Posted on 10/24/2023 11:36:26 AM PDT by DallasBiff
My three favorites, "I Love Lucy". "Star Trek", and "Lost in Space", with a special mention to "Green Acres"
Blacklist
Oak Island Mysteries
Friends
Big Bang Theory
Masked Singer (don’t hate on me)
We liked ‘24’ a LOT - binge watched it all on rented or borrowed DVDs just a few years winters ago. My only complaint is about the actor that played ‘Tony.’ He was so WOODEN and lifeless. And they kept killing him off and bringing him BACK! (Carlos Bernard) I’ve seen him in other small roles and he’s exactly the same.
He must have one hellof an agent, LOL!
The Gong Show
There are so many shows that we enjoyed 50 years ago that we look back on now and say ‘how did we watch that then?’.
I think part of it is that TV was still new in the 60’s and color TV was just making the scene. So part of it was just seeing anything coming from the tube.
I think another aspect was that shows came out weekly so you couldn’t binge. With a week between episodes, you didnt see how repetitive a show could become in a short period. When you binge a whole season in two or three evenings, the shallowness of the plots becomes more evident.
Finally, we enjoyed TV shows more then because they were family shared experiences. Mom, Dad, and kids all sat down together for their favorite weekly show and you probably only had one TV between all of you. Today, everyone can just go watch their own thing in the privacy of their own room and never interact with family or friends. No social aspect to it.
Burns and Allen
The Prisoner
Nero Wolfe (A & E)
The Fugitive
Perry Mason
Maverick
Dick Van Dyke Show
I Love Lucy
F-Troop
Guilty Pleasure: Logan’s Run
Perhaps using decades and different categories would be best for those posting from here on in.
When T.V. began, the idea was not only to entertain, but to also allow everyone, no matter where they lived, or what socio-economic class one was, was able to enjoy/discover various entertainments such as opera, operettas, lectures on various different subjects by experts in the fields, original plays, comedies, dramas, classes ( drawing, painting, cooking, etc. before there was a PBS, FOOD NETWORK, YouTube, etc. ), children's programs that were especially for them ( from fairy tales, tales from great children's/young adult books to adventure and comedy shows ) ,shows for the whole family.
From the earliest of days of T.V., The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was broadcast live/on Kiniscope to the West Coats, The Mummers New's Year Parade from Philly, The Ball dropping on New Year's Ever from Times Square in NYC, and political events such as The Army McCarthy hearings to debates, etc.!
Marshall McLuch was dead wrong...when he claimed that :"T.V. IS A WASTELAND"...it wasn't; however, it certainly is now and has been for several decades now.
Eddie Albert. Not Eddie Arnold.
Combat!
12-O’Clock High
I only ever watched it in reruns, but Petticoat Junction. I know it’s a little corny by today’s standards, but I like it that way.
Green Acres is the place to be.
RIP Don West.
A local resident who respected his home town roots.
Trailer Park Boys...
LOVE IT
Soap.
My father liked Combat! and we kids often watched it with him.
One day I had a horrible flu and very high fever, and all night I hallucinated that my bed was surrounded by enemy soldiers who were going to kill my family...
That’s sweet.
I Claudius, Wonderful World of Color ( when Walt was in charge), Wagon Train, Rawhide, Laugh-In,
MASH is definitely a show that didn’t really age all that well.
My two kids loved “I Love Lucy” and that was in the 80’s
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