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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Dec 21 2006 : 12:09:56 PM
Nancy brought up the mention of a christmas tv show or movie .. and for the life of me .. i can't figger it out. someone else mentioned: "I Remember Mama" .. which kicked in my 'nostalgia' .. sooo .. i researched a little about it ... t'would be fun to list some interesting facts (just google them) for YOUR favorite childhood TV shows!
I would have to put I Remember Mama right up there near (if not at the tippy-top) of my favs!
True Friends, Frannie
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| country lawyer |
Posted - Jan 04 2007 : 2:15:38 PM
Okay, Kathy, here goes, confession time! David Cassidy came to concert here several years ago! I didn't debate the issue at all! I bought a ticket for me and one for my husband. I had so much fun at the concert. He sang all the old Partridge Family songs that I grew up with and knew every word to. It was a blast. And, the tickets were not expensive. He was at a kinda "off" venue. My husband still laughs about the evening. I really should have taken a girlfriend who could appreciate the whole David Cassidy craze. You will have so much fun at the concert if you go. It was really pretty funny...middle aged gals, acting like we're 15 again. I even bought a t-shirt!
"The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time."
James Taylor
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| EnchantedWoodsGirl |
Posted - Jan 04 2007 : 2:01:41 PM
David Cassidy is coming to concert in NJ in Feb and I am debating if I want to go - I love the song - I Think I Love You and would really love to see him in person, I wonder how much tickets will be??? Hehehe, I liked my comment, I dislike reality - what a Freudian slip that was when I really meant reality TV.
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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| country lawyer |
Posted - Jan 04 2007 : 1:25:32 PM
Gotta go with the Partridge Family. David Cassidy was definitely my first love. In fact, I think I still love him...
"The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time."
James Taylor
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| EnchantedWoodsGirl |
Posted - Jan 04 2007 : 12:09:49 PM
Ahh, the mini series - Rich Man Poor Man - was risque for the time....gosh what good shows there used to be on TV - I don't watch much now- I really dislike reality.
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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| shmeg |
Posted - Jan 04 2007 : 11:49:33 AM
My sister and I loved "Here comes the brides" Jeremy Bolt was my favorite bolt brother. I still watch Little House on the Prairie, it is one of the only shows I feel good letting my kids watch! As for mini-series, some of my favorites were The thorn birds, North and South, and V. LOved The Brady Bunch and as I got older I loved Wonder Years, the young Riders, and Northern exposure. (ok, that list one was a lot older)
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| EnchantedWoodsGirl |
Posted - Jan 04 2007 : 11:46:56 AM
Yes, That Girl was a mod show and I think Marlo Thomas is beautiful. Here Come the Brides - hunky Bobby Sherman and wasn't David Soul in that show also. Does anyone remember when Gary Busey played in a show called The Texas Wheelers? And remember Family with Kristy McNichol and Meredith Baxter Birney? That was one of my very favorites. And The Wonder Years still makes me nostalgic and has been known to make me cry. I loved Kevin Arnold and my one mini horse is called Winnie after Winnie Cooper LOL
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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| owwlady |
Posted - Jan 04 2007 : 08:41:26 AM
My very favorite show was "The Mickey Mouse Club". I would sit in front of the tv with my mouse ears on a watch it faithfully. Still remember some of the songs. Those mouse ears would bring some money in now if I still had them. The other favorite was "Superman" on every Sat. I waited all week for that. |
| bramble |
Posted - Jan 03 2007 : 9:48:05 PM
I can remember begging (yes begging!) to stay up at 8:00pm to watch That Girl! I just saw a That Girl marathon recently and wondered what on earth made my Mom wonder if it was appropriate! I loved her clothes, independence, adventure and tiny apartment! She made me think anything was possible! Very Groovy for the 1960's!
I also loved the Waltons but it was on when I worked so I never saw all the episodes until years later in rerun.
Anyone remember "Here Comes The Brides"?! Now I am really showing my age!And remember mini-series? They made tv watching an event! James Michener's Centennial, Shogun, Lonesome Dove, Roots, and a bunch of others I can't remember. That was when everyone watched tv together and didn't hide in their rooms with their own tvs. We still do that and my son moans loudly but it teaches compromise, togetherness and
maybe you watch something you wouldn't have and actually learn something! He has a tv for video games not hooked up to cable and he has stopped asking when it will be!
