# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/101 "2003-10-05T02:05:58Z")
I was just reminded of Melody Patterson (Wrangler Jane from F-troop) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/102 "2003-10-05T05:25:29Z")
Karen Valentine of “Room 222” was cute…hey I was just a kid. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/103 "2003-10-05T05:43:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ddgryphon \* > \*\*Yvonne DeCarlo (Batgirl, but she was all woman to me) \*\* Craig. Yvonne Craig. DeCarlo was Lily Munster. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/104 "2003-10-05T06:54:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JThunder \* > \*\*Craig. Yvonne Craig. DeCarlo was Lily Munster. \*\* [slap] Doh! [/slap] I can’t believe I typed that! Yes – and she was much more attractive in green paint than DeCarlo too! ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/105 "2003-10-05T06:58:14Z")
And since I’m here, I might as well admit to the Karen Valentine obsession. And – Helga or Frida or whatever Klink’s secretary on Hogan’s Heroes was named. BTW: Donna Douglass I think that actually does it for me – until someone reminds me of someone else. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/106 "2003-10-05T08:20:35Z")
Elizabeth Montgomery, [Ron Ely](http://images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10043000/10043599.jpg) (Tarzan), Patty Duke, Jon Schneider, Eve Plumb (Jan Brady), Christopher Knight (Peter Brady), Diana Rigg, Kirk Cameron. ---
**Author:** ![FairyDust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ccd318/32.png) [@FairyDust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyDust)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/107 "2003-10-05T15:18:47Z")
James Darren. ---
**Author:** ![CurlyD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@CurlyD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurlyD)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/108 "2003-10-06T01:32:28Z")
David Mcallum as Illya Kuriakin in “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” Then William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk in “Star Trek” a long hiatus . . . Don Johnson as Sonny Crokett in “Miami Vice” Now a really LOOOOONG hiatus . . . Maybe I’m getting to be too old. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/109 "2003-10-06T12:25:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Khadaji \* > \*\*And what man who grew up in the 70s didn’t have the Farah Fawcette poster? \*\* Me. ---
**Author:** ![nisosbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@nisosbar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nisosbar)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/110 "2003-10-06T12:55:03Z")
Scott Baio, Lance Kerwin, Dirk Benedict, Lee Horsley ---
**Author:** ![nisosbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@nisosbar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nisosbar)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/111 "2003-10-06T13:01:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by calm kiwi \* > \*\*Also Matt Dillon, but I still fancy him. \*\* Totally, but he’s films, right? I had him in my list, but edited him out… ---
**Author:** ![nisosbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@nisosbar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nisosbar)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/112 "2003-10-06T13:02:15Z")
OH, and the young cowboy from Bonanza… ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/113 "2003-10-06T16:45:45Z")
Remember that dark haired woman on Mr. Rogers neighborhood? What was her name… umm they called her Lady Aberlyn (not ure of the spelling) but good lord she owns my heart with her loong dark hair and that kinda husky voice. I totally go for girls who look like her. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/114 "2003-10-06T16:56:49Z")
Betty Aberlin played Lady Aberlin on _Mr. Rogers Neighborhood_. ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/115 "2003-10-06T17:56:48Z")
Kirk Cameron and Jason Bateman ---
**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 7, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/116 "2003-10-07T00:26:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by VernWinterbottom \* > \*\*Nobody I know remembers this show existed. I was eleven. I wore the same kind of braces on my teeth! She was no doubt my first TV crush. > > Somewhat later, Jan Brady, Joanie Cunningham, Mallory Keaton \*\* I was 9. VERN??? Is that YOU??? 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325/117 "2003-10-07T01:04:12Z")
Didn’t any of you guys watch **21 Jump Street**? Where’s the loving for Johnny Depp? Seriously, he was definitely my first crush, and he’s only gotten sexier as he’s gotten older. Even with the gold teeth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-your-big-tv-crushes-from-your-youth/205325.md?page=5)