Favorite old TV show?
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This Old House.
When the guy with the beard was the host.
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MAS*H without question
There is no other acceptable answer
Well yes there is!!!
Perry Mason.
I did like BONANZA, but I was only a wee lad back then.
All in the family.
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Ralph
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The Andy Griffith Show. I've seen every episode a million times.
MASH
LA Law
My favorites - All in the Family, Gilligan’s Island, & Sanford & Son.
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The Golden Girls
Everyone Loves Raymond
Sandford & Son
Fresh Prince of Bellaire
Mash. Yes I missed that. Showed my son it a few years ago he watched it for days. Hot lips lol
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The Joy of Painting
Columbo
Yeah, great show. I have not seen that many episodes, but Falk was superb.
*He also had a part in It's a Mad mad mad mad World.
A wave of senility must have washed over me, I forgot about Columbo.
Where did I leave my Fixodent?
Falk was superb in every role he had; tremendously underrated actor.
columbo is on all the time get caught up. I love watching these cop/mystery shows where there are no computers or cellphones , no gps trackers , no dna tests. They had to write an actual story.
Who liked ellery queen? when he talked to the viewer at the end
Banachek ! another good one
Combat
Superman with George Reeves.
Many great shows and you didn't have to pay $100 a month to the cable shylocks.
1950s - The Honeymooners
1960s - The Dick Van Dyke Show
1970s - The Rockford Files
1980s - Hill Street Blues
the roku channel has a few seasons of barney miller I watched season 1 over the last few days , I don't remember him having kids , I vaguely remember the wife. They must have jettisoned the kids .
Season 1 is good , you don't have to hear so much about harris's damn book
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Gunsmoke
Dick Van Dyke
Star Trek
MASH
Not crazy old but....
Miami Vice always had my attention.
The book was overdone on the second mention.
Vigoda was a genius. Not many guys could go from the Godfather to a sitcom with such ease.
Twilight Zone #1, then Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock, 3 Stooges
Zone was great.
Even the ones that you have seen a dozen times, have a surprise ending.
Andy Griffith Show. The best episodes "Man In a Hurry" "Stranger In Town" "Opies Charity"
and "Man Hunt"; this is the only episode where you see Barnie's mother.
Also a big fan of "Frasier" , the first two seasons.
T.J. Hooker, Quincy M.E., and Ripley's Believe It or Not (Jack Palance era) are a couple others I recall watching a lot of that haven't been mentioned.
Star Trek TOS
Gunsmoke
Twilight Zone
WKRP
Game Of Thrones (Hey, it's been since last year so that counts as old, right?)
MASH (The McLean Stevenson/Larry Linville years, before the show got up its own hiney with political messages)
Andy Griffith
Highway Patrol
Route 66
Dragnet
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RIP Mom- 1932-2012
No, don't think I've seen any of those. Time to scour YouTube.
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Happy Days
Cheers
Growing up as a kid..... Sunday night was Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom followed by the Wonderful World of Disney
Figured he was out there... I wonder if he taught Bob Ross?
RIP Mom- 1932-2012
According to the Wiki page, yes, he did.
for some reason i picture the dime household to be similar to that of the ropers'. i bet dimeman always pretends like he's asleep whenever dimewoman wants some action
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Exactly. The show limped along for a decade after Stevenson left, and I tend to think of the show as a real stinker, but those first few seasons were great.
A rare instance where we disagree. Linville was irritating, Stiers was brilliant. Harry Morgan was an old war horse from a million black and white movies and was exceptional as the colonel. Jamie Farr was just short of a comedic genius.
Married with Children, followed by MASH.
I Love Lucy
The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
The Fugitive
What’s my Line?
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These are all great....what about Peticoat Junction?
Linville was a great actor - Frank Burns was irritating, but funny. Stiers was a fine actor, too, but Winchester wasn't funny. Harry Morgan, with competition only from children in a cancer ward, was the least funny person on the planet. And I remember many scenes where Jamie Farr made me crack up - first and foremost when he flew away on the glider in his bathrobe and fuzzy slippers. The one thing they have in common, besides Jamie Farr, is that they were all in the first three seasons. After that the writers toned down Klinger until he stopped wearing dresses, and stopped even trying to be funny.
And that was the direction that MASH took after season 3 - every change made the show less funny, culminating in a series finale that literally went for tears instead of laughs.
Blake funnier than Potter; Burns funnier than Winchester; McIntyre funnier than Hunnicutt; cross-dressing Klinger funnier than uniformed Klinger; Radar funnier than no Radar; pale, bitchy Houlihan funnier than over-tanned, sickly-sweet Houlihan, Spearchucker funnier than no Spearchucker, and so on and so on. And I don't think for a second that any of this was a coincidence. The writers, at the direction of Alda, intentionally made the show less funny so that it didn't distract from the anti-war message that became it's raison d'etre. Now, if what you're saying is that you preferred MASH the anti-war drama to MASH the comedy then we just disagree; if you thought MASH the anti-war drama was funnier than MASH the comedy, then you've lost your mind (and missed the point of the two very different shows).
And note that I understand that this didn't all happen instantaneously. Where 90% of the shows in the first three seasons were very funny, that dropped to about 50% in season 4, and then about 5% per year every year after that. It was a long, painful decline for what had been one of the best shows on television.
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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea.
Twilight Zone (especially Talking Tina).
Outer Limits.
Bonanza.
The FBI.
Dragnet.
Lost In Space.
The Time Machine.
Johnny Quest.
Gigantor.
Land Of The Giants.
Wagon Train.
Have Gun, Will Travel.
The Rifleman.
Leave It To Beaver.
Ozzie & Harriet.
Wanted Dead Or Alive.
77 Sunset Strip.
Petticoat Junction.
Rin Tin Tin.
Hazel.
My Mother The Car.
The Munsters.
The Adams Family.
The Donna Reed Show.
Father Knows Best.
Star Trek.
Batman.
The Beverly Hillbillies.
To name a few.
One more.
The Green Hornet.
Four more.
F Troop.
The Mod Squad.
Gilligan's Island.
I Dream of Jeannie.
Wow, you put in some serious tv time back when!!
I have no idea how you omitted the world famous Soupy Sales show in the Biography of your tv entertainment.
Howdy Doody anyone?