# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/62 "2011-08-09T12:54:18Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Why didn’t you just DVR it? 😃 > mmm Well, back then I’d have to Standard 8 & Reel-to-Reel it. ---
**Author:** ![jonesj2205](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jonesj2205](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonesj2205)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/63 "2011-08-09T12:56:41Z")
New Zoo Revue. And then game shows like High Rollers and Blockbusters. Afternoons were awful. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/64 "2011-08-09T13:26:32Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > _Picture Pages_, which around here anyway was a segment of later-season _Captain Kangaroo_. I hated it, I think because it took the place of _Simon_, which I loved. Well you know my name is Simon, and the things I draw come true. And the pictures take me, take me over, over the garden wall with you. > [@jonesj2205](#): > > New Zoo Revue. With Freddy! Charlie! Henrieeeeeeeetta! They have fun learning what they don’t know. Doug used to creep me out a little. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/65 "2011-08-09T15:05:14Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > I knew exactly what you mean, but for me, it’s _Jeopardy!_ Same here. One of the ONLY good things about being sick, when I was a kid, was that I got to watch so many great daytime game shows. I’m 50, so I remember the old days with Art Fleming… but there seemed to be classic game shows on some station or other all day long. Today, when I’m sick, there’s never anything on TV that I want to watch. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/66 "2011-08-09T15:16:34Z")
The Match Game and Concentration. I seem to remember that Concentration came on pretty early in the day. Also occasionally Hollywood Squares and Let’s Make a Deal. I really didn’t care for The Price is Right because that seemed to be more about humiliation. I used to like To Tell The Truth, but I can’t remember if that was a daytime or evening show. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/67 "2011-08-09T17:17:11Z")
Late 1970s game shows: $20,000 (?) Pyramid ($25,000? $100,000? - Something like that) The Price Is Right (didn’t really get into that as a kid though) Card Sharks (“Higher! Lower!!! … STOP!!!”) The Joker’s Wild (“Joker… Joker… AND A JOKER!!”) Reruns on afternoon TV: I Love Lucy Gilligan’s Island F Troop Addams Family Partridge Family I Dream of Jeannie Bewitched Often after school, so not necessarily only when I stayed at home sick or over the summer: Brady Bunch Batman (“nana nana nana nana nana, Batman!”) Woody Woodpecker Spider-Man (“does whatever a spider can…”) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/68 "2011-08-09T17:24:44Z")
Donahue Who’s the Boss? the entire Nickelodeon line up; Donna Reed, My Three Sons, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, Gilligan’s Island etc. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/69 "2011-08-09T18:54:38Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > The Match Game and Concentration. I seem to remember that Concentration came on pretty early in the day. Also occasionally Hollywood Squares and Let’s Make a Deal. I really didn’t care for The Price is Right because that seemed to be more about humiliation. > > I used to like To Tell The Truth, but I can’t remember if that was a daytime or evening show. “The Match Game” was incredibly easy, even for a little kid, once you figured out that the answer was ALWAYS either “boobs” or “bra.” “Raquel Welch forgot to bring a canteen on her camping trip, so she just put water in her blank.” “The carnival barker shouted ‘Hurry hurry hurry, see the woman with the world’s biggest blank.’” ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/70 "2011-08-09T19:38:46Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > “The Match Game” was incredibly easy, even for a little kid, once you figured out that the answer was ALWAYS either “boobs” or “bra.” > > “Raquel Welch forgot to bring a canteen on her camping trip, so she just put water in her blank.” > > “The carnival barker shouted ‘Hurry hurry hurry, see the woman with the world’s biggest blank.’” My memory goes all the way back to the original Match Game on NBC, which ran from 1962 to 1969 and was (somewhat) less predictable. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/71 "2011-08-09T19:39:32Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > “The Match Game” was incredibly easy, even for a little kid, once you figured out that the answer was ALWAYS either “boobs” or “bra.” > > “Raquel Welch forgot to bring a canteen on her camping trip, so she just put water in her blank.” > > “The carnival barker shouted ‘Hurry hurry hurry, see the woman with the world’s biggest blank.’” Heh. All of the celebrity panel game shows from the 70s were full of that wink-wink naughty-naughty stuff. Looking back on it, you almost feel bad for them, just because they were so _earnest_ in the attempt to “liven it up”. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/72 "2011-08-09T20:56:44Z")
Bewitched Gilligan’s Island Brady Bunch Good Times 25,000 Pyramid Jeopardy Joker’s Wild Match Game When I got older (not a kid anymore…home from college), Saved by the Bell. ---
**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 9, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/73 "2011-08-09T21:01:21Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > Late 1970s game shows: > > $20,000 (?) Pyramid ($25,000? $100,000? - Something like that) Late 70s would have been _$20,000 Pyramid_, which ran on daytime TV from 1976-1980. ---
**Author:** ![danderson400](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@danderson400](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danderson400)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/74 "2016-10-11T05:39:11Z")
Back when I was younger and when GSN and TV Land were starting, id watch reruns of “St. Elsewhere” and “The Joker’s Wild” and also “Tic Tac Dough”. “American Gladiators” was also on in reruns at that time too. ---
**Author:** ![danderson400](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@danderson400](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danderson400)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/75 "2016-10-11T06:29:31Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > 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. I used to watch “St. Elsewhere” reruns when the networks went to soap operas(yuck!) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/76 "2016-10-12T07:01:49Z")
Steve Allen’s syndicated daytime show in the late '60s–early '70s. _ **Jeopardy!** _ with Art Fleming. _ **The Galloping Gourmet** _. The soap opera _ **Love Is a Many Splendored Thing** _. I watched a lot of other game shows when I was home sick (_ **Eye Guess** _, _ **Split Second** _, _ **You Don’t Say** _, _ **To Tell the Truth** _, _ **I’ve Got a Secret** _, and the original _ **Match Game** _), plus reruns of _ **Dick van Dyke** _, _ **The Lucy Show** _, _ **Andy Griffith** _, _ **Gomer Pyle** _, and _ **That Girl!** _, along with Art Linkletter’s show. But the first four listed above were must-see for me! ---
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\*\*\*The Beverly Hillbillies \*\*\* were also in daytime reruns by the late '60s. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792/78 "2016-10-12T10:08:14Z")
Wok with Yan. ---
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For me, it’s Harry Caray and Steve Stone calling Cubs games on WGN. Recall that home games were all during the day at Wrigley Field until (checks) 1988. > [@Sarabellum1976](#): > > What was the one where Bill Cosby would draw pictures with his special marker pen (that had a name that I can’t remember?) I used to beg my mother to buy me one of those pens. They had a “shameless plug” segment where they’d tell you how much money to send in to get your own pen. As pointed out (five years ago), it was Picture Pages. I can still remember some of the jingle. I wanted that pen so badly but there’s no way it would sound as cool as it did on the show…if it made noise at all. ---
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I was about 12 when the first episodes of _Voltron_ appeared in America. It was my first exposure to Japanimation and it was smarter and better-written than anything I’d seen before. ---
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I must be ancient, because I actually remember the Arthur Godfrey Show (or, as I called him, ‘Offy Goffy’, Pete and Gladys (with Henry Morgan and Spring Byington), and I Married Joan (with Jim Backus). And The Life of Riley. And the 4 o’clock movie with the Syncopated Clock Song, (and dialing for dollars! Ed Murphy, call me!) . I was a sickly child, home from school a lot. So I associate those old shows with pain! but I’d love to see them again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-shows-make-you-think-of-staying-home-from-school-as-a-kid/591792.md?page=5)