What was your favorite TV Show as a youngster?

[Mark Giardina]

(We're talking 1950s here)

Zorro
The Adventures of Superman
Wanted Dead or Alive
Mickey Mouse Club (had a crush then on Annette)

 

[landtuna]

I'd remember:

MMC (who didn't have a crush on Annette?)
Maverick
Range Rider/Gene Autry/Hopalong Cassidy
Zorro (the Disney version w/Guy Williams)
Wonderful World of Disney (Davy Crockett)
Science Fiction Theater
20th Century (w/Walter Cronkite)

 

[LKellerIII]

(We're talking 1950s here)

You'd better expand that to include the 1960s unless you only want responses from the few people who post here who are already on Social Security. I'll be 59 early next year, and if you ask me my favorite 50s shows, I'd have to say:

Warner Bros cartoons
Popeye
Engineer Bill (local kid host on KHJ-TV in LA)
Sheriff John's Lunch Brigade (local kid host on KTTV)

In the 50s, I was 0 thru 7 years old!

 

[Ultimajock]

(We're talking 1950s here)

You'd better expand that to include the 1960s unless you only want responses from the few people who post here who are already on Social Security.

...I second that motion. In my (late '60s) case, they included Land of the Giants, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Branded, The Avengers and Roller Game of the Week...

 

[RicoGregg]

Warner Bros cartoons
Popeye
Engineer Bill (local kid host on KHJ-TV in LA)
Sheriff John's Lunch Brigade (local kid host on KTTV)

In the 50s, I was 0 thru 7 years old!

In addition to those mentioned, I also watched Skipper Frank on KTLA. He showed the Warner Bros. cartoons. Speaking only for me, the WB toons were the best. Tom Hatten showed the Popeye cartoons on the same "bat-channel".

NBC's 50s Saturday mornings had some good shows that all seemed to be sponsored by Nabisco Shredded Wheat: Fury, Sky King, My Friend Flicka.

Had an early crush on crush on Gloria Winters, who played Penny on Sky King. She passed away about a month ago at age 75.

I also liked:
You Bet Your Life
Roaring 20s
People Are Funny
The Dan Smoot Report
Movies

 

[johnnyu]

Captain Video

 

[LKellerIII]

Warner Bros cartoons
Popeye
Engineer Bill (local kid host on KHJ-TV in LA)
Sheriff John's Lunch Brigade (local kid host on KTTV)

In the 50s, I was 0 thru 7 years old!

In addition to those mentioned, I also watched Skipper Frank on KTLA. He showed the Warner Bros. cartoons. Speaking only for me, the WB toons were the best. Tom Hatten showed the Popeye cartoons on the same "bat-channel".

NBC's 50s Saturday mornings had some good shows that all seemed to be sponsored by Nabisco Shredded Wheat: Fury, Sky King, My Friend Flicka.

Had an early crush on crush on Gloria Winters, who played Penny on Sky King. She passed away about a month ago at age 75.

I also liked:
You Bet Your Life
Roaring 20s
People Are Funny
The Dan Smoot Report
Movies

Now that you mention it, I would have included Skipper Frank and Tom Hatten too, except that I was making a point.

As a kid, one of your favorite shows was The Dan Smoot Report? Seriously? Wasn't Smoot one of those early right-wing TV commentators? If you liked him, you must have loved George Putnam.

What about commentaries from Dr. Harold ("Hal") Fishman?

 

[Mark Giardina]

(We're talking 1950s here)

You'd better expand that to include the 1960s unless you only want responses from the few people who post here who are already on Social Security.

To clarify; when I mentioned the 1950s I was referring to myself. Of course any decade is an option.

 

[The Voice of Reason]

Captain Kangaroo

Zorro

The Adventures of Superman

Rocky & Bullwinkle

Mickey Mouse Club

Wanted Dead or Alive

The Untouchables (with Robert Stack)

Combat

 

[landtuna]

OK....Just back from cashing my SS check....continuing into the 60's:

Mr Bob (KTVU, Channel 2 from Oakland's Jack London Square) - showing The Three Stooges & lots of pie in the face.

Laugh-In
McHale's Navy (hey, I WAS in the navy 62-66 but it wasn't like that)
Smothers Brothers (I still hate C(BS) for cancelling it)

 

[RicoGregg]

As a kid, one of your favorite shows was The Dan Smoot Report? Seriously? Wasn't Smoot one of those early right-wing TV commentators? If you liked him, you must have loved George Putnam.

Admittedly, I'm being a little tongue-in-cheek-ish there. Smoot and Putnam, to me, were apples and oranges. There was just something bizarringly appealing about The Dan Smoot Report. The opening, with the white sheet of paper typing words on it without a typewriter. The scratchy black and white film. The kinda funny last name. His oratorical skills. His funny looking suits.

