Monday, April 14, 2008

A list of TV shows that were important to me while growing up. PART 1

Children's Shows
1. Romper Room
2. Sesame Street
3. Captain Kangaroo
4. The Electric Company
5. Mr. Dressup (It's a Canadian show)
6. Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
7. New Zoo Revue
8. H.R. Pufnstuf
9. The Banana Splits



Live-Action
1. Gilligan's Island
2. Lost In Space
3. The Munsters
4. Emergency!
5. The Addams Family
6. The Brady Bunch
7. The Monkeys
8. That's Incredible!
9. The Hulk
10. CHiPs
11. Hogan's Heroes
12. The Jefferson's
13. All In The Family
14. Space 1999
15. Battlestar Galactica (of course the original series)
16. The Muppet Show
17. The Tonight Show (w/Johnny Carson)
18. The Carol Burnett Show
19. The Dukes of Hazard
20. The Love Boat
21. Fantasy Island
22. Dallas
23. M*A*S*H

Oh...
24. The Waltons
25. Little House on the Prarie
26. Donny & Marie
27. Captain & Tenille
28. Sonny & Cher


Animated
1. All Classic Warner Brothers
2. Pink Panther
3. Scooby-Doo (pre-Scrappy Doo)
4. Speed Racer
5. Tom & Jerry (The earlier stuff. Not that 60's psychedelic trippin' stuff from later.)
6. Popeye
7. The Flintstones
8. The Jetsons

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Doug. I'm not stalking you or anything (promise), I just found your blog link on Facebook.
Anyway... I had totally forgotten about Mr Dressup! Awesome show. I'm sorry it's not on in syndication (fat chance of that I guess) so that my sister's kids could enjoy it.

David Stiles said...

Hi Doug,
Like Anne, I found your blog from Facebook. Unlike her, I'm stalking you. :)

This is a great list...a couple more shows that came to mind for me:

In the Children's Category: "The Friendly Giant" (another show from Canada)

In the Animated Category: "Superfiends"

In the Live Action category: "Adam-12"

And also all of the dective mystery shows on TV: The NBC Sunday Mystery Movies with "Columbo", "McCloud", "McMillan and Wife"...also "Rockford Files" and later "Magnum P.I." and "Simon and Simon".

I can't wait to see your movie list...I'm hoping the Pink Panther movies are in the top ten.

And finally...I still have my "Emergency" metal lunch box. For some reason my kids weren't into using it for their lunches at school.

Best,
-Dave

David Stiles said...

...I forgot a few more in a "Comedy" category that came to mind for me: "Real People", "SCTV" and "SNL".

-Dave