# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/81 "2009-05-01T20:14:50Z")
I’m almost ashamed to admit this, but my favorite show as a child was Hart to Hart. It was one of those shows I wasn’t allowed to watch so it was a special treat to sneak in after my pawpaw had fallen asleep on the sofa and catch as much as I could. I was sure when I grew up I’d be so fashionably beautiful like Stefanie Powers and I’d marry a guy like Robert Wagner and we’d go on many adventures! I just saw the intro and I have a feeling I would not enjoy it now. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uSn9xPnjLps/hqdefault.jpg "hart to hart") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSn9xPnjLps) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/82 "2009-05-01T20:30:19Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > _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? [QUOTE=Alastair Moonsong] Oh my god I remember that episode. I saw it YEARS ago, prolly mid-90’s or so, and that episode TERRIFIED me! That episode, and no other! And to this day it stands as the only movie, TV show, videogame, or any other form of cinematic entertainment to actually scare me! I mean come on! It almost ate Hadji! And Bandit! It was invisible and it would eat you!!! I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers that. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Icerigger] Oh the horror! Definitely the most frightening thing I ever watched when I was a kid, gave me nightmares for a long time and can still gives me chills. The opening really packs a punch even today. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=John DiFool] You both just brought back a memory I hoped was gone forever. Same exact reaction to my 11 year old self. [As in \] [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Morbo] There goes my lunch hour. [/QUOTE] I thought I’d be the only one to remember that episode of Johnny Quest. The monster was made of electricity, right? And they lured it to it’s doom with a series of light bulbs flashing on and off? Freaked me right out, I can’t ever remember a cartoon doing that before, even way back at that age for me. Sounds as if we have enough Dopers for a good therapy group though. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/83 "2009-05-01T21:54:52Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I thought I’d be the only one to remember that episode of Johnny Quest. The monster was made of electricity, right? And they lured it to it’s doom with a series of light bulbs flashing on and off? Freaked me right out, I can’t ever remember a cartoon doing that before, even way back at that age for me. > > Sounds as if we have enough Dopers for a good therapy group though. Seeing as how I just watched it, it was made of molecular energy. And they did indeed lure it to its doom with a series of lights. BTW, **Icerigger** ’s link’s [owner](http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=jonnyquestfun88&view=videos) has every full original Jonny Quest episode, including the movies. It’s only been up for two days or so, and traditionally these links get taken down quickly, so get 'em while they’re live! :: off to watch Jonny Quest vs the Cyber Insects :: ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/84 "2009-05-01T22:04:46Z")
When I was a sixth grader I was obsessed with _Land of the Lost_, though even then I didn’t like the human characters and would mentally replace them with better chararacters. I put it on my Netflix queue, but I’m scared to watch it, for fear it will be awful. Di you hear that someone was making a live action re-make with Will Farell? Fortunately the idea was quickly shelved and the person who thought of it is now getting the treatment he needs at an exclusive private sanitorium. (I refuse to believe otherwise. Any trailers or ads I see are just cautionary warnings about what a bad idea this is.) ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/85 "2009-05-01T22:28:44Z")
Friend carniverousplant: > [@](#): > > Oh, the OP. > > Somehow, I’ll warrant that Fireball XL5 fellates with great alacrity forty years afterwards. I didn’t think anyone but me would remember that one (1962-63) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/86 "2009-05-01T22:38:00Z")
I saw a few years ago on some ‘looking-back’ TV show, a scene from 'Medical Center ’ (I NEVER missed an episode, crush on Chad Everett, etc.). All that HAIR! The emegency room set was Ed Wood bad, I think there was a lamp and a gurney in a white room. How primitive, and dated! I did love the medical shows, though, Dr. Kildare and Ben Casey, and to this day I try to never miss an episode of any medical show. Mr. Salinqmind and I got a DVD of ‘Supercar’ for old times sake and couldn’t make it through one episode. What were we thinking, as kids?? Black and white, dull, yet creepy, it was like watching a transmission from the moon. I wonder whatever happened to that show about the mail order brides brought to Seattle after the Civil War. Love to see how that show aged. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/87 "2009-05-01T23:04:03Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > :: off to watch Jonny Quest vs the Cyber Insects :: OK, that was terrible. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/88 "2009-05-01T23:31:43Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > Friend carniverousplant: > > I didn’t think anyone but me would remember that one (1962-63) RE main on course…RE main on course…RE main on course…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ec9cab/32.png) [@Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/89 "2009-05-02T00:16:06Z")
