What's Your Favorite Vintage TV Show?

[63getelevision]

Is it Hawaiian Eye? Tikis, bongos, and Impalas-Oh MY!

 

[jasonl]

There's many

All In The Family, The Brady Bunch, Good Times, Mork & Mindy, WKRP in Cincinnati, to name a few.

 

[polkanut]

I Love Lucy, MASH, Hawaii-Five-O, Maude, All In The Family, Sgt. Bilko, Ed Sullivan.

 

[sudsmaster]

Outside of the 50's and 60's memorable classics, I liked 3rd Rock From the Sun when it was airing. Malcolm in the Middle was good, too. Currently I watch mostly PBS/BBC/Thames stuff, but was following LOST, Prison Break, and Commander-in-Chief (during its short run). Lately I've started watching re-runs of Farscape, which are new to me. I don't have cable so mercifully I was spared the whole Sopranos experience ;-)

 

[tlee618]

Mine would have to be I love Lucy and Andy Griffin!!

 

[frigilux]

Besides the obvious choices (Lucy, Hillbillies, DVDyke, etc) I really loved 'He and She'. It wasn't on long, maybe a season or two, but it must have left an impression on me because I still sorta remember it.

The show starred Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss as a young urban (NYC, I think) couple; Benjamin was a cartoonist, and Jack Cassidy was in it, although I don't recall what his character was.

 

[abcomatic]

Alan, I liked Adventures in Paradise staring Gardner McKay in keeping with the same vane that you started. I also liked: I love Lucy, the Waltons, Route 66, The Munsters, Wild, Wild West, the Alfred Hitchcock show, What's My Line, Lassie( with John Provost)Skye King, Saregent Preston of the Yukon, Howdy Doody Show, and the list goes on. Great thread. Gary

 

[63getelevision]

I like Bachelor Father, that will never see the light of day on TV again, there are some on video, 77 Sunset Strip complete series is on DVD for $475.00. I like most of the shows mentioned here so far, and Wal-Mart has a bin full of $5.00 videos that have old obscure episodes of old series. One Step Beyond and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, hopefully without the Ricky Nelson music numbers cut out.

 

[red_october]

Match Game all the way!!!

 

[63getelevision]

Match Game definately! The Game Show Network was on basic cable here for a while, and included 1950's Price Is Right, giving away '58 Mercurys and Magnavox two cabinet stereos, and of course the appliances!

 

[~sudsshane]

But of course....

Bewitched!!!..Followed by I Dream of Jeannie, Another World, Mary Tyler Moore, Maude and All in the Family.

 

[Washinsheen]

Bewitched was my very favorite, and still is my all-time-favorite!!! Can't get enough of that show.

Other shows I loved as a child were the following, not in any particular order....

That Girl
Petticoat Junction
Green Acres
Beverly Hillbillies
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flying Nun
The Wild, Wild West
Gunsmoke (Festus was a hoot!)
I Dream of Jeanie
Mission Impossible
Adam 12
Dragnet
Marcus Welby, MD
The Lucy Show (with Mr. Mooney)
The Carol Burnett Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Bob Newhart Show
Rhoda
Emergency
The Munsters
The Andy Griffith Show
Julia
The Sonny & Cher Show
The Red Skelton Show
Laverne & Shirley
Maude
All in the Family
Love American Style
Room 222
The Twilight Zone

(Can you tell that we watched a lot of TV when I was growing up?!)

Some shows I love now, which were before my time are....

I Love Lucy
Leave It to Beaver
The Donna Reed Show
I Married Joan
The Patty Duke Show
Gidget
Mr. Ed

 

[63getelevision]

Most of these standard classics are available on home video. Speaking of Wild Wild West, did you catch Robert Conrad on the surfboard in Hawaiian Eye opening theme?

 

[badata]

does anyone remember "Creature Feature" We use to watch it as a kid and I ALWAYS got the S... scared out of me!!! Didn't stop me from watching though!!

michael

 

[63getelevision]

Dennis The Menace

I love Gloria Henry! Jay North doesn't even want to remember this show, or even the first 20 or so years of his life.

