Give me that old time TV

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The Twilight Zone
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I wish they would re-run Happy Days here in NZ.
 
I don’t know how ‘original cast’ would work–but Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone (the remake horribly missed the point of the Twilight Zone).
 
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CarolAnnSFO:
Do you remember Andy Devine in the “Andy’s Gang” kid’s show?

“I’ve got a gang
You’ve got a gang
Everybody’s gotta have a gang
But there’s only one real gang for me
Good old Andy’s Gang!”

(I’m not sure of the exact words)

And remember “Million Dollar Movie”? – the theme song was “The Syncopated Clock”, and the featured movie would be shown two or three times a day, all week long (if you really loved a movie, you could see it a good 15 - 20 times in one week!)

I lost count of how many times I saw “Godzilla” and “Yankee Doodle Dandy”!

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Plunk your magic twanger Frogy, you got the words right. But then, I’m so old that I remember watching Felix the Cat and stick figure mice with swards on a TV set with a picture tube so long that it faced the ceiling so you watched it in a miror mounted in the lid, proped open at an angle (it was a very old set even then). My favorite was the USDA films on the show “The Modern Farmer,” used as a filler early Saturday mornings. I learned all about injecting nitrogin into my soy bean fields. The only problem was that I lived in Jersey City N.J., the home of the Statue of Liberty, right across the harbor from NYC. Maby that’s why I moved to Wisconsin.
 
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But then, I’m so old that I remember watching Felix the Cat and stick figure mice with swards on a TV set with a picture tube so long that it faced the ceiling so you watched it in a miror mounted in the lid, proped open at an angle (it was a very old set even then).
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I remember the stick figure mice cartoons – they rode little stick figure horses, and were always a plague to that poor farmer – what was his name? Farmer Gray? I think the soundtracks to those cartoons were my first exposure to classical music!
Desert Father:
My favorite was the USDA films on the show “The Modern Farmer,” used as a filler early Saturday mornings. I learned all about injecting nitrogin into my soy bean fields. The only problem was that I lived in Jersey City N.J., the home of the Statue of Liberty, right across the harbor from NYC. Maby that’s why I moved to Wisconsin.
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I loved that show! I was watching it in metro New York, so I wasn’t exactly growing any crops, but I sure liked watching (and dreaming)!

Being a night owl, I was often awake for “Sermonette”, and I really looked forward to it. They used a variety of clergy – Catholic priests, ministers from other Christian denominations, or Rabbis. Then after Sermonette, there was the Star Spangled Banner, with appropriate video footage to accompany it. Now, stations hardly ever go off the air – they just fill the wee hours with infomercials; either that or you just get a test pattern.

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Melissa:
I don’t know how ‘original cast’ would work–but Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone (the remake horribly missed the point of the Twilight Zone).
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That reminds me!
Rod Serling’s NIGHT GALLERY - of the early 70’s was great. I was like 12 years old and it use to love it. Being scared was fun back then. :eek:
 
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ridesawhitehors:
A little Barnabas Collins for ya…

I LOVE Dark Shadows. I grew up on it, read the related paperbacks, etc. Since I’ve lived in L.A. I’ve gone to several DS conventions and one book signing that was held at a small bookstore and was great! We have them all on VHS now.

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“Big Valley”. (sigh) I used to fantasize what it would be like to be married to either Nick or Jerrod.

“Star Trek”. I used to pretend to be a consultant (while swinging in the back yard. 😛 )

And don’t forget “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.” Did I mention that I was “boy-crazy?” I loved the actor who played the father. Can’t believe I’m having a “pregnancy” moment and can’t remember his name. He was also in “My Favorite Martian” and “The Incredible Hulk.”

There are lots more but those are the three that come to mind immediately.
 
If I remember correctly, I think his name was Bill Bixby. He passed away a few years ago. He was a cutie!!
 
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SusanL:
And don’t forget “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.” Did I mention that I was “boy-crazy?” I loved the actor who played the father. Can’t believe I’m having a “pregnancy” moment and can’t remember his name. He was also in “My Favorite Martian” and “The Incredible Hulk.”
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Bill Bixby, who was also “The Magician”.
 
SusanL said:
“Big Valley”. (sigh) I used to fantasize what it would be like to be married to either Nick or Jerrod.

“Star Trek”. I used to pretend to be a consultant (while swinging in the back yard. 😛 )

And don’t forget “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.” Did I mention that I was “boy-crazy?” I loved the actor who played the father. Can’t believe I’m having a “pregnancy” moment and can’t remember his name. He was also in “My Favorite Martian” and “The Incredible Hulk.”

There are lots more but those are the three that come to mind immediately.
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Yes, that was the late Bill Bixby.
 
I liked all the old musical variety shows like Andy Williams.

I also loved Family Affair as a kid with Buffy and Jody (named my goldfish after them) and Mr. French.
 
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Didi:
I also loved Family Affair as a kid with Buffy and Jody (named my goldfish after them) and Mr. French.
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And Cissy. How can you leave out Cissy? She was the true appeal of the show!!!
 
Can anyone remember a kids show that, I believe, was out of California and went nationwide for a short time called " Doodles Weaver"
 
Oh nostalgia!!!

They say you can never go back, I just found out it’s true.

Looking at this page I went out and bought a DVD with 3 episodes of Bonanza. I thought my husband would like it as he used to really like the programme (me too).

It was soooo corny that we laughed in all the wrong places. I won’t buy any of the other episodes.
 
I was born in the early '60s so most of my favorites have been listed. I didn’t see “Emergency” though. I admit, my first crush was on Randolph Mantooth (Paramedic John Gage). But I did learn something from the show. I still retain a lot of the medical information and I swear my sister went into the medical field (now a respiratory therapist) because of the show.

Of the rest: Carol Burnett, Mary Tyler Moore (especially Ted and Suanne) and MASH were my biggest favorites. Sorry, I didn’t care for Little House after Michael Landon veered waaaay too far from the books.

Also, the Friday Night Lineup when I was a kid:
Brady Bunch
Partridge Family
Room 222
The Odd Couple
Love American Style (my mother let me watch that?!!)
How sad that I remember this lineup so well.
 
Anyone old enough to rember Jack Parr on the tonight show…before Jonny Carson ?
 
Laura B:
Sorry, I didn’t care for Little House after Michael Landon veered waaaay too far from the books.
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I think that was the only way they could squeeze so many shows out of the books. 😃 Even with nine (?) books in the series, there weren’t enough plots to fill out that number of TV shows.

Then, I think they fell prey to the “rejuvenate the show by adding more cute kids” thing, by having the Ingalls adopt Albert, and then James and Cassandra, even though none of that actually ever happened.

One of the funniest veerings away from the books – that episode where the mean older boy student tormented the teacher Eliza Jane Wilder with a poem he wrote that ended:

“We laugh until we get a pain
At lazy, lousy, Liza Jane”

It was actually Laura who wrote that poem!

Also, in real life, Laura couldn’t stand Reverend Alden! :bigyikes:
Mike Dye:
Anyone old enough to rember Jack Parr on the tonight show…before Jonny Carson ?
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I’m old enough to remember it, but I wasn’t old enough to stay up that late, if that makes any sense!. 😃

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