Which Old TV show do you remember the best?

[Andykev]

Or why I miss the Golden Age vs. todays junk!

They're all alive, in old movies
See them, even though they're gone
Can you remember Jimmy Durante?
His eyes glisten in the lights
Mrs. Calabash, goodnight, wherever you are
You can't be gone, you can't be gone, well not on my T.V.

Time just stands still in old movies
Love them, even though they're gone
Jack Benny's 39
Bogart's doing time
Wallace Berry's just the same
Still bugging Marjorie Maine
Oh, Marjorie Maine
You can't be gone, you can't be gone
Well not on my T.V.

His eyes glisten in the lights
Mrs. Calabash, goodnight, wherever you are
You can't be gone, you can't be gone, well not on my T.V.

 

[Marlowe]

The Twilight Zone (the original)

The Rockford Files

Kung Fu

I have a certain affection for Star Trek, even though Star Trek, The Next Generation far surpassed the original show in writing, production values, and even--eventually--acting.

Watching Helen Mirren in "Prime Suspect" was a wake-up call. I hadn't realized that it was even possible for TV to be that good.

 

[Canadave]

The Untouchables
The Dick Van Dyke Show
M*A*S*H

I could go on and on...

D

 

[Sergei]

I will even take it further back:
- I love Lucy
- The Honeymooners
- Amos & Andy (Chamorro's favorite)
- The Untouchables
- Combat
- Twelve O'Clock High (w/ Robert Lansing) 3 seasons

- Addams Family

Morticia, Querida Mia!

- & "The Jack Paar Show"

-Sergei

 

[Brad Bowers]

"Have Gun, Will Travel." Best Western TV show ever made.

Brad Bowers

 

[Forrestal]

Anyone remember The Whirlybirds?
Still one of my favorites!

Or how about the coolest show on TV when I was a kid?¢‚Ǩ¬¶............77 Sunset Strip?¢‚Ǩ¬¶..
Jeff Spencer, Stu Bailey, and Gerald Lloyd Kookson III.
I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ll meet you at Dino?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s for a cold one?¢‚Ǩ¬¶?¢‚Ǩ¬¶?¢‚Ǩ¬¶.
Regards,
Forrestal

 

[Marlowe]

I forgot to mention "Speed Racer" in my previous post. It's bad, but somehow it's likeably bad.

 

[Michael Mallory]

"Burke's Law" was one of my favorites as a kid, though now when I watch it on tape, it's pretty painful. "Twilight Zone," of course, and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," and, for some reason, "Bronco." I was only about two, but I remember loving it. I loved the theme song for "77 Sunset Strip." But my favorite show of all time remains "The Avengers."

 

[BD Jones]

My favorites from the 50's and 60's are:
I Love Lucy
Leave It To Beaver
Father Knows Best
The Twilight Zone (my absolute favorite form this era)
The Munsters
The Addams Family

Something else I liked to watch on TV, even though it was not originally a TV show, where the Three Stooges. I remember watching them every Sunday morning before church.

Of course, I also have a few "guilty pleasure" shows that I like to watch that I don't dare mention here. Best to keep those secret lest I be banished.

 

[Andykev]

OK

I started this thread, here are my favorites:

The RAT PATROL
Twelve O'Clock High
The FBI
Leave it to Beaver
Addams Family
Rohan & Martin's Laughin
The Munsters
Gilligan's Island
Star Treck
UFO
Land of the Giants
Batman
Superman
Night Gallery (Rod Sterling)
Outer Limits
Lost in Space
Hogan's Heroes
Get Smart


Gee....there are gonna be hundreds more!

 

[Chamorro]

Amos 'n Andy.

I have all the existing television episodes on video tape and I will upgrade to DVD soon.

IMO, the funniest show that ever was. I can watch it over and over. Despite the controversy at the time, it was well written and acted, had a good, kind heart and was the first show to have a predominantly black cast. It even featured an episode which would have been considered to have a too heavily-handed Christian theme by today's standards.

