I’m very disappointed that two people beat me to Electro-Woman and Dyna-Girl. I was not aware at the time that I had the hots for them. But they were the first to make me wonder about girls…
There was this young girl on The Courtship of Eddie’s Father that I was totally in love with. She was also in an episode or two of The Partridge Family. (Oh yeah, so was Susan Dey. Rowr!)
I wonder whatever happened to that girl. It’s not like she ever went on to win the Oscar for Best Actress in 1991 or anything.
Bunny Orsak.
Huh, you say? Back in the 1950s, when I was growing up glued to the TV, KTRK in Houston had a mascot - since they were Channel 13, they wanted a young lady dressed up in a black cat outfit. Bunny got the job and she was hawt! She had her own kiddie show and I used to watch it in the afternoons even when I was in high school, ogling her bod.
Really? I rather like that pussy.
Oh yeah, Julie Newmar.
I just knew with every bone of my 7 year old body that someday I would marry Angela Cartwright.
Angela played the cute little step daughter on “Make Room for Daddy” in the late 50s. She later became better known as a child star in the sound of music and finally teen actor as Penny in “Lost in Space”.
Marty (David Stollery) from the original Mickey Mouse Club series, Spin and Marty. I was about eight. Maybe it was because he had the prettiest horse. Special award goes out to whoever remembers what Ollie the ranch hand used to say.
I’m still stuck on Orlando Bloom! Just watched LOTR trilogy on TV, still get a little thrill at Legolas’ closeups… I always had a soft spot for blue-eyed blond Nordic men. Through the years… My first real crush was the blond cute guy on Flipper…there must have been others, and more recently .Jason Lewis on Sex and the City…Jesse Spencer, ‘Chase’ on House… Non-blond? Paul McCartney, the Cute Beatle!
And STING! Of course!!!
Oh David Cassidy, without question. I LIVED for The Partridge Family TV show. I even owned albums. I couldn’t believe, on the show, that he walked among mortal teenagers. Why weren’t they mobbing him?!
I was 7.
When I was very young, Spock. I managed to teach myself to lift one eyebrow simply to emulate him. Then Shaun Cassidy – I had his albums, and he was in The Hardy Boys series on Sunday nights. That hair!
Agent 99 from the original Get Smart.
:: le sigh ::
I’ve got you beat. Mine was Jordan Knight from New Kids on the Block when I was 9 or 10.
I met Joey McIntyre in the early 90s.
You may fawn all over me now.
Michael Jackson, but I was 5ish. Gimme a break, please!
My circle of seventh grade friends were really into the Young Guns movies. We each had a different crush. I was all about Emilio Estevez, another friend claimed Charlie Sheen, another one liked Kiefer Sutherland, and so on.
I’m so glad nobody liked the same guy, or else WWIII might have ensued.
I also remember being really into Kevin Costner and Harrison Ford.
My boys are still too young to have fallen for a Hollywood star. But back in the day, I was head-over-heels for Maren Jensen from Battlestar Galactica: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2268/2071987616_d29941e5a8.jpg?v=0
I later learned that she’d dated Don Henley (one of my favorite musicians) for awhile and thought, “Hey, that’s cool. They deserve each other.”
I’ll refrain. I hated Joey.
The lead singer of the Bay City Rollers. I was six and my fantasy was that he was my dad and let me come up on stage with him. He was very cute! I loved him. I had a Bay City Rollers lunch box.
My first crush (which happened about 6 months before I discovered Donny Osmond and switched my affections to him) was IQ from the Bugaloos. I would bounce back and forth between blondes and dark-haired guys for years.
Daisy Duke from the Dukes of Hazzard. I got into an enormous amount of trouble in the first grade when I was coloring a picture of her in a coloring book and opined that I would like to see what she looked like taking a shower.