TV Shows that rotted your brain
 

Give us the TV shows you watched when you were a kid. I really did a TFP search this time, and I didn't find this thread anywhere.

My god, you are old!

I'll list just ten of them as there're way too many.

Batman
Flipper
The Brady Bunch
The Lone Ranger
The Rifleman
Rawhide
High Chaparral
Green Acres
The Jeffersons
The Bugaloos

"Green Acres" really was a time waster!!! Yikes it was BAD.

But even worse was "Gilligans Island!"

(I was very young when I watched these, but forgive me, cuz I was a latchkey kid.)

Get off my lawn.


More...

Love American Style

Branded

Does anybody old like me remember a LOST-style show in the very late 60's that featured a bunch of young people crashed on a deserted island? I remember it came on right after a musical-type show with David Steinberg, but I can't find the names of either show.

We only had a satellite dish and an antenna when I was very young, so until I was 6 or so, my television watching was pretty limited. However, there was one show we watched no matter what...

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NOT ANIMANIACS!

I don't remember this show as I was born in '71, but it sounds like a cool premise.

Is this it, Warrrr?
I found this on Google... Television Obscurities: The New People
Google_young+stranded+60s+tv+show

My favorite shows as a kid were:



That's the normal one.







I'm 23...

I was an odd kid.

That's it!!! That's it!!!! Wow, thanks. I looked at that site and immediately recognized the mannequins. The college students who crashed on the island discovered towns and roads that were completely deserted except for mannequins everywhere instead of people. It was a big mystery until they finally figured out it was an abandoned military testing facility.

Wow, I remember it being incredibly creepy and cool.

I was a kid in the 80s.

The Smurfs
Thundercats
Ducktales
Fraggle Rock
MacGyver
Charles in Charge
Cheers
The Cosby Show
Knight Rider
The Wonder Years
Small Wonder
Who's the Boss?

There are lots more...

mcgyver
A Team
6 million dollar man

ahhh... so it wasn't Gilligan's Island then....

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Here's my offering:

I was just about to suggest HR PuffnStuff!

:thumbsup: If there's one thing that Witchy-poo taught me, it was to be quick on your feet!


I just remembered one that maybe only you, Lucifer, & maybe Charlatan would be able to recall:

TFP, I give you none other than Rocket Robin Hood.

Also that there ain't no rhyme for oranges. Who said?!

LMFAO. I'm getting flashbacks. Somehow it I think that Rita (the Power Ranger Rita that is) was channelling Witchy-Poo.


Now:

Every Saturday Night, during HNIC (Hockey Night in Canada) we would get a segment called Peter Puck. Here's the 1974 inaugural edition:



Recently it has been updated. Here is the 2009 edition:

I love Rocket Robin Hood.

It was produced by the same company that did Spider-Man


I also liked watching this:

The power of Mighty ISIS

Shazam!

Wonder Bug!

Electra Woman and Dyna Girl!

Dr. Shrinker!

I remember Wonderbug, the guy on that show was like the anti-McGyver!

"i can get us out of this mess - all I need is a dozen donuts, a pound of spam and the Albanian Roller Derby team!"



here's Patrick Duffy before he became Bobby Ewing (who?):




How could we've forgotten this classic sci-fi show:


plus this oldie I remember from saturday mornings:

Buck Rogers...

mmmm Erin Grey

Jonny Quest



Bugs Bunny Show

Best line ever - "Ah, New York in springtime, when the dingbats are in full bloom:






My parent's have never let my sister and I forget that they often missed this show (below), cause we were watching that show (above):






Special Mention for Canadians:

The Starlost! when I saw Charlatan's Ark II submission I immediately thought of Starlost. so campy, who were the characters? Garth? Devon? the girl? Can't remember. But I thought that the ship's name was the Ark.

Harlan Ellison had some input to the show

The girl was Rachel played by Gay Rowan (I had such a crush on her!) and Devon was played by Keir Dullea (fresh from playing the lead in 2001), and Garth was played by Robin Ward, who went on to host the game show "Guess What?"

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/starlostf/lost8.jpg


here's some classic cartoons I remember:








Does anyone remember a British sci-fi show about a group of people who could teleport with some device in their belt buckles? I can remember this one scene where one of them is sitting on a bridge and some police yell at him, so he jumps off, and half-way to the water he teleports.

I can vaguely remember another British show about a family that lives in a restored workhouse and the ghost of one of the workhouse boys is friends with the children.

Wild, Wild West


Which was always followed by The Avengers.

There's three sad souls,
Oh me oh my
no brain, no heart, he's much to shy,
but never mind you three
here's the wizard as you can see
he'll fix that one, two, three
In the funny place
called the World of Oz...


How many hours did I spend watching that show (what was it on Cartoon Playhouse on CTV?) ???? wow. what a blast.

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along with my mother's Herb Alpert's record album cover :

http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/u.../whipped-2.jpg

Shapped my perpective on the type of women I preferred. This is my theory and demonstrates the power of pop culture...

With the wonderful world of OZ was always paired The New Adventures of Pinocchio.

DO ANYTHING I TRY!
YouTube - The New Adventures of Pinocchio - Duck Luck

And Jeremy! (Check out the old TVO channel slate at the top of this clip)

On Nickelodeon in the 80's, I watched Canadian exports of "You Can't Do That On Television", "The Edison Twins", "Degrassi Junior High" and "Degrassi High".

This show was terrible but awesome in its badness...



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I can't find video for it but Rocketship 7 was what great local TV was all about

Rocketship 7 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1365/...dd8f54e9b6.jpg


The Commander Tom Show - another kids show

The Friendly Giant

Mr. Dressup
"Keep your cayons sharp, your sticky tape untagled and always put the caps back on your markers" - Good Advice from the man himself.

Obviously, I rotted my brain on The Beatles (although this was a very short-lived cartoon):


The Jetsons (good quality jazz)

THE MOD SQUAD!!!!

Well, you can't mention the Beatles without:

Beanie & Cecil (1950s)
Mickey Mouse Club
Oscar Levent Show
Sky King
Lassie
Rin Tin Tin
Have Gun Will Travel
Rifleman
Disneyland
Bonanza
Rocky & His Friends
Fractured Flickers
etc.