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

My childhood was all about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers, also special mention for Hurricanes (think I must have been the only one to watch this)
Never heard of Hurricanes before but I did watch TMNT and Power Rangers. Amy Jo Johnson was a great inspiration.
 
One of the best detective shows ever--maybe THE best detective show--was Columbo in the 1970s. The format of the show was unique because it wasn't a "whodunit." The murderer was always revealed to the audience at the beginning of the episode. It then became a cat and mouse game where Columbo inevitably would figure out how to get the murderer to incriminate himself or herself. Peter Falk was great as Columbo, and the show featured a lot of well known actors who would play the murderers from one episode to the next. Leonard Nimoy played a murderous surgeon. Dick Van Dyke played a killer photographer. The writing was smart, and sometimes funny. Steven Spielberg directed an episode in 1971 before he was famous.
My wife and I love Columbo. I loved the 3 episodes with Patrick McGoohan. McGoohan even directed one or two of those episodes. Many great old actors played the villains: Theodore Bikel, Rod Steiger, Billy Connelly, William Shatner Ruth Gordon, Vera Miles, etc.
 
Buffy is the best x
Buffy would have to be my number one. I had to get my housemates to agree I could have the TV to watch it when it started - they were most sceptical. "Your friends in the internet say you should watch a spin-off of that Kirsty Swanson movie, with characters called Willow and Xander and the bloke off the Gold Blend adverts? And it's seriously called Buffy the vampire slayer??"

They humoured me, and within the first episode were hooked, to the extent one's mum sent us DVDs of s4 because it was only on Sky. Only we got them very out of order!

Dynasty. LA Law. The Cosby Show.
Taggart, The Bill, Blackadder, The Young Ones, This Life.

My friends and I aspired to live This Life, only on a Young Ones budget.
 
I watched Dynasty too. Mostly remember the two kids. Steven struggling with bisexuality and Fallon with promiscuity. Helped me put a lot of things in perspective.
 
I watched Dynasty too. Mostly remember the two kids. Steven struggling with bisexuality and Fallon with promiscuity. Helped me put a lot of things in perspective.
That was good (until the aliens), but I mostly aspired to being Alexis Colby in a bath overflowing with bubbles and being brought cocktails by a near-naked flunky. Not that Dex did anything for me.
 
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.
A great show for sure and for precisely the reason you mentioned - ie., it normalized the "weird" desires that inhabited our brain but were to admit to because we were raised to thing they were evil, impure, etc...

Shows like MOS and books like 50 Shades of Grey did wonders for our sex life. Up until then, it was mostly missionary and occasional doggy-style... But nowadays, we do all sorts of stuff, including rimming, pegging, titty-fucking (please, can someone come up with a better term for this, it sounds idiotic).

Other, more recent, shows include: Fleabag, Sex Education, and Dying for Sex (my wife's and my favorite)
 
The theme tune to "gummy bears" is still stuck in my head.
I have dead-ass performed that theme song, acapella, as a request during karaoke more than once. I am only mildly ashamed to admit this in front of a thread full of other weirdos. :LOL:

I was never huge into TV, but shows like Millennium, Twin Peaks, the various incarnations of Star Trek, and (of course) my beloved Kindred: The Embraced were all staples in my house when I was younger. :)
 
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I know some have been said beofre, but I LOVED Gummi Bears, Ducktales, and Tailspin.
As far as live action… Buck Roger (really only when Queen Ardala was on), Dukes of Hazaard, Diff’rent Strokes, Night Court (I just rewatched it on Prime, still funny), Moonlighting, MASH, Golden Girls.

And of course BtVS (it got me through some times).
 
Monk.

The very first episode, we learn what happened to his wife and why he's broken. During the entire series, his mission to bring justice to the killer of his wife never gets disrupted with random romance. His unwavering loyalty and love for his dead wife allows him to drag himself through the hell of his grief, trauma, and severe OCD. Every second of every day is a complete overload of stress that never eases up, but he keeps marching forward towards his one single purpose as he continues solving crimes and going to therapy. Then at the end, he does exactly what he set out to do. The happy ending wasn't him fixing his life, finding a new lover, and moving on. It was taking down the person who hurt the person he cared about more than anything else in the world. And the surprise after he took that person down was the best 'cherry on top' moment I've ever seen in television.

I've heard people say 'Meh, it's alright' when I've brought the show up, and in reality wasn't the most popular show, or ever in the conversation for 'best tv show of all time' like Sopranos, Game of Thrones, The Wire, or Breaking Bad. It's literally just Monk struggling to cope with life and the story never bait and switches into a romance, nor does it compromise the story or characters for the sake of a 'shocking' plot twist.
 
Monk.

The very first episode, we learn what happened to his wife and why he's broken. During the entire series, his mission to bring justice to the killer of his wife never gets disrupted with random romance. His unwavering loyalty and love for his dead wife allows him to drag himself through the hell of his grief, trauma, and severe OCD. Every second of every day is a complete overload of stress that never eases up, but he keeps marching forward towards his one single purpose as he continues solving crimes and going to therapy. Then at the end, he does exactly what he set out to do. The happy ending wasn't him fixing his life, finding a new lover, and moving on. It was taking down the person who hurt the person he cared about more than anything else in the world. And the surprise after he took that person down was the best 'cherry on top' moment I've ever seen in television.

I've heard people say 'Meh, it's alright' when I've brought the show up, and in reality wasn't the most popular show, or ever in the conversation for 'best tv show of all time' like Sopranos, Game of Thrones, The Wire, or Breaking Bad. It's literally just Monk struggling to cope with life and the story never bait and switches into a romance, nor does it compromise the story or characters for the sake of a 'shocking' plot twist.
totally forgot about monk, brilliantly funny
 
Going to really date myself, Emergency 51 … Julie was a hottie of a nurse. Hmm yummy

I still think Hot Lips Hoolhan, Loretta Swiftly from M.A.S.H. Was a hottie
 
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