The woman writes for the site and includes a number of links which might be of interest to you if your are 'into' retro tv classic shows
As a side note here after digital TV came along and stations expanded to include Sub-Stations, we've been able to view Retro TV and Hot TV, both stations showing a number of shows from the 1950's, and beyond The new Roku devise and smart TV have helped to expand the viewing enjoyment immensely .
“No wonder the interest in TV nostalgia is growing by leaps and bounds. Many of us enjoy revisiting the quality programs from the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s.”
True.
But some of the 70’s shows have the rot.
I show this “candy factory” skit to every Biochemistry class I teach. It’s a great way to illustrate how an enzyme’s active site (Lucy and Ethyl) is saturated by ever increasing amounts of substrate (chocolate).
The mention of Father Knows Best triggered a memory of Billy Gray, who played the son, Bud on that show.
Billy was a child actor in the late forties and through out the 50s into the early 60s. However after that in addition to tinkering with mechanical things and doing a little “inventing” and improving things, he was a professional motorcycle racer. Speedway motorcycles, two wheel sprint cars. 500cc engine putting out 60+ horsepower, burning nitro methane fuel until the mid 70s when the nitro was dropped. Then straight methanol. No brakes and weighting about 175 lbs.
I met him first in the mid 80s and again in the early 90s, when he helped us with a couple races by coming to race for darn little money and a chance to hang out and have a beer with us.
A very nice man whom I give what in my circle is a very high complement:
Billy Gray was a Racer. Not the fastest of his era, but by God he was a Racer.
Bookmark.
I watch Hogan’s Heros.....Bob Newhart...Mary Tyler Moore....
Those were quality shows that had no sex, drugs, and not even a token gay...lol.
They still make you laugh....
METV, COZI, and Decade in the Philly area - an Abbott and Costello weekend marathon last month on Decade and the entire Sunday afternoon following Christmas devoted to Ozzie and Harriet Christmas programs on COZI - good times.....
I almost cry when I watch the Route 66 episodes from 1960-63. Those two guys could go to any locale in America and find a job. The country was prosperous back then.
Stations cut out anywhere from a few to several minutes from all of the old programs in order to squeeze in more commercials. Sometimes the entire episode loses meaning if they cut out a key scene. Really annoying for those of us who remember the original content.
The first season of Dennis the Menace with Jay North was about as good as a corny sitcom can get. The casting was perfect from Mr. Wilson to Margaret.
Jay North gives a very negative review of his time as a star but others like Jerry Mathers of Leave It to Beaver said their experience was very positive.
I’m a millennial, but I’m familiar with most of the old tv shows, thanks to my homeschooling parents. I not only watched the Beverley Hillbillies, I even watched the Real McCoys. I’ve seen Lucy a few hundred times. Sid Caesar. Jackie Gleason.
Mom made me watch Sandy Becker performing “Hambone.” (She said, “You have GOT to see that.” She was right.)
And a lot of Zacherle (who, I believe, is still around and close to a hundred years old). Bandstand.
Mickey Mouse club and every old Disney flick there is.
Oddly, I never got to see much of the Odd Couple, never saw any Star Trek, no Father Knows Best, no Man from Uncle. But I’ve seen Topper with Leo G. Carroll, and a couple of My Little Margies. I was warned not to become morally feeble like Beaver Cleaver, who’d do anything anyone suggested.
Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, Alfred Hitchcock, Thriller.
Abbott and Costello. Red Skelton.
The better episodes of Bewitched. What’s My Line?
No Flipper. No Ben Casey. No Dragnet yet. No Arthur Godfrey or Lawrence Welk. Very little Gilligan’s Island, but quite a bit of Dobie Gillis.
I know what it was but I’ve never watched Laugh-In.
I have seen Froggy the Gremlin. I have seen Michigan J. Frog, and most of the cartoon characters voiced by Mel Blanc, as well as his various appearances on Jack Benny.
They also provided me with radio shows — Jean Shepherd, Eddie Lawrence (Old Philosopher), radio drama, and films going back to the silent era.
I am thankful to have seen most of it, but it does spoil a person for entertainment. I can’t sit through an hour of current tv shows. I rarely go to a movie. The music I hear at work is awful.
Don’t get me started on the music!
Never heard of Retro TV but will definitely check it out. There’s still a lot of gold to be mined.
We recently got the H&I Channel on uVerse (actually channel 5.2 broadcast).
We’ve gotten hooked on NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues. Other shows, Have Gun Will Travel, Black SheepSquadron.
Most of the new shows are so predictable as to characters it’s ridiculous.
One each from the 3 major races, one gay, an interracial love affair and if a police type show, a black female boss and a strange female lab worker.
You don’t have to try and find an existing cable tv channel to get many of these old shows. You can get many or most of them on the internet. Just get an HDMI cable and hook it up to your laptop or mobile device. Make sure you find the right input station on your tv. Usually it’s labeled for HDMI.
I show the Lucy candy clip in all my business history classes when I discuss Frederick Taylor’s time and motion studies.
Since I’m usually awake, I watch two episodes of Cheers each morning on Hallmark at 3am Central. They always give me laughs before hitting the pillow and give me relief from all of the political mudslinging now occurring on FR.