# Who were your big TV crushes from your youth? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 3, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325 "2003-10-03T13:23:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/1 "2003-10-03T13:23:59Z")
Jim and I were watching Smallville, and we got onto the subject of John Schneider, and Jim found it pretty funny that I had a huge crush on both Bo and Luke Duke as a yute. Some of my other youthful crushes - Patrick Duffy as the Man from Atlantis, John Ritter as Jack Tripper, and, of course, Lee Majors as the Bionic Man. Anyone else got any TV crush skeletons they’d like to air out? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/2 "2003-10-03T13:26:46Z")
Valerie Bertinelli. What a total babe. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/3 "2003-10-03T13:32:35Z")
Donna Reed from the … err … Donna Reed Show. Also Linda Evans from The Big Valley. I always figured it was named for her clevage. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/4 "2003-10-03T13:53:30Z")
Shaun Cassidy from The Hardy Boys Show & his Singing Career. Michael Landon from Bonanza - Little Joe Cartwright. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/5 "2003-10-03T14:11:56Z")
Two words: Lori Partridge. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/6 "2003-10-03T14:12:25Z")
I had male and female crushes. I tended to dote more on movie people, but I loved loved loved Lindsay Wagner’s **The Bionic Woman**! Robert Brown (mainly) and Bobby Sherman from **Here Come The Brides**. Tiffany Bolling, Dennis Olivieri and Zooey Hall from **[The New People](http://members.tripod.com/tvobscurities/shows/new_people.htm)** (very obscure, it was only on for half a season). Davy Jones, of course. (Peter Tork, too) David Cassidy, of course. (hey, I was a teenybopper) Angela Cartwright, **Lost In Space**. ---
**Author:** ![dragongirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dragongirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragongirl)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/7 "2003-10-03T14:16:17Z")
I had the worst thing for Bo Duke. I even bought his album. ---
**Author:** ![Nangleator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19adc/32.png) [@Nangleator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nangleator)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/8 "2003-10-03T14:16:59Z")
Angela Cartwright… Was that Penny? Very lovely. Yeoman Rand from Star Trek. Gotta love those short uniforms. Genie. A skimpily-clad busty blonde eager to serve her master? Oh, my. I guess I mostly had lusts, not crushes. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/9 "2003-10-03T14:21:55Z")
**David Cassidy** was one of my big crushes. The other one - well, this is bizarre, but here goes - **Bob Crane** from Hogan’s Heroes. Well, what can I say - I was 9 years old! I thought he was a brainiac, had no idea he was a pervert! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/10 "2003-10-03T14:23:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Equipoise \* > \*\*I had male and female crushes. I tended to dote more on movie people, but I loved loved loved > > Lindsay Wagner’s **The Bionic Woman**! > > Robert Brown (mainly) and Bobby Sherman from **Here Come The Brides**. > > \*\* Yikes. Ditto, ditto, ditto. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/11 "2003-10-03T14:24:59Z")
Sadly Leif Garret. Also Matt Dillon, but I still fancy him. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/12 "2003-10-03T14:30:32Z")
I would have given my left nut (and it’s contents) to Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island. Ginger, if I was still horny afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/13 "2003-10-03T14:45:15Z")
The princess from Voltron and Lisa Hayes from Robotech. Bailey Quarters from WKRP. One of the girls on “You Can’t Do That on Television” ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/14 "2003-10-03T14:50:56Z")
I had a terrible crush on Sally Field during her stint as **Gidget.** ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/15 "2003-10-03T14:53:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Equipoise \* > \*\*I had male and female crushes. I tended to dote more on movie people, but I loved loved loved > > Lindsay Wagner’s **The Bionic Woman**! > > …and Bobby Sherman from **Here Come The Brides**. > > Davy Jones, of course. > David Cassidy, of course. (hey, I was a teenybopper) > > \*\* All of the above, plus Elizabeth Montgomery on Bewitched. And Donny Osmond! (I can’t believe I admitted that!) ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/16 "2003-10-03T15:08:05Z")
Valerie Bertinelli. (from One Day At A Time) Marlo Thomas. (from That Girl) Dawn Wells. (from Gilligan’s Island) As an aside, I saw Marlo Thomas on television just recently and I was shocked at how good she still looks. I’m _still_ in love with her. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/17 "2003-10-03T15:14:07Z")
this guy [http://www.theghoul.com/](http://www.theghoul.com/) Still a babe, too. ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/18 "2003-10-03T15:28:11Z")
**U.S. Actresses** Victoria Principal (hated Dallas but wowza, was she ever hot. Best looking woman ever to live imho) Heather Locklear (from her Dynasty/awful Billy Shatner show days) Joan Collins (Dynasty) Madonna The lead singer of The Bangles Pretty much all of the women associated with Prince (Appolonia, Vanity, Jill Jones etc.) **U.K. Actresses** Glynis Barber from Demspsy and Makepeace Fiona Fullerton (the Russian Agent in A View To A Kill amongst other things) Leslie Ash from UK TV Jenny Powell from UK TV (did some lame music TV show but she was smoking) ---
**Author:** ![Nangleator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19adc/32.png) [@Nangleator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nangleator)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/19 "2003-10-03T15:33:01Z")
Holy hell! I forgot about _That Girl_! Major, major crush, despite the fact that I was about 7 when it was on. Glynis Barber in _Dempsey & Makepeace_, too, although I wasn’t very youthful at the time. God. Damn. She was beautiful! ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/20 "2003-10-03T15:39:50Z")
Well, I’m a little younger here … But I adored John Stamos (of Full House - now doing 1010987 commercials) and the guy from Charles In Charge. mmmmmmmm [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325.md?page=2)