady Bunch, Wiseguy, Twin Peaks, Airwolf, just to name a few

 

[dirk2024]

Wait a minute, let me ease my old bones in here and slooooowly sit down. Aaahh...that's better.

Along with being entertaining, the Andy Griffith Show told you all you needed to know about how to live your life.

 

[MidKnight1378]

Emergency!
It’s about 2 firefighters/ paramedics in Los Angeles in the 1970’s.

 

[AllAmericanMale]

Saved by the Bell

 

[EmmAgain]

Thank you IMDB!

 

[kreemi_pi]

House

 

[NotWise]

The Lone Ranger. Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. Father Knows Best. Leave it to Beaver.

and the serial movie that were replayed on the after-school shows. The Little Rascals, Buster Keaton, even some Keystone Cops.

 

[Jaws82]

Transformers

 

[dirk2024]

Flipper was another show I watched a lot as a kid. It was fun and everyone was nice and friendly.

 

[Treeview]

The Prisoner

The Avengers

Wonderful Worlld of Disney

 

[dirk2024]

And Flipper reminded me of the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. For those who haven't seen the rerun's, this was about a French man and his crew who traveled the world's ocean's aboard their ship, The Calypso. Through their scuba diving and specially created sub, I was able to see and learn about so much aquatic life.

 

[MrPixel]

The Prisoner

The Avengers

Wow. You posted that while I was still typing!

The Avengers, the British spy thriller. Nothing to do with the comic book superheroes. Gawd, I didn't actually realize how sexy the Emma Peel character was until my thirties.

And, strangely enough, The Prisoner. One of the few shows in prime time I made it a point to watch.

And Jay Ward animation: Rocky & Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle and their subsidiaries. I sometimes quote lines from those in my stories.

 

[THBGato]

I didn't have TV: we lived in a non-English speaking country and, as my parents only expected to be there for 2 years, never made much effort to learn more than the basics. We were there for 8 years.

Well, we had the TV but it wasn't tuned in to any stations. Instead, we'd watch VHS compilations of shows my aunt and uncle would tape for us and send. This was of course often deeply frustrating, as we rarely got to see a whole series, so would never find out how things ended. "Ulysseus 2001 a space Odyssey" and "Children of the sun" were animated series that particularly grabbed me. The theme tune to "gummy bears" is still stuck in my head.

 

[Treeview]

@THBGato

Ive been to Portmarion (sp?) in Wales, a couple of times. It was Set for the prisoner. It was fun to walk around and see the chessboard the flats where the balloon bounces across, Nelson statue and a few other recognizable places cool

 

[M_K_Babalon]

One of the big ones would be Daria. Was the first time I was actually borderline depressed that a show ended.

 

[Euphony]

Getting coked out of my little mind on sugary cereal.

Was up a 6am on a Saturday. Like weekly Christmas.

Honorable mention to Disney cartoon block on in the afternoons but it didn't hit as hard as the O.G.