what was your favorate tv show when you were small?

That was a Warner Brothers cartoon.

Speaking of crooning, I also like the episode on Little Rascals when Alfalfa sold his soul to the devil and could only sing classical music. Then he had a change of heart and wanted to croon at Spanky's night club, but the man with the black coat and tophat and evil laugh told him he signed a contract and would never croon again. Alfalfa: "But I want to croon!"

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You remember, that's so awesome! I don't remember most of the Rascals storylines, though I know I watched them & along w/Howdy Doody, Rin Tin Tin & Three Stooges. My brother I know remembers them, he was Vietnam & born in 1951. I was still too little & but remember watching shows like Captain Kangoroo & The Danny Thomas Show, but not many of the storylines.
For some reason the old OWL cartoon stuck in my head!
I will never FORGET watching The Beatles, their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show! I was in 4th grade, and of course they later help to change my whole aspect on life during those times. I can go on & on but better quit now while I'm ahead!

 

i loved Zorro, The Lone Ranger, The Little Rascals, and Beanie & Cecil! Oh gosh it is fun to remember. The Three Stooges was great too! And Felix the Cat.



We always had a black and white tv at home. Got just 3 channels until UHF came out and gave us 2 more! We were all amazed at having so many more selections. I didn't have a color tv until I got married and then we got a hand me down from his dad. It was so amazing to see shows in color. I felt rich!

 

I would have to agree with "Meagain" but will add Rawhide, Wagon Train, (sponsored by borox) Route 66, Howdy Doody!!!

Phoenix

 

Mr Roger's Neighborhood, Mr. Wizard (we were polite in them days, we called people "Mr" or "Mrs") Bewitched, Sonny and Cher (although they were NOT real hippies) Marcus Welby MD, Ed Sullivan. I used to watch Lawrence Welk on my Grandmother's lap.

We didn't get a color TV until I was a teenager, in the 70s. My dad wanted to watch Cosmos in billions and billions of colors, I guess. We were like, the last people I knew to get a color TV.

 

death valley days.
Cher was cool,but sonny was one of our local mayors before becoming a republican congressman.He destroyed spring break in Palm Springs.A tradition i enjoyed for years.It has been replaced with the annual white party.Picture a city full of half naked men.It was all about the money.The gays have it,the kids don't.
If i had only known i would have boycotted both ronnie and sonnys shows along with the terminator.
Back on subject.What about that show starring 3 well endowed beauties that they appropriately called Hooterville.
Does anybody remember the beatle puppets on ed sullivan before their appearance?

 

Me,
My first girlfriend used to watch Vic Morrow in "Combat" and root for the Krauts-but she was nuts and a whole 'nother story.
Then there was the "Lloyd Thaxton Show" and of course "Ed Sullivan"; you cannot imagine how shocked people were when Mick Jaegger abused his microphone on his first appearance! They were clucking like hens about it for days and the local DJs referred to the Stones as "The Rolling Uglies" for a time afterwards. Then when "The Animals" were on Sullivan? "Oh such a terrible name!" went the clucking-but the first top 40 hits by a genuine blues band were something of a milestone.
Then there were THE COMEDIES. Now I used to like "The Red Skelton Show" and especially the "Freddy the Freeloader" skits with Red as a bum allergic to "clean." Even those nasty adults who called the shots seemed amused at this concept. Then there was "McCale's Navy" (catch the early seventies flick "Emporer of the Far North" with Ernest Borgnyne and Lee Marvin and did you know that EB was once married to Ethel "God Bless America!" Merman?), "Gilligan's Island", "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show", old "Laurel and Hardy"s and "WC Fields"s, "F Troop", "The Jackie Gleason Show", "The Flintstones", "The Munsters", "The Jack Paar Show", "Hogan's Heroes", "The Adams Family", "The Dean Martin Show", and the earlier "The Milton Berle Show"... just to name a few-and it all remains timelessly funny.
Tundrahopper4

 

The Doors got kicked off Ed Sullivan for singing the word 'higher'. The Stones had to change their tune from 'Let's Spend the Night Together' to 'Let's Spend Some Time Together'. CBS would only shoot Elvis from the chest up. Things were strange back then.

There used to be a lot of music in TV shows and the movies. All of that has gone away.

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If YOU know, "Combat", you ALSO know "Ratt Patrol"!

