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Hmm, that's very odd; I know I had heard of his death many years ago. I guess, like Mark Twain, "reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated."
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Oh man, the episode when Andre the Giant played Bigfoot!
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What was that one with William Katt and Robert Culp.. Greatest American Hero? That was a RIOT! Just seeing how he'd land the next time made the whole show worth watching!
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Believe it or not, I'm walking on air...What was that one with William Katt and Robert Culp.. Greatest American Hero? That was a RIOT! Just seeing how he'd land the next time made the whole show worth watching!
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Oh, and The A Team.
Man, we had a lot of craptastically good shows.
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I fucking LOVED the A-Team -- MURDOCH!!! And the guy who played him showed up years later on ST:TNG and ST
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ETA: ah, that last one was meant to be 'deep space 9" but you can't put a colon and a D without making a smiley.
Well, I'll be showing my age, but here goes. When I was very young, some of my favorites shows were Skyking, Sea Hunt, The Man From U.N.C.L.E, Mision Impossible, and of course most of the old classic cartoons (Bugs Bunny, Tom&Jerry, etc)..
I then moved on to Star Trek, Lost In Space, Hogan's Hero's, etc.
I then moved on to Star Trek, Lost In Space, Hogan's Hero's, etc.
The original Twilight Zone with Rod Serling, Night Gallery & the Outer Limits
What was that one with William Katt and Robert Culp.. Greatest American Hero? That was a RIOT! Just seeing how he'd land the next time made the whole show worth watching!
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I absolutely loved that show but every time I ask someone about it they just get this puzzled look on their face.
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I absolutely loved that show but every time I ask someone about it they just get this puzzled look on their face.
In the late 90s I ran into the girl who was my BFF in high school, hadn't seen her in nearly 20 yrs. She kept asking me "How do you remember all this stuff???" All I could say was "How could YOU forget it? Were you asleep?"
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In the late 90s I ran into the girl who was my BFF in high school, hadn't seen her in nearly 20 yrs. She kept asking me "How do you remember all this stuff???" All I could say was "How could YOU forget it? Were you asleep?"
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For real, with each post I see more and more stuff I vividly remember watching.
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For real, with each post I see more and more stuff I vividly remember watching.
Mr Ed, My Favorite Martian, The Man from Uncle, and the early B&W Bewitched, are probably the very earliest shows I have some memory of -- and another, called "The 2nd Hundred Years," with Monte Markham -- but Mr Ed... man, when I found out that that horse didn't REALLY talk, I was absolutely CRUSHED. I FELT COMPLETELY CHEATED!!!
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Mr Ed, My Favorite Martian, The Man from Uncle, and the early B&W Bewitched, are probably the very earliest shows I have some memory of -- and another, called "The 2nd Hundred Years," with Monte Markham -- but Mr Ed... man, when I found out that that horse didn't REALLY talk, I was absolutely CRUSHED. I FELT COMPLETELY CHEATED!!!
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Mork and Mindy! The My Favorite Martian made me think of that one.
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Pretty sure I was in high school, and just after, when that was on, so I was in my "too cool to watch TV" phase.
But I did discover Mork years later on TVland, and had a blast watching those.Another that I loved, though I wasn't a kid, I think it was shortly after I graduated, or it might have started in my Sr year, was Remington Steele -- which gave the world Pierce Brosnan! I was in LUST with that man!
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Another that no one has yet mentioned -- The original Not Ready for Primetime Players, on Saturday Night Live! I was 14 when that started; missed the entire first year, when Chevy Chase was on it, but I discovered it by the next year, when Bill Murray joined them.
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Yeah I wasn't allowed to watch those when they first aired so I had to go back a re-watch all of them. But they are the comedians that really made me laugh not the crap I see most of the time now days.
Steve Martin and Dan Akroyd(sp?) were some of my other favorites as well. Two wild and crazy guys!!!!
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Yep that skit started on SNL, when Steve Martin hosted! He didn't have white hair then!
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Yep that skit started on SNL, when Steve Martin hosted! He didn't have white hair then!
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I am bad with names so I had to google them but Jane Curtin and I can't find it but the lady with very large, curly hair were brilliant as well. I wan't to say her last name started with an R I may be way off.
ETA: Found it Gilda Radner!
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Gilda Radner -- she was actually the 2nd from that bunch to die; ovarian cancer in her case. She and Gene Wilder were married.
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"You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
There's a remake of McGyver on Friday nights. We caught the opener last week, and it's not bad; it's got George Eads in it too, the guy from the original CSI... think his character was Nick? The guy playing Mac is a young thang who grew up in Atlanta, and he's pretty easy on the eyes, and I always love all the gadgets that character can rig up, from pretty much nothing or everything.
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There's 2 greats from the past that no one has yet mentioned.... The Ed Sullivan Show... yeah I saw the Beatles, but I was like 4 I think? Maybe 3? I dunno for sure. (Topo Gigio made a bigger impression!)
And let us never forget a show that changed a great many things on TV. SOAP. If nothing else, it gave us Billy Crystal. I was in my mid-to-late teens for that one, so old enough to get 99% of it. My husband and I watched it recently all the way thru, on YT, and the first 2 seasons were as fucking hilarious as I remembered!
