# 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:** 4
**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, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/61 "2003-10-03T21:24:41Z")
I didn’t have the famed Farrah poster. I had Star Trek posters all over my walls. Then, a few large prints of B&W classic shots, by Adams and Bresson, then B&W photos I took of GF. Farrah…wayyyyyy too scrawny. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ExpiringMind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ExpiringMind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExpiringMind)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/62 "2003-10-03T21:25:29Z")
Oh, this is somewhat troubling… I had crushes on: Lt. Columbo (Peter Faulk), Barretta (Robert Blake) Gomez Adams (John Astin - The Adams Family) Quincy (Jack Klugman) Wait! Somebody remotely attractive! Andy Travis (Gary Sandy - WKRP) ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/63 "2003-10-03T21:29:15Z")
Earliest one I can remeber was Kari Wuhrer on MTV’s _Remote Control_, made my 6th grade brain spin. Also had a thing for Sherilyn Fenn in _Twin Peaks_, a title which led to endless teen-age innuendo. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/64 "2003-10-03T21:37:24Z")
James Franciscus, in _Longstreet_ ---
**Author:** ![leafrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@leafrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leafrog)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/65 "2003-10-03T21:48:04Z")
Well, I thought Shawn Cassidy was way cute, but my best friend already had dibs on him, so I got stuck with Parker Stevenson, the other half of the Hardy Boys. He wasn’t so bad, more handsome than cute (like Shawn was). He was plastered all over my wall in fifth grade. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/66 "2003-10-03T21:49:32Z")
The first one I remember is Mark Paul Gosselaar on Saved by the Bell when I was like 10. Both on reruns _and_ The College Years. He’s even hotter now, is the thing. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/67 "2003-10-03T22:33:25Z")
**Joy** …Bugaloos **Holly** …Land of the Lost ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/68 "2003-10-03T22:38:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cartooniverse \* > **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. … > The daughter from \*\* My World And Welcome To It **. I believe she also played Cloris Leachman’s daughter in** Mary Tyler Moore Show** On _The New Adventures of Huck Finn_, Becky Thatcher was played by Lu Ann Haslam. You can see some photos of her [here](http://www.toontracker.com/huckfinn/huckfinn.htm). [Lisa Gerritsen](http://www.childstarlets.com/lobby/bios/lisa_gerritsen2.html) indeed played both Lydia on _My World…_ and Bess on _MTM_. Most of my crushes have already been mentioned – Maureen McCormick, Valerie Bertinelli, Lynda Carter, Farrah Fawcett. However, I’ll add (from _Petticoat Junction_ reruns) [Lori Saunders](http://formen.ign.com/news/21216.html), who played Bobbie Jo Bradley. Be sure to scroll down that page for an alphabetical (by first name) list of more “Classic Babes”. ---
**Author:** ![LookitMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7bcc69/32.png) [@LookitMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LookitMe)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/69 "2003-10-03T22:38:40Z")
Bill Bixby as Tim O’Hara in My Favorite Martian. ---
**Author:** ![LookitMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7bcc69/32.png) [@LookitMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LookitMe)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/70 "2003-10-03T22:40:49Z")
Also there was Ken Berry as Capt. Wilton Parmenter on F Troop. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/71 "2003-10-03T22:43:15Z")
You can keep Mork but bring me Mindy! Also Cheryl Ladd. (now I can lust after her daughter!) And my weird one would Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/72 "2003-10-03T22:45:16Z")
Ok, my very first super crush was **Robert Horton** , who played the scout Flint McCullough on **Wagon Train**. God, I loved that man. I had a cheap metal necklace in the shape of a heart that I got at the county fair. It had my name “engraved” on the front of it by one of those cheap little vibrating “engraving” pens. I used to write “Flint” on the back, on the side next to my heart. How sad that! Of course, I was very young. My love affair with **Mr. Spock** lasted for many, many years too. After I got over Flint. ---
**Author:** ![FairyDust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ccd318/32.png) [@FairyDust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyDust)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/73 "2003-10-03T22:49:39Z")
David Canary as ‘Candy’ Canaday. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/74 "2003-10-03T22:51:26Z")
_Right_. Here goes… [Jenny Powell](http://www.gizmo1.demon.co.uk/jencyclo/data/powell.htm) (_No Limits_) [Kathy Evison](http://website.lineone.net/~birkoff/kathyevison.htm) (_Seaquest_) Leslie Bega (“Maria” in _Head Of The Class_ - I suspect I could regret that one) [Diana Rigg](http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/09/14/rigg/) (_The Avengers_) [Diane Oxberry](http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/northwesttonight/present.shtml) (obscure presenter on Radio 1 and Saturday kid’s TV, the photo here looks nothing like I remember her) Sadly, I know for a fact there are more I can’t remember right now. ---
**Author:** ![LookitMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7bcc69/32.png) [@LookitMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LookitMe)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/75 "2003-10-03T22:53:55Z")
And there was also the Professor on Gilligan’s Island. ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/76 "2003-10-03T23:43:11Z")
Kristy McNichol and Valerie Bertinelli. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/77 "2003-10-04T00:48:33Z")
Another Valerie Bertinelli fan here. I also had it bad for Justine Bateman, who was Mallory on Family Ties. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/78 "2003-10-04T01:29:28Z")
No one’s mentioned Kimberly Drummond (aka Dana Plato)? Jaclyn Smith (Kelly Garret). Angela Cartwright (Penny Robinson). Kim Richards (Tia in Disney’s “Escape from Witch Mountain”). Lauren Tewes (Julie McCoy - and this illusion was cruelly spoiled years later when I met Ms. Tewes in L.A.) And an unaccountable and unhealthy fascination for Susan Tolsky, who played Biddie Cloom. I can’t explain it. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/79 "2003-10-04T01:32:44Z")
Oh… not a crush, but every time I see Leelee Sobieski I stare at her as if I were a mental patient, but that’s not out of lust or crushiness of any kind, but because I am fascinated with how much she looks like Helen Hunt. ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/80 "2003-10-04T01:34:23Z")
John Schneider crush chiming in here, belonged to his official fan club and everything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325.md?page=5)