 

Well i gotta say some of these shows I am not old enough for but I liked Dukes of Hasard, The Beverly Hilbillies, M.A.S.H, Three's Company, All In The Family, Sandford and Son, Gilligans Island, Merry Tylor Moore, The Munsters...and so on

 

As a young child it was Sky King and the Lone Ranger. Later on in life it was LSD, Banana Splits and HR Puffenstuff.
If you are a fan of old cartoons (1945-1970's) take a look at this web site
www.2.wi.net/~rkurer/toptoon.ht. It has the theme song to every cartoon you can think of along wiyh some short clips and ifo about each. It's great

 

matt,
Yeah-"Rat Patrol"-the historical basis was actually on some Special Brit units in WWII but somehow got transmongrified into an American unit by TV. Then there were the "laugh at the rubes" shows like "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction" (Uncle Joe was a gas and Rich Little made an appearance on one episode). "The Beverly Hillbilles" was a lot of fun and is still in syndication and my wife Katie still calls some types of people "Big Goomers" just like Granny did. I don't believe the "funny negroes" shows made their appearance untill after "All in the Family", though "Flip Wilson" was doing some great stuff back in the day. "Sanford and Son" was not along untill the early seventies and it was great-ever hear some of Redd Fox's dirty records? "Hire the handicapped-they fun to watch." Then Richard Pryor made that appearance on "Saturday Night Live' sometime in '74 I think and the rest is history-like I was on the floor by the time he was saying "WHAAT IS HAPPENNING TO MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!???"
Then back in the day there were the Spy shows like "Man from UNCLE" and "Secret Agent" starring Patrick McGoohan. Johnny Rivers actually had a hit off the latter-pretty cool song. Then there was another European spy show...hmmm... had the gal and the guy in the bowler hat-MR Steede- who would not carry a firearm but somehow got by? At any rate; Mr Steede was getting shot at by this baddie and he picked up a cartridge and stuffed it in a hole of a perforated board he was ducking behind? Smacked it with his cane and it just so happened it lined up with the baddie and dropped him. OK....
Great stuff,
Tundrahopper4

 

Me,
Terry Thomas in "It's a MAd mad mad world"-hilarious fellow. Then there were cop shows which are pretty funny though they tried not to be. A bunch of us dopers used to sit around and watch "Dragnet" and laugh out butts off. Nobody laughed when this hippie type got twenty years for possession though. Then there was "Hawaii five Oh" and "The FBI" often featuring... well US as the bad guys (what a goddawfull bunch of jerks run the show huh? Like they couldn't attack the usual minorities by the sixties but they sure transferred that rage our way). A lot of very camp stuff out there and "the straights" were never so funny as when they were being serious.
Movies? well the David Lean epics have stood the test of time. Then there was the Russian version of "War and Peace" that came out in the early seventies that was quite excellent. "Easy Rider" is still a pretty decent flick Other than mad mad world I cannot think of many decent comedies from the era though. Did you ever get into the Second City Television productions from the early eighties? Great stuff and I picked up an anthology recently. At any rate; I remeber the "High Times" reviewers calling SCTV something like "the defining moment of sixties humor." Hmmmm.... well it is pretty funny stuff.
Tundrahopper4

 

I watched Flip Wilson alot and Carol Burnett. My fav was Laugh-in though Rowen and Martin. Ruth Buzzy as the phone operator that always had her hand stuck in her bra and Arte Johnson was the perv on the park bench and Goldie Hawn's "gotcha girl". Also "The Smother's Brother's". Mom alway's liked you best. The variety/comedy shows were new and fresh and good. I think variety shows can't make it cuz all the material has been done before.

 

I think Donnie and Marie blew a hole in variety shows that couldnt' be repaired!
Loved the Jackson 5 cartoon. One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch of girl's. Then they had the Osmond Brother's cartoon. I had a poster of Donny on my wall!

 

Taz,
Yeah the Smothers Brothers! Great stuff! They kept crossing "the line" and got yanked after what? One season or two? I guess I did not like "Laugh In" all that much. "The Danny Kay Show" had some moments. It's too bad Cheech and Chong never got on the air but they were way out there even for these times. For doper humor in the movies "The Boob Tube" was pretty in advance of it's time. I am not sure when "Kung Fu" started but '70 sounds about right-"Mad" magazine did a hilarious spoof on the series called "King Fool" where Caine tries to shame some Yahoos by letting them beat the crap out of him. "Well how do you feel now?" Caine asks the ruffians. "Jest fahn!" the yahoos answer. No remorse there, and the theme of the spoof was that Eastern Mysticism and the Wild West are a bad mix.
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Smothers Brothers were pretty good. They were getting into arguments with the executives over how much material would be censored out of their script. They were fired by CBS for breach of contract over a late script but years later won a lawsuit against CBS.

The Smothers also got a senator upset with the appearance of Dan Rowan of their show who gave that pro-Viet Nam war senator the Fickled Finger Fate award. That senator got his buddies together and threatened CBS with restrictions. That was one more reason CBS wanted to get rid of them.

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I love that sketch on SCTV about 'Fantasy Island'. John Candy was playing that little guy, Tatu. They did camera tricks to make him look like a midget. He started making love with Boss's beautiful Stratovarius and ended up smashing it to bits. Boss was kicking him all over the place like a football.