40+ Years Old: TV shows I remember....

Vision On-kid's show geared toward the hearing impaired
Vegetable Soup-mid 70s kid's show (7-12 set) with alot of quasi-liberal themes
A Year at the Top- single season sitcom: Satan buys souls in exchange for a year at the top of the
pop charts, co starring paul schaeffer
That's My Mama- sitcom starring clifton davis
Get Christy Love-Theresa Graves as female African-American Policewoman,inspired by the cleopatra jones/coffee brown movies.
Checking In-Jefferson's Maid gets her own show, she heads housekeeping for huge hotel
Flo-of "kiss my grits" fame and her sitcom.
kid power: animated show starring children

...and these true relics of a bygone era, the variety shows:

The Hudson brothers
Donny And Marie
Sonny and Cher
Shields and Yarnell
Flip Wilson
Carol Burnett
smothers brothers
laugh in
ed sullivan
carpenters
johnny cash
tony orlando and dawn
starland vocal band

and the talk shows:

dinah shore
mike douglas
merv griffin
dick cavett

and the weekend things:

ABC's wide world of sports
in search of
mutual of omaha's wild kingdom (I can only remember this by it's full title. Talk about branding!)
wonderful world of a disney on a sunday night

and the game shows:

truth or consequences
joker's wild
match game
concentration
let's make a deal
newlywed game
dating game

remember when a movie of the week was REALLY A EVENT?

ok these are but a few memories of mine...

care to stroll?

:hi:

The Electric Company ('70s)
That's Incredible! ('80s)
MST3K ('90s)

Captain Kangaroo
Mr. Rogers
The Osmonds and the Jackson-5 shows (cartoons)
Welcome Back, Kotter
Mary Tyler Moore and the Rhoda spin-off
Little House on the Prairie
M*A*S*H
The Waltons
All in the Family
The Jeffersons
Good Times
Chico and the Man
etc.

(I'm 41)

( I know- that was 46 years ago)

I had a mad crush on Richard Chamberlain.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0054535/

Ultra man
Johnny Socko and his Flying Robot
ZOOM
SWAT
Adam 12
Wild Wild West
Gumby and Pokey
Welcome Back Kotter
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Banana Splits
Mod Squad
Love American Style

There's a few....

That damn theme music was going through my head just the other day. I'm 47 years old and my childhood Saturday shows still haunt me.



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It's Danger Island next!

ULTRAMAN!

in Electra Woman and Dyna Girl.
Lidsville (one of the Kroffts shows on Sat morning)
Here Come The Brides - 1968
Pebbles and Bam-Bam
Real People

The Man From UNCLE
THIEF
Daniel Boone
My Mother the Car
The New People (The first Lost) Richard Dryfuss was a guest
Marcus Wleby, MD
It's About Time
The Jackie Gleason Show
Where the Action Is
Hullabaloo
Manix
Mission Impossible
The Saturday Night Fights
Bonanza
Owen Marshall
Mr. Terrific
Laugh In

Pretty funny, the chimp version of Get Smart, but with an all-chimp band. And if I'm not mistaken, the voice of the evil chimp spy Baron What's-his-name was also the voice of Maxwell Smart's arch nemisis, Siegfried.

It's About Time and Mister Terrific were favorites, for the short time they were on TV.

As was Lost in Space. And Alias Smith and Jones.

And the name of Lancelot Link's mod-band was.....???




The Evolution Revolution

I spent waaay too much time in front of our new fangled 19" color TV one summer.

Nobody seems to have mentions Johnny Quest...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072585/

I have some very very vague memories of it from when I was a kid..

I can't remember too much about it, just that I watched it along - the rest of my family wouldn't watch it.

but damn, it was a long time ago.. I vaguely remember it being about Robin Hood..

Not really. It was just a case of 24-hour ox-poisoning.

Not sure if that was the same episode that featured Prince Injomo and Dawn.

Wow, blast from the past!

Even though I was young, I remember it being VERY cheesy, with a raucous laugh track--overcompensation for some very lame jokes.

Also the short-lived Planet of the Apes TV series.

A few more...

Run, Joe Run. A man, a dog, and a Jeep.

On the Rocks. A prison sitcom.

