# Your childhood TV crushes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2020, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649 "2020-09-27T07:02:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/101 "2020-10-05T21:20:33Z")
One word: Tubbs. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/102 "2020-10-05T22:19:33Z")
Pre-12 I think it was probably the middle daughter on Petticoat Junction, Samantha on Bewitched, Marlo Thomas on That Girl. I think I was older than 12 when The Partridge Family was on but I had a huge crush on Susan Dey. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/103 "2020-10-05T22:24:09Z")
Just remembered another from when I was around 12, Lara Parker, who played Angelique on Dark Shadows. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/104 "2020-10-05T22:42:02Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > > > Tim Considine as Spin in the Spin and Marty shorts on Mickey Mouse Club. > > Ooh, yeah! Thanks for reminding me. > > Also, [David W. Harper](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/70/4a/93/704a934b9970c7353f413efc3742b0e3.jpg) (Jim-Bob of “The Waltons”) He turned into kind of a chinless wonder as he grew up; I always thought of him as Plumb-Bob. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Sponge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dark_sponge/32/121_2.png) [@Dark\_Sponge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Sponge)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/105 "2020-10-05T23:04:34Z")
I wasn’t super into girls before 12 but I remember thinking Sam (Alyssa Milano) from ‘Who’s the Boss’ was pretty interesting. The cast of ‘Saved by the Bell’ got my attention too, although I might have been older at that point. I actually dated someone who looked like Jessie when I was 18 so it must have stuck with me. ---
**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 6, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/106 "2020-10-06T00:17:35Z")
Sally Field on _ **Gidget** _ when I was ten. 🥰 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/107 "2020-10-06T02:25:55Z")
Louisa Milwood-Haigh. Who? She is an actress who starred in a sci-fi show I watched when I was about sixteen, called _The Gemini Factor_. A good show, (which I missed an episode of, annoyingly) and she was very cute. She hasn’t done much else since then, just small roles in various different UK series scattered here and there, but from what I can tell, even though she’s now in her late 40s, [she still looks exactly like my type](https://www.google.com/search?q=Louisa+Milwood-Haigh&safe=off&sxsrf=ALeKk03h9B2lPFDzO_maYPFvuY4yc4K2Cw:1601950145436&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1__aq8Z7sAhXxyzgGHfW9D0EQ_AUoAXoECHUQAw&biw=1662&bih=1071#imgrc=pYvcONRjfHDQoM&imgdii=x4uTzln8NkM6-M). ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/108 "2020-10-06T03:18:34Z")
Both James Franciscus _and_ Bruce Lee from Longstreet. Cat Stevens Pretty much all the Monkees Lee Majors for The Big Valley Michael Landon from Bonanza Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire Randolph Mantooth from Emergency! StG ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/109 "2020-10-06T05:48:02Z")
[Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047771/), on late 50s TV. Tarzan’s female equivalent. Definitely a swinger. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/110 "2020-10-06T09:30:33Z")
I remember watching Logan’s Run when I was 10 years old. Fell in love with **Jenny Agutter**. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/111 "2020-10-06T13:04:14Z")
my brother was 3 or 4 years old when vanna white debut on wheel of fortune and was fascinated with her to the point he purloined a special compilation book of her playboy pics from a neighbors house when he was 11 or 12 ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/112 "2020-10-06T13:47:35Z")
This reminds me of David Selby who played Quentin on Dark Shadows - I had a crush on him too. My little sister had a crush on Barnabas! ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/113 "2020-10-06T16:51:27Z")
Very young, Agent 99 on Get Smart and Ginger on Gilligan’s Island. When I was older I became a Mary Ann fan. When I was around 10 or 12, Daisy Duke from Dukes of Hazzard, and Wilma Deering and Queen Amidala from Buck Rogers. As a teen, one semi-obscure crush was Carol on Growing Pains. Another was Emma Samms. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/114 "2020-10-06T18:36:33Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Though I was a young adult by the time the Bangles were around, I heartily agree with you! The 2:47 mark in this video is what drove home that crush for me. I’ve read that Hoffs wasn’t aware that there was a closeup of her while they were filming the video. And the reason for the side-long glances is, because of stage fright, she would focus on individual members of the audiance. Although perhaps she was looking for you, and was disappointed when she couldn’t find you… ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/115 "2020-10-06T19:03:47Z")
Any and all of Alexander Mundy’s (Robert Wagner) girlfriends on _It Takes A Thief_. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/116 "2020-10-06T19:20:04Z")
I don’t if anyone has done gay yet. But before age 12, I would look forward to seeing Gil Gerard as _Buck Rogers_ and Robert Wagoner as Jonathan Hart in _Hart to Hart_. I should point out, it wasn’t so much a crush. I just thought they looked so handsome. And I felt so awkward at that age. I hadn’t even discovered I was gay yet. But yeah, it might’ve had a sexual component too. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/117 "2020-10-06T20:16:21Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > and Queen Amidala from Buck Rogers. That would be Princess Ardala Queen Amidala was Star Wars ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/118 "2020-10-06T20:18:36Z")
When I was really young it was Helen Crump on the Andy Griffith Show. ---
**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 6, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/119 "2020-10-06T20:21:33Z")
Emma Samms, mmmmmmmmmmm! 🥰 ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/120 "2020-10-06T22:37:11Z")
The first that comes to mind is Meredith Baxter from her first show “Bridget Loves Bernie”, not so much from “Family Ties”. “Bridget Loves Bernie” played right after “All in the Family”, so it had a prime spot. I don’t recall much of the actual show (I think it was kind of mediocre). But I’d be transfixed just watching Meredith. Also had a huge crush on Susan St. James from “The Name of the Game”, “McMillan and Wife”, and later “Kate and Allie”. As I look back, she was kind of like a prototype Sandra Bullock. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649.md?page=7)