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| Sweet Harvest Homestead |
Posted - Jan 03 2007 : 9:02:30 PM
Okay the late 70's is about the time that I started watching TV.
Saturday mornings.... Land of the Lost, Jelly Bean Junction, Speed Buggy.
We also sat down on Friday Nights and watched The Incredible Hulk, Dukes of Hazard and Dallas (my brother and I had to go to bed when that one came on)
I remember as a teenager watching Mama's Family, the Cosby Show, Family Ties, The Wonder Years and Life Goes On.
I don't think that there are ANY new TV shows out there that a family can sit and watch together. We watched all of these and never cringed. Now, all that we watch is The Andy Griffith Show and then we shut it off. I tell my children that too much t.v. causes brain rot. LOL!
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| EnchantedWoodsGirl |
Posted - Jan 03 2007 : 7:07:44 PM
Gosh but we are all showing our age hehehe - Gilligan's Island, when I grew up I wanted to be Ginger Grant (I really ended up being Ellie Mae) and spent most of my childhood longing for red hair or a red wig. Of course, Bewitched, Partridge Family, The Brady Bunch, Courtship of Eddie's Father, Nanny and the Professor, Leave it to Beaver (still makes me laugh) The Waltons, Happpy Days, Laverne and Shirley - OMG, That Girl, Patty Duke Show, Mary Tyler Moore........Starsky and Hutch - which one did you love the most, OMG, Baretta - I loved Robert Blake
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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| Ronna |
Posted - Dec 29 2006 : 9:30:32 PM
Jonni,
My former sister in law was married to Rusty Hamer, the red head kid on Make Room for Daddy. He was her first husband and I never knew the reason they divorced. They didn't have any kids but had capucin (Sp?) monkeys that destroyed everything in sight. He ended up in the south, want to say Arkansas, not sure and committed suicide in the early 80's by shotgun blast to the head. She was a stunt woman, quite successful over the years, as was my former father in law and SIL's last husband. That's another whole subject from my ''former life'' :)
Ronna |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Dec 29 2006 : 9:14:43 PM
Oh Luzy...I still love Westerns too..especially Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot..they are the best cowboys doncha think??
My aunts all called ME Ellie Mae..how funny..we are for sure separated at birth!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
| Libbie |
Posted - Dec 29 2006 : 9:12:29 PM
I grew up a huge Mister Rogers fan (I still am, actually!). He was such a genuinely nice man...
XOXO, Libbie
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe |
| Luzy |
Posted - Dec 29 2006 : 7:20:52 PM
This is so funny Jenny! We have the same favorites...are you SURE we aren't related?? I always ran home from school to watch Dark Shadows at 3:00. I had a BIG crush on Quentin! Angelique just creeped me out!! My Dad would always pop a big pan of popcorn and we'd have pepsi from glass bottles and watch Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel. I still love westerns...especially Tom Selleck!!!!! I watched I Love Lucy daily, but also loved The Real McCoys, Hazel, Beverly Hillbillies( I thought I was Ellie May). I'm sure there's more but that's all I can remember for now.
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May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am. |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Dec 29 2006 : 6:49:46 PM
Oh I loved Hazel too!! And I actually met Red Skelton once..in Palm Springs on a field trip with Camp Fire Girls. Besides Patridge family and Brady Bunch I also LOVED The show with Bobby Sherman "Here come the Brides". That was a good one too!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
| Phils Ann |
Posted - Dec 29 2006 : 2:17:26 PM
I remember loving The Lone Ranger and Zorro!!! Men in masks. My brother and I would turn the tv on very quietly early mornings, which had to have been Saturdays, sit on the floor and watch. Captain Kangaroo was big, too, with Mr. Greenjeans... and Popeye! I nicknamed my current dog "Sweet Pea" after his baby.
Lassie and Walt Disney were my favorite evening shows in the early years, then when bedtimes weren't so early, Gunsmoke and Bonanza. I'm guessing I could spend a lot of time adding to this!
Ann
There is a Redeemer. |
| abbasgurl |
Posted - Dec 29 2006 : 1:37:53 PM
I had to jump in here when I read that Aunt Jenny & Karin were "Dark Shadows" fans! I so loved to be scared & looked forward to the show each afternoon. It ran for a long time but I think I came in late-around the time of Rachel Collins. Barnabas was on his fouth life or so by then. You can buy the episodes on DVD now... sure would like to splurge on those!
