# Which shows make you think of staying home from school as a kid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 7, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792 "2011-08-07T00:52:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/21 "2011-08-07T06:03:58Z")
The Price is Right is the big one. Also, Blue’s Clues. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/22 "2011-08-07T06:13:04Z")
I was rarely home sick from school and the times I was, I was too ill to watch tv. So all the shows that I would have seen at that hour, I more closely associate with summer. Hollywood Squares is probably the one that comes to mind first with Sabrina, the Teenage Witch trailing a close second. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/23 "2011-08-07T06:15:52Z")
Just a reminder to all you “Price is Right” fans: help control the pet population, have you pet spayed or neutered. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/24 "2011-08-07T06:42:51Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > I liked CBS game shows: > > $25,000 Pyramid > Press Your Luck > Price is Right This. And The Price Is Right. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/25 "2011-08-07T06:55:06Z")
Another for **TPiR.** A lot of game shows of the 70s through the 80s, actually: **Scrabble, Lets Make a Deal, Concentration, Family Feud, $25,000 Pyramid,** and **Press Your Luck** were among the ones that captured my attention. \*\*Leave it to Beaver \*\*reruns. **The Munsters** reruns. **Sesame Street** **Captain Kangaroo** **The Friendly Giant** **Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood** **3-2-1 Contact!** **The Electric Company** And, weirdly enough, **Donahue.** ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/26 "2011-08-07T07:02:24Z")
I forgot to mention **The Price is Right,** and also, **The Price is Right.** (I’ll never get that yodeling mountain climber in lederhosen figure out of my head). ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/27 "2011-08-07T07:17:17Z")
> [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](#): > > The Price is Right is the big one. Also, Blue’s Clues. Whoa, Blue’s Clues?! While the feeling isn’t entirely new, this one makes me feel particularly ancient, and I’m only 38. I was 23 years old when this first aired ('96). I wasn’t even aware of it until '99/2000 until my daughter was was a toddler, and was hooked on it. I did find Steve to be a natural and really refreshing as a host of a kid’s show. Which brings me to a couple more: **Mr. Dressup** and when I was a bit older (12ish?), **Tales From the Darkside** and original **Twilight Zone** reruns. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/28 "2011-08-07T07:24:31Z")
**Pyramid** **Price** **The Merv Griffin Show** **The Mike Douglas Show** **The John Davidson Show** **Card Sharks** , maybe, or **The Joker’s Wild** ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/29 "2011-08-07T13:05:26Z")
More than anything it is game shows. Not Jeopardy as I don’t rememberit ever being on during the day, but The Price is Right, Sale of the Century, Scrabble, there was a license plate game for a while, Joker’s Wild when I was really young, Password, Match Game, Tic-Tac-Toe, etc. Oh the joy to really be sick (and not just dramatizing it) so that I was hope for consecutive days and actually got to see winners return. Then in the early after noon it all went to crap with the networks going to soap operas (yuck even then) and the local UHF channels going to syndicated court shows (The People’s Court and a couple different divorce court shows if I recall correctly). Oh, and Perry Mason at noon on channel 12 (out of Portland, OR) every day from essentially my birth to my moving away to college. ---
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I’d start off with a rousing hour of \*\*Captain Kangaroo \*\*at 8am. From 9 to 10, when only crappy local shows were on the air, I’d engage my mind reading classic literature (featuring complex characters such as Madams Betty and Veronica; Masters Archibald and Jughead…). Then it was time to bunker down for the two hour CBS sitcom rerun compilation, starting with the weakest link, **The Lucy Show** (Ms. Carmichael was a stale comedic imitator of the former Mrs. Ricardo foiled against her Babaloo husband and curmudgeon neighbor). But, this whet my senses for the transcendent triumvirate that followed: **The Beverly Hillbillies** , \*\*The Andy Griffith Show \*\*and **The Dick Van Dyke Show**. I was down and out with double pneumonia two years in a row in early grade school—stuck at home for over a month each time. I began to feel like Rob, Laura, Barney, Opie, Jethro, Ellie May, Misters Moose & Green Jeans et al were my second family. Well, all of them, with the exception of [Dancing Bear](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C55I188FQpY)…he was just a self-aggrandizing douche. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/31 "2011-08-07T14:28:28Z")
\*Hogan’s Heroes, Dark Shadows \*and _Jeopardy!_ (with Don Pardo). And, when I was really little, the mid-day movie. Usually something from the 30’s, 40’s or 50’s in B&W (or maybe that was just the TV we had at the time). Shirley Temple, Tarzan, Maybe something with Ronald Reagan or Margaret O’Brien. I remember my mother kept me out of school for a whole week because they were running a Margaret O’Brien film fest and thought it was as important to my education as school. StG ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/32 "2011-08-07T14:35:19Z")
_Captain Kangaroo_, _Bewitched_, and a bunch of game shows but especially _Hollywood Squares_, the original _Wheel of Fortune_ (with Chuck), and _Card Sharks_. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/33 "2011-08-07T15:22:09Z")
When I was VERY young I was home quite ill for a long time. There was an ancient sit-com called I Married Joan about a wacky housewife, I think, that I used to watch with my grandma. Life of Riley! I Love Lucy. Also, Movie Matinee, all those B-movies set in the 50’s. And The Match Game. “Dumb Dora was so dumb that…”. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/34 "2011-08-07T18:21:51Z")
[Tales of the Wizard of Oz](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brqnui9dV9o). Not that I particularly liked it, but when I was a kid we only had two channels so beggars can’t be choosers. My mom would also watch “Another World”. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/35 "2011-08-07T18:33:39Z")
My dad worked night shift as an ER nurse, and didn’t sleep much during the day. He always found old Jerry Lewis or Abbot & Costello movies to watch during the day, so when I think of watching tv during the day, I think of those old movies, not typical daytime tv shows and sitcom reruns. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/36 "2011-08-07T18:49:29Z")
_The Lucy Show._ Not _I Love Lucy_, not _Here’s Lucy_, but the one where she’s “Mrs. Carmichael”. ---
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When I was _really_ young, it was a cartoon called [Super Chicken](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Chicken). ---
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Oh, Bob Ross, the painter, with his happy little trees. ---
**Author:** ![Kkrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Kkrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kkrose)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/39 "2011-08-07T20:02:23Z")
\*Little House on the Prairie. \* I think they used to run it all morning marathon style when I was sick. I also remember watching a gameshow called _Supermarket Sweep_ (or something like that) where the contestants would run through the supermarket trying to rack the largest bill. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/40 "2011-08-07T20:05:31Z")
> [@Kkrose](#): > > \*Little House on the Prairie. \* I think they used to run it all morning marathon style when I was sick. I also remember watching a gameshow called _Supermarket Sweep_ (or something like that) where the contestants would run through the supermarket trying to rack the largest bill. I remember _Supermarket Sweep_! That was the exact premise. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792.md?page=3)