# Obscure Movie / TV crushes from your youth **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 5, 2007, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579 "2007-07-05T10:46:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/41 "2007-07-05T17:57:29Z")
Judi Bowker from **Clash of the Titans** ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/42 "2007-07-05T18:04:39Z")
Ryan Lambert, the bad kid from **The Monster Squad** , which will be celebrating its 20th anniversary with a special two-disc DVD release. I had a poster of him in my locker and everything. ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/43 "2007-07-05T18:07:55Z")
Another vote for [Randy Mantooth](http://www.emergencyfans.com/images/page1-johnny/jg-action11-bw.jpg) on Emergency! [Larry Wilcox](http://www.grudge-match.com/Images/CHiPs.jpg) on CHIPs (forget Erik Estrada; blech) [Paul Michael Glaser](http://www.starskyandhutchonline.com/Paul_torino.jpg) as Starsky My really older man crush, [Jim Hutton](http://epguides.com/ElleryQueen/cast.jpg) , when he was starring as Ellery Queen. I also crushed on Tim Hutton, when he was in Ordinary People, and then again, as [Archie Goodwin](http://www.nerowolfe.org/nwm/nwm_cast/image/TH.jpg) on Nero Wolfe (of course, I have a massive crush on Archie Goodwin himself). But I crushed more on Jim. Man, I loved that show. [Alejandro Rey](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Mptv/1269/6411-3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://akas.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1269/Mptv/1269/6411-3.jpg.html%3Fhint%3Dnm0721031&h=450&w=343&sz=28&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=EOsIY31ypw3B9M:&tbnh=127&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dalejandro%2Brey%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1B2GGGL_enUS177%26sa%3DG) from The Flying Nun was very hot. (Man it’s hard to find a picture of him where he isn’t completely hidden from view by that skinny nun.) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/44 "2007-07-05T18:09:18Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] Judi Bowker from **Clash of the Titans** [/QUOTE] She may have been hot (OK, she WAS hot), but she was the worst actor in that film, and that includes the ridiculous Harryhausen monsters. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/45 "2007-07-05T18:09:51Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] She may have been hot (OK, she WAS hot), but she was the worst actor in that film, and that includes the ridiculous Harryhausen monsters. 😛 [/QUOTE] Those monsters weren’t ridiculous! They were awesome. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/46 "2007-07-05T18:19:30Z")
About the same age as I was then, and I don’t know why, I had a crush Glenn Scarpelli from _One Day at a Time_. And look how he turned out! ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/47 "2007-07-05T18:28:58Z")
My pre-teen crushes: Jennifer of the Jungle from _Electric Company_ Martika from _Kids Incorporated_ Princess Ardala from _Buck Rogers_ ---
**Author:** ![melvin\_coznowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@melvin\_coznowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melvin_coznowski)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/48 "2007-07-05T18:33:55Z")
Dyan Cannon (maybe not so obscure, but in her prime, she was hot) Kathy Coleman from Land of the Lost… ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/49 "2007-07-05T18:34:06Z")
[QUOTE=GargoyleWB] Princess Ardala from _Buck Rogers_ [/QUOTE] Oh hell yes! ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/50 "2007-07-05T18:35:34Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Those monsters weren’t ridiculous! They were awesome. [/QUOTE] Oh stop it. Don’t _even_ make me release the Kraken on you. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/51 "2007-07-05T18:56:15Z")
[Deanna Lund](http://www.deannalund.com/) from **Land of the Giants.** ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/52 "2007-07-05T19:35:19Z")
I just remembered one that really was from my youth (as opposed to “Blake’s 7” which was during my second childhood) : George Maharis from the TV show “Route 66”. Ooh La La! " ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/53 "2007-07-05T19:36:16Z")
If we’re going to toss in music personalities (if that’s OK with the OP) then I should probably add Annabella Lwin and Kim Gordon… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Hildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Johnny\_Hildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Hildo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/54 "2007-07-05T21:07:20Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] Judi Bowker from **Clash of the Titans** [/QUOTE] She was also in the series _Black Beauty_, which used to play on Nickelodeon in the early 80s. Mmmm. It was all the sweeter because I had already seen her butt. Obscure? Ok, I’ll go with [Olivia Barash,](http://www.childstarlets.com/lobby/bios/olivia_barash2.html) the victim of the evil clown rapist in yet another traumatizing episode of _Little House on the Prairie._ ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/55 "2007-07-05T21:23:53Z")
[Bernadette Peters](http://www.geocities.com/bernadette_peters_bw/images/bw-bepe-11.jpg) from **Silent Movie** ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/56 "2007-07-05T21:34:04Z")
[QUOTE=Krokodil] [Bernadette Peters](http://www.geocities.com/bernadette_peters_bw/images/bw-bepe-11.jpg) from **Silent Movie** [/QUOTE] That one and _The Jerk_. I’ll be in my bunk. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/57 "2007-07-05T21:38:36Z")
[QUOTE=BMax] I also had crushes on Kristy McNichol from a TV series (8 is enough?) [/QUOTE] No, Kristy wasn’t one of the Bradford girls. You’re probably thinking of _Family_. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/58 "2007-07-05T21:49:27Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] She may have been hot (OK, she WAS hot), but she was the worst actor in that film, and that includes the ridiculous Harryhausen monsters. 😛 [/QUOTE] Acting? Monsters? Bowker butt! ---
**Author:** ![pprgrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f6c823/32.png) [@pprgrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pprgrl)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/59 "2007-07-06T00:46:05Z")
Reminded by [this thread:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=427625) Tasha Yar. Hers was the only action figure I ever bought. Emma Thompson from Much Ado About Nothing was another huge crush of mine. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579/60 "2007-07-06T00:51:38Z")
Sandy Kenyon. Is that obscure enough? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/410579.md?page=4)