# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![godzillatemple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@godzillatemple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godzillatemple)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/41 "2003-10-03T17:21:11Z")
What? No mention of Loni Anderson from WKRP? Well, let me be the first then… Oh, yeah – Lynda Carter was definitely a babe as well… ---
**Author:** ![PRNYouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PRNYouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PRNYouth)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/42 "2003-10-03T17:23:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Algernon \* > \*\*Hmmm. **PRNYouth** , I don’t think those are current pictures of Lynda Carter. I saw her on VH1’s _I Love the 70’s_ and she didn’t look that good. Well, she still looked good, but not as good as those pictures you linked to. \*\* Those pictures are from June 28, 2003, at the premiere of _Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl_. So don’t tell me she doesn’t still look that good! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/43 "2003-10-03T17:29:10Z")
Khrysyine Haje (“Head of the Class”) Danicka Mckellehear (“Wonder Years”) Eve Plumb (“Brady Buch”) ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/44 "2003-10-03T17:29:18Z")
Serious crush on the cutie Mrs. Robert Hartley, played by **Susanne Pleshette** ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/45 "2003-10-03T17:30:29Z")
Oh one more: Tracy Gold (“Growing Pains”) ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/46 "2003-10-03T17:42:21Z")
Okay, this one’s a bit obscure.There was a Saturday morning live t.v. show that was something like The Adventures of Huck Finn. I had SUCH a crush on Becky Thatcher. I mean, I was in love and she didn’t know I was alive. 😃 Who else? Everybody. I’ll do character names if possible. Keith Partridge AND Laurie Partridge. Marie Osmond ( I have a serious taste for L.D.S. gals. 😉 ) Wonder Woman ( Lynda Carter, not the animated girl…heh ) Cindy Brady. The daughter from \*\* My World And Welcome To It\*\*. I believe she also played Chloris Leachman’s daughter in **Mary Tyler Moore Show**. Batgirl. Yvonne Craig. Oh my god. What was I? 6? 5? Goodness me. Linda Blair in \*\* Sara: Portrait of A Teenage Alcoholic\*\*. Now, there was a beautiful young woman. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/47 "2003-10-03T17:47:57Z")
Han Solo. And I never got over it. 🙂 Bruce Boxleitner on _Scarecrow & Mrs. King_. Watching _Babylon 5_ recently, I realized he still does it for me. Jameson Parker on _Simon & Simon_. John Stamos (my excuse is that I was a 12-year-old hormone bomb). I found my old, old diary the other day and I apparently had a crush on David Leisure from _Empty Nest_ and those Joe Isuzu ads. I have no memory of this. ---
**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, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/48 "2003-10-03T18:04:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cbawlmer \* > \*\*I found my old, old diary the other day and I apparently had a crush on David Leisure from _Empty Nest_ and those Joe Isuzu ads. I have no memory of this. \*\* My first impulse was to say “I can see why you’d repress this memory” – but honesty compels me to admit that [sub]um, yeah, me too – and I was an adult at the time.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/49 "2003-10-03T18:11:30Z")
I’m not alone! Hooray! My only explanation is that I guess I thought he was funny, and I’m a sucker for funny guys. ---
**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, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/50 "2003-10-03T18:20:25Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by PRNYouth_ > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Algernon \* > > Hmmm. PRNYouth, I don’t think those are current pictures of Lynda Carter. I saw her on VH1’s I Love the 70’s and she didn’t look that good. Well, she still looked good, but not as good as those pictures you linked to. > > Those pictures are from June 28, 2003, at the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. So don’t tell me she doesn’t still look that good! Ah. After looking again (and again and again and again…) I see that the pictures of her in the brown leather jacket are indeed recent. It’s the pictures after that are from 1981 (at least from the copyright notice by the photographer). Nonetheless, I’ll concede… she is a babe, still. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/51 "2003-10-03T18:43:32Z")
My list: [ul] [li] Jan Smithers (Bailey Quarters)[/li][li] Erin Grey (Wilma Dearing)[/li][li] Joanna Cameron (Isis)[/li][li] Julie Newmar (Catwoman, Eleen from “Friday’s Child”)[/li][li] Barbara Feldon (Agent 99)[/li][/ul] All equally lusted after. ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/52 "2003-10-03T18:43:56Z")
I can’t believe I’m the first to say it: Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher. Of course I loved loved loved River Phoenix as Chris Chambers in _Stand By Me_ too, but I was married in my heart to Wesley Crusher. ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/53 "2003-10-03T18:55:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > \*\*I had a huge crush on both Bo and Luke Duke as a yute. \*\* Daisy Duke made me feel like the strapping, red-blooded, ten-year-old American dweeb that I was. Though Lynda Carter was the first to direct me down that sun-lit, happy avenue of Right Palm. ---
**Author:** ![jools](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jools](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jools)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/54 "2003-10-03T18:55:14Z")
**Calm kiwi** you are not the only, I had a big time crush on Leif Garrett. I saw him recently on tv… oooh boy! the man did not grow “old” gracefully! Other than him, again like you, Matt Dillon but I still have a schoolgirl crush on him :o the others: Shaun Cassidy (Hardy Boys) Clark Brandon (played in a series with Jimmy McNichol something shadow, I think) Robbie Benson Paul Michael Glaser (Starksy) ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/55 "2003-10-03T19:14:10Z")
I agree with **Troy McClure** on Christina Ricci as Wednesday. I hadn’t seen the Addam’s Family movie in a long time and found it on TV one day. I decided to watch it since I remembered what a crush I had on Wednesday. Once she appeared I realized she was just a kid (like I was when I first saw it). That’s what happens when 7 or 8 years pass. I also got to go with Kelly Kapowski from Saved By The Bell. Most of the people that are being mentioned I would have had to have seen in syndication to know who they were. Not to make the other posters feel old or anything. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/56 "2003-10-03T19:36:54Z")
Ooh, I just remembered another one from when I was really little and it was already in reruns: James Garner in _The Rockford Files_. Just because he was older than my dad didn’t stop me from thinking he was really cool. Oh, and speaking of cool, Fonzie. I cringe now when I see those reruns but when I was 8 he was soooo coooooool. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/57 "2003-10-03T19:39:05Z")
Christina Ricci? With that billboard of a forehead? Elementary School - Barbara Eden Middle School - Lynda Carter (aka Wonder Bosom) High School - V. Hamel (aka Joyce Davenport on Hill Street Blues - she could wear one of my shirts and call me ‘Pizza Man’ any damn day of the week.) ---
**Author:** ![ecugrad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@ecugrad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ecugrad)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/58 "2003-10-03T20:34:59Z")
Robert Blake when he played in Barretta. Also, Paul Michael Glaser from Starsky & Hutch. Both had the bad-boy attitude, I guess… ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/59 "2003-10-03T21:03:25Z")
Valerie Bertinelli. Daisey Duke And what man who grew up in the 70s didn’t have the Farah Fawcette poster? ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/60 "2003-10-03T21:11:26Z")
Lynda Carter is definitely the top of the list. Others include: Yvonne Craig (Batgirl) Diana Rigg (Emma Peel) Maureen McCormick (Marcia Brady) Erin Gray (Wilma Deering on “Buck Rogers”) Teresa Graves (beautiful Black detective on “Get Christie Love”,1974-1975) Lynda Day George (from TV series “Mission Impossible”) There of course were many more…perhaps I will post more later… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325.md?page=4)