Daktari, an everyday tale of Lions and them what loved em’. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/90 "2009-05-02T04:05:13Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > How about Roy Thinnes in “The Invaders”. Oooh I forgot that one. I’d see it again. We have a standing order in our house: shoot on sight, let die, do not revive, for any person who lets the TV ever again stop on a station showing MASH. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/91 "2009-05-02T04:32:25Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I thought I’d be the only one to remember that episode of Johnny Quest. The monster was made of electricity, right? And they lured it to it’s doom with a series of light bulbs flashing on and off? Freaked me right out, I can’t ever remember a cartoon doing that before, even way back at that age for me. > > Sounds as if we have enough Dopers for a good therapy group though. Actually, I just went and watched it again (thanx to whoever put up the link), and didn’t even feel the slightest twinge of fear. Hell, I was actually sorry for the poor bugger (even if it did kill 2 people)-it is called into existence through no fault of its own, goes here and there trying to survive, and then gets fried into atoms. I probably shouldn’t expect a “Horta” moment from a 35 year old kid’s show, but the damned thing probably deserved better. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2009, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/92 "2009-05-02T04:33:38Z")
> [@ghardester](#): > > We have a standing order in our house: shoot on sight, let die, do not revive, > > for any person who lets the TV ever again stop on a station showing MASH. I complement you, Sir. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/93 "2009-05-02T05:58:00Z")
_The Man from Atlantis_. I actually downloaded the pilot a few years ago, to refresh my memory. It was kind of … painful, but in one of those queasy ways where you sort of want to see more anyway. _The Greatest American Hero_ is that way, too. Painful now, but kind of more-ish. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/94 "2009-05-02T08:28:16Z")
My favorite TV show as an adolescent was one that nobody remembers, because apparently nobody else watched at the time. It only lasted less than a season. It was called **The New People** and it was about a group of college-age kids stranded on a desert island and they had to try and get along even though they were all very different (sheltered blonde, Angry Black Man, laid-back hippie, jock, and so on). I loved that show, and only ever missed one episode and it was so traumatic that I still remember why I missed it, my dad made us go with him to see **Easy Rider** (he was into biker films and boy, that sure wasn’t what he expected, and no doubt he regretted bringing us along, but my brother and I loved it). > [@](#): > > Plot summary for > [“The New People”](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0063935/) (1969) > > A group of young people crash land on a deserted island that was a never used atomic bomb test site. With the world thinking that they were all killed, “The New People” set out to form a civilization free from the problems and mistakes that their parents made, a task that soon becomes much more challenging than they had anticipated. Written by Wayne Coleman {wcoleman@onramp.net} > > A group of American college students is sent on a State Department sponsored tour of Southeast Asia to promote the American way of life. However, the tour is beset with problems especially after one student tears down a flag from the Soviet embassy in one country and another commandeers an American television broadcast and publicly questions the tour’s motives. They are then ordered to return to the United States in order to avoid further embarrassment. Unfortunately, the plane taking them back home is caught in a storm and crashes on a desert island, killing most of the adults except for one who is mortally wounded. They soon find out that the island, named Bomano, was a proposed nuclear test site complete with buildings, manequins and enough food and provisions to keep them alive. When the one adult who survived the crash dies they then decide that as long as they are on the island that they will set up their own society with their own rules and laws and try to make their world better than the one they left behind. Written by Brian Washington {Sargebri@earthlink.net} I still have such fond memories of **The New People** that I’m not sure I’d want to see it now. It couldn’t possibly live up to my memories. I’ve never seen an episode of Lost but I always wondered if the creators were New People fans. There was nothing supernatural in TNP though. From earlier, **The Monkees**. I’ve seen YouTube clips and though the music holds up, I don’t think I’d appreciate the slapstick as much as I did back then. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/95 "2009-05-02T09:07:33Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > There was a live action Captain Marvel series called SHAZAM! I loved as a kid that I caught a few years on TVLand late night and it was unbearable. Well, except for the ISIS crossover. I don’t think I realized what a babe she was back at the time. I was going to come in here and mention that. And speaking of Shazam, even though I watched “The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam!” on a regular basis I honestly don’t really remember any of it. But I’d probably want to let it stay in the past. I liked Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, but upon watching a little bit on YouTube, it hasn’t held up well. However, I watched a pilot for a 2001 effort to revive it, with Markie Post as an older, and burned out Electra Woman. That had potential. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839/96 "2009-05-02T17:12:25Z")
OK, watching Kid Super Power Hour on YouTube is painful, so I’d say leave it in the past. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-from-when-you-were-a-kid/494839.md?page=4)