LETS TALK CLASSIC TV

[timothy]

what are you're favorite show from the past dateing from early 70's to late 80's ? are they still in sindication and are you still watching them ?



currently rewatching cheers on hd net on season 2

 

[Spot's Meow]

For some reason I just love The Facts of Life. I own the first two seasons on DVD and recently watched them, but I've yet to get the others. I actually never saw it in it's first run (I was born in 1986), but I caught most of the series when they were showing reruns on TV Land...or was it Nick at Nite? I don't remember. It was about 10 years ago now.

I really love The Wonder Years and have been watching the show on the new HUB channel most evenings at 6 PM. I also catch Family Ties on that channel sometimes, a show which I've never really seen any of before.

I'm sure there are many others shows from that time period I enjoy, but I haven't seen any of them lately so I can't remember them at the moment. I remember Nick at Nite and TV Land playing some awesome reruns around 2000, but in the past few years they have moved to playing the same 3 or 4 shows that I don't really care for over and over.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

My favorite shows from that era:

- Challenge of the Superfriends (the version with the Legion of Doom)
- World's Greatest Superfriends (the one with the weird episodes about Middle Earth, the Universe of Evil, etc.)
- the 80's version of the Twilight Zone
- Voyagers!
- ST:TNG

 

[timothy]

loved the facts of life spin off from different strokes both great shows . never saw the wonder years . loved voyagers any one remmber the planet of the apes tv series or cartoon run .

buck rodgers
battlestar galactica
knight rider
a team ( also I loved the movie as well )
kolcheack the night stalker
galactica 1980
night court
misfits of science


can'nt stand tv land any more or nick at night

 

[Kirby]

So many great shows from that era:
The Bob Newhart Show was my favorite
M*A*S*H
Cheers
Magnum P.I.
Remington Steele
Moonlighting

 

[gh4chiefs]

God I'm getting old, I saw the thread titled about "classic TV" and I'm thinking shows from the 50's and 60's.

 

[timothy]

I loved george reeves's superman and a huge three stooges fan moe , lary and curly and sometimes shemp .

 

[BDJ]

Well...I still think of classic tv as 50's and 60's so I'm gonna list some of those as well....

Gilligan's Island (Good Heaven's Lovie!!)
The Beverly Hillbillies (Why you big walking gizzard!!!)
Happy Days (Sit on it!)
Laverne and Shirley (Heddoh!!)
Columbo (y'know you got a point dere sir)
Wonder Woman (fighting for our rights in her satin tights)
The Andy Griffith Show (NIP IT!! Nip It in the bud!!)
I Love Lucy (You got some 'splainin' to do!)
Carol Burnett Show (Mrs. H-whiggins!! Ewe-ah dingbat!)
The Captain and Tennille Show (the Bionic Watermelon)
Hee-Haw (Ppphhhttt!! She was gonnnne!!)
The Six Million Dollar Man (...better...stronger...faster)

 

[Sparky]

I will never get tired of watching MASH, All in the Family, Star Trek TOS (I have the series on Blu-Ray, but if I see it on TV I will still watch it.)

 

[auntiehill]

M*A*S*H
Magnum, PI (I will watch that 'till I die)
Cheers
The A-Team
One Day at a Time
WKRP
Blake's 7 (rewatching--finally--this year)
St Elsewhere
Hill Street Blues
Riptide
Simon & Simon

 

[Robert D. Robot]

God I'm getting old, I saw the thread titled about "classic TV" and I'm thinking shows from the 50's and 60's.

I was thinking exactly the same thing! I remember when I first started hearing "Oldies" radio stations playing music from my youth (60s and 70s), rather than the real oldies music from the 1940s and 1950s!

