What's your favorite TV shows from the 1960's?

[Archae]

This "Me TV" channel plays a lot of them.

For me...

Star Trek (duh)

The Untouchables

Twilight Zone

The Outer Limits

Maybe more but I can't think of any others at the moment.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Andy Griffith, hands down, game over.

That's my one and only favorite ever teevee show.

[Archae]

2. Oh yeah. I didn't like Don Knotts though.

Otherwise, stellar cast.

[Frank Cannon]

13. Greatest "sit-com" of all time, hands down.

Even after 50 years, it's still funny as hell today. I occasionally stream it on Netflix when I'm in the mood for good, old-fashioned humor.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. OK - here goes...

Flintstones
Dick Van Dyke show
Jetsons
Outer Limits
Gilligan's Island
Bewitched
Get Smart
Mission Impossible
Carol Burnett show
Sixty Minutes
Rowan and Martin's laugh in
Sesame Street
Dragnet
Ed Sullivan
Leave it to Beaver
Twilight Zone

Here is a good page to peruse!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_years_in_television

[Rhiannon12866]

9. I watched those, too, loved most of them.

I wanted to be Samantha from Bewitched and you forgot Car 54, Where Are You? LOL

This is my favorite site for looking up old TV shows. They have a list for every decade and synopses for every show...

http://www.crazyabouttv.com/decades/1960s.html

[sanatanadharma]

4. Anyone remember Winkie Dink

Route 66
Dobie Gillis (I think it made it to 1960)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Yeah, Route 66 (great theme song!)

as well as Naked City, East Side/West Side, The Defenders, and Ben Casey for drama. (I was a drama buff even as a young teen.)

The Dick Van Dyke show for comedy.

The Twilight Zone and Thriller, just for chills.

[Rowdyboy]

7. Do you remember the intro to "Ben Casey"?

A man in a lab coat drawing on a chalkboard these symbols

Man
Woman
Birth
Death
Infinity

[Rhiannon12866]

8. I do!

My cousin had a kind of white doctor's shirt with all those symbols embroidered on it in blue. Haven't thought about that since I was a kid...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

23. And the original intro theme music to Ben Casey was very cool, too

[femmocrat]

39. I remember Winkie Dink.

Is that the one where we needed the plastic film to write on the TV screen? First interactive TV show!

[sanatanadharma]

47. Yes. I had the vinyl screen overlay...

...and wonder how many TV screens were marked up with crayons.

[Rowdyboy]

6. My partner and I watch "The Wild, Wild West" every day at 3pm on "ME TV"....

We were both teenagers during its first run in the 1960's and found Robert Conrad sexy as hell then as well as now. It blended "Gunsmoke" with James Bond beautifully. Much like "Batman!" (another favorite of the '60's) there were frequent amazing fights and at least one or two escapes from certain doom each episode.

I love to google the supporting actors and actresses of each episode and read their bios. A good mix of bit players, classically trained stage artists and even a few Playboy bunnies.

Honorable mention to "The Addams Family", "The Farmers Daughter:, "The Monkees" and "Branded".....

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. Thriller, Way Out, Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, Alfred Hitchcock Hour,

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The Outer Limits, Star Trek, The Addams Family, The Munsters, The Invaders. Apart from horror and science fiction, I liked the comedy The Hathaways and the western series Law Of The Plainsman.

Of all of them, Way Out was my favorite as a kid. It was like The Twilight Zone on steroids.

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[LWolf]

11. Laugh in.

The Bugs Bunny Show

Star Trek

Here's Lucy

Green Acres

Twilight Zone

The Andy Griffith Show

[CBGLuthier]

12. a lot of the obvious ones but lately have discovered Daniel Boone and Perry Mason

I think I like MeTV a bit too much.

But I am surprised what a well done show Daniel Boone was. Don Pedro Colley played a great character in some of the earlier shows.

As for the obvious ones, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, The Beverly Hillbillies, Dick van Dyke, Bonanza, Gunsmoke.

Getting into The Rifleman more too. That show could be gritty and rough at times.

[Frank Cannon]

14. I love The Rifleman.

That show was a lot more thoughtful and--dare I say--progressive then all of the other Westerns that were on at that time.

[CBGLuthier]

16. Have Gun Will Travel was another intelligent western

The "long" half hour was a good format for westerns. Once the 26 minute half hour started dwindling to the current 20-21 minute half hour it became impossible to do drama in the format. Comedy does not suffer as much from brevity.

[LeftinOH]

15. 'Get Smart'. I still have a crush on 99:

The show was pretty funny, too.

[Rambis]

17. 10 year old daughter watching Dick Van Dyke every night

she loves it- great show!

[raccoon]

18. Bonanza, Gilligan's Island, Addams Family, Munsters, Twilight Zone. nt

[marigold20]

19. The Fugitive

This was appointment tv for me - had to fight with 6 brothers and sisters to get my weekly fix.

[lastlib]

20. The Fugitive

My Favorite Martian
Gilligan's Island
The Time Tunnel
Perry Mason (many pleasant memories of watching that with my grandfather!)
Dick Van Dyke Show

Always liked "The Match Game" and "Password", too.

[HappyMe]

21. Dick Van Dyke, That Girl, Munsters,

Adams Family

edit to add- Gilligan and Match Game

[hifiguy]

49. Oh gads, Marlo Thomas was another TV gal

I had such a crush on. ETA: She looked like Veronica Lodge come to life but without the snootiness.

[Still Blue in PDX]

22. Dick Van Dyke, Thriller, Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock, Bewitched, Addams Family

The Rifleman

Get Smart

The Saturday night monster movies. It may have been Sinister Cinema, but I think it was before that.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

25. Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod

[Still Blue in PDX]

51