LET'S TALK GOLDEN AGE TV!
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Star Trek TOS, of course.
I Dream of Jeannie is one that I'm currently watching from the start. Am only on the first season, but it's awesome!
Used to watch a fair bit of 60s t.v when I was a kid actually. Loved Deputy Dawg, The Jetsons, The Addams Family and The Munsters. Watched them quite a bit, but haven't for years.
Might see if I can get hold of some dvds, methinks
I Dream of Jeannie is one that I'm currently watching from the start. Am only on the first season, but it's awesome!
Used to watch a fair bit of 60s t.v when I was a kid actually. Loved Deputy Dawg, The Jetsons, The Addams Family and The Munsters. Watched them quite a bit, but haven't for years.
Might see if I can get hold of some dvds, methinks
I'm watching Lost in Space now for the first time. It's pretty good. Of course I enjoy Star Trek too.
OMG, it's like you lived at our house!
The only show in your list that we didn't watch was Topper.
Adding:
Gunsmoke
Maverick
Wagon Train
Beverly Hillbillies
Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
My Favorite Martian with Buill Bixby and Ray Walston (1980s repeat). Really good TV.
Twilight Zone
Dragnet
Outer Limits
Dragnet
Outer Limits
I don't know anything about Topper, but Daktari was a series set in Africa where a game keeper had an unusual pet: Clarence, the cross-eyed lion.
Topper
Daktari
I spent part of the 1960s in Japan and wasn't alive in the 1950so I missed out on the first run of a lot of "Golden Age" shows, but thanks to syndication I caught up.
Leave It To Beaver
Honeymooners
Mr Ed
Ultra Man ( Japanese show)
Time Tunnel
My Favorite Martian
McHale's Navy
Mod Squad
Mannix
and being a kid:
Banana Splits
Jonny Quest
Huckleberry Hound and the other HB cartoons
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Underdog
Herculoids
Various animated versions of DC and Marvel superheroes.
Don't forget Doctor Who across the Atlantic!
I loved the original "I've Got a Secret"; the panel had an enormous amount of fun, and it was just contagious. Really miss Game Show Network's black and white overnight block.
Star Trek
The Twilight Zone
The Andy Griffith Show
Gomer Pyle USMC
Thriller
Dennis the Menace
My Three Sons
Bewitched
Green Hornet
Batman
I Love Lucy
The Twilight Zone
The Andy Griffith Show
Gomer Pyle USMC
Thriller
Dennis the Menace
My Three Sons
Bewitched
Green Hornet
Batman
I Love Lucy
Here’s my list of the fifty greatest episodes of the 1960′s, presented in chronological order by the date they first aired:
ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS – “Man From the South” (1/60)
THE UNTOUCHABLES – “The Rusty Heller Story” (10/60)
THRILLER – “The Hungry Glass” (1/61)
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL – “A Quiet Night in Town” (1/61)
THE TWILIGHT ZONE – “The Invaders” (1/61)
ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS – “Incident in a Small Jail” (3/61)
THE TWILIGHT ZONE – “It’s a Good Life” (11/61)
ROUTE 66 – “The Mud Nest” (11/61)
THE DICK POWELL SHOW – “The Price of Tomatoes” (1/62)
ROUTE 66 – “A Long Piece of Mischief” (1/62)
NAKED CITY – “Today the Man Who Kills Ants is Coming” (3/62)
BUS STOP – “I Kiss Your Shadow” (3/62)
BONANZA – “The Crucible” (4/62)
ROUTE 66 – “Man Out of Time” (10/62) - top individual episode of the decade
IT’S A MAN’S WORLD – “A Drive Over to Exeter” (10/62)
THE DEFENDERS – “Madman” (10/62)
BEN CASEY – “A Cardinal Act of Mercy” (1/63)
NAKED CITY – “Prime of Life” (2/63)
THE FUGITIVE – “Never Wave Goodbye” (10/63)
PERRY MASON – “The Case of the Deadly Verdict” (10/63)
EAST SIDE / WEST SIDE – “Who Do You Kill?” (11/63)
THE BREAKING POINT – “And James Was a Very Small Snail” (11/63)
ARREST AND TRIAL – “Journey Into Darkness” (12/63)
DR. KILDARE – “Tyger, Tyger” (1/64)
THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR – “The Jar” (2/64)
CHANNING – “Wave Goodbye to the Fair-Haired Boy” (3/64)
CHRYSLER THEATER – “The Game With Glass Pieces” (5/64)