My Favorite Martian. One of the many 60's shows that was about hiding a big secret from the neighbors. There was always something to cover up. If the mom/wife wasn't a witch she was a genie, or even a car.

It starred Bill Bixby before he hulked-out.

Thundar the Barbarian. Post-apocolyptic Saturday morning cartoon fare.

among other shows. I went through a phase of going to those shows in the 1970s. The tickets were free and you could see some stars. The downside is that there were usually a lot of long, boring waits and the studios were always freezing. The "Sonny and Cher" episode I saw taped was the one where Jack Palance was the guest star. At that time I had no idea who the hell he was. Teri Garr was one of the cast regulars. The taping of "That's My Mama" I attended was the pilot episode.

I remember those shows! You are a part of television history and not many people can say that! :D I was just once on a local kids' show and appeared a few times on another one, as a teen-ager, which was on the local PBS channel, that nobody will ever remember. *sigh* You, on the other hand, made history, and I envy you! Though I may be prejudiced, since I used to write about TV for a living, so TV became important to me... But I still think that this was very cool...:hi:

Cher seemed to blow her lines frequently, and we knew when she blew her line because she just stopped and said, "Oh f**k" or something similar. It was a little shocking to see and hear her curse, in the early 1970s that kind of talk was still pretty rare in "polite company" and to see a TV star talking like that was strange. She seemed to be somewhat diva-like and primadonna-like. Sonny, on the other hand, was unflappable and took everything in stride, very easygoing and likeable. 20 years later I saw him again in person, when I was working at a newspaper and he was running for the Calif. state assembly. He breezed through the office once and waved and smiled at everyone, but didn't stop.

And I can imagine things as you described, Cher cursing and Sonny calming the waters. You've had a very unique experience and are very fortunate to have been there. My closest brush with TV celebrity was that Michelle Phillips once walked into the room when I was on the phone with my contact at FOX Network and asked directions of my friend and I heard the whole exchange. And I once met David Cassidy at Saratoga Race Track. Your stories are much better than mine and I'm impressed. I always really liked Sonny and Cher. :D

I think it was only on for 1 year, then was cancelled, but then a year later it was revived as "The New Temperatures Rising Show" but it wasn't nearly as funny as the original.

called Hilarious House of Frightenstein.

Vincent Price did the opening: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BsaFDZfz8Lc


I remember most of those variety shows. As I recall, Flip Wilson used to be on before the Bobby Vinton show. :silly:

I liked that one. :-)

:P

I needed the plotline... :P

Relic. :P

Fender.


:P

T.H.E. Cat
Mission: Impossible
Love, American Style
The Odd Couple
Hawaii Five-O
Sonny and Cher
Hogan's Heroes
I Dream of Jeannie
Get Smart
UFO (so bad it was good)
Captain Kangaroo (especially Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose)

Was that ever broadcast in the US? I saw that when I was a kid living in England.

Okay:

Space 1999
The Prisoner
Bozo
The "New" Mickey Mouse Club
Mr Rogers Neighbourhood
Electric Company
Zoom
Mr. Lucky
Kids from Caper
Mugsy
Make a Wish (with Jim Croce's--or was it Harry Chapin's?-- brother)
Flintstones
Wait 'Till Your Father Gets Home
Sonny and Cher
the Bobby Golsboro Show
The A-Team
Emergency!
Chopper One
Quark
Eerie, Indiana
You Can't Do That on Television (a prime example of Canadian seed money abuse)
Elwood Glover's Luncheon Date (the squarest :30 in the history of television)
Night Gallery
Amazing Stories
Speed Buggy
Land of the Lost
Shazam (ad the Shazam/Isis Hour)
Ark II
Texas (great, weird daytime soap)
Obscure Canadian game-shows I won't even bother listing, but where the grand prize was $200
The Gong Show
The $1.98 Beauty Show
Carol Burnett Show
Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman
M*A*S*H
WKRP in Cincinatti
"Temporary" Nightline
The Jetsons

in the U.S. a couple of times

Three friends and an intelligent talking monkey travel through a post-apocalyptic world in a space age RV spreading peace, love, and understanding.

Bonus points for the cool jetpack sequences, and the nubile Jean Marie Hon who played Ruth.

It was like Muppet's on mescaline.

'Twas a classic.


I suspect some of it was inspired by people puffin' stuff...

