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hammer1hammer1 Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭

This Old House.

When the guy with the beard was the host.

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  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 9,964 ✭✭✭✭✭

    where is the dislike button?

    correct answer is green acres

  • JRR300JRR300 Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭✭

    MAS*H without question
    There is no other acceptable answer

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 16, 2020 3:55PM

    @JRR300 said:
    MAS*H without question
    There is no other acceptable answer

    Well yes there is!!!

    https://youtu.be/mjdRgBAY278

  • markj111markj111 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭

    Perry Mason.

  • JRR300JRR300 Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭✭

    I did like BONANZA, but I was only a wee lad back then.

  • galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 7,112 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 16, 2020 3:50PM

    fun, real-life facts:

    helen willis was lenny kravitz's mother

    weezy was 21 years older than george

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L09qnRfZY-k

  • BullsitterBullsitter Posts: 5,320 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • TabeTabe Posts: 5,920 ✭✭✭✭✭

    MASH
    LA Law

  • PatsGuy5000PatsGuy5000 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭

    My favorites - All in the Family, Gilligan’s Island, & Sanford & Son.

  • hammer1hammer1 Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • KkathylKkathyl Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 16, 2020 4:09PM

    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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  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Joy of Painting

  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,102 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Columbo

    This is for you @thisistheshow - Jim Rice was actually a pretty good player.
  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dallasactuary said:
    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. :)

  • hammer1hammer1 Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A wave of senility must have washed over me, I forgot about Columbo.

    Where did I leave my Fixodent?

  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,102 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Coinstartled said:

    @dallasactuary said:
    Columbo

    Yeah, great show. I have not seen that many episodes, but Falk was superb.

    Falk was superb in every role he had; tremendously underrated actor.

    This is for you @thisistheshow - Jim Rice was actually a pretty good player.
  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 9,964 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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

  • HorseHorse Posts: 675 ✭✭✭✭

    Combat

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Superman with George Reeves.

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  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:
    Superman with George Reeves.

    Many great shows and you didn't have to pay $100 a month to the cable shylocks.

  • AC000000AC000000 Posts: 251 ✭✭✭

    1950s - The Honeymooners
    1960s - The Dick Van Dyke Show
    1970s - The Rockford Files
    1980s - Hill Street Blues

  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 9,964 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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 :D

  • JRR300JRR300 Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭✭

    @dallasactuary said:
    Columbo

    oh Dallas...I almost forgot....There's one more thing I need to ask...................

  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gunsmoke
    Dick Van Dyke
    Star Trek
    MASH

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  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not crazy old but....

    Miami Vice always had my attention.

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bronco2078 said:
    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 :D

    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.

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 29,340 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Twilight Zone #1, then Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock, 3 Stooges

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Zone was great.

    Even the ones that you have seen a dozen times, have a surprise ending.

    ;)

  • TiborTibor Posts: 3,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

  • telephoto1telephoto1 Posts: 4,711 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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


    RIP Mom- 1932-2012
  • telephoto1telephoto1 Posts: 4,711 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @LarkinCollector said:
    The Joy of Painting

    Does Anyone remember the old German guy who did it before Bob Ross?


    RIP Mom- 1932-2012
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 17, 2020 11:13AM

    @telephoto1 said:

    @LarkinCollector said:
    The Joy of Painting

    Does Anyone remember the old German guy who did it before Bob Ross?

    No, don't think I've seen any of those. Time to scour YouTube.

    ETA: Found him, Bill Alexander The Magic of Oil Painting

  • sayheywyosayheywyo Posts: 443 ✭✭✭✭

    Happy Days
    Cheers

    Growing up as a kid..... Sunday night was Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom followed by the Wonderful World of Disney

  • telephoto1telephoto1 Posts: 4,711 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @LarkinCollector said:

    @telephoto1 said:

    @LarkinCollector said:
    The Joy of Painting

    Does Anyone remember the old German guy who did it before Bob Ross?

    No, don't think I've seen any of those. Time to scour YouTube.

    ETA: Found him, Bill Alexander The Magic of Oil Painting

    Figured he was out there... I wonder if he taught Bob Ross?


    RIP Mom- 1932-2012
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @telephoto1 said:

    @LarkinCollector said:

    @telephoto1 said:

    @LarkinCollector said:
    The Joy of Painting

    Does Anyone remember the old German guy who did it before Bob Ross?

    No, don't think I've seen any of those. Time to scour YouTube.

    ETA: Found him, Bill Alexander The Magic of Oil Painting

    Figured he was out there... I wonder if he taught Bob Ross?

    According to the Wiki page, yes, he did.

  • galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 7,112 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0vzEQs-4uo

  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,102 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @telephoto1 said:
    MASH (The McLean Stevenson/Larry Linville years, before the show got up its own hiney with political messages)

    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.

    This is for you @thisistheshow - Jim Rice was actually a pretty good player.
  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dallasactuary said:

    @telephoto1 said:
    MASH (The McLean Stevenson/Larry Linville years, before the show got up its own hiney with political messages)

    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.

  • MCMLVToppsMCMLVTopps Posts: 4,580 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Married with Children, followed by MASH.

  • 1951WheatiesPremium1951WheatiesPremium Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I Love Lucy
    The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
    The Fugitive
    What’s my Line?

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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    These are all great....what about Peticoat Junction?

  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,102 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Coinstartled said:
    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.

    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.

    This is for you @thisistheshow - Jim Rice was actually a pretty good player.
  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 11,660 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 11,660 ✭✭✭✭✭

    One more.

    The Green Hornet.

  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 11,660 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Four more.

    F Troop.

    The Mod Squad.

    Gilligan's Island.

    I Dream of Jeannie.

  • MCMLVToppsMCMLVTopps Posts: 4,580 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 18, 2020 11:06AM

    @SanctionII said:
    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.

    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. B)
    Howdy Doody anyone?

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