Favorite tv shows while growing up

[TheBossInTheWall]

What were your favorite tv shows when you were a kid?

Mine were The Muppet Babies, The Real Ghostbusters, 227, Amen!, and My So Called Life.

[hammerfan]

The Partridge Family
The Brady Bunch
Rowan & Martin's Laugh In
The Carol Burnett Show
Emergency!
Adam-12
The Rookies

Dr. Shock's Mad Theater and Dr. Shock's Horror Theater

[cheebacheeba]

The first show I remember really NEEDING to watch as a child was called
"Mysterious Cities of Gold".
I've only recently discovered that they continued the show in 2012...30 years after the original series aired. Looking forward to a rewatch.

I quite enjoyed the 80's twilight zone.

Knight Rider

80's TMNT.

Masters of the Universe

The Wonder Years

A bit later down the line, I enjoyed American Gothic, Freaks and Geeks, and Invader Zim.

[Repo'd]

The Brady Bunch
Rowan & Martin's Laugh In
The Carol Burnett Show


From Hammer's list, these shows for sure.

The very first show I HAD to watch was the original Batman series. Yeah, the one with Adam West. I didn't get the campy humor at all ( hey, I was like 3 years old ), but all that POW, POP and BLAM stuff just thrilled me! I really loved the dynamic duo and all the villains. I still love that show today, and now I get the jokes!

My other earliest TV memory is of the Ghost Host and his wonderful Horror movie show on Friday nights. As a little kid of maybe 7 or 8, I was already staying up waaay too late to check out all the scary stuff on late night TV. Ghost Host was our local horror host and he and that show are one of the big reasons I'm such a complete horror freak today.

[hammerfan]

Repo, you made me remember a couple more:

Yes, I also watched Batman!
Shazam!
H.R. Pufnstuf
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters

[cheebacheeba]

Shazam!
Are we talking the Marvel Family one, or the one with the Genie and the flying camel?

I used to like "Full House" but I find it just about unbearable now.

Ducktales was a favourite of mine for a time.

Though they were before my time, I also saw many episodes of "Gilligans Island" and "The Munsters" (I remember I thought the latter was a new show when they started advertising it)

If we're including teens here, Murphy Brown, Seinfeld, Star Trek TNG and my personal favourite of that franchise "Voyager".

Also Pingu and Trapdoor.

[Repo'd]

Repo, you made me remember a couple more:

Yes, I also watched Batman!
Shazam!
H.R. Pufnstuf
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters

Now you've reminded ME of more! I was nuts about Sigmund and H.R. Pufnstuf. I still find myself singing the Pufnstuf theme song for absolutely no reason at all. That magic flute stuff, very trippy.

[Repo'd]

Repo, you made me remember a couple more:

Yes, I also watched Batman!
Shazam!
H.R. Pufnstuf
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters

Now you've reminded ME of more! I was nuts about Sigmund and H.R. Pufnstuf. I still find myself singing the Pufnstuf theme song for absolutely no reason at all. That magic flute stuff, very trippy.

Cheebs mentioned The Munsters. How did I leave that off my list? The unforgettable theme, and oh yes, Lily Munster (Yvonne DeCarlo), Perhaps my first horror crush.

[hammerfan]

Are we talking the Marvel Family one, or the one with the Genie and the flying camel?

I'll have to see if I can find it on YouTube

Found it! https://youtu.be/aoOU1YQ_xkQ

[cheebacheeba]

Wow...a live action Captain Marvel.
I never knew about this.
This is a guy that could go toe to toe with Superman.
Interesting.

I actually watched a cartoon about this guy (and his "team" of other junion captain marvels etc), but this must have been a bit later.
This one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmm781WHxdk

[hammerfan]

Wow...a live action Captain Marvel.
I never knew about this.
This is a guy that could go toe to toe with Superman.
Interesting.

I actually watched a cartoon about this guy (and his "team" of other junion captain marvels etc), but this must have been a bit later.
This one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmm781WHxdk

Hmmm, I don't remember that one, cheebs

I also used to watch this guy every Saturday. He gave me my love of horror movies

https://youtu.be/UMAlsbVcOTM

[TheBossInTheWall]

From Hammer's list, these shows for sure.

The very first show I HAD to watch was the original Batman series. Yeah, the one with Adam West. I didn't get the campy humor at all ( hey, I was like 3 years old ), but all that POW, POP and BLAM stuff just thrilled me! I really loved the dynamic duo and all the villains. I still love that show today, and now I get the jokes!

My other earliest TV memory is of the Ghost Host and his wonderful Horror movie show on Friday nights. As a little kid of maybe 7 or 8, I was already staying up waaay too late to check out all the scary stuff on late night TV. Ghost Host was our local horror host and he and that show are one of the big reasons I'm such a complete horror freak today.

I am too young to have watched the original Batman, but when I saw it later I thought The Joker was done really well. Not how I want the joker to be generally, but it was an amusing variation.

For me it was Saturday Nightmares on USA. They showed 2 or 3 horror movies each saturday night.

[hammerfan]

Dr. Shock started out on Saturday nights, then they moved him to Saturday afternoon.

Oh, and when I was a teen, I watched American Bandstand and Steel Pier.

[Roiffalo]

I watched to much TV as a kid. A lot we had on tape. Difficult to narrow if down but there are some I remember so fondly that I still watch them today.

Scooby-Doo (the classics)
Danny Phantom
CatDog
Angry Beavers
The Amanda Show
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Gilligan's Island
Big Wolf on Campus
Goosebumps
Just about anything on ABC's "1 Saturday Morning" or the "Toon Disney" channel.

Cheers reminded me of a few:
80s TMNT
Invader Zim
The Munsters


Btw, Cheebs, you have great taste! Voyager is my favorite Star Trek too! I didn't watch any of the shows til I was about 18, so I'm not adding them to the list. However I did love Star Trek IV growing up. I was big on whales as a kid so dad introduced me to it which then later got me into the franchise.

[Martha]

When you say growing up, that is a continuing process:

My favorites were:

Gunsmoke
Rawhide
Wagon Train
Cheyenne
Have Gun Will Travel
Twilight Zone
The Fugitive
The Invaders
Adventures Of Superman
The Honeymooners
The Life Of Riley
Boris Karloff's Thriller
The Outer Limits
One Step Beyond
McHale's Navy

And when I was a little older and still growing up:

Murder She Wrote
Matlock
Walker Texas Ranger
In The Heat Of The Night

I'm sure that there are more but can't think of them now.

[anglewitch]

Unfortunately I was born after all the good shows stopped running like kojak, Mst3k, Dr. who (70's version).

[tfantasy]

Here were my favorites (quite a range):

Different Strokes
Dukes of Hazzard
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Brady Bunch
Partridge Family
Eight is Enough
Twilight Zone
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Silver Spoons
Three's Company
Jeffersons
Sanford & Son
Harold Lloyd
Family Affair
Mr. Belvadere (sp??)
Star Trek
Charlie's Angels
Knight Rider
Fantasy Island
Love Boat
Mork and Mindy
Little House on the Prairie
Chips
Cheers
Growing Pains
Full House
Alf
Miami Vice
21 Jumpstreet
Charles in Charge
Cosby
The Wonder Years
Married With Children
Roseanne
Family Ties
Mash
Perfect Strangers
McGuyver (sp??)
Facts of Life
Tales from the Darkside

Omg, my list could go on and on so I will stop here for now.