Your humor is starting to piss me off.:P

Recently saw an old episode on TV Land I think; somebody was tripping on acid way back!

with Kenneth Toby and some other guy I can;t think of

I bought the DVD collection of it for $8. Why? It was a bargain.

"The man on patrol in the Everglades"

And his boat with the huge fan on the back to power it.

Highway Patrol also.

The People's Choice--featured a talking dog named Cleo
Topper--two ghosts
I Married Joan--an "I Love Lucy" type sitcom
The Howdy Doody Show--marionettes
Pinky Lee--sort of a proto Pee Wee Herman
The Voice of Firestone--a weekly opera program
Ding Dong School--for preschoolers, of which I was one
The Mickey Mouse Club
Sky King--a sheriff who flew around in a private plane
Ozzie and Harriet
Hawaiian Eye
77 Sunset Strip
Surfside 6--all three were about groups of handsome young men who solved mysteries in Hawaii, LA, and Miami, respectively
Gunsmoke
General Electric Theater--with your host, Ronald Reagan

and it featured Clarence, the cross-eyed lion.

Barnaby Jones
Hawaii Five-O
Cannon
M*A*S*H (although I still watch that)
I Dream of Jeannie
Get Smart
Batman
Flintstones
The Jetsons

and...the daytime movies like Dialing for Dollars. Those were always fun.

Columbo, that guy on the horse, etc

staying on the crime drama motif

You mean, McCleod?

Starring Jerry Van Dyke and Ann Sothern as the voice of his mother, who died and was reincarnated as his car.

Sigmund and the SeaMonsters

Family Affair

Here comes the Grump

The Electric Company

Land of the Lost

Shazaam!


Ah...good times.

It's on overload now!

I'm 41 and recall most of the ones already listed in the thread...plus...

- Watching The Brady Bunch and Partridge Family as "new" shows, not syndicated

- The Muppet Show

- Scooby Doo before Crappy Scrappy

- Some cartoon half-hour with my favorite, Penelope Pitstop (I named my first car Penelope because of it)

- The end of the cartoons (pout) was signalled by American Bandstand and Soul Train

- The original Battlestar Galactica

- Saturday afternoon monster movies (always scared the crap out of me--I had no idea they were so cheesy--House on Haunted Hill gave me nightmares for weeks)

- A British kids-in-a-band show, The Double Deckers--LOVED that show

- Emergency

- All the male-detective shows: Cannon, Hawaii 5-0, Barnaby Jones, Quincy, Mannix, Rockford Files--SO many plaid sportcoats...

- Lawrence Welk (after my grandparents had dinner at our house)


On edit: And they'd give ANYbody a variety show--Jim Stafford? :wtf:

Not sure if that was syndicated or a network show, but I remember being on noon Saturdays.

I loved Fractured Fairytales.

"I believe that The Battle of the Network Stars should be fought with guns"
-Steve Martin

"Private Secretary" with Ann Southern
"Oh, Suzanna", with Gale Storm
"The Loretta Young Show"
"Captain Kangaroo"

The Monkees
Star Trek
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Rat Patrol
Time Tunnel
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Love American Style
Here Come the Brides
Where the Action Is
Happening '68
Medical Center
to name just a few.

I think the show was called "apple's way"

Haven't thought of that for years ...

The Banana Splits-- still looking for the DVD collection of that show (Adventure Island was my introduction to the "cliff-hanger". "Oh oh-- CHANGO!!!!")

Charlie's Angels

Tuesday night line-up on CBS/ABC/NBC (don't remember the channel): Carol Burnett Show followed by Mary Tyler Moore Show and then All in the Family.

My first television memory-- The Brady Bunch getting preempted by the Watergate hearings. I think that's why I still hold Republics in such contempt...

Gentle Ben( Dennis Weaver & Clint Howard)
Sea Hunt( Lloyd Bridges)
Room 222

in San Francisco, with an open guitar case for people to throw money into. The year was 1972.

..

but secretly I was hot for Daddy, Porter Ricks!
(I can NOW confess to my wildly inappropriate (I was, like 8) CRUSH)

the one on the far right? He was so cuuuuuuute! I was in love, as only a 3 year old can be.

But after the first few episodes, I only had eyes for Daddy.

