When I was a kid, we loved WKRP. I think it was probably one of Mom’s favorites. It was funny, for sure. All time favorite though, has gotta be Cheers. Heck, I even loved Diane!
Lost in Space the original series. Couldn’t wait to get home from school to see it when I was a kid. Then in the 90’s it was Wings. About a small New England airline. Funny as hell.
X-Files, but only the first two or three seasons. After that, Chris ran out of ideas and only a few of the episodes were even the least bit interesting. The last three or four years were all most all garbage. They did come back with a mini-season a few years ago and two of the episodes were worthy. Also the first three "Fargos" Well worth watching.
Benny Hill Monty Python Burns and Allen Topper (Leo G. Carroll) Justified 24 Gunsmoke Wild Wild West McHale’s Navy Fridays Seinfeld Hogan’s Heroes Kolchak, The Night Stalker Twilight Zone
Regrettably, many don’t “Time Travel” very well, and are best remembered, not watched again….
Star Trek Voyager Lonesome Dove The West Wing The Americans True Detective (first season) Star Trek TNG The Expanse Rick & Morty Black Books Black Mirror Mindhunter The Orville The Office Sopranos Futurama The Wire Cheers Frasier MASH Firefly
There was one where Earl was trying to propose a toast and he was tapping a spoon on his (paper) cup. Joy whispers, "It ain't makin' no noise, Shoog..." Cracks me up every time I think about it.
I'd add Harry O to the list. David Jansen was the star on that one. The Fugitive was another he was in that was great.
Rockford Files, The Unit, Last Man Standing,China Beach, Hill Street Blues, the original Magnum P.I. There have been a lot of good shows and some not so good but it’s been mostly entertaining. Tastes have changed through the years and it’s interesting to see the differences in what is appealing to others. Just remembered another from my childhood, I always enjoyed Mission Impossible.
And one of my favorites. That was a great show. And some damn funny schitt. “The Ranch” on Netflix was great until they killed off Danny Masterson’s character. Of the old shows: Cheers, Frazier, and Seinfeld were the best comedy’s. . Rockford Files, Magnum PI, Miami Vice, and NYPD were my favorite series.
Of the new stuff, Seal Team Longmire Yellowstone They took the best new comedy off TV. Tim Allen’s “Last Man Standing”. The Network Executives with TDS Killed it.
Love WKRP. Johnny talking about the "phone cops" was a great two-parter, also when he and Venus were testing their reflexes while drinking. Otherwise,
Have Gun Will Travel Gunsmoke Hawaii 5-0 (Jack Lord, of course) Adam 12 (my 17 yo daughter and I watch together) Andy Griffith The Beverley Hillbillies Hogan's Heroes Get Smart
No particular order and I've probably forgotten some.
Newhart, Cheers, WKRP, MASH(first four seasons), the Office, and The Carol Burnett Show were all comedy gold. Magnum PI, Simon&Simon, The Rockford files, and Northern Exposure we’re all great.
Hill Street was a favorite of mine....especially use to drool over Joyce Davenport as the Attorney.
I watched the pilot of Hill Street. Talk about a shock factor at the time.... I knew right then and there, this thing is going to be a big hit, or will never see the light of day again, because it was too hard hitting and closer to real life than anything of a cop show ever, up until that point....
Compliments to the posters on the thread... a lot of good stuff mentioned...
I read this thread for an update ( turns out to be a good one)... but then on the TV my wife is watching.... Her is a commercial for " The Mask Singer", and something about Adults and Legos....TV nowadays, can't compete with the shows we have enjoyed in the early times in our lives.
I liked Burn Notice, particularly Jeff Donovan as Michael Westin and Gabrielle Anwar as Fiona Glenanne, but I'm not sure how much I like Donovan in his new roll as Detective Frank Cosgrove in the new Law & Order series.
There’s been to many good ones for me to pick just one but my kindergarten and first grade lunch boxes were The Dukes of Hazard and The A-Team. Neither we’re probably the high mark of great TV but I liked them at the time and never got tired of the Duke boys shooting explosives tipped arrows or Hannibal with his Minni-14.
The Equalizer was good. Air wolf, Seinfeld, The Office, Northern Exposure, Married with Children, Lost in Space, and I love Lucy are some more that have been mentioned and were great.
