Classic TV years gone by

Without hijacking Carl's The Fall Guy thread I open this one up on all TV which is no longer with us. What's your best memories of days gone by?

For me the 1970's and repeats of the 1960's were a great time like the following shows.

The Avengers
The New Avengers
UFO
Space 1999
Callan
The Professionals
The Sweeney
Kojak
Hawaii Five O
The Baron
Man in a Suitcase
Mission Impossible
The Prisoner
Survivors

Just to name a few of some great classic shows I enjoyed all those years ago.

 

Richard how can you list all those dreadful American shows when the UK put out great shows like Are you being Served, Benny Hill, Waiting for God, Chef, The Good Life, and Keeping up Appearences. Carl would have a crush on Daisy if he ever watched the show ! Just his type of women !

 

Emergency was pretty good. Anouther show that was good but I guess did not have alot of viewers was Tour of Duty.

 

LOL. I did not appreciate the PBS shows until I lived in the UK for 6. It was then that I did enjoy the shows you listed. Although the first Daisy had much better legs than the last. I also enjoyed the Bobby Davro(sp?) show and especially spitting image puppets. As for American shows, I did like Baa Baa Blacksheep at the beginning, The Waltons (early season), Gunsmoke, Starsky and Hutch, S.W.A.T. and so on and but of course....Hogan's Heroes.

 

I'll agree with those from your list and add a favorite of my own vintage 70s Dr Who with John Pertwee and Tom Baker but more because of Jo and Leela the Huntress. Like the real Star Trek, excellent campy over acting, good fights, and some of the best women on TV, Barbara Bouchet, Marianna Hill, Emily Banks, Leslie Parrish, Celeste Yarnell, Susan Denberg, Madlyn Rhue, Nancy Kovack and Mary-Linda Rapelye for example among the casts of hundreds in those mini skirts...what's a trekkie

Comedy

I love lucy

Bob Newhart

I Dream of Jeannie

Gillighans Island

Shows today just aren't that good or funny, there have been some but when I do watch TV, rarely now, I usually use the DVD and create my own programming sans commercials.

 

I still watch re-runs of Sanford and Son and The Beverly Hillbillies on a "daily" basis!

S.W.A.T. was one for me as a kid...remember playing the theme song on a 45 record over and over again and getting the van and action figures (back when they were twelve inches tall) set. Those shows were, in my opinion, a hell of a lot more entertaining than "anything' that airs today, although Seinfeld is pretty darn funny.

 

One comes to mind that was the best of any show of the 1970's and that is


M*A*S*H it still is running here in Aussie on Ch 7 Mon-Fri 5.00pm, and i can never get tired of it.

Addams Family
The Munsters
It ain't half hot mum.
The Rag Trade
On the Buses
The Goodies

 

Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
Night Gallery
Tales from the Darkside
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Battlestar Galactica
Space Above and Beyond
Crusade
Babylon 5
Star Trek (all of em)
the Invaders
already said...
Space 1999
UFO
the Avengers
the Prisoner
Kojak
Colombo
Hawaii 5-0
Gotta Love the Hillbillies too !
Jed you live in a one room shack, you get yer water from a stream, ya got Possum, Racoon, Skunk & Coyote walking through your yard, yer outhouse is 50 feet away, you cook with wood and yer light is Kerosine, the nearest town is six miles away.
Jed, "Yer right, a man would be a dern fool to leave all this !"

 

The A-Team

 

A-Team ?

I'll always remember those guys as firing the most ammunition of "any" TV or movie (including Total Recall & RoboCop), and hitting nothing (not even the ground). No special effects effort (or budget)....just blanks.

an "occasional" laugh, but TV was genuinely krappy (I'm not excluding Charlies Angels or Manix), back then !

Good for VCR sales and movie rentals though !

 

I started recording the A-Team when it first came out, but after about the second or third showing and noone was even killed, I soon lost all interest in it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think anyone EVER died/was killed by gunfire in that one.

 

Hang on old bean, I am just coming to comedy & comedy drama.

Waiting for God
Keeping up Appearances
Monty Pythons Flying Circus
Hitch Hikers guide to the Galaxy
Porridge
Going Striate
Fawlty Towers
Hancock's Half Hour
Till Death Us Do Part
Shelley
Tiswas (Grew up watching this on Saturday Morning's, best kids TV ever. And Sally James still looks good today.)
Spitting Image
Rab C Nesbitt
The Goodies

 

I would add
Danger UXB
Secret Army
Catweazle
Young Ones
Monkey
worzel gummidge

 

All my favourites from my square-eyed youth;

Catweazle (electrickery!!)
Monty Python
Dad's Army
Black Beauty
Follyfoot
Are you being served?
Starsky & Hutch
Combat
Lost in Space
Dr Who
Star Trek (Original)
Blake's 7
Space 1999
Garrison's Guerillas
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in (honest!)
The Odd Couple
The Rockford Files
Kung Fu
The Prisoner
The Avengers
The New Avengers
The Persuaders

 

I like alot of the ones already listed but one of my favorites was:


The Desert Rats!
wait that's not it, or is it!? wow, now i can't remember! I know this was a movie, but i can't remember what the TV show was called!
oh I remember!!

The Rat Patrol!!!

 

Hi Richard, hijack away, this is a darn good thread ;-))

Shows I miss (whether or not they are listed:

The Fall Guy. Listed here just so it's in this thread.
Dobie Gillis.
Twelve O'Clock High.
Daniel Boone.
Have Gun Will Travel.
Gunsmoke.
Bonanza.
Shotgun Slade.
The Texas Rangers.
The Big Valley.
Bonanza.
The Rifleman.
Wagon Train.
Rawhide.
Stagecoach West.
The New Mission Impossible (I liked it a tad bit better than the original)
Space 1999.
COMBAT.
McHales Navy.
Supercarrier.
Becker.
The Abbott and Costello Show.
The Red Skelton Show.
The Real McCoys.
Riptide.
The Greatest American Hero.
Superman.
Batman.
In Search of (not really more than a Doc but was great to hear Spock's narration)
The Time Tunnel. Damn good show lasting only one season.
Land of the Giants.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
The Fugitive.
Time Cop. Very well made lasting only a few episodes.)
The Fifth Corner. (Damn good show but only lasted a few episodes.
The Silver Fox (only lasted one episode but, to have JAMES COBURN in a TV series was tops)
Air Wolf. Another TV show w/ Ernest Borgnine in it.
The Carol Burnett Show.
The Bill Dana Show.
Magnum P.I.
Simon and Simon.
Dakota.
Dusty's Trail.
The Young Rebels. (Had Louis Gosset Jr in it)
The Dukes of hazzard.
Movin' on. which had Claude Akins in it.
BJ and the Bear.
The Mis-adventures of Sheriff Lobo (another with Claude Akins in it)
CPO Sharkey.

I'll stop as I can go on forever.

 

Scott, if I had known you about 6 months ago, I would have given to you the first season of: The Rat Patrol on DvD. I liked the show but always felt that if the episodes had been 1 hr in length, if could have been a much better show. Anyway, I gave it to a good friend of mine who doesn't know better-about the mis-matched vehicles, guns and uniforms.

 

The late 60's version of Hollywood Squares was pretty good with Paul Lynde, Wally Cox, Charlie Weaver, and Peter Marshell plus lots of good guest stars. I also liked Perry Mason.