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