Classic TV

[Moe]

I'm guessing that a lot of you like to watch classic TV, as much as I do. So what are your favorite shows to watch? I used to watch Nick at Night a lot and liked to watch I Love Lucy, Bewitched, and The Munsters to name a few. I also like to watch The Three Stooges. What are your favorite classic TV shows.

[jamesglewisf]

My favorite is The Andy Griffith Show.

I like I Love Lucy, but my wife likes watching it so much that I am kind of tired of it.

Here is a question--how far back do you have to go to be considered a classic?

[jamesglewisf]

There are a couple of things from classic shows that I can't stand. The following characters had annoying whines/crying that are all very similar: Lucy, I Love Lucy
Laura, The Dick Van Dyke Show
Gloria, All in the Family
I pretty much want to turn off the shows every time they do their fake cries.

[PaulGoodman]

I was watching the I Love Lucy show where she got drunk of the vitamegin juice or something like that in that commercial she was in. Really funny.

[Karenluvs6]

Dragnet I Love Lucy Bewitched All In The Family The Andy Griffith Show Hogan's Heroes Leave it to Beaver Dick Van Dyke Happy Days Laverne & Shirley Dennis the Menace Dobie Gillis I Dream of Jeannie The Beverly Hillbillies Welcome Back Kotter Get Smart The Honeymooners Car 54 Where are you? Alice Donna Reid The Munsters F Troop The Odd Couple Taxi Three's Company Brady Bunch Gilligan's Island Mork & Mindy Rhoda Bob Newhart Petticoat Junction Mary Tyler Moore


just some of my old favorites...

[In_His_Shadow]

I sure wish we got that channel Nick TVland. We don't have any channels that show classic TV. Isn't it funny, this question will show our age differences quickly. Some of the shows you mentioned where on when I was in highschool and some since I've been married.

Classic for me would be these two that I loved (they are older than me): George Burns and Gracie Allen(she was an awesome comedian) and the Jack Benny Show. Those are classic.

CJ

[RoadRunner]

I loved Welcome Back Kotter as a kid. That show was really awful. I saw some episodes this past year. Stinky.

They are showing lots of Three's Company reruns right now. Stinky too.

Leave it to Beaver was cute when Beaver was young. The older he got, the dumber his sayings sounded. They didn't let him mature at all.

I like:

All In The Family
Hogan's Heroes
Dick Van Dyke
The Honeymooners
The Odd Couple
Taxi
Bob Newhart

[blinc]

Ooh, I love the old classics. Some of my favorites are:

Dick VanDyke
I Love Lucy
Bewitched
The Andy Griffith Show
I Dream of Jeannie
The Beverly Hillbillies
Bob Newhart
and the old "Newlywed Game" show. Some of those people just have me in tears, I've laughed so hard.

[Karenluvs6]

I love the Old Newly Wed Game!
do you know they still show it on cable's "Game Show Channel"?
my mom watches it all the time.
I used to look forward to watching that every night after dinner, when I was a kid. It was hilarious.

[Austruck]

I didn't see M*A*S*H anywhere. That one stands the test of time for me. Loved it as a teen (had a crush on Radar).

My small kids love Nick at Nite for some reason. They sit there watching shows like the Jeffersons and try to understand the dynamics of the '70s and race relations, and it just ain't gonna happen, girls. The jokes they got away with back then in that regard would never fly nowadays. And yet the sexual innuendo now is far worse, and in fact, isn't even innuendo any more.

Weird how we've come to our senses about racial humor in some ways, but have totally fallen off the deep end about sexual matters and freedom. Go figger.

I also used to love watching Carol Burnett, Mary Tyler Moore, and Laugh-In with my parents. (I can remember Laugh-In being on Monday nights, after girl scouts.) :)

[Swimmers]

When I was younger my mom and I use to stay up late and watch Nick@Nite all the time..I love the old shows.

~ Bewitched...that is my favorite..I watched it faithfully every time it was on...I loved the Block Party summer of it!

~ I dream of Jeannie...great show!

~ MTM...she is soo funny!!

~ Dick van Dyke...that was just a good show!!

~ Gomer Pyle...hehehehehe

~Happy Days....Fronzie was on Rosie O'Donnell today..you can still tell that it's him! :)

Classic TV is GREAT!!

[Grimey]

I like the old "Leave it to Beaver" episodes.

I also like The Beverly Hillbillies" and "The Honeymooners."

[Alec]

About the only classics I still watch are:

Andy Griffith
I Dream of Jeannie
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Happy Days
Is Seinfeld a classic yet?

[mec]

They must have lost all the episodes of " The Life of Riley" (William Bendex -Chester A. Riley. Wife Babs, Son Junior, Daughter (?) He moved from Brooklyn, NY to Los Angeles and joined a group called the BPLA ( Brooklyn Patriots of Los Angeles. He lived at 1313 Blue View Terrace. His most repeated line was,
"What a revoltin' development THIS IS.!"

Other most repeated line " Waaaaaahhhhh! Iiiii Wannnttt a Mink Coat!" - Lucile Ball, and;

" Pa! pa? PAAAAAAHHHHH!" - As a matter of fact, did Johnny Crawford have any Other lines on the "Rifleman."

[Grimey]

I don't remember "The Life of Riley." When was it on?

[mec]

Mid 1950s and I haven't seen it since. Funny how some of the details just stick in your mind. It was part of the family sit--com tradition where the husband was pretty dumb and the wide was the brains of the family. Sharp contrast to the Lucille Ball / I Love Lucy thing where none of them had any sense. I think the wife's name was Peg. His neighbor was Herbert T. Gillis who also worked at Cunningham Aircraft.