Favorite old TV show?

@1951WheatiesPremium said:
According to Denis Leary (who may end up there for stealing Bill Hicks’ act), there’s a room where they just play Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb for eons and eons.

So, I may choose Bee and C.

Shadow Dancing, according to science, is 1/2,558,179,367th as annoying as Samantha Bee.

Is there a word for being really, really stupid yet believing that you are really, really smart? If there isn't, there should be, so I propose "colbert".

The part of Carson’s genius was that he was always apolitical. A politician might be woven into some monologue jokes but usually not at their expense, per se. The person had to veer into pop culture - to be talked about by everyone in the country - and even then the jokes were not abusive and it was never pertaining to policy or the outright mockery we see today; in his time, Carson knew where the line was for the American audience better than any performer except maybe Bob Hope.

Haven't watched one since Leno went off the air. Tried to several times but just not worth my time.

@1951WheatiesPremium said:
Depending on your provider, there’s a network called Antenna TV that airs Carson nightly at 10pm. Hardcore fans of the show know too great a percentage of the pre-1975 shows are gone; All the networks, including NBC, reused tape in those days and obliterated a LOT of classic programming. But that’s still a lot of great work in the second half of his career. There are some surviving episodes from prior but mostly ones sent to the Armed Forces overseas, and certain episodes deemed ‘instant’ classics; there’s a few ‘fan copies’ that will surface; acquired through NBC connections.

One great feature - you forget this stuff - is the way commercial breaks would work. There’d often be plugs by Johnny or Ed going into and out of commercials.

“...that’s true, that’s true. Ok, will you stay with me? Great. Folks at home, we’l be right back after this commercial break, and speaking of breaks, when I need a break there’s nothing that hits the spot quite like an ice cold, refreshing Budweiser beer. It’s the king of beers. And now a word from the folks at Anheuser-Busch...”

Johnny spoke of those tapes being recorded over and he was pi$$ed! If I remember correctly he was particularly upset over the first show he did with Groucho Marx.

https://www.johnnycarson.com/blogs/news/johnny-carsons-debut-on-the-tonight-show-55-years-ago

I searched the the world over and thought i found true love.......... you met another and pppppppppp you were gone

@LarkinCollector said:

@bronco2078 said:
I am sitting here right now watching Hee Haw !

Jealous ?

Actually, yes, I am.

I totally forgot barbi benton was a hee haw gal

uncle hugh used to do push-ups on barbi

The jokes on hee haw are killing me !

they do the one liners where they pop up in the corn and say a joke and drop back down

id give my right arm to be a major league baseball pitcher

id give a millon dollars to be free of money problems !

Feautible!

@dallasactuary said:

@1951WheatiesPremium said:
Carson knew where the line was for the American audience better than any performer except maybe Bob Hope.

And his audience was many times larger as a result. I don't know anyone politically to the right of center that watches any late night shows anymore, nobody to the right of Bernie Sanders who can stomach Colbert, and nobody to the right of Stalin who can watch Samantha Bee for more than 15 seconds. They are all speaking, or in Bee's case shrieking, inside the same leftist echo chamber and anyone with an independent thought is definitely not welcome.

When Carson was on, there were only 3 channels. I enjoyed him, and was disappointed to learn that he was a sleaze ball in real life.

@JoeBanzai said:

@markj111 said:

@dallasactuary said:

@1951WheatiesPremium said:
Carson knew where the line was for the American audience better than any performer except maybe Bob Hope.

And his audience was many times larger as a result. I don't know anyone politically to the right of center that watches any late night shows anymore, nobody to the right of Bernie Sanders who can stomach Colbert, and nobody to the right of Stalin who can watch Samantha Bee for more than 15 seconds. They are all speaking, or in Bee's case shrieking, inside the same leftist echo chamber and anyone with an independent thought is definitely not welcome.

When Carson was on, there were only 3 channels. I enjoyed him, and was disappointed to learn that he was a sleaze ball in real life.

How was he a sleaze ball? I have heard that when he was young, he was a very nasty drunk, but I think he ended up going on the wagon.

What I heard was he was a very private person with few friends and not into the "Hollywood" scene.

A few years ago, His attorney, Henry Bushkin, wrote a book that got deeper into the private Carson. It’s a good read albeit not always a flattering one for the King of Late Night...

Looks as though Bronco is in a timeout

They are on TCM almost every Saturday morning.

I remember watching SKY KING every Saturday morning. I believe the opening was
"Out of the blue in the western sky comes SKY KING.

Some of my faves (in no particular order):

WKRP in Cincinnati
The Carol Burnett Show
Quincy, M.D.
SCTV
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Sanford and Son
All in the Family
The Twilight Zone
Cheers

INSP has a lot of vintage Gunsmoke, Wanted Dead or Alive and several old Western movies. I realize that there are a whole lot of Gunsmoke episodes I've never seen.

The Ghoul ( not in many areas)
Soupy Sales ( not in many areas)
Sir Graves Ghastly ( not in many areas)

Batman
Lost in Space
Petticoat Junction
I Dream of Jeanie

On I Dream of Jeanie I tried to sit real close to the TV thinking I might be able to see through Barbara Eden's outfit. I think my Dad taught me that.

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Cant believe nobody has mentioned (that I noticed anyway)
The Carrol Burnette Show.
Tim Conway was an INCREDIBLE GENIOUS.

The Millionaire
The Twilight Zone
Uncle Milty
Red Skelton.
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. (The original American Idol) Those were the good old days.