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re: What was your favorite show as a kid?

Posted on 11/19/25 at 6:34 pm to
Posted by philtree506
Member since Jun 2017
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 6:34 pm to
Duke Boys
A-Team
Transormers
GI Joe
Thundercats
Cosby
Full House
Family Matters
Charles In Charge
Saved by the Bell
You Cant Do that on Television
Different Strokes
Fresh Prince of Bel-aire
Martin
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
36104 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 6:41 pm to
Cartoons:
TMNT
Inspector Gadget
Fraggle Rock
Duck Tales
Tail Spin
Rescue Rangers

Fishing Shows:
Bill Dance
Hank Parker
In-Fisherrmen
Posted by TigrrrDad
Member since Oct 2016
8111 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 6:53 pm to
Speed Racer & Jonny Quest
Posted by Hester Carries
Member since Sep 2012
25690 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:17 pm to
I literally just flipped between Nick and CN.

First show I can ever remember saying was my favorite was Boy Meets World
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
SouthEast... you figure it out
Member since Aug 2021
47131 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:46 pm to
Remember Romper Room & Sesame Street early on, but then Speed Racer era shows. Johnny Quest felt like James Bond type stuff for kids. Later it was crazy 70's stuff, like Land of the Lost, HR Puffinstuff, Sigmund and the Sea Monster and the parade of objectively bad live action shows.
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
39265 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:54 pm to
Alf
Dungeons and Dragons cartoon
Looney Tunes.
Posted by Bill Parker?
Member since Jan 2013
5391 posts
Posted on 11/19/25 at 11:38 pm to
Captain Caveman, Laff-a-lympics, The Grape Ape Show.

I'd still watch if I could find them.
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 7:42 am to
For you Batman and Robin (and Match Game) fans, here is a fun clip.

Posted by AUFANATL
Member since Dec 2007
5346 posts
Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:21 am to

It's weird to think about now that we live in an era where we are bombarded with this kind of stuff but Unsolved Mysteries and America's Funniest Home Videos were huge back in the late 80s. The idea that we could get these non-fictional microdoses of true crime and goofy videos was pretty crazy and foretold of the world to come.

Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
76273 posts
Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:24 am to
quote:

Match Game


I remember watching these game shows as a young kid with my parents. Had no idea what things like "making whoopie" meant.
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
23272 posts
Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:51 am to
Those three were pretty much the tops for me, too, but add



Posted by RocknRollAZ
Arizona
Member since Apr 2025
390 posts
Posted on 11/20/25 at 1:18 pm to
Scooby-Doo
Tom and Jerry
Bugs Bunny
Speed Racer
The Road Runner Show

Pretty much all the Superhero cartoons.

The Dukes of Hazzard
Buck Rogers
Adam-12
Emergency!
S.W.A.T.
Battlestar Galactica
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
20038 posts
Posted on 11/20/25 at 1:36 pm to
Hard to pick a favorite. I was a kid in the 50's to latter 60's and there were a ton of good shows on TV back then.

Going by genre:

Sci-fi-----"The Twilight Zone"
Sitcom-----"The Andy Griffith Show"
Comedy Variety----"The Red Skelton Show"
Musical Variety---"The Andy Williams Show"
Western---"Gunsmoke"
Cartoons----"Bugs Bunny and Friends"
Sports----"ABC's Wide World of Sports"
Posted by OK Roughneck
The Sooner State
Member since Aug 2021
18463 posts
Posted on 11/20/25 at 5:03 pm to
Gilligans Island
Scooby Doo
Flipper
Posted by TideWarrior
Asheville/Chapel Hill NC
Member since Sep 2009
13205 posts
Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:57 pm to
So many great shows:

Cartoons:
Scooby Doo
Looney Tunes
Fat Albert
Grape Ape
Jabberjaw
School House Rocks

Mash
A-Team
Magnum PI
WKRP
Night Court
Night Rider
CHiPs
Fantasy Island
Taxi
Fall Guy
Charlie's Angels
Newhart
Barney Miller
All in the Family
Alice(mainly because my friend's aunt was Fran from the show)
Sanford & Son
Welcome Back Kotter
Emergency
Hawaii Five-0
Good Times
Kung Fu
The Incredible Hulk
Bonanza

After everyone went to bed

Benny Hill
Rat Patrol(it usually came on around 5am on Sunday)
Posted by AUFANATL
Member since Dec 2007
5346 posts
Posted on 11/20/25 at 9:06 pm to
quote:

After everyone went to bed

Benny Hill


When I was a kid I thought everybody in England was a perv who just chased women around. This show was all I knew of the old country.

Syndication rights must have been cheap and the affiliates had nothing to compete with Carson so they just said what the hell, let's just show a horny old man chasing young women around the park every night.

Posted by Big Chipper
Charlotte, NC
Member since Sep 2008
2966 posts
Posted on 11/21/25 at 7:08 am to
Hong Kong Phooey
Grape Ape
Pink Panther
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
30482 posts
Posted on 11/21/25 at 12:29 pm to
Saturday morning: Super Friends

After school: Batman reruns

Prime time: 6 Million Dollar Man


Posted by Suntiger
STG or BR or somewhere else
Member since Feb 2007
36218 posts
Posted on 11/21/25 at 1:25 pm to
That’s tough to narrow it down. But I kind of realize I grew up in a golden age of creative television and movies.

Scooby-Doo
G.I. Joe
Transformers
He-Man
TMNT
Knight Rider
Incredible Hulk
Muppet Babies
Smurfs
ALF
Dukes of Hazzard
The A-Team
Who’s The Boss
Full House
Family Ties
The Wonder Years
Magnum P.I.
Cheers
Posted by RelentlessAnalysis
AggieHank Alter
Member since Oct 2025
2968 posts
Posted on 11/21/25 at 1:42 pm to
Happy Days.

Back when a TV show could be watched only one night per week and there were only three options at a time, EVERYONE watched it. The previous night's episode was the major topic of conversation Wednesday morning at school.
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