These are from my childhood and I’d still watch them if they showed them once in awhile:
Tailspin
Ducktails
Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers
Doug
Disney’s Doug
AHHH! Real Monsters
Rockos Modern Life
Hey Dude
Salute Your Shorts
Who knows though, I might hate them all if I watched them again.
It was in late night reruns two nights a week on TNT until last summer, when it was replaced with endless reruns of Cold Case and Without a Trace. Now Without a Trace is gone gone gone, Cold Case lingers on, and we’re given CSI:NY, but usually Cold Case, overnights. Bah.
McMillan & Wife
Banacek
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Dean Martin Show
Perry Mason
second NYPD Blue. I watched it (recorded it) on the late-night reruns and was very sad when it stopped. Especially since that stupid channel plays the same stupid shows over and over and over again, so it’s not like it’s so bursting at the seams with valuable programming that there’s no room for NYPD Blue at 4 AM anymore.
I never saw it in its original run, so I was doubly irritated because it just sort of cut off the story and I’ve never been able to find the rest of it. They don’t even have DVDs of most of the middle seasons.
YouTube has many episodes of the original Batman series. They are apparently uncut from the original ABC airings, they even have the intro at the beginning that says “This is an ABC color presentation.” They are, however, cut into approximately 10 minute segments, as is common for YouTube. Just do a search for Batman TV episodes. I’ll even start you off with the pilot episode, featuring Frank Gorshin as the Riddler and Jill St. John as the unfortunate Molly.
My picks:
The Addams Family
-THe Old “World of Disney”
-Mannix
-Adam-12
-Waterfront (early 1950’s)
Yes, Sisters.
I’m the youngest (by far) of four sisters with the same personality types shown on the show.
Man, I loved that show.
The Larry Sanders Show was already mentioned, so I’ll add Dream On.
The old Bob Newhart show (“That’s Drrrrr. D R.”)
Northern Exposure.
Kolchak, the Night Stalker.
Get Smart. It was on This or RTN on a broadcast subchannel when the local station first picked it up, but it was already into the the last one or two seasons, when it was mostly played out, and it didn’t start over. And it was on at 11:0pm. I want it on when my kids can watch it too.
Dark Skies
Sadly not in reruns, and unlike some others mentioned, unlikely to ever get DVD/digital release due to mid-90s TV shows having no concept for home-video licensing on music used in shows. Easy when there’s just a song or two to pay for. All but impossible when a show is loaded with period songs and is too niche to recoup the licensing costs.
They can be released with different music. Whether or not that would ruin the show is another matter.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Sure, the later seasons require you to be paying attention to what’s going on episode-to-episode, but no more so than The West Wing (in reruns on Bravo) or the critical darling Battlestar Galactica. I wish Syfy would rerun DS9 instead of Enterprise.
Oh, also- Boy Meets World.
It was on a while ago. But alas, no more.
They can, sure. But the music was a pretty big part of the show’s tone.
Similarly, I would like re-runs of Keen Eddie with the original soundtrack, because the euro-trash club music that replaced it on the DVDs because of licensing rights just destroyed the show’s cool.
The character was a real asshole wasn’t he?
I sincerely fear for the cultural education of American youth since “The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show” stopped airing.
Freakazoid. It used to be a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Spielberg but it only lasted two seasons and never comes on these days. I loved that show.
I’m confused, then. You originally wrote that the show was “unlikely to ever get DVD/digital release due to mid-90s TV shows having no concept for home-video licensing on music used in shows.” This strongly implies that you wish the show had done something differently – namely had different music – in order to be releasable. But if the show is rendered undesirable without the ultra-expensive music, you should really just be thankful it ever aired at all. Nowadays, with the concept of DVD/digital release being ubiquitous, it is unlikely any such show will ever be made again.
The Wonder Years…The Ion channel used to play re-runs about 2 or 3 years ago, but stopped. 