# What TV show from when you were a kid... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2009, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839 "2009-04-30T14:20:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/21 "2009-04-30T17:39:10Z")
I’ve often wondered if Love, American Style held up. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/22 "2009-04-30T17:43:24Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > One more joke on that subject and I’ll be neuralizing the lot of you, and the phony memory I will insert will be of a night of passionate lovemaking with Ann Coulter. I’d think her Adam’s Apple might be an obstacle to oral sex, but what do I know? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/23 "2009-04-30T17:53:48Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Most of those longer form TV/movies – _McMillen & Wife_, _McCloud_, that one with the A-Team guy in it? The one with George Peppard was “Banacek”. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/24 "2009-04-30T18:05:05Z")
The Dukes of Hazzard. At the time, I loved it - pretending to be Bo Duke, sliding over a recliner arm pretending it was the window of the General Lee. That was the fun. I’m certain that if I tried to watch it now I would die of embarrassment. Pretty much any show aimed at kids would by definition fit the bill. Okay, Warner Brothers cartoons don’t really count, they were more general audience and could appeal to adults, but the rest, yep. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/25 "2009-04-30T18:07:39Z")
[This](http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/showresults.cfm?ShowName=&ShowCategory=&Decade=&StartRow=1&MaxRows=25&Sort=Pop) is a listing of shows people have voted as most wanted to be released on DVD, but the ones with the green checks already have been. The highest ranked is _Batman_, followed by _Ed_, _Family Matters_, _The Six Million Dollar Man_, and _Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place_. I know that a lot of people would like to see \*Scarecrow and Mrs. King \*and _The Carol Burnett Show_. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/26 "2009-04-30T18:08:50Z")
From the '50s: Anything starring Lucille Ball Howdy Doody The Pinky Lee Show Ozzie & Harriet The Life of Riley Sing Along with Mitch Amos ‘n’ Andy Soupy Sales Lawrence Welk Tennessee Ernie Ford The Real McCoys Queen for a Day Amazingly, there was actually some excellent programming among all this drek. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/27 "2009-04-30T18:11:54Z")
> [@drillrod](#): > > When I was three or four years old, the greatest show in the world was **Johnny Sokko and his Giant Robot**. I haven’t seen the show since I was a child, but I actually have pretty vivid memories of it. I have occasionally seen it on DVD at conventions and such, but have never bought it. > > I’m afraid to buy them. I like my memories the way they are, thank you very much. > > “Giant Robot, Launch!” A local station in Chicago played that Sunday mornings last year. The cheese factor is prevalant, the effects are prety silly, the storylines are painfully simple and you wonder why Character X did this or that, but the show still has a certain innocent charm to it ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/28 "2009-04-30T18:39:50Z")
When I was a teenager I loved a show called _Salvage 1_. A guy who owned a junkyard realized that he could make a fortune if he could retrieve the junk left on the Moon from the Apollo missions and sell it for scrap. So he built a rocket ship out of junk, made friends with a couple of teenagers, and had all sorts of wacky adventures. It starred Andy Griffith, so you know it was a top quality show. That I will never again watch. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/29 "2009-04-30T18:48:39Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’d think her Adam’s Apple might be an obstacle to oral sex, but what do I know? On the other hand, perhaps it comes from much practice with the Prince of Darkness. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/30 "2009-04-30T19:16:32Z")
The live-action Spiderman from the 1970’s. Really loved it when I was 7, but now I bet it would be seriously dumb. I’ve already been hurt with Alf, watched some reruns on Nick at Night and it got REALLY old after a couple episodes. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/31 "2009-04-30T19:25:14Z")
Some I _have_ watched recently: _Magnum P.I._ - still great. _WKRP_ - holds up well, though some episodes more than others. _Superfriends_ - and I mean the [really old ones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqRxWAqnQ_g), the Wendy and Marvin ones. I guess I liked the Zan and Jayna ones too, but not as much. Mostly due to their uncreative form of conveyance. (An Eagle and a bucket of water? C’Mon). Anyway, not all that great, but the nostalgia factor is fantastic. Worth it just for the sound f/x, background music, voice acting, Ted Knight narration, etc. _Jonny Quest_ - see [above](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIrEf-vn65w). I still wish I had that spider thing for my commute. And who doesn’t remember that shrieking invisible monster that they poured paint on? _Dukes Of Hazzard_ - brutally bad. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/32 "2009-04-30T19:43:53Z")
_Miami Vice_ – it’s still pretty to look at (all the colors coordinate) and the music’s still good, but except for some “special” episodes (_Evan_ and the one with Ted Nugent), it’s awful. Don Johnson in particular – he yelled all his lines. I was disappointed with _Soap_ too. Too much laugh track, or if it wasn’t a track, too much live audience laughing at every single freakin’ line. ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/33 "2009-04-30T19:44:38Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I haven’t seen Ghostwriter but I want to see it again. It’s one of the few shows I haven’t rewatched. I remember loving it as a kid and thinking it was so mysterious, but I’m afraid it’ll seem a little dorky now. Agreed! I loved that show. I’d also like to see the ‘Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?’ game show again, though I knew it was dorky the first time I watched it. The host (Lynn Thigpen, I think) was fantastic. Plus, yay, geography. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/34 "2009-04-30T20:08:51Z")
Yeah, I’m with **AuntiePam** in thinking Miami Vice wouldn’t be as cool and badass as I remember. Also loved the Dukes, but I even recall that as being somewhat cheesy from an 8-10 yo perspective, so I shudder to think what I’d think now. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/35 "2009-04-30T20:53:25Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I wasn’t too young to not recognize the greatness of Robert Conrad’s ass, though that was only one small element of the appeal of that show. Your syntax in that sentence is scaring me. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/36 "2009-04-30T21:02:01Z")
[\*Wacky Races](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_Races)\*. I was surprised to learn that there were only seventeen episodes made, as the show seemed to have been on the air for a couple of years without repeating. Each member of the family had a favorite competitor: Me – Professor Pat Pending Sister Kathy – Penelope Pitstop Brother Mike – Peter Perfect Brother Mark – Creepy Coupe Mom – Slag Brothers Dad – Dick Dastardly (“He’s going to win this time, kids! Just watch!”) We also owned, and frequently played, the [board game](http://www.boardgamegeek.com/images/thing/8076) based on the show. I suspect I’d find both _Wacky Races_ experiences less delightful some forty years later. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/37 "2009-04-30T21:35:37Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > The Dukes of Hazzard. At the time, I loved it - pretending to be Bo Duke, sliding over a recliner arm pretending it was the window of the General Lee. That was the fun. I’m certain that if I tried to watch it now I would die of embarrassment. Oh, that’s a good one! I’ll agree with that and Six Million Dollar Man. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/38 "2009-04-30T21:44:35Z")
I loved _Wild Wild West_. I’ve tried to get my Tivo to find episodes, but it hasn’t. _Get Smart_, another childhood favorite, was really pretty lame when I watched a few episodes a few months ago. OTOH, \*WKRP \*and _Third Rock from the Sun_ has held up pretty well. OTOOH, I got the DVDs of _Northern Exposure_ for Christmas last year and didn’t get through the first season. Either it got a lot better, and I’d forgotten about the early shows, or I had much worse taste in High School than I thought I did. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/39 "2009-04-30T22:11:28Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Your syntax in that sentence is scaring me. I’m a trained professional – kids, don’t try this at home. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/40 "2009-04-30T22:19:02Z")
DuckTales. It is on DVD, and I’ve debated buying it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839.md?page=3)