# 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:** 7
**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 7, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/121 "2020-10-07T01:24:20Z")
Lori Saunders was the middle daughter on Petticoat Junction. > **[Lori Saunders - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0766883/?ref_=tt_cl_t5)** > > Lori Saunders. Actress: Petticoat Junction. Striking brunette Lori Saunders managed to capitalize on her sunny, daisy-fresh appeal during CBS-TV's famous 1960s "rural age", an era in which the network churned out a connected trio of bucolic hit shows... Last worked in 1980 but apparently still alive. Also loved Agent 99! Not sure why this is a reply to johnspartan, meant to reply to my own previous post. ---
**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 7, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/122 "2020-10-07T02:01:14Z")
> [@mikecurtis](#): > > That would be Princess Ardala > Queen Amidala was Star Wars I knew that didn’t sound right. Yep, Princess Ardala, Pamela Hensley, yowzers! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/123 "2020-10-07T02:17:51Z")
What, only two mentions of Diana Rigg? She was one of my childhood TV crushes, and though there were probably others, she’s the only one I remember. Furthermore, when I mentioned it to a friend, he said he felt the same way as a kid. For those who may not know, she passed away only last month. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/124 "2020-10-07T04:30:58Z")
Nobody has mentioned my big crush: jamie Summers from the Bionic Woman. It was too early for me to understand what was happening but she knocked me out. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/125 "2020-10-07T04:54:45Z")
Bailey Quarters, definitely. But weirdly, I had a thing for Velma on Scooby-Doo. Even though she was a cartoon, it was her intelligence that attracted me. Daphne may have been the looker, but Velma solved the mysteries. I liked that. Even more weirdly, I would eventually date a real-life Velma when I did my undergrad. Nobody you’d typically look at twice–short of stature, nothing-special hairstyle, and big glasses; but intelligent and logical like you wouldn’t believe. Again, I liked that. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/126 "2020-10-07T15:19:17Z")
In thinking about the Petticoat Junction gals, unless I’m missing something, what’s interesting to me is that the women specifically chosen to be “objects of desire” haven’t been mentioned: - no “Charlie’s Angels” angels (Cheryl Ladd was my favorite, but I wouldn’t say I had a “crush”) - no “Baywatch” babes - far more “Bailey” than Loni Anderson ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/127 "2020-10-07T16:50:41Z")
I am sure these have been mentioned already but… Loni Anderson and Jan Smithers from WKRP in Cincinnatti, Erin Gray from Buck Rogers, Martha Quinn on MTV ---
**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 7, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/128 "2020-10-07T23:07:01Z")
> [@cormac262](#): > > what’s interesting to me is that the women specifically chosen to be “objects of desire” haven’t been mentioned: I think those kinds of women tend to appeal to mid-teens rather than younger kids, who instead usually go for girl-next-door types. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/129 "2020-10-07T23:30:55Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I think those kinds of women tend to appeal to mid-teens rather than younger kids, who instead usually go for girl-next-door types. Fair enough, but I’m pretty sure I was pretty young when I first noticed how a whip-wielding Julie Newmar filled out her tights while she was breathily talking about brushing her pussy willows. (Come to think of it, I was young enough that I was Adam-West-as-Batman for Halloween.) ---
**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 7, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/130 "2020-10-07T23:59:34Z")
I think when you are pre-teen, the ones that you crush on tend towards the ones you imagine would make really fun baby-sitters. All the sexy stuff would have gone over my head at that age. Another early one I just thought of was a British actress that I saw a couple times on the Walt Disney show that came on on Sunday nights. I think her name was Susan Hampshire and she was in some movie about a cat. (Goes off to look it up.) Yes, Susan Hampshire in the **Three Lives Of Thomasina**. Thought cats had nine lives? > **[The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057579/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_50)** > > The Three Lives of Thomasina: Directed by Don Chaffey. With Patrick McGoohan, Susan Hampshire, Laurence Naismith, Jean Anderson. Thomasina the cat brings a family together, through her mysterious death and reappearance. ---
**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 8, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/131 "2020-10-08T00:05:23Z")
The movie only dealt with three of them. I remember going to see it every day for a week in the summer of 1964. Susan Hampshire was also in the pilot episode of _ **The Time Tunnel** _. She was a passenger on the _Titanic_, going to New York for experimental brain surgery. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/132 "2020-10-08T00:12:33Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Susan Hampshire was also in the pilot episode of _ **The Time Tunnel** _ . She was a passenger on the _Titanic_ , going to New York for experimental brain surgery. I haven’t seen _The Three Lives of Thomasina_, but I remember being a bit surprised when I realized that the woman from _Monarch of the Glen_ had also been in _Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies_. ---
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> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > I remember watching Logan’s Run when I was 10 years old. Fell in love with **Jenny Agutter**. Yeah, I remember first seeing her in American Werewolf in London when I was 6 or 7. My parents were a little lax in what they allowed me to watch. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/134 "2020-10-08T07:47:30Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > What, only two mentions of Diana Rigg? Oh, I was _way_ into her when I was a kid, but the OP wanted crushes from before age 12, and I don’t think reruns of _The Avengers_ were playing on any station we got before I was 12. I remember that it was on very late at night, when it was on, and I used to set an alarm to get up to watch it. Half the time I fell asleep, but I always tried. In high school, I had a T-shirt with a picture of a note on it that said “Mrs. Peel, we’re needed.” Wish I could remember where I got it. Or knew what happened to it. Probably got lost in a move. When DH and I were planning our wedding (or, when I was, and he was occasionally answering a question about his preference for this or that with “whatever”), he got me a boxed set of VHS tapes with all the Mrs. Peel episodes. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/135 "2020-10-08T07:49:15Z")
I saw Jenny Agutter in a stage play in 1985. Gemma Jones was also in it. I sneaked backstage and met Gemma Jones, who was unbelievably nice, and signed my program. Didn’t know enough at the time to get Agutter’s signature as well. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/136 "2020-10-08T20:16:28Z")
This. Also, Mary Ann, but I had it hard for Laura Ingalls. But, really, most of my crushes were on real girls… Lynne Grizzard. Samantha Tonely. Susan McAllen. Anna Galifianakis. Joley Modine. Seriously, I still remember them all these years later. Lynne was the first crush, probably in 3rd grade. (Hope & Holly Alewine too!) Joley and Anna were 7th, right up to (maybe a bit past) the age limit here. I’m sure if I put my mind to it I can remember some others. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/137 "2020-10-09T00:27:09Z")
Natasha Fatale… ---
**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 9, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649/138 "2020-10-09T00:45:30Z")
I remembered another early one. There was a show (totally blanking on the name but would have been mid sixties) about some rich dude that lived in a luxury apartment in the big city. He had a butler with a beard and somehow was taking care of three kids. Two girls and a boy . I don’t think they were his. The older sister that was probably in her mid teens (the character) was a huge crush of mine for a while. ---
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_ **Family Affair.** _ Brian Keith as “Uncle Bill,” Sebastian Cabot as “Mr French,” the butler. “Buffy” (Anissa Jones) and “Jody” (Johnny Whttaker) were the adorable twins, “Cissy,” (Kathy Garver) was the big sister. ---
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> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > his. The older sister that was probably in her mid teens (the character) was a huge crush of mine for a while. Family Affair?''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDeDGFzvwPU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDeDGFzvwPU) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-tv-crushes/921649.md?page=8)