MR. NOVAK – “With a Hammer in His Hand, Lord, Lord!” (9/64)
THE VIRGINIAN – “Felicity’s Spring” (10/64)
12 O’CLOCK HIGH – “A Sound of Distant Thunder” (10/64)
THE OUTER LIMITS – “Demon With a Glass Hand” (10/64)
THE FUGITIVE – “The Survivors” (3/65)
CHRYSLER THEATER – “The Game” (9/65)
SLATTERY’S PEOPLE – “The Unborn” (10/65)
THE LONER – “The Homecoming of Lemuel Stove” (11/65)
TRIALS OF O’BRIEN – “No Justice For the Judge” (12/65)
COMBAT – “Hills are For Heroes” (3/66)
THE TIME TUNNEL – “The Day the Sky Fell In” (9/66)
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE – “The Committee For the 25th” (10/66)
STAR TREK – “The City on the Edge of Forever” (4/67)
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE – “The Seal” (11/67)
STAR TREK – “Journey to Babel” (11/67)
GUNSMOKE – “Stranger in Town” (11/67)
JUDD FOR THE DEFENSE – “To Kill a Madman” (11/67)
THE INVADERS – “The Ransom” (12/67)
CIMARRON STRIP – “A Knife in the Darkness” (1/68)
STAR TREK – “The Empath” (12/68)
MANNIX – “View of Nowhere” (12/68)
THEN CAME BRONSON – “Amid the Splinters of the Thunderbolt” (10/69)
THE BOLD ONES – “If I Should Wake Before I Die” (10/69)
ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS – “Man From the South” (1/60)
THE UNTOUCHABLES – “The Rusty Heller Story” (10/60)
THRILLER – “The Hungry Glass” (1/61)
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL – “A Quiet Night in Town” (1/61)
THE TWILIGHT ZONE – “The Invaders” (1/61)
ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS – “Incident in a Small Jail” (3/61)
THE TWILIGHT ZONE – “It’s a Good Life” (11/61)
ROUTE 66 – “The Mud Nest” (11/61)
THE DICK POWELL SHOW – “The Price of Tomatoes” (1/62)
ROUTE 66 – “A Long Piece of Mischief” (1/62)
NAKED CITY – “Today the Man Who Kills Ants is Coming” (3/62)
BUS STOP – “I Kiss Your Shadow” (3/62)
BONANZA – “The Crucible” (4/62)
ROUTE 66 – “Man Out of Time” (10/62) - top individual episode of the decade
IT’S A MAN’S WORLD – “A Drive Over to Exeter” (10/62)
THE DEFENDERS – “Madman” (10/62)
BEN CASEY – “A Cardinal Act of Mercy” (1/63)
NAKED CITY – “Prime of Life” (2/63)
THE FUGITIVE – “Never Wave Goodbye” (10/63)
PERRY MASON – “The Case of the Deadly Verdict” (10/63)
EAST SIDE / WEST SIDE – “Who Do You Kill?” (11/63)
THE BREAKING POINT – “And James Was a Very Small Snail” (11/63)
ARREST AND TRIAL – “Journey Into Darkness” (12/63)
DR. KILDARE – “Tyger, Tyger” (1/64)
THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR – “The Jar” (2/64)
CHANNING – “Wave Goodbye to the Fair-Haired Boy” (3/64)
CHRYSLER THEATER – “The Game With Glass Pieces” (5/64)
MR. NOVAK – “With a Hammer in His Hand, Lord, Lord!” (9/64)
THE VIRGINIAN – “Felicity’s Spring” (10/64)
12 O’CLOCK HIGH – “A Sound of Distant Thunder” (10/64)
THE OUTER LIMITS – “Demon With a Glass Hand” (10/64)
THE FUGITIVE – “The Survivors” (3/65)
CHRYSLER THEATER – “The Game” (9/65)
SLATTERY’S PEOPLE – “The Unborn” (10/65)
THE LONER – “The Homecoming of Lemuel Stove” (11/65)
TRIALS OF O’BRIEN – “No Justice For the Judge” (12/65)
COMBAT – “Hills are For Heroes” (3/66)
THE TIME TUNNEL – “The Day the Sky Fell In” (9/66)
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE – “The Committee For the 25th” (10/66)
STAR TREK – “The City on the Edge of Forever” (4/67)
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE – “The Seal” (11/67)
STAR TREK – “Journey to Babel” (11/67)
GUNSMOKE – “Stranger in Town” (11/67)
JUDD FOR THE DEFENSE – “To Kill a Madman” (11/67)
THE INVADERS – “The Ransom” (12/67)
CIMARRON STRIP – “A Knife in the Darkness” (1/68)
STAR TREK – “The Empath” (12/68)
MANNIX – “View of Nowhere” (12/68)
THEN CAME BRONSON – “Amid the Splinters of the Thunderbolt” (10/69)
THE BOLD ONES – “If I Should Wake Before I Die” (10/69)
Topper was an early-1950s fantasy sitcom based on the 1937 movie. The TV version starred Leo G. Carroll as a staid banker bedeviled by the ghosts of free-spirited couple George and Marion Kirby (Robert Sterling and Anne Jeffreys), who were killed by an avalanche. (In the movie, they died in a car crash.)