 

[hydralique]

For me . . .

can't miss with Perry Mason. Gotta love Perry and Della all dressed up in a Lincoln convertible the size of an aircraft carrier blasting down the Hollywood Freeway. Plus, Green Acres . . . Eva Gabor is just too funny as Lisa Douglas, wearing all that chiffon. The writers on that show must have written most of it after quadruple Martini luncheons. Plus, both have great themes!

 

[63getelevision]

And the flip side of Johnny Angel, here's a YouTube tribute to Shelly Fabares

 

[frigilux]

Alan---My older sister had that Shelly Fabares single and also two by Paul Peterson, also from the Donna Reed Show. They were the very sappy "My Dad" and the novelty-song "She Can't Find Her Keys". I must have listened to those singles a thousand times when I was little.

 

[Unimatic1140]

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[ironrite]

Maybe a trip to Miami Beach is in order?

Used to watch this on our Packard Bell B/W television

 

[goprog]

Well, I was making a list, but it got too long so I'll just
list some of them leaving out any already mentioned (I've
started generating a personal list on my computer):

Bonanza
High Chapperal
Have Gun Will Travel
The Virginian
The Rebel
Branded
Tales of Wells Fargo
Death Valley Days
The Adventures of Rin Tin TIn
Maverick
Rawhide
The Lone Ranger
Kung Fu
ALias Smith and Jones
Brisco County Jr.

The Prisoner
The Green Hornet
I Spy
Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Mission Impossible
MacGyver

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Night Gallery
Thriller

Sea Quest
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Anything science fiction

 

[polkanut]

How could I have forgotten the Waltons. Thursday nights @ 7pm Central time was practically sacred, I mean even the phone came off the hook for that hour.

 

[63getelevision]

I still wish one of these cable stations would run the old Warner Brothers shows in place of Little House on the Prairie, I think the Nostalgia Network did, but I couldn't get them anyway. We only had one TV set in the house. My brother, sister and I had program priviliges, but never really had anything at the time we watched steadily on its first run. Bewitched, was a definate, some Outer Limits, and we didn't get CBS until Daddy bought the UHF converter in 1965. We saw Life Of Riley reruns and Amos N Andy until about early '65. I have a Shelley Fabares CD with a wild number done by Paul and Shelley called What Did They Do Before Rock and Roll? And did anyone beside me buy the colorized first season of Bewitched? Endora IS scary!

 

[Maytagmom]

Ok I'll bite....

And show my age here...lol

Mary Hartman....Mary Hartman

SOAP....was halarious

Dark Shadows...

 

[63getelevision]

I love Dark Shadows especially Julia Hoffman! Grayson Hall is one of my top five actresses. I loved Mary Hartman-etc, and most of Soap.

 

[frigilux]

Maytagmom---I loved Mary Hartman, too. I've been waiting for one of the young moderns in the family to pipe up with "Dawson's Creek" or something and THEN we'll all feel old together, LOL.

 

[goprog]

Dawson's Creek

Yup, vintage is relative.

 

[cleanfresh]

Here are my favs

Knots Landing
The White Shadow
Make Room for Daddy
Leave it to Beaver
227
Gimmie A Break
The Green Hornet
The Love Boat
Batman
The Twilight Zone
Dark Shadows
The Time Tunnel
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mission Impossible
The F.B.I.
Marcus Welby M.D.
Julia
Room 222
One Step Beyond
The Brady Bunch
Thriller
My Three Sons
Petticoat Junction
The Real McCoys
The Jeffersons
The Cosby Show
The Munsters
The Addams Family
Good Times
Fame
Family
Family Ties
Miami Vice
New York Undercover
L. A. Law

 

[washernut]

Let's not forget Medical Center with a very young Chad Everett as Dr. Joe Gannon.

 

[rexaircollector]

Mary Hartman

OMG!! We had Mary Hartman parties (sorta like the Dynasty parties) when I was in college. We all took turns hosting at our dorms, apartments, etc. It was HYSTERICAL. Does anyone remember Loretta's (Mary Kay Place) recipe for black bottom pie? She combined all the ingredients and baked it in an oven at 500 degrees for 2 hours. We all were rolling on the floor! Then there was the one where Loretta & Charlie went on the road to promote Loretta's career as a country singer and they wrecked their Chevy Vega. Here's the opener.