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.
You’ve failed to mention ‘The Dinah Shore Show’ See the USA in your Chevrolet! Or Ralph Edwards in This is your life. Enjoy -The stations have a lot to offer for us mature citizens. ;-))
Thanks for your posting. It reminded me of some of the programs I was trying to recall, like Ben Casey and Man From Uncle.