Along with Get Smart, Dragnet, Mission Impossible, I Spy, Man from U.N.C.L.E. Beverly Hillbillies, Twilight Zone, Mutual of Omhas Wild Kingdom.
And of course I Dream of Genie and Bewitched.

 

I also dreamed of Jeannie and Elizabeth Montgomery!

 

Between Grit TV, ME TV, and ANTENNA TV i watch gun smoke, The Rifleman, Have Gun Will travel , Perry Mason, mash, Johnny Carson every week/day and gameshow network shows the price is right which I don’t watch.
I find them just as entertaining as they were when I was little back in the 70’s.

 

And I remember going to my uncles house to see Bonanza the first night it was ever shown in color ... one of, if not the first. I still remember that round sided picture tube.

We went to my older brothers house for it. The Wonderful World Of Disney was on before it and went color at the same time I think.

 

Every one of them, plus the others mentioned!

 

The real irony here is that I’m sure most of us still watch those shows “notice how we call them shows not sitcoms” on a daily basis with what would be considered super high tech viewing devices in super high rich color definition and we still enjoy low tech low resolution B&W shows with great enjoyment.

 

The greatest photographs I have ever seen, are in black and White. Color would ruin them!

 

Jeez, these shows go back to the day when the TV was a giant console and I was the remote control. "Son, it's almost time for the hockey game to start... go change the channel. Make sure that the antenna is facing toward Boston."

 

Did you have to go outside and turn the pole on the roof, or just the Rabbit Ears. I had to turn ours towards Pensacola to pick up channel 3. Dad would yell out the kitchen window when I had it right. Didn't matter if a thunder storm was brewing or not. I guess he figured he made me, he could make another.

 

Before my time but familiar with all them because they were quality shows and still on the air.

 

Yep, all of them. Some were on radio. I love old radio shows.

 

I remember my Dad coming home with a new TV set. He made a big fuss over it stating that it didn't have tubes and we didn't have to wait for it to warm up before getting a picture ! He was right, of course.....I timed it and the picture came up in only 7 seconds. Pretty high tech stuff right there !!
I've seen all the shows listed, but am not sure if I remember them from very early reruns or original programming. I do remember watching the Jackie Gleason show (not the Honeymooners) and sitcoms such as Gilligan's Island, Andy Griffith, etc.

 

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I remember watching the first Super Bowl in my bedroom, on a 13" B&W tv. I had a big 32oz glass bottle of Dr. Pepper and big bag of the new Taco Doritos (what they were called when they first came out and it was the only flavor.)

Yeah, we had color tv by then but I was the only one who wanted to watch that new big football game so I watched it in my room. I have watched every Super Bowl since ... never missed one.

I haven't watched my first one yet or any game for that matter. Takes up a lot of outdoor time over the years, I would think.

My worst fear in this world is of being in a nursing home with no way to communicate and a nurse walks in and turns a football game on!

 

i remember watching some of them, but not all, and i was probably watching reruns in the 70s.
one reason we were well behaved is that many of those shows had lessons in them.

 

one reason we were well behaved is that many of those shows had lessons in them.

Very true, We learned morality and accountability for our actions.
But unfortunately on the flip side of that coin it has made making and maintaining long term and meaningful relationships in todays society near impossible.
Too many people have no moral compass. No code of ethics. The general coconscious is it is only wrong if you get caught.
Bring back when people thought like the Cleavers, or the people in Mayberry.

 

I still dream of "Genie"

 

You're correct ""Genie" is the term applied to that magical being in the bottle, but the "show" was "Jeannie" Hmmm, something female going on there.

 

They were all happy in Mayberry because no one was married except for Otis and he was always drunk.

 

I was probably 8 or 9 before we had a TV (a 17" Zenith console as I recall with round sides and squared off at the top and bottom -- a round CRT that didn't look round). I used to come home from school, turn on the radio and listen to Sgt. Preston of The Yukon (and his dog King), Straight Arrow, and similar. I remember it was s big deal when there was a small plastic replica of the new nuclear ubiquitous, Nautilus, a box of Shredded Wheat, I think. It had a clear plastic open bubble on the bottom. You packed it with baking soda, put it in the water, it would sink, then as the baking powder got wet and generated a bubble of CO2 it would rise to the surface, tip over releasing the bubble and sink again. So neat and FREE!

Doug

 

You mean this?

 

Wow!! What a blast from past! Haven't thought of these in a long, long time. I used to play with both in the bathtub. Our toys were simple and required some imagination.

 

Anybody else grow up with two tvs in the living room? One on top had no picture but the sound worked. The larger one on bottom had picture but no sound. Use them together and you've got a perfectly good setup. Haha

 

Yep, me too.

 

Red Skelton was one of my favorites. Don't forget this one...

 

Clint walker seemed to be a good sort. We liked him, but we all knew he was the worst actor to hit the Westerns!

 

That Nautilus is a different version than the one I remember. And I missed the PT-109. I was in college by then.

Doug

 

Ah, yes, Clint Walker. Big and soft-spoken.

Doug

 

Was a big fan of Combat and Rat Patrol as a kid.

 

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Our first one came with three remotes…….I was one of em.

 

Why shows and not sitcoms? I think it has to do with money. The shows we watched, though often shot on sound studios, were also, filmed in natural settings.

Then the networks decided that what we really wanted to watch was situation comedies set in either New York or Las Angeles and every bit of it was recorded in a sound studio. The very necessary laugh tracks were added because we needed to be reminded when it was funny and we were supposed to laugh. (The claim was to simulate being recorded in front of a live audience. But it wasn’t.)

that’s when I really started to get really tired of tv. I don’t care beans about New York or las angeles. (Or for that matter any inner city). I was a country boy and appreciated the bayou and swamps near my home. (back then, the bayou our family had a home on was still fairly wild In places.).

So, money and the worship of the big inner city, killed the mini films we thought of as television and showered us with simple programs designed for simple minds.

(Mash was the exception, one has little to wonder why it was so popular)

 

Heck I still watch alot of those. Pretty much all new TV is all trash. Nothing but bad insult humor, vulgarity, special effects of stuff that is not possible, and on and on..There are a couple new shows I like..Tims Tool Time, and Last Man standing are pretty good watching.

 

1950’s????…..B&W Tarzan, Sky King, Roy Rogers, Paladin, Twilight Zone, Amos and Andy, A Hitchcock, Jacki Gleason, Lucy, baseball, Walt Disney on Sunday night….some of you spent your Saturday night's watching Lawrence Welk…

 

I remember our first TV, black and white, and it was Kerosene powered.