I guess you had to be there.
I’m a millennial and I’ve watched a lot of old tv on dvd and youtube.
I Love Lucy holds up, and Columbo; the black-and-white Andy Griffith years were great, Dick Van Dyke was fine, and the ancient Sid Caesar was hilarious. The older Bonanza was wonderful.
But most of them...Laugh In, Maude, AITF, Jeffersons...I just don’t get it.
And the kiddie shows my parents watched — Howdy Doody, Andy Devine and that creepy frog, Ding Dong School, Mickey Mouse, Soupy Sales, Superman, Sandy Becker — I’ve seen (portions of) all that and I wonder why boomers are not more eccentric than they are.
What holds up best, in my view, is the scary stuff. Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, Hitchcock.
Incidentally, we didn’t have a tv in the house when I was growing up. I remember some 9/11 viewing and the 2000 election but I only saw them in the homes of relatives. Election night 2000 started off as a great little get-together, and ended with a lot of very grumpy grownups in the morning.
Finally, best tv EVER was election night coverage, 2016.
You have never seen HR Puffenstuff?!! Sid and Marty Kroft's weirdest creation to make it on the air.
You poor thing.