I regularly watched Run For Your Life, I Spy, Mission: Impossible, The Name of the Game, and of course the original Star Trek. And Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. Goldie Hawn was so cute!
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Let's see...
Quatermass
Doctor Who
H.G. Wells' Invisible Man
The Four Just Men
Danger Man
Gideon's Way
The Saint
Man in a Suitcase
The Prisoner
Strange Report
Randall and Hopkirk -Deceased
Department S
The Champions
The Avengers
The Baron
Fireball XL5
Space Patrol
Stingray
Thunderbirds
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Joe 90
The Secret Service
The Power Game
The Gold Robbers
Callan
Public Eye
Redcap
Special Branch
Big Breadwinner Hog
A for Andromeda
Adam Adamant Lives
The Year of the Sex Olympics
Culloden
The War Game
Star Trek
The Twilight Zone
The Outer Limits
Mission: Impossible
It was a good time, wasn't it?
Quatermass
Doctor Who
H.G. Wells' Invisible Man
The Four Just Men
Danger Man
Gideon's Way
The Saint
Man in a Suitcase
The Prisoner
Strange Report
Randall and Hopkirk -Deceased
Department S
The Champions
The Avengers
The Baron
Fireball XL5
Space Patrol
Stingray
Thunderbirds
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Joe 90
The Secret Service
The Power Game
The Gold Robbers
Callan
Public Eye
Redcap
Special Branch
Big Breadwinner Hog
A for Andromeda
Adam Adamant Lives
The Year of the Sex Olympics
Culloden
The War Game
Star Trek
The Twilight Zone
The Outer Limits
Mission: Impossible
It was a good time, wasn't it?
The sixties had some fun shows but it's hardly what people are referring to when they talk of the "golden age of television."
I was born in 61 so I didn't watch the 50's show in first obviously, but saw a lot of them in syndication. But some of the 60's shows that I remember in first run are:
Gunsmoke
Bonanza
Hogans Heroes
The Beverly Hillbillies
Lucille Ball's show (can't remember the title as it went through different versions)
Combat
The Jackie Gleason Show
The Red Skelton Show
Laugh-in
Get Smart
Mission Impossible (I think that started in the 60s)
Hawaii 5-0 (the real deal)
I Dream of Jeanie
Bewitched
Gilligan's Island (Duh how could I forget this)
Andy Griffith Show
Gomer Pyle USMC
My Three Sons
Didn't watch TOS in first run, caught in syndication in the 70's.
Gunsmoke
Bonanza
Hogans Heroes
The Beverly Hillbillies
Lucille Ball's show (can't remember the title as it went through different versions)
Combat
The Jackie Gleason Show
The Red Skelton Show
Laugh-in
Get Smart
Mission Impossible (I think that started in the 60s)
Hawaii 5-0 (the real deal)
I Dream of Jeanie
Bewitched
Gilligan's Island (Duh how could I forget this)
Andy Griffith Show
Gomer Pyle USMC
My Three Sons
Didn't watch TOS in first run, caught in syndication in the 70's.
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Its a spin off from another thread where the term "classic" was used to describe shows from the 70s and 80s.
I was born too soon but thanks to the wonders of Re-runs I got a lot of b&w tv shoved down my throat. The ones that stayed in my head were:
Dick Van Dyke Show-which I will still watch because, frankly, its just hilarious
McHale's Navy-stupid but amusing and the military aspects were thrilling in my eyes as a young boy
I LoveLucy-because no one in America could avoid it
Star Trek. I wouldn't be here if I didn't love it...
Rocky and Bullwinkle, the Chuck Jones Tom and Jerry cartoons and his Bugs, too.
Scooby Doo. The late 60's version.
The Munsters. God knows why.
Perry Mason. Cured me of police procedurals at a young age. Then L&O came along and I forgot everything I had learned to avoid "legal" shows.
Pretty much anything with Sherwood Schwartz attached.
Dick Van Dyke Show-which I will still watch because, frankly, its just hilarious
McHale's Navy-stupid but amusing and the military aspects were thrilling in my eyes as a young boy
I LoveLucy-because no one in America could avoid it
Star Trek. I wouldn't be here if I didn't love it...
Rocky and Bullwinkle, the Chuck Jones Tom and Jerry cartoons and his Bugs, too.
Scooby Doo. The late 60's version.
The Munsters. God knows why.
Perry Mason. Cured me of police procedurals at a young age. Then L&O came along and I forgot everything I had learned to avoid "legal" shows.
Pretty much anything with Sherwood Schwartz attached.
