AZGman wrote:BORK BORK BORK!!!

So did AZ not watch any shows as he was growing up, or is he too embarrassed to say?

kenney9226 wrote:HA! I just borrowed the Muppet Show Season 1 from the library, and one of my daughters watched it with me but remained perfectly silent and still, and only afterwards did she say anything, and it was "Dad, that kind of freaked me out!"

I thought she was diggin' it, but I was scarring her emotions!

Oooh. I might have to check our local library to see if they have it.

cruzer wrote:So did AZ not watch any shows as he was growing up, or is he too embarrassed to say?

No, silly. AZ grew up before they had invented the TV. You'll have to ask about his favorite radio shows.

krapposelli wrote:Oooh. I might have to check our local library to see if they have it.

I watched the muppets, not as much as my husband, but we watched them. However, I can not watch the Dark Crystal. The main character muppets freak me out, we have it on VHS, but Orc has to watch it when I am not around, just can't do it.

cruzer wrote:So did AZ not watch any shows as he was growing up, or is he too embarrassed to say?

Most of the stuff I watched has already been mentioned . . .

krapposelli wrote:No, silly. AZ grew up before they had invented the TV. You'll have to ask about his favorite radio shows.

as one AZGman would say: *snerk*

AZGman wrote:Most of the stuff I watched has already been mentioned . . .

fair enough.

But a few others come to mind . . .

The Avengers
The Saint
Banacek
Mod Squad
Mannix
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Hazel
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
Wonderful World of Disney
Kids Say the Darndest Things (Art Linkletter)
Candid Camera (Alan Funt)
Have Gun, Will Travel
High Chaparrel
Adam-12
Get Smart
Family Affair
Leave it to Beaver
My Three Sons
Lost in Space

funny that no one has mentioned MASH. I think we sort of skipped some shows in the middle. I was talking to a friend about this, and no one has mentioned any of the shows we watched growing up. lol

edit: *bleep*ing filters

Sky King
The Lone Ranger
Rin Tin Tin
Lassie
Combat
The Rifleman
Perry Mason
Magnum P.I.
The Carol Burnett Show
Sonny and Cher
The Andy Griffith Show
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
M*A*S*H
The Ed Sillivan Show
Red Skelton
Room 222
Julia
The Bill Cosby Show (original)
Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
McCloud
The Virginian

Big Valley
The Incredible Hulk
Courtship of Eddie's Father
Love Boat
Love American Style
The Flying Nun

Space: 1999
Maverick
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman
Barnaby Jones
Ironside

Solid Gold
Cheers (Norm!)
Flinstones
I Love Lucy
beautiful tulip Van Dyke

AZGman wrote:
The Andy Griffith Show

*whistling*

Dammit! Now I have that stuck in my head.

Hawaii Five-O
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Dennia the Menace
Mission Impossible
Bewitched
MacGyver
Beverly Hillbillies
Mr. Ed
My Mother, the Car
Highway Patrol
Route 66
I Dream of Jeannie

Taxi
Seinfeld
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley

Did ya get Green Acres yet?

Fugitive
Hogan's Heroes
Ozzie and Harriet

All in the Family
Voyage to the Bottom Of the Sea

krapposelli wrote:Did ya get Green Acres yet?

Petticoat Junction

Hee Haw

AZGman wrote:Hee Haw

Lawrence Welk - NOT! Husband was talking about how his father would inisit on watching this every weekend and would play nothing but polka music as they drove up for the weekly visits to his Aunts and Uncles. Sounds like pure torture to me.

Branded
Wagon Train
Death Valley Days
Zorro

Baretta
Honey West
Hardcastle and McCormick
Cannon
Longstreet
Murder, She Wrote
Burke's Law
The FBI
The Rockford Files

Battlerstar Galactica
Barney Miller
McHale's Navy
The Munsters
The Real McCoys

Here Come the Brides
Chico and the Man
Welcome Back Kotter
Alias Smith and Jones
Grizzly Adams
Emergency
Sea Hunt
Flipper

is it bad that I haven't heard of about a quarter of these and haven't seen hardly any of them?

cruzer wrote:is it bad that I haven't heard of about a quarter of these and haven't seen hardly any of them?

No; the majority of them are older than you.

The Invaders
The Man from Atlantis
Max Headroom

cruzer wrote:is it bad that I haven't heard of about a quarter of these and haven't seen hardly any of them?

No, it just means that you're a young'in.

I've heard of most, and have seen more than half. Most were in re-runs, but that still counts, right? Heck, I even remember TVs before remotes and having to turn the dials to get the tv station. What was it called, UHF channels?

Fantasy Island

AZGman wrote:No; the majority of them are older than you.

well...that's good, I guess...

cruzer wrote:is it bad that I haven't heard of about a quarter of these and haven't seen hardly any of them?

No. I'm confused by more than half of them.

krapposelli wrote:No, it just means that you're a young'in.

I've heard of most, and have seen more than half. Most were in re-runs, but that still counts, right? Heck, I even remember TVs before remotes and having to turn the dials to get the tv station. What was it called, UHF channels?

Hey now! you're not that much older than I am. What are dials?

Seriously though, my new TV's have one button on the front of them: a power button.

Gumiho wrote:No. I'm confused by more than half of them.

A lot of them were made into movies.

cruzer wrote:A lot of them were made into movies.

Those are the one's whose titles I recognize. I've got a bad enough memory for my own childhood pop culture; these are all beyond me.

cruzer wrote:Hey now! you're not that much older than I am. What are dials?

Seriously though, my new TV's have one button on the front of them: a power button.

I've got at least 10 years on you. And I know you're just yankin' my chain about the dials, but I was trying to find a picture of what I remember the TV to be like so I could figure out what the UHF channel thingie was called. This is as close to it as I could find. First you had to turn the tv on, then wait for it to warm up. Then you had to spin the top dial to the UHF setting and then spin the bottom one to the right channel. There weren't many channels to choose from though...

I also remember when we first got cable, we still had to get up and switch the cable box from the A side to the B side to see the other channels.

krapposelli wrote:I've got at least 10 years on you. And I know you're just yankin' my chain about the dials, but I was trying to find a picture of what I remember the TV to be like so I could figure out what the UHF channel thingie was called. This is as close to it as I could find. First you had to turn the tv on, then wait for it to warm up. Then you had to spin the top dial to the UHF setting and then spin the bottom one to the right channel. There weren't many channels to choose from though...

I also remember when we first got cable, we still had to get up and switch the cable box from the A side to the B side to see the other channels.

10 years is a lot closer than most other people here.

It has been a long time since I played with a tv that had dials on it. Had to have been at my grandfather's house. My dad gave him a 52" projection TV not too long ago. It is now at my grandmother's house. Anyway, not even her TV's have dials on it anymore.

cruzer wrote:A lot of them were made into movies.

I don't think anyone mentioned Miami Vice, I had such a crush on Don Johnson,
and I was impressed that he wore shoes and no socks, guess it didn't take much to turn me on.

Raining wrote:I don't think anyone mentioned Miami Vice, I had such a crush on Don Johnson in Jr Hi
and I was impressed that he wore shoes and no socks, guess it didn't take much to turn me on.

I liked his no sock thing too. Those pastel shirts, white pants, blazers and sandals were just waaaaay too cool.