Prior to Star Trek, what was...

[LMFAOschwarz]

your favorite tv show? (assuming it is your favorite show: I've yet to run into any of you at TheHazelBBS, so... )

Mine was The Wild, Wild West. I taught myself how to tell time watching that show, so it has a little warm place in my memory.

 

[HIjol]

...cool choice!...loved the train...

Mine was " Lost in Space"...I was 8 when it started to air...wow...long ago...

 

[Melakon]

For sci-fi, the 1963-64 The Outer Limits. For action-adventure, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (though its third season was horrible), and The Wild Wild West.

Regarding Irwin Allen's importance in sci-fi television, my favorite series of his was The Time Tunnel, mainly for the Tic-Toc Base set and its "Forbidden Planet" style matte shots. I just wished they'd gone into the future more often. There was one episode I'd like to see again, since I've only seen it once or twice since air date-- it's either when the Tunnel is under construction in the 1950s, or the Russians are building one, or something like that.

If TheHazelBBS is about what I immediately think of by its name, I wasn't a big fan of Shirley Booth's show.

 

[od0_ital]

Sesame Street

I started watchin' classic Trek reruns when I was six.

 

[LMFAOschwarz]

If TheHazelBBS is about what I immediately think of by its name, I wasn't a big fan of Shirley Booth's show.

That's indeed the one. I thought it sounded better than BatchelorFatherBBS or some such.

 

[Melakon]

If TheHazelBBS is about what I immediately think of by its name, I wasn't a big fan of Shirley Booth's show.

That's indeed the one. I thought it sounded better than BatchelorFatherBBS or some such.

Well, I liked Ted Key's single-panel Hazel cartoons in The Saturday Evening Post. But the series wasn't anything like them. Then again, I was between 10-15 when the tv series aired, and the only thing I liked about it was Whitney Blake. It's sort of related to my interest in Marta Kristen on Lost in Space.

 

[Kelso]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

 

[Nerys Myk]

Batman and various cartoons.

 

[Greg Cox]

Batman, The Lone Ranger, The Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits. And I went through a big Dark Shadows period as well . . ..

 

[RandyS]

Having been born in April 1970, there was no "prior to Star Trek" for me. My mom being a fan got me into it, we watched the first set of reruns when I was a baby (although I don't remember THAT).

That being said, my favorite shows away from Star Trek are: Babylon 5, MASH, Get Smart (the 1960's original), Batman (again, the 1960's version), The Twilight Zone (yep, you guessed it, the 1960's version, although there was some good stuff on the 1980's version too), and Eight is Enough.

That list is in no particular order.

 

[Lucky]

I was born in 84 so I always knew Star Trek too. My favorite 3 shows of all time though are Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Farscape.

 

[BillJ]

Having been born in April 1970, there was no "prior to Star Trek" for me.

Same here (born in October 1971). I've been watching Star Trek for as long as I can remember.

 

[C.E. Evans]

For me, it was a dead even tie between TOS and Space: 1999 as I think I discovered both around the same time as a kid.

 

[MacLeod]

You don't really expect me to rember all those moons ago, As I kid sure I wacthed cartoons/childrens programmes and of course DW.

 

[TrickyDickie]

Bewitched. Back in the 1930s my grandmother worked for Robert Montgomery and when my dad visited her he bounced little Elizabeth on his knee. We were all very saddened by her death from cancer.

 

[Warped9]

I was born in '59 and found Star Trek in 1970. Before Star Trek I watched a number of shows, but it's hard to recall an absolute favourite.

Back then I really liked Batman and The Adventures Of Superman. I watched all the Irwin Allen sci-fi as well as The Man From U.N.C.L.E. There was also Space Ghost and Spider-Man around the time I was watching Batman.

Discovering Star Trek really influenced me because a lot of what I had been watching fell by the wayside afterward.

 

[Greg Cox]

Bewitched. Back in the 1930s my grandmother worked for Robert Montgomery and when my dad visited her he bounced little Elizabeth on his knee. We were all very saddened by her death from cancer.

I recently stumbled onto an old THRILLER episode starring a shockingly young Elizabeth Montgomery. She had a definite star quality even back then . . . .

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Keeping in mind I was introduced to Trek when I was 7 or 8 years old:
Captain Kangaroo
Emergency!
Six Million Dollar Man
Wonder Woman

 

[Melakon]

I forgot to mention Howdy Doody earlier, but it went off the air in 1960 and I was just getting into sci-fi in 1959 with Men into Space and The Twilight Zone. About 15 years later though, I did meet Buffalo Bob Smith.

 

[LMFAOschwarz]

Keeping in mind I was introduced to Trek when I was 7 or 8 years old:
Captain Kangaroo
Emergency!
Six Million Dollar Man
Wonder Woman