On Edit: Youngest son's name was Bud.

I drove my own kids CRAZY when we went on a vacation to the Keys
by joking about how lame they were compared to Bud and Sandy in
nature situations throughout the everglades. They didn't "get" it.....

That mid-70s Robert Conrad show about Pappy Boyington who flew Corsairs in World War II. I watched some episodes recently on DVD and they held up quite well, except for a few shots with jet contrails clearly visible.

How about ZOOM! from the Boston PBS station? That was a cool show.
Romper Room. I think this was the first instance of the famed electric babysitter: "Okay, kids! Shake your arms above your heads for ten minutes! Is everybody tired now? GOOD!" My mother always seemed to love that show so much more than I did, and now I know why...

Gunsmoke
Happy Days
All in the Family
Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Waltons
The Bob Newhart Show (1st one)
The Brady Bunch
The Partride Family
Room 222
Love American Style
Creature Feature (On Friday Nights)
The Midnight Special with Wolfman Jack
Lavern and Shirley
MAUDE
Sanford and Son



Cartoons: Kid Power, Johnny Quest, H.R. Puffenstuff, Josie and the Pussycats, The Buggaboos

Ed Sullivan Show

You mean The Boogaloos?! Criminy! I loved them!

McMillan and Wife
McLoud
Barnaby Jones
Ironside


Did anyone say Tony Orlando and Dawn

at noon every weekday, channel 2 (Toronto & area) for 25+ years.

There was a huge outcry when they changed the schedule, and dropped it. :rofl:

(which I always heard as "Platypus")

Star Search
Solid Gold
Name That Tune
Hee Haw
Real People
That's Incredible!

---with Cathy Lee!

I'm getting addicted to Photobucket and have so so many things to share!

Make Me Laugh
Don Kirshners Rock Concert
SNL

Dirty Mary,Crazy Larry
Two Lane Blacktop
The werewolf of woodstock
Billy Jack and the sequels!

Almost forgot!

Cheech & Chong

Bruce Baum in diapers... :rofl:

with Tom Snyder chain smoking cigs.

I was in art school, often working late into the night to finish up assignments due the next day. Snyder was great, and kept me company along with Johnny Carson.

I was in high school when Tomorrow was on, and I NEVER missed it during any school break or in the summer.

I wonder what he's doing these days.

There was also a weekend show that ran one Saturday night in place of Saturday Night Live -- Weekend, I think, and it was hosted by Lloyd Dobyns and Linda Ellerbee. They were too cool, as well.

Anyone mention Kung Fu or Lost in Space?

What was that about??

I think...

based on James Thurber's drawings.

but it was always on at the same time that some program my mother wanted to watch was on, maybe "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" or "Julia" or "Marcus Welby"

Twelve O'Clock High
Rat Patrol
Daktari
The Paper Chase
Pat Paulson's Half A Comedy Hour

Mister Ed (famous quote: "Why isn't our children learning?" - oops, wrong Mr. Ed)

My mother the car

Camp Runamuck (lasted one season ... back when there were real "seasons" and they didn't start reruns until the summer)

Its About Time (really don't remember it well, but as best I recall, it was a comedy about Cavemen in New York City)

Sid Ceaser's Show of Shows

Milton Berl

Jackie Gleason's the Honeymooners

Big Blue Marble

It's about time, it's about place
It's about two men in outer space
Wait til you hear about the crew
When through the barrier of time they flew
Past the fighting minute man
Past the English knight
Past the Roman warrior
To this ancient site...

Then they changed the format to "cavemen in New York" when it became too difficult to write for the "spacemen in the Stone Age" scenario.

I love Conchata Ferrell!

I remember all those shows well. Even "A Year At The Top." I thought the theme song was cool.

I miss the variety shows the most.

My addition to the list would be any Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Those were as funny as hell.

Thanks (?) for the memories. :)

:hippie:

The American Sportsman: "You only go around once so go for all the gusto you can get!"

I loved watching Evel jump over all sorts of stuff.

greatest western ever. a ludicrous concept __ three sons who look completely different because they have three different mothers....

but it was fascinating and the theme will never, ever, leave a fan's head.

Look out Little Joe!
Don't Worry. HOss will get us out of this...

are still living with their father, and any female who happens to cross their path is out of their lives before the episode is over.