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And let us never forget a show that changed a great many things on TV. SOAP. If nothing else, it gave us Billy Crystal. I was in my mid-to-late teens for that one, so old enough to get 99% of it.
My husband and I watched it recently all the way thru, on YT, and the first 2 seasons were as fucking hilarious as I remembered!Andria
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Was a Monkees fanatic in the 70s 
By my teens in the late 70s, Second City TV was IT man. It came on after SNL and was even edgier.
Eugene Levy is still a fave, along with Andrea Martin....
By my teens in the late 70s, Second City TV was IT man. It came on after SNL and was even edgier.
Eugene Levy is still a fave, along with Andrea Martin....
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Ya know, Dodds.. Ive never run across anyone else familiar with HR Puffinstuff.
I still remember being scared of those trees..
I still remember being scared of those trees..
I know, right? No one I know remembers the show at all. Sigmund and the Sea Monsters they remember, but not Pufnstuf. The most ridiculous thing about that is that I remember watching it when my mother was pregnant with my younger brother, so 1969 it would have been. And I was just 2! It's now considered a "cult" show, I think. Which means I was a "cult" fiction fan at least almost from birth.
LOL, we did plenty of that too. After 10 or so on the weekends, we were gone, came back for lunch around 12-1 and then gone until dark again.My mommy made me play outside
LOL, we did plenty of that too. After 10 or so on the weekends, we were gone, came back for lunch around 12-1 and then gone until dark again.
So many memories playing outside. My kids ask me how did you even function without a computer ? I said I had a wild imagination.
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I know, right? No one I know remembers the show at all. Sigmund and the Sea Monsters they remember, but not Pufnstuf. The most ridiculous thing about that is that I remember watching it when my mother was pregnant with my younger brother, so 1969 it would have been. And I was just 2! It's now considered a "cult" show, I think. Which means I was a "cult" fiction fan at least almost from birth.
I remember it. And there was some kind of big deal about HR Pufinstuf at Atlanta's Omni International, some sort of kid's attraction. The Omni is long gone now, though the "international" part, where the hotel and ice rink were, may still be there, not sure. That's where the attraction was.
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Yeah, and bikes and skates! And no busybodies making us wear helmets either!
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Hell, we had tons of stuff to do. Stickball, stoop ball, ringolevio, skelzies. For the most part, nobody who grew up outside of Brooklyn will know any of those. But probably my favorite thing to do as a kid was urban nature hunts. We'd catch crickets or walking sticks or praying mantises or slugs or snails and keep them in small tanks as pets. If you were really good (I was) you could find a small permanent pond and snatch up some tadpoles. I had a terrarium with pill bugs, millipedes and crickets that was really cool, and once found a 4" long brightish yellow slug that lived for like two years. We had tons of stuff to keep us busy.
I'm only 26 and played outside 24/7. I made forts out of the Mimosa trees and made staves of the sticks after I stripped the bark off to make rope (Think Castaway). I used the leaves from the Mimosa's to make pallets and Made potions (Didn't actually ingest) from random plants I found around the house. We only had a computer for a short time when I was an older teen and had no internet. I was the bomb at minesweeper and spider solitaire tho.
I remember HR Puffenstuff, I played outside a LOT, but I did see a lot of tv, too. I functioned without computers, because I didn't miss one, not knowing what one was at the time, at least not for home use. I played on an Atari, too, but only when my brothers weren't hogging it, first. Mom let me see PG movies, but didn't know that after she dropped us off, we'd buy our tickets for one movie, then go into the other.
Good times, yep.
Good times, yep.
You mean the Atari 2600
I fully blame this device for me still playing video games every chance I get.
Oh yeah, and when those state-of-the-art Activision titles came out for the previously proprietary Atari-only titles... man... Pitfall!
That's the one. I was a master at Asteroids and the alien invader one.You mean the Atari 2600
Pitfall!!! I played the hell outta that one.Not really the subject of the tread but ok.
The one I remember the most is this one:
Not going very vintage or classic on this one, but Saved by the Bell after school, Tales from the Crypt on on either Friday or Saturday night! My mom let me watch pretty much whatever when I was growing up, so the t&a on HBO was always a hit with my friends lol!
wow, great thread.
I have so many favorites
twilight zone,
addams family
kimba the white lion
astro boy
superman ( max fleicsher)
alfred hitchcock show
outer limits
lil rascals
I love lucy
gigantor
night gallery
one step beyond
star trek
science fiction theater
thriller (boris karloff)
the night stalker
looney tunes
merrie mellodies
silly symphonies......
Im sure ive forgotten many many more,
I have so many favorites
twilight zone,
addams family
kimba the white lion
astro boy
superman ( max fleicsher)
alfred hitchcock show
outer limits
lil rascals
I love lucy
gigantor
night gallery
one step beyond
star trek
science fiction theater
thriller (boris karloff)
the night stalker
looney tunes
merrie mellodies
silly symphonies......
Im sure ive forgotten many many more,