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Shows That You Wish Were Still On TV?

J

Joey1986

Any of you here remember any shows from your childhood that you wish were still on TV today?

My nomination would be Small Wonder, a show about a family with a robot daughter named Vicki (my favorite character). It was a staple of my childhood. I would watch it in reruns every weekday afternoon when I got home from summer school. They would show two episodes, at 1:00 and 1:30 PM on KTTV/Channel 11, my local Fox affiliate in L.A. If the show were to return to TV or be released on DVD (the latter sounds more likely to me), that would make my heart beat twice ;). If either happens, Vicki (and the rest of the Small Wonder gang) will once again bring love and laughter everywhere ;).

I just hope that no one at 20th Century Fox (the people who produced and own the rights to the show), is going Bonnie Brindle (the nosy next door neighbor) on the show's fans by saying, "No na na no no no!" to that.

Any other shows?
 
All In The Family
Cecil & Beanie
Lidsville
HR Pufnstuff
Lancelot Link
It's About Time
I Dream Of Jeanie
Lost In Space [It started out good but then got so hokie]

I'm sure there's a few more but I have a headache and it hurts to much to think that hard.
 
Lancelot Link!!! Awesome, I totally forgot about that show. With Mata Hairy and Dr. Darwin I vaguely remember. Why cant TV Land show stuff like this on Saturday Morning. A goofy show just for fun.

"Its About Time" as educational as anything on TV now. ::)

I only have basic cable so there might be a channel somewhere that shows the old classic Bugs Bunny cartoons along with Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn and the rest of the WB gang from way back. I miss those. (does anyone else think that the roadrunner is more reality then current reality tv?

One I wish was still on for the kids, "The Electric Company". I remember watching that with my younger cousins. Why didn't that show continue like Sesame Street?
 
I used to watch The Electric Company years ago after their original run had ended and they were in reruns. I remember Easy Reader (Morgan Freeman), Rita Moreno, Bill Cosby, and the Short Circus kids who played different characters and sang (remember the song "Punctuation! Pun-pun-pun! Punctuation!") I remember when PBS took that show off the air for good, I'm guessing because it was out of date. The early years of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968 to 1976) seem to have gone away as well because I remember watching these in reruns and seeing at the end the "NET" on the house possibly the only time I got to see NET's name before it became PBS and then those went away too for the same reason. I wish that both of these shows would come back and the early years of Sesame Street between 1969 and 1979 and also the original 1970's version of "Zoom!!".
 
Braves2005 said:
... at the end the "NET" on the house possibly the only time I got to see NET's name before it became PBS ...
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Found some b&w and color NET ID's at RetroJunk.com recently...first time I'd ever gotten to see them, as the network was already changed to PBS before I started watching.
 
Match Game (70s!!), Living Single, Dick Clark's Pyramid, Carol Burnett Show, Cybill, Password (Ludden, Plus, or Super), Hollywood Squares (original), Moonlighting, Knots Landing, The Edge of Night, Another World

(there's probably more, but I've been up all night at work...)
 
Wow, some great suggestions here. I'll add "The Invaders," any game show with Bill Cullen (especially "Eye Guess"), "Twelve O'Clock High," and "Rawhide."
 
I only have basic cable so there might be a channel somewhere that shows the old classic Bugs Bunny cartoons along with Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn and the rest of the WB gang from way back. I miss those.
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You'd be surprised at how many of those cartoons are now banned. Speedy Gonzales has virtually disappeared because of its content, as have Tom & Jerry because of "the mammy," also many Coyote/Roadrunner shows are gone because of the violence, and finally Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, Popeye, and Betty Boop all have a list of banned episodes do to their racial and stereotypical content in the 30's and 40's, plus many of them are considered to be offensive to Japanese people because of how the Japanese were portrayed in these cartoons during WWII.

There are hundreds (if not thousands) of "Golden Age" cartoons that you will never see on television again for these reasons.

Off the top of my head, some of my favorite banned cartoons are:

Daffy The Commando
The Spirit of '43
Der Fuehrer's Face (Donald Duck dressed as a Nazi...yes it is a genuine cartoon from 1943 or 1944)
Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs
Scrub Me Momma with a Boogie Beat
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips
Spinach Fer Britain (Popeye)
You're A Sap Mr. Jap
 
sack said:
One I wish was still on for the kids, "The Electric Company". I remember watching that with my younger cousins. Why didn't that show continue like Sesame Street?
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'Electric Company' ended in 1977, when the Ford Foundation(its underwriter) cut back on its grant. The show continued in reruns til 1985. By then, PBS had more original programs on its children's TV schedule, so the 'EC' reruns were dropped. In my area, 'Reading Rainbow' replaced Electric Company. I never watched 'RR', but believe it may have been on prior to '85.
 