We never missed "The Brady Bunch" and "The Partridge Family", watched with the neighborhood girls every Friday night.
A few people mentioned Red Skelton. He was a second cousin to my Grandmother, so he as a big deal with my Mom.  I also remember being very young & watching "Hazel" and "Ben Casey" with my Mom, her two favorite shows.
How funny to think of all those old shows!
Here's a link to a silly game a friend sent me. I think you'll get a kick out of it. He's good, I have only beat it once!
http://www.smalltime.com/dictator.html
Rhonda
I'm a one girl revolution. |
| Beemoosie |
Posted - Dec 29 2006 : 12:53:49 PM
Boy, the Great Space Coaster sounds so familiar, I just can't picture it! Do you all remember the Electic company?
O, Come let us adore HIM! www.beequilting.blogspot.com |
| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Dec 29 2006 : 08:03:46 AM
Let's see.. when I was little it was Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and The Great Space Coaster. When I was home alot in the afternoon after school, there were reruns of Make Room for Daddy, with Danny Thomas and I LOVED him--my mom told me that the little girl who played his daughter died of a drug overdose and the boy was an alcoholic wash up  or vice versa...Thanks Mom!!! I Love Lucy was on after Make Room for Daddy, then Happy Days. Wow, it sure seems like I was in front of the tv alot!
Always watched MASH with daddy in the evenings (crazy in love with Hawkeye!!!), and ALL of the National Geographic shows and Nova we could get his hands on.
Just think of all of the roads there are...all of the things I haven't seen....yet. |
| KellyA |
Posted - Dec 29 2006 : 07:42:07 AM
Hey, I think I am in Beemoosie's neck of the woods, age wise...and I can't remember a darn thing! Reading the posts, I was reminded of watching MASH with my dad, the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman every week with pizza, and Johnny Quest on Saturdays. I also liked Zoom on PBS!
When a cookbook is in hand, life is good! |
| Nicie |
Posted - Dec 29 2006 : 06:48:10 AM
Sunday night was the only night we were able to eat in the living room watching Disney.
Denise
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| dargaonfly1054 |
Posted - Dec 29 2006 : 04:41:56 AM
OH, I just remembered, it wasn't Bonanza that I could smell the popcorn it was Perry Mason!! with Raymon Burr!!!! (I was just rereading what I wrote and it came to me) ha, ha
"There is a voice that doesn't use words........Listen." |
| dargaonfly1054 |
Posted - Dec 29 2006 : 04:39:32 AM
Oh how I remember the Sunday evening watching Disney World!! Loved it. I've been sitting here reading all you've written and began thinking of programs my dad liked! He loved Red Skelton so I watched it too......also the Dean Martin show. To think he would stand there with a cigarette and a drink in his hand!! Wow, how bad is that???? How about the Friendly Giant with his cute little chairs he would put out!! Oh, the Twilight Zone, I never missed that!! When I had my kids we would see reruns of Bonanza and every time I would hear the theme song I could swear I smelled popcorn because my mother ALWAYS fixed popcorn when we watched Bonanza!! Can you all remember seeing the Beatles for the first time on Ed Sullivan? Ahh, memories. .....OH, Carol Burnett!!! I loved her show!
"There is a voice that doesn't use words........Listen." |
| Annab |
Posted - Dec 29 2006 : 03:48:39 AM
I too grew up w/ Sesame Street and The Muppet Show
Lone Ranger was still playing here and there, The Munsters The Monkees We'd all get together at a friend's house and watch every afternoon
For cartoons....you can't beat a classic Tom and Jerry They just don't make 'em likie they used to! Scooby and The Flintstones will alwyas be favorites too
for Friday and Staurday nights, it was the Donnie and Marie show and those Solid Gold dancers and yes, sometimes Hee Haw
Growing up we never did have cable t.v. My brother and I couldn't believe it when our parents finally broke down and oredered cable serivice LAST YEAR! Dad claims it's for his business/computer stuff Gues when you are 60ish you can have whatever you want! |
| momto6 |
Posted - Dec 28 2006 : 7:29:59 PM
I forgot about a show. It definitely isn't old, but the post about the Cheers song reminded me. We always watch Friends, no matter how many how many times we've seen the dumb things. The show was very popular the year I was pregnant with my 8 year old; we would all sit and sing the song together. When he was born, the song always quieted him down; he knew how to sing it from the time he could put words together!!!
Val |