When it was cancelled a lot of fine black actors had no work for years and years to come. Yet another misguided crusade by the NAACP.

 

[MK]

I watched most of the shows you guys have mentioned. Star Trek was my favorite by far. Here are some that I didn't see listed:

Time Tunnel
UFO
Thunderbirds
Wagon Train
Dark Shadows
Lost in Space (I didn't realize how gay Dr. Smith was till I was older)
The Lone Ranger
The Night Stalker
The Odd Couple
The Flying Nun (Sally was a cutie!)
Superman
Batman
Wild Wild West
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

 

[Michael Mallory]

Dr. Smith on "Lost in Space" underwent one of the more stunning character arcs in TV history: he started out being a cold-hearted, murderous Eastern bloc spy, and then transformed into Franklin Pangborn.

 

[Sergei]

Amazing thread. Some more shows that I didn't see listed:
- Zorro (Great, great series)
- Roy Rogers
- Bonanza (what can you say, Li'l Joe, Hoss, Adam, etc.)
- The "Ed Sullivan" Show
- Soupy Sales with Fang!!!

 

[Williamson]

Many of the great ones have been listed already but I will cast my selections.....
Daniel Boone
Andy Griffith Show
Hogans Heroes
Rawhide
Rat Patrol
Zorro
Boy, these choices must put us all within the same age bracket.....these shows are just as enjoyable to watch today as they were then........Guess my "gear itis" started early on with Daniel Boone. Every year I tried to improve on my costume......for me it was all about details.

 

[Panamabob]

My wife and I used to watch All in the Family and Carol Burnett on NIck at Night...hilarious.


I still watch Bonanza and Leave It To Beaver when I grade papers at the bar my buddy keeps...only Coca Cola for me...teatotaler to the nth degree.

I used to love Alfred Hitchcock and now I really like CSI.

 

[Canadave]

Originally posted by Canadave
...The Dick Van Dyke Show...
D

I just watched a Dick Van Dyke tribute/reunion show. Boy, did he wear some stingy-brimmed fedoras back in the 60s. And what was up with Buddy's hat? Looked like an inverted bucket!

David

 

[schwammy]

I SPY

[Contemplating a solid gold stove]
Kelly: I can just imagine the look on their faces when we unload a million dollars worth of stove on them. 875 pounds worth.
Scotty: Yeah.
Kelly: Suppose by the time it got to Internal Revenue it only weighed 800 pounds?
Scotty: See what you mean. Well the lid's loose, maybe the damper door?
Kelly: 75 lbs of gold must be worth a lot of money.
Scotty: Seventy-two thousand.
Kelly: Already figured it out, huh?
Scott: Yeah. $60 an ounce on the Chinese black market. I think I can get $70 an ounce. I know a guy...
Kelly: $70 an ounce! Whew. A couple of one-way tickets to Tahiti would scarcely put a dent in it!
Scotty: No sir. Have you ever seen a Taihitian hula? [Sings] Do-dump-de-dumpdy... You take the door and I'll take the lid.
Kelly: While we're at it we may want to hack off a couple of legs. We may want to entertain!
Scott: Right!
Kelly: No, we'd only lose our pension benefits.
Scotty: Think we'd lose our jobs?
Kelly: Yeah. Such wonderful jobs too.
Scotty: And the hospitalization is free.
Kelly: All those wonderful orthopedic devices.
Scotty: I just love plaster of paris.
Kelly: Right.

 

[Forrestal]

Just an FYI.
I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ll be attending a seminar on psoriasis tomorrow (5-22). Jerry Mathers will be there too.
Yes Beaver Cleaver.
Regards,
Forrestal

 

[Imahomer]

Just some fantastic choices there guys. Here are a few of my favorites that I haven't seen listed:
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Sky King
Death Valley Days
Maverick (although Paladin was by far my favorite western)
One step beyond
Thriller (hosted by Boris Karloff)
San Francisco beat