re: TV shows you remember watching with your grandparents

In the 80s, my grandma used to watch a show on the Nashville Network called “You Can Be A Star”. It was like American Idol but really small and for country and western singers. I think it was a daily show as well.

Anyway, whenever I’d sleep over, she’d fix me a glass mug with a single scoop of vanilla ice cream and we’d watch that show.

I'm old, so many of you won't remember these.

All of the following are variety shows:

The Perry Como Show
Red Skelton Show
Andy Williams Show
Lawrence Welk Show
Ed Sullivan Show

Westerns:

Bonanza
Gunsmoke
Have Gun Will Travel
Davey Crocket

Sitcoms:

The Honeymooners
The Life of Riley
Ozzie & Harriet
Dick Van Dyke Show
Andy Griffith Show

Of course all the older ladies, aunts, granny, etc. watched hours on end of the daily "Soap Operas".

Rasslin

Murder She Wrote with Grandma

Married with Children with my Nanny who I stayed with during the week while my Mom was working.

My Nanny was cooler

Days of our Lives

Hmm, I rarely recall watching much of any TV with my grandparents. Visited with them a lot, but rarely actually sat down and watched television with them. They weren't terribly big on TV programs, actually. Especially my grandfather, who mainly just watched the news. I do recall him watching "The Porter Wagoner Show" once when I was around.

If my grandfather ever got in a nostalgic mood towards anything entertainment-oriented, he'd bring up his childhood memories of seeing silent-era westerns of Hoot Gibson or William S. Hart. One time in the 1980s, I got a VHS tape of one of Hoot Gibson's talkie westerns of the early-1930s to show him, hoping he'd get a big kick out of it. He smiled a bit, but after about five or ten minutes, he wasn't terribly interested in viewing it in its entirety. He just wasn't really into 'fictional storytelling.'

Just remembered this one. It was like religion to watch "Friday Night Fights Live From Madison Square Garden" on our 19 inch black and white TV.

They were sponsored by Gillette and lasted a couple hours long. It was mostly a "guys night" with my grandpa, uncle or two, dad and some of the boys.

The cigarette smoke was thick in the room and the cold beers were flowing.

My grandfather loved Bonanza and Lawrence Welk. You didn’t think of touching his TV if those shows were on.

My grandmother loved her soap operas, especially Dark Shadows. When I’d stay over she’d circle every monster and sci-fi movie in TV Guide, and she’d watch them all with me.

My other grandmother didn’t watch too much TV, but loooved Johnny Cash’s variety show.

Great thread idea, brings up some happy memories of my awesome grandparents. When I was sick I'd always go to maw-maw and paw-paws (mom's side) and she's from Sicily. Chicken noodle soup, Days of our Lives and The Price is Right were guaranteed. And if I stayed till dinner or when we went over for dinner it was Wheel of Fortune time!

Me-maw and paw-paw (dad's side) were always watching Murder She wrote and I remember seeing Matlock and Rockford, but Angela Landsbury ruled that house I lived with them for about a year at one point and The Golden Girls was regular rotation and then for some reason I'll always remember Crime Story at night. That theme song always gets you.

Westerns

Gunsmoke
Bonanza