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Best TV Show Growing Up

greatgig13

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Since we have no sports to talk about, what was your favorite TV show growing up? Mine, Six Million Dollar Man. The Steve Austin/Sasquatch battles were epic.
 
The 80’s - early 90’s:

Growing Pains
Family Ties
Married with Children
Alf
Cheers
Wonder Years
Who’s the Boss
Different Strokes
Full House
Perfect Strangers (favorite theme song)
 
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Hearing some of these is telling of age. I can’t wait to hear Leave it to Beaver or Beverly Hillbillies LOL. I think of Starsky and Hutch, Three’s Company, Chips, Emergency.
 
Emergency was my all time favorite but I also loved when they had WWF Saturday Night Main Event.
 
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Saved by the Bell
Step by Step
Married With Children
Wonder Years
Alf
Cheers
Growing Pains
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
 
As a kid in the 60s
The Flintstones
Batman
Gilligan's Island
Time Tunnel
The Twilight Zone

In the 70s
Happy Days
Barney Miller
Sanford and Son
The Jeffersons
The Funny Men (Saturday morning showings of The Three Stooges on WGN)

By the way, great idea and great thread.
 
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In no particular order:

* Married With Children
* A Team
* Dukes of Hazzard
* Night Court
* Magnum P.I.

I'm feeling a bracket coming on here...
 
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Wow these are some great ones. If I may add........

Welcome Back Kotter
All in the Family
LA Law
Married with Children
Jag
MASH
 
As a kid in the 60s
The Flintstones
Batman
Gilligan's Island
Time Tunnel

In the 70s
Happy Days
Barney Miller
Sanford and Son
The Funny Men (Saturday morning showings of The Three Stooges on WGN)

By the way, great idea and great thread.
Time Tunnel? Never heard of that one. Did it last long?
 
Depends on what age I was.

As a small child I watched the old syndicated shows: I Love Lucy, Gilligan's Island, Lost In Space, Brady Bunch, The Monkeys, The Munsters, Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, Bionic Man, Cosby

As a teen: Fresh Prince of Bel Aire, Martin (not much TV watching)

As an adult: Entourage, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Shameless, Ray Donovan, Hart of Dixie (sue me), Schitts Creek, The Carmichael Show
 
Cheers was my favorite show. Family Ties was right before it and Night Court right after, all great shows on Thursday night

Hill Street Blues made me want to be a Cop.

All in the Family is funnier watching it now then back when it aired because then the stuff said wasn’t as shocking as it is now....if that show and The Jefferson’s aired now people would have a heart attack, but then it was no big deal!
 
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Happy Days
Honeymooners
This Week In Baseball
Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell
Candid Camera
Watching Westerns my dad had on.
Notre Dame football (under Ara Parseghian) - I guess not a tv show but a family tradition to watch all those games.
 
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Original, first-run episodes of "The Fugitive," in black-and-white, of course.
Lastly, I will offer 3 crime dramas from the 70s, then retreat back into my "boomer" hole: "Rockford Files," "Kojak" and "Mannix."
 
Happy Days
Honeymooners
This Week In Baseball
Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell
Candid Camera
Watching Westerns my dad had on.
Notre Dame football (under Ara Parseghian) - I guess not a tv show but a family tradition to watch all those games.
Loved This Week in Baseball.
 
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MASH
Hill Street Blues
WKRP in Cincinnati
Magnum PI
Married With Children
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Miami Vice (early seasons, ran out of stories fast)
 
Loved "This Week In Baseball" or TWIB with the "TWIB Notes," as they called it with Mel Allen. "How 'bout that?"
 
As a kid in the 70's

1) Black Sheep squadron
2) 6 Million Dollar Man
3) Emergency
4) Adam 12
 
Hawaii Five O
All in the Family
The Jefferson’s
Taxi
Seinfeld

Mash
The Odd Couple
Mod Squad
Streets of San Francisco
Colombo
McCloud
Sonny & Cher
Be Witched
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
The Partridge Family
Two and half men
Boy their was some great shows back in the day.
 
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Superfriends
Scooby Doo
Fat Albert
Woody Woodpecker
Magilla Gorilla
Banana Splits
 
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