 

[Captaindemotion]

I'm gonna go for shows from every era pre-1990s (I was born in the 1970s but during that era, we caught plenty of repeats from the 1950s and 60s)

The Phil Silvers Show (Sgt Bilko)

Bonanza

Maverick (sadly not seen enough)

Star Trek (obviously!) (Am tempted to include TJ Hooker but in my heart I know I only watched it because of William Shatner. Oh, and Heather Locklear)

Dr Who

The Man From UNCLE

The Rockford Files (the Great Garner's other seminal tv role; for my money, he's THE all time great tv star)

Starsky & Hutch (especially the first couple of seasons)

The Six Million Dollar Man (am tempted to include The Fall Guy, but in my heart, I know it was pants and I only watched it because of Lee Majors. Oh, and Heather Locklear)

Original BSG

Buck Rogers (the first season only - the second was pants)

Miami Vice (forget the jokes about shiny suits and mullets, it actually was a good show)

Cheers (still one of my all-time fave comedies - much prefer it to Friends or Frasier)

Star Trek TNG (again obviously - though, for my money, it didn't really get much good until the 1990s)

 

[barnaclelapse]

I'm watching the last two seasons of "The Bob Newhart" show that I bought from some bootleg DVD site (Fox has repeatedly said over the years that they're not going to release the last two seasons, so I gave up on them).

There's a lot of old shows that I still watch, but that's the one I'm focusing on right now.

 

[J.T.B.]

Maverick (sadly not seen enough)
[...]
The Rockford Files (the Great Garner's other seminal tv role; for my money, he's THE all time great tv star)

I have to agree. Maverick is currently shown on the Encore Western cahnnel. There aren't enough Brett episodes, though. I like Jack Kelly fine but, sorry, he's not in James Garner's league.

The Rockford Files is probably the best detective show ever, and I say that as a Magnum P.I. fan from day one. One good thing about the digital tv "revolution" is that a lot of broadcast channels have started showing old reruns on their digital sub-channels. I have been watching a "Rockford" about once a day lately, even though I have seen them all many times. I remember from when I was a kid that when you see the name Stuart Margolin in the opening credits know you're in for an extra treat.

The Six Million Dollar Man (am tempted to include The Fall Guy, but in my heart, I know it was pants and I only watched it because of Lee Majors. Oh, and Heather Locklear)

Heather Thomas.

--Justin

 

[timothy]

have gun will travel
wild wild west
wkrp love loni anderson and the girl who plays baily she's hot to
alice
DR.WHO
hitchhicker's guide to the galaxy the tv series ( also loved the moive )
fall guy
dukes of hazard's

how about some cartoon's love the loony toones .

 

[Captaindemotion]

The Six Million Dollar Man (am tempted to include The Fall Guy, but in my heart, I know it was pants and I only watched it because of Lee Majors. Oh, and Heather Locklear)

Heather Thomas.

--Justin

Coulda sworn it was the other Heather. But IMDB confirms you're right and Ms Locklear merely had two guest appearances (as different characters) on TFG. My bad!

 

[ElBurro]

I've just watched the original V miniseries and I'm on the second part of The Final Battle and am loving it.

Think I might re-watch The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy at some point soon. Haven't seen it since I was a kid.

 

[startrekwatcher]

Three's Company
Roseanne
Dallas
TNG
Friday the 13th The Series
Hill Street Blues
Falcon Crest
The Golden Girls
Soap
Who's the Boss
Benson
Mama's Family
Hunter
The Equalizer
ALF
The Incredible Hulk with Bill Bixby
Murder She Wrote
The Jeffersons
Good Times
Laverne and Shirley
I Dream of Jeannie
Transformers cartoon
Masters of the Universe cartoon
Princess of Power cartoon
Super Powers saturday morning cartoon
Scooby Doo cartoon
M.A.S.K. cartoon
$25000 Pyramid game show with Dick Clark
Hollywood Squares
Love Connection with Chuck Woolery

 

[Vendikarr]

God I'm getting old, I saw the thread titled about "classic TV" and I'm thinking shows from the 50's and 60's.

That's now referred to as the Golden Age of television.

 

[ToddPence]

God I'm getting old, I saw the thread titled about "classic TV" and I'm thinking shows from the 50's and 60's.

That's now referred to as the Golden Age of television.

Okay, then someone needs to create a thread for that one. I nominate myself.