what was your favorate tv show when you were small?

Speed Racer!!!!! That's the one I was thinking of. With sister Trixie and her monkey pet! He drove a Mach 5. Anyone remember, "Born Free" filmed in Africa with the pet lion's I think the female was called Elsie.

 

yeah, elsa, loved it. and racer x, remember who he really was?

 

Amos n" Andy---"fool,you aint got enough sense to come in out of the rain!'-(replies ,highly insulted)"I does too!I does it all the time!"No reruns because it supposedly makes black people look foolish.PC bs.The lawyer(what was his name?)was hilarious.

 

Replies=noun.Replys=verb(slapslap)

 

I want you to meet the family know as the Real McCoy's.
There is Grandpa Amos the head of the clan
He roars like a lion but is gentle as a lamb.

And now here's Luke who screams with joy
as he make's love to Kate McCoy.




There was a Real McCoy's get together special on TV with all the surviving cast members two years ago. It was said, most had not seen each other since the show ended in the mid 60s.

 

Here at Germany there was just one channel on TV and living near the border of Austria you had another one. The german TV producers didn't much work for german kids, they just bought american tv shows. A german kid around 1960 learned a lot about the american way, we watched the dogs Lassie and Rintintin, Fury the black horse and Flipper the dolphin, may be they changed the names here at Germany. A lot of Disney movies too. The Disney movie Fantasia made me to become a fan of classic music. A few years later came more and more european produced children programs, but I doubt, that they were shown in the US.

 

WHOOP...whoop...wHOOP....a wise guy ehhh??
"you Knuckleheads...why I outta..."

La da dee...La de daa.....

 

Don't remember Speed Racer's name! I was thinking about WolfMan Jack's Midnight Special. Saw lot's of great act's on that show. It was wierd, they would have this variety like David Bowie, Todd Rungren and Hermie and the Hermit's all on the same night. But I LOVED Night Gallery. I still have nightmares over some of the stories.

 

Night Gallery was great. I wish they'd show them again. Alfred Hitchcock pioneered the bizarre/suspense TV format. Shows like The Outer Limits, Night Gallery, and Twilight Zone followed his general format.

 

There was one episode of "Jungle Jim" (Johnny Weissmuller) where they discovered an isolated place that still had live dinosaurs. That was back in the mid-50's, shortly after my parents got their first TV. I also liked the Superman series with George Reeve and the Commando Cody series they had on the Early Show during their sci-fi week. There was a puppet show on one of the Philly stations called "Bertie the Bunyip." Also Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney. Later, I got into "Dark Shadows," and in the 70's, I found another bizarre soap called "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." Can't forget the original "Star Trek."

 

"Mary Hartman" gave Martin Mull his start!

 

We had "Shock Theatre" on at mid-night on Fridays.
It had a real dorky guy named Dr. Madblood who would come on and do some real stupid stuff during commercial breaks.
Long story, but I was 7 and home alone alot of nights and would sit in a chair and watch these scary movies and then have to pee and RUN to the bathroom...then I'd have to come out , which was even scarier as I didn't know if anyone was out THERE in the shadows. So I would get up my nerve and RUN back to my chair.
But I loved "Shock Theatre"...

 

"Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" He he. Soap was good too. Billy Crystal played the 1st gay character on TV. Alot of shows that changed the "Family Format" in the 70's. "That Girl" was all about "woman power" a single woman. "Room 222" talked about college sex. "Love American Style" and "Laugh In" pushed the limits every week. Hell when I was a kid, married couples slept in seperate bed's on TV. Rob and Laura Petry for example. That messed me up. I thought it was wierd that my parents slept in the same bed. At least they showed the Petry's bedroom. I think June and Ward Cleaver slept upside down in the attic cuz we spent alot of time in Wally and the Beav's bedroom but never in all those years did we see Ward and Junes. And they say violence messes kids up. Phew!

 

Maynard G. Krebs on Dobie Gillis was great. There was a show that lasted only a season or so, Captain America or something, about a guy who took a pill and got all kinds of powers, My Mother the Car. I have heard the 'beaver' was on acid(web search)?!

 

I like the hospital sketch Arte Johnson did on 'Love American Style'. Flip Wilson did a good one too as 'Red' the pool shark.

'Laugh-In' was like the filming of a nervous breakdown in situ.

 

Hi,
Those corny old TV Westerns-"The Rebel" starring Nick Adams being my fave; http://www.fiftiesweb.com/western-4.htm
Now the worst show ever made was "Branded" and somehow Chuck Conners got sucked into that one.
Still-there was some pretty good storytelling that went into some of those series and I will have to pick up an anthology or two.
Tundrahopper4

 

My favorite tv shows growing up:


Cartoons: of course, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Mighty Mouse, Popye, Mickey Mouse Club (because the cartoons were disney characters), & old Saturday cartoons.
I mean the old ones with great disney like animation.
Any one remember this cartoon?
About a young owl that wanted to sing boogey woogey type music,
but his father owl was training him in classical.
The young owl sings this song at the end:

I wanna singa
about the mooona & the junna & springa,
I wanna singa
About the sky a blue means tea for two,
& anythinga with a singa means I love you,
I love you, I love to, SING SING OUT!

Finally, the father owl gives in & allows his son to sing the type of music he wants.
Anyway, as you can tell this cartoon is stuck in my memory!
This cartoon was probably shown in theaters when theaters showed cartoons at the beginning & in between double features & intermissions.
Speaking of, I remember my parents sending us kids to Saturday or Sundays matinees (so they can go the bar).
Also, anyone remember those little local theaters that offered all day movies?
I remember my folks giving each of us a BUCK!
50 cents for admission,
& the change, we ofter bought a bag of popcorn and coke for 10 cents each.
A Charm (all day sucker) or JUJU Beads, or Junior Mints!
LOL

 

the flintstones and gilligans island!...talk about staying power.

 

Oh hell yeah! All day movies. Saw Bambi like 3 times before mom was done shopping and came after us, then Lady and the Tramp came. And then my all time favorite Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. There were no Multi-plexes. And you didn't have to leave till your mom came to get you. Candy bars were 10 cent's and you could get a big peice of gum for one penny!