Mr.Ed,of course.
Andy Griffith,before Gomer and Barney left would be high on the list.
The Beverly Hillbillies. The Sonny Drysdale (Louis Nye) episodes are classics.
Combat. Buy a bunch of Army Surplus,make it in the Mojave for zip. Brilliant in it's cheapness.
The Gong Show. (Ok I was a HS/College stoner for that one but what the Hell.)
Another Lance Link fan here.
Rocky and Bullwinkle.
The Untouchables.
The Adventures of Dobie Gillis. I patterned my life on Maynard G. Krebs,Daddio.

I'll throw in one for my kids,The Adventures of Pete and Pete. It might have been the best show of the 90's.


RRRR's you're right about the cartoons. You'll rarely see a Heckle and Jeckle or Woody Woodpecker because they're too violent for todays standards. Mighty Mouse doesn't make it for the same reason.
 
The Carol Burnett Show (especially the 1967-1972 years that have basically never been syndicated)
Dennis The Menace
Make Room For Daddy
Donna Reed
My Three Sons
The Monkees
Patty Duke
Farmer's Daughter
Doris Day
The Lucy Show (the early years with Vivian Vance and Gale Gordon together)
Here's Lucy
Mary Tyler Moore
Rhoda
Phyllis
Welcome Back Kotter
Partridge Family
That Girl
Archie Bunker's Place
B.J. and the Bear
Sheriff Lobo
Family
Bridget Loves Bernie
Nanny and the Professor
Julia
Face The Music
Name That Tune
$25,000 Pyramid
Bullseye
The Joker's Wild
Password
Ironside
The Fall Guy
Remington Steele
Get Smart
The Avengers
Lost In Space
Land of the Giants
Wonder Woman
Bionic Woman (1970's version)
Six Million Dollar Man
Owen Marshall Counselor At Law
Judd For The Defense
 
I want to see all the short-lived shows from the 80s. Such as Almost Grown, (I was 2 when it premiered and as a guy who wants to get into radio and who loves history and nostalgia) FM, (again for the radio junkie in me and all of us!), and the short-lived sitcoms that USA reran as well as E/R (not the 90s NBC Drama but the short-lived Elliott Gould sitcom!) It's Garry Shandlings Show (I love the theme song!) etc
 
For all Electric Company fans:

"Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Yoooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUYYYYYYYYYYYYYS!!!!

Sorry, couldn't resist. :D
 
Homicide Life On The Street with Pembleton (Andre Braugher) and bring Much back from NY.
 
Braves2005 said:
The Carol Burnett Show (especially the 1967-1972 years that have basically never been syndicated)
Dennis The Menace
Make Room For Daddy
Donna Reed
My Three Sons
The Monkees
Patty Duke
Farmer's Daughter
Doris Day
The Lucy Show (the early years with Vivian Vance and Gale Gordon together)
Here's Lucy
Mary Tyler Moore
Rhoda
Phyllis
Welcome Back Kotter
Partridge Family
That Girl
Archie Bunker's Place
B.J. and the Bear
Sheriff Lobo
Family
Bridget Loves Bernie
Nanny and the Professor
Julia
Face The Music
Name That Tune
$25,000 Pyramid
Bullseye
The Joker's Wild
Password
Ironside
The Fall Guy
Remington Steele
Get Smart
The Avengers
Lost In Space
Land of the Giants
Wonder Woman
Bionic Woman (1970's version)
Six Million Dollar Man
Owen Marshall Counselor At Law
Judd For The Defense
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Some of these shows and others were aired during the heyday of "Nick at Nite", TV Land" and the first incarnation of "fX", before all of these channels went "modern" (aka- "being re-branded"). I am looking forward to the debut (in our area of Southern New England) of the Retro Television Network on the subchannel of WJAR-DT in Providence.

I love "The Patty Duke Show". It's too bad it is not available on DVD yet. The only reason "The Patty Duke Show" was cancelled for the 1966-67 season was that ABC went "full-color" that year and United Artists would not pay the extra $10,000 per episode to film it in color. The show still had very high ratings and was slated for renewal for the 1966-67 season, but ABC did not want to air a black & white show in the middle of it's first all-color season. So, Patty, Cathy, Ross and the rest of the Lane family disappeared from ABC in September, 1966. But the show aired for years in syndication. It's still a big favorite for me at least. Let's hope it eventually makes it in DVD or Blu-Ray.
 
"Homicide Life On The Street with Pembleton (Andre Braugher) and bring Much back from NY."

I assume you mean Munch (Richard Belzer). He did return to Baltimore for a brief cameo on The Wire - a couple of episodes ago. The scene opens in a bar, and the first few words are spoken by Munch who is talking to the Bartender, then the camera veers away for the scene with the regular Wire actors.

It was a cute touch.
 
The original Perry Mason from the 1950s,
Have Gun Will Travel - Richard Boone as Paladin (there was a radio version that aired during the same time both on CBS)
Ben Casey
Broken Arrow
Annie Oakley
Fury
Sky King
The Big Top
Circus Boy
Rin Tin Tin
Roy Rogers
Superman - George Reeves
The original American Bandstand while in Philadelphia
Men in Space (a 1950's space sci-fi show)
McHales Navy
 
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