I don't watch sitcoms.....inane silliness packed with some sort of innuendo or subliminal message. Most of all I can't stand canned laughter....don't need a cue to laugh. If its funny enough I might laugh.
Some more have come to mind. In more modern day, I enjoy Bull and really like Blue Bloods. I don’t care for all the pseudo competition shows like The Voice or Or Come Dance with Me and I can’t stand that crap like Big Brother. Really tough to beat the old classics like Gunsmoke, Dragnet and Bonanza. Heck, I have even been enjoying old reruns of Perry Mason.
The Tonight Show. All in the family The Twilight Zone Bonanza When I was a kid, Jonny Quest. The three stooges. Anybody remember Worlds Beyond. An old black and white Si-Fi show on Saturday afternoons
There were many good TV shows in the past, but somewhere along the line mindless crap became the norm. I haven't had a TV in 28 years and still don't miss it much, except for Masters golf and such. I read a lot now.
As mentioned Mash Some of the old Westerns But Married with Children so politically incorrect loved it ... If Peg was a real person I bet she'd tear it up in bed 🤣
on the buses Love thy neighbor avengers Time tunnel Quantum leap Mollys reach
Adventures in Rainbow Country the littlest hobo
“Molly’s Reach”? The Beachcombers was one of my favorites when I was growing up. We always watched The Littlest Hobo also, really corny, but when you only got three channels, chances were nothing better was on.
Gunsmoke UFO Coach Seinfeld Tales from the Crypt The Andy Griffith Show and its spin-offs The Beverly Hillbillies and its Hooterville spin-offs The Virginian
on the buses Love thy neighbor avengers Time tunnel Quantum leap Mollys reach
Adventures in Rainbow Country the littlest hobo
“Molly’s Reach”? The Beachcombers was one of my favorites when I was growing up. We always watched The Littlest Hobo also, really corny, but when you only got three channels, chances were nothing better was on.
Just as a point of information, on The Littlest Hobo, filmed in Canada, there were six identically marked German Shepards used in that show over the years. Each dog had several different "tricks" he or she could perform, depending on the script. The owner/trainer of the pooches was German and gave the pooches on the set "trick" orders in German.
Of course, here in the States, Lassie was the same. Several identical Lassies doing different tricks.
I've got to go with Gunsmoke. Watched every Saturday night as a youngster, 60 some years ago. Today with my cable service and different channels, It can be watched about a total of 8 to 9 hours a day. With everything being so politically correct now a days, but every show started with a gun draw and somebody being shot, and countless shootings and killing in every show. Surprises me somebody hasn't complained about such violence?
Next would be the Red Skelton show. It was said that what made the show so funny was that the celebrity guests would be given a written script to perform with Red, But Red Skelton would never follow his lines, he would deliberately adlib, which usually left the guests speechless.
If you want to see him at one of his serious sides. Check out the Pledge of allegiance performance. Pay close attention to the ending.
" I've got to go with Gunsmoke. Watched every Saturday night as a youngster, 60 some years ago. Today with my cable service and different channels, It can be watched about a total of 8 to 9 hours a day. With everything being so politically correct now a days, but every show started with a gun draw and somebody being shot, and countless shootings and killing in every show. Surprises me somebody hasn't complained about such violence? ..."
Old Hunter, the heavy duty violence of the earlier days of Gunsmoke were toned down somewhat in the early 1970s. For example, I wrote several Gunsmoke scripts "back in the day." On the second one, I had been called in to the CBS Gunsmoke production office in Studio City, to get notes on a few revisions on the final draft script. The Exec. Producer, John Mantley, gave me a few notes, then said, "Leanwolf, we've got a problem with your script."
I said, "Oh. What's the problem?"
Mantley said, "Well a few days ago we got a message from CBS Standards and Practices. They said we have too much violence on the show. In your first draft, you've killed seven people."
I said, "Well how many can I kill?"
John said, "Three."
I said, "Okay, I'll resurrect four, wound them, and kill three of the worst bad guys."
John said, "That'll work."
And that's what I did, as all us GS writers did thereafter. Political Correctness was hard at work even then.
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