I totally admit that his topics were way over my young head at the time, but there was just something about it that made me transfixed to the tube when he was on. Perhaps it was an early taste of "camp" for me.

Later on, I also became a "fan" of Life Line, the H. L. Hunt-sponsored right wing radio commentary, Cold War-era radio propaganda from Moscow, Havana, and such, for entertainment purposes only, and the unintentionally hilarious Dr. Carl McIntyre, whom most conservatives would have nothing to do with, but yet I miss his rants today.

What about commentaries from Dr. Harold ("Hal") Fishman?

I was not aware of Dr. Fishman's existence until sometime in the 60s when he first joined KHJ-TV in Los Angeles. I spent most of the 70s in San Diego. Most of my familiarity with him is his anchor work at KTLA. I know he did commentaries, but that's not how I associate him. A very competent anchor.

 

[searadiofreak]

Thanks for opening this up to other decades!

For me, the early 70's provided a Friday night bonanza with The Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Room 222, and Love American Style, (the ladder being a little "adult" for the kids, but still interesting!). We'd get out the sleeping bags and camp out in the TV room and just watched TV all evening!...good times.

As we got a couple years older, it was All In The Family, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, and Carol Burnett on Saturdays. Minus the sleeping bags. What a great night of TV!

 

[RyanHoward]

When I was a kid, here's a list of the shows I liked:

The Pink Panther
Sanford and Son
Happy Days
Hollywood Squares(Peter Marshall)
Laverne and Shirley
M*A*S*H
Diff'rent Strokes
The Muppet Show
Hee Haw

 

[Limp73]

The Howdy Doody Show
Sky King
The Spike Jones Show
The (original) Price is Right with Bill Cullen and annoucner Don Pardo
Concentration
The Roy Rogers Show
The Rifleman
Sea Hunt
Gene Autry and Roy Rogers' Republic Pictures B westerns on Saturday afternoons.
Rocky and His Freinds
Underdog
The Ed Sullivan Show(first appearance by The Beatles)
The Dinah Shiore Chevy Show (MMMMMWAHHHHH!!!!!)
Studio Wrestling (on the former WLWD Dayton with Omar Williams)
The Uncle Orrie and Ferdy Fussbudget Show (on WHIO-TV Dayton)
In-Side (on the former WIMA-TV Lima where Adrian Cronaur was announcer)
The Deputy Dawg Show
Davey and Goliath
The Paul Dixon Show (originated by WLWT Cincinnati)
American Bandstand
Where The Action Is
Upbeat

 

[Tim L]

Barnaby (Linn Sheldon) and Woodrow (Clay Conroy)-KYW/WKYC Cleveland-They both had shows separately and together at times

Huckleberry Hound
Yogi Bear
Quick Draw McGraw
Captain Penny (Ron Penfound) WEWS Cleveland
You Dont Say! (Original)
Match Game (Original)
Concentration
Jeopardy!
WKYC-Seventh/Eleventh Hour Report/Newsday 1965-Early 70's with Virgil Dominic, Wally Kinnan and Jim Graner
Dobie Gillis WEWS Reruns
Get Smart
I Dream Of Jeannie
Batman
Hoolihan and Big Chuck-WJW
Mike Douglas Show
Merv Griffin Show

 

[FreddyE1977]

in the 70's...

Star Trek
Mission Impossible
Hogan's Heroes
Green Acres
SCTV

Most of those obviously reruns in the afternoon or on
Independent stations.

 

[BRNout]

There were tons of shows that I enjoyed as a kid - cartoons, comedies, etc. But my favorite when I was really little (4 or 5) had to be Lost In Space. Loved that robot.....

 

[therealjm12]

Family favorites: Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, Andy Griffith, Make Room For Daddy, Beverly Hillbillies, McHales,Navy.
Personal Favorites: Lone Ranger, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Twilight Zone, Dobie Gillis, Star Trek, Green Acres.

 

[anotherguyTN]

From being a kid in the 60's to a teen in the 70's: Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Popeye, The Three Stooges, Star Trek, Laugh-In, Andy Griffith, Twilight Zone, Get Smart, Hogan's Heroes, MASH, Match Game, Early SNL, Carol Burnett, The Tonight Show

 

[MsMusicRadio]

50's

Edward R.Murrow
Steve Allen Show
Ed Sullivan Show
Uncle Miltie
Your Show of Shows
Army/McCarthy Hearings
Dragnet cause I thought it was a comedy
Highway Patrol cause Brodrick Crawford was a mega hunk.
Ozzie and Harriet only for Ricky singing
Martin and Lewis
Sheriff of Cochise cause it was such high camp