# You're sent back to the 60's and given an all access backstage pass. Which comedy show do you visit? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 19, 2015, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594 "2015-07-19T11:04:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/41 "2015-07-20T04:56:14Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > _ **Hogan’s Heroes,** _ just so I could see what Bob Crane was up to Maybe he would invite you over to his place for a boys’ night watching porn. n.b.: It’s Ad_ **d** _ams Family. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/42 "2015-07-20T04:57:54Z")
I completely forgot all about the Dick Van Dyke show when I did the poll. I came up with fifteen comedies from the sixties. There were so many. That decade was defined by them. I could have easily added four or five more to the poll. Danny Thomas show, Dobie Gillis, Smothers Brothers etc. The seventies will be a much shorter poll. Off hand I can only think of MASH, Good Times, All in the Family, Jeffersons, Sandford and Son, One Day at a Time, Alice. That’s the ones I watched. If anyone thinks of others from the 70’s post and I’ll include in the next poll for the seventies. The eighties had even less comedies. Quite a few shows from the 70’s continued well into the 80’s. There weren’t all that many new ones that I recall. Threes Company and Benson are really the only eighties comedies that I recall. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/43 "2015-07-20T05:03:39Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > The eighties had even less comedies. Quite a few shows from the 70’s continued well into the 80’s. There weren’t all that many new ones that I recall. Threes Company and Benson are really the only eighties comedies that I recall. _Soap_ ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/44 "2015-07-20T05:04:35Z")
oh yeah, Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley were also 70’s comedies. I knew my seventies list was a bit too short. 😉 yes, I guess Soap could be either 70’s or 80’s. IIRC it started around 78 or 79 and went into the 80’s. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2015, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/45 "2015-07-20T05:22:54Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Threes Company and Benson are really the only eighties comedies that I recall. _ **Cheers!** _ _ **Night Court** _ _ **Facts of Life** _ _ **Diff’rent Strokes** _ _ **Webster** _ _ **Family Ties** _ _ **Alf** _ Lots of others regularly referenced on _ **Family Guy** _. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/46 "2015-07-20T08:42:25Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Maybe I’d have a chance to share a little tea with Goldie. My favorite thing about the Tea with Goldie sketches (that I read about, didn’t experience it firsthand) was that the censors had missed a few drug references early on because they weren’t familiar with the current slang. After that, they would micro-analyze every Tea with Goldie sketch looking for drug references. To have a bit of fun with the censors, the writers would come up with complete nonsense phrases to confuse the censors that these phrases might be drug related. The censors started cutting completely meaningless phrases (and would consequently end up occasionally missing actual drug references). ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/47 "2015-07-20T08:42:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Maybe he would invite you over to his place for a boys’ night watching porn. > > n.b.: It’s Ad_ **d** _ams Family. Yeah, those one “D” Adamses are all a bunch of snobs. They’re just jealous of Gomez and his branch of the family. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/48 "2015-07-20T08:43:12Z")
oh yeah, those 80’s comedies. :smack: I totally drew a blank earlier. I watched Night Court and Facts of Life. But hadn’t thought about those shows in over a decade. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/49 "2015-07-20T08:49:43Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > The seventies will be a much shorter poll. Off hand I can only think of MASH, Good Times, All in the Family, Jeffersons, Sandford and Son, One Day at a Time, Alice. That’s the ones I watched. > If anyone thinks of others from the 70’s post and I’ll include in the next poll for the seventies. The Bob Newhart Show. The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Rhoda. The Odd Couple. Taxi. Also, add Mr. Belvedere to the 80s sitcoms. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/50 "2015-07-20T09:38:47Z")
Forgot to mention: Add Barney Miller to the list of shows from the 70s. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/51 "2015-07-20T10:42:17Z")
