Nostalgic '60s or '70s TV?

[RCMerchant]

Dragnet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Twre6ItGEI

..you got me a-scarit,Joe!

[Derf]

I also recall watching regularly these shows, which I have since, in a fit of right thinking, blocked from my mind:

Donny and Marie
Sonny and Cher
The Bugaloos
Shields and Yarnell

I still admit to enjoying these in addition to my first list:

The Hudson Brothers
The Smothers Brothers
Laugh-In
The Dean Martin Show

Granted, I was too young to understand much of what went on during those last three, but I still enjoyed them.

[schmendrik]

I also recall watching regularly these shows, which I have since, in a fit of right thinking, blocked from my mind:

Donny and Marie
Sonny and Cher
The Bugaloos
Shields and Yarnell

Heh. We could start a whole sub-thread on "entertainers who were given variety shows where they read lame jokes off teleprompters alternating with music performance". For some reason in the 70s TV producers thought this was a good idea, and kept using it over and over.

Am I hallucinating, or did Tony Orlando & Dawn get one of these? I seem to remember watching that one more than once, as I (blush) sort of liked their stuff.

I still admit to enjoying these in addition to my first list:

The Hudson Brothers
The Smothers Brothers
Laugh-In
The Dean Martin Show

I don't know if Laugh-In wears that well with age. It's pretty bizarre to contrast the Goldie Hawn you see later with the 18-year-old airhead from Laugh-In and her early movies. Still, there were some great comic talents that started out there.

But Smothers Brothers? Are you calling that a guilty pleasure? The Smothers Brothers were great!!! They never get old! Bizarre footnote: I've heard that they still entertain but they've switched personas, so Dick is now the dumb one. That's just not right.

Another possible hallucination: Did the Smothers Brothers have a TV sitcom where Tommy was an angel, or did I dream that?

Anybody remember Love American Style?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Wzs74B0I8#

Sadly, yes.

How about Love Boat?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icAwcByaNtY

[Derf]

I wouldn't say that The Smothers Brothers were a guilty pleasure, just one that didn't come to me when I posted my first list. And yes, Tony Orlando and Dawn is another of those "I block thee from my brain" shows. Thanks for bringing it up again. 

Others to add:

The Carol Burnett Show
Batman
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Are You Being Served?
The Red Skelton Show

[RCMerchant]

60's shows (some of the earlier ones I caught on rerun in the early 70's on backwater UHF channels)
1.the UNTOUCHABLES
2.HIGHWAY PATROL
3.the HONEYMOONERS
4.GREEN HORNET
5.BATMAN
.GREEN ACRES
.7 BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
8. GOMER PYLE (I LOVED that show as a little kid!)
9.FLIP WILSON
10.my dad watched the GLEN CAMBELL Show all the time!
11. DISNEY's WONDERFUL WORLD of COLOR! (too bad our tv was b+w!)
12. ED SULLIVAN
13.RED SKELTON
14.LOST in SPACE
15.TIME TUNNEL
16.LAND of the GIANTS
17.STAR TRK
18.JOURNY to the BOTTOM of the SEA
19.the TWIGHLIGHT ZONE
20.NIGHT GALLERY
21.the OUTER LIMITS
70's....hmmmm...
1.IN SEARCH of...
2.M*A*S*H (the early ones...before they got too preachy....)
3.DOUBLE CREATURE FEATURE (local channel 28 )
4.reruns of old Hopalong Cassidy episodes on channel 46.
5.Sunday Early Morning movie (local...showed cool gangster fliks-like WHITE HEAT,the ROARING TWENTIES,the BLACK LEGION....)
6.BIG TIME WRESTLING
7.Roller Derby!
8.SOOOOOOOULLL TRAIN! (those hot chicks!)

Roller Derby was th' sh1t!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNEgIzpR5RA

[Allhallowsday]

Anybody remember Love American Style?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Wzs74B0I8#

Love that sh!t...    Here's more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IwaGuLo3Bc

[Allhallowsday]

Happy Halloween! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcppoM2bByE

[Allhallowsday]

"...Can he swing from a thread?  Take a look overhead!  Hey there, there goes a "Spiderman!"   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o29VoxtsFk
"...Action is his reward... to him... life is a great big hangup, wherever there's a hangup, you'll find a Spiderman...!!!"

[retrorussell]

Heh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCYpk0ivqjo

[joejoeherron]

I watch them all when they're on. I borrowed my mother's collection of COMBAT! so much, she won't loan it out any more.Mostly, I just watch Gunsmoke every day just to relax. Really upsets my girlfriend.

When in doubt, what would sgt. saunders do?

[The Burgomaster]

* U.F.O.
* HEE-HAW
* SPACE: 1999
* THAT GIRL!
* HERE'S LUCY
* ADAM-12
* MANNIX
* THE F.B.I.
* THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
* THE TIME TUNNEL
* LAND OF THE GIANTS
* THE INVISIBLE MAN (with David McCallum)
* THE ROOKIES
* S.W.A.T.
* THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO
* BARNEY MILLER
* THAT'S MY MAMA (blaxploitation sit-com!)
* GET CHRISTIE LOVE!
* POLICE WOMAN
* THE DORIS DAY SHOW
* TOMA
* PETROCELLI
* CARIBE (short-lived Stacy Keach series)
* ALIAS SMITH AND JONES
* HERE COME THE DOUBLE DECKERS (British kids show that aired on Saturday mornings in the U.S. - - a wacky group of kids uses an abandoned double decker bus as a club house . . . I actually had a Double Deckers lunch box)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLAFSAu2mt0


Ahhhh . . . the memories . . .

[retrorussell]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_JhwUpIjbY&feature=related

[Jack]

I bought the whole U.F.O. TV series on DVD and we've been watching it during dinner every evening.  The 1969 vision of what the future (1980) will be like is just awesome.   

[Flick James]

I'm surpised you don't hear much about the shows Emergency! and Adam-12. I grew up watching those shows and they were highly influential. Adam-12 ran for 6 or 7 years I think. I'm sure Emergency! inspired many a kid to want to be a firefighter or a paramedic. Even though these were prime time dramas, these shows even inspired lunchboxes. I had an Emergency! lunchbox in elementary school and I'm pretty sure there were Adam-12 lunchboxes as well.

[The Burgomaster]

I'm surpised you don't hear much about the shows Emergency! and Adam-12. I grew up watching those shows and they were highly influential. Adam-12 ran for 6 or 7 years I think. I'm sure Emergency! inspired many a kid to want to be a firefighter or a paramedic. Even though these were prime time dramas, these shows even inspired lunchboxes. I had an Emergency! lunchbox in elementary school and I'm pretty sure there were Adam-12 lunchboxes as well.

My cousin had an EMERGENCY board game.  I think it was a map of a city and I remember there were little plastic fire engines that you had to move around the board to complete missions.  I also remember a Mad Magazine parody of ADAM-12 . . . I think it was called BOREDOM-12.