**The Monkees**!!! Because I just know that if Micky had met me, he’d have fallen in love with me and we’d have gotten married and lived happily every after, plus they were cute and funny and they played cool music and I loved them \*sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo \*much. OK, that was the 60s me speaking. The 60+ year old me would choose Laugh-In or Dick Van Dyke or maybe the Addams Family. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/52 "2015-07-20T14:05:08Z")
Get Smart. It would be amazing to hang with a young Mel Brooks and watch him work. It would probably be better then the show itself. If I could go further back to the 50s I’d want to sit with the Sid Caesar writers. The Dick Van Dyke Show would be fascinating to see behind the scenes. It would be great see Dick Van Dyke and it would be interesting to see how the writers work on a show about writing a show. Plus I’d expect a weird dynamic with Carl Reiner working on a show he wanted to star in. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/53 "2015-07-20T15:38:02Z")
Back to the '60s . . . definitely _The Dick Van Dyke Show._ ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/54 "2015-07-20T16:31:29Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Not Gilligan, Maynard. Maynard G. (the G stands for Walter) Krebs from the brilliant _The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis_. The best writing of any sitcom before Dick van Dyke. > > But if you had asked my teenage self in the 60s, I’d probably have said I wanted access to the water tank in [Petticoat Junction](https://youtu.be/rA6kbSEmNU4?t=1m11s). Let’s also remember that Walter was Maynard’s aunt. Maybe it’s time to do another "watch all Dobie Gillis episodes on DVD. Count the number of “You rang?”, “I was a sergeant, with the Good Conduct medal in WW2, the big one”, “small girl” wiggling her nose, how much is Chatsworth Osborn Jr worth and wasn’t he initially 24. How many courses did badly underpaid Leander Pomfritt teach, not to mention the improbably named Imogene Burkhardt (I know, Jean Byron’s real name). How many soft, creamy girls told Dobie to get lost (Yvonne Craig as 5 different women) I gotta watch those DVDs, I just gotta! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/55 "2015-07-20T19:30:38Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > Get Smart. It would be amazing to hang with a young Mel Brooks and watch him work. It would probably be better then the show itself. Brooks created the premise of the show and the characters. He also co-wrote three episodes. His involvement with the show pretty much ended with the pilot episode, mainly because he wanted to concentrate on his film _The Producers_. Buck Henry ran the show for the first two seasons. [Cite](http://www.wouldyoubelieve.com/faq.html). ---
**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:** [July 20, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/56 "2015-07-20T22:01:32Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Add Mr. Belvedere to the 80s sitcoms. And _ **The Ropers** _. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/57 "2015-07-20T22:12:17Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > The seventies will be a much shorter poll. Off hand I can only think of MASH, Good Times, All in the Family, Jeffersons, Sandford and Son, One Day at a Time, Alice. That’s the ones I watched. If anyone thinks of others from the 70’s post and I’ll include in the next poll for the seventies. _ **Welcome Back, Kotter** _ _ **CPO Sharkey** _ If you want to include Britcoms, _ **Fawlty Towers** _\* _ **No, Honestly** _ _ **Reginald Perrin** _ _ **The Goode Life** _ (aka _ **Goode Neighbors** _) And the ever-popular US entries \*\*\*Faye The Montefuscos The Good Life\*\* Hot\_L Baltimore\*\*\* \*And its '80s American ripoff _ **Amanda’s by the Sea** _. \*\*Not to be confused with the Britcom listed above. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/58 "2015-07-20T22:43:40Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > I voted “Green Acres” because not only was the cast so strong front to back, but there’s so much joy in their performances that you got the feeling just hanging around them would fun. Plus imagine the stories Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, and Pat Buttram could tell. I agree with this to the word. And Hank Patterson, who played Mr. Ziffel, could tell some stories too, having been born in 1888! (He was a WWI vet). ---
**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:** [July 20, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/59 "2015-07-20T23:29:37Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Maybe I’d have a chance to share a little tea with Goldie. I always thought Officer Judy was funnier! 😛 ---
**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:** [July 20, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594/60 "2015-07-20T23:31:54Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Forgot to mention: Add Barney Miller to the list of shows from the 70s. And _ **Fish** _. And _ **To the Manor Born** _ (barely). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-sent-back-to-the-60s-and-given-an-all-access-backstage-pass-which-comedy-show-do-you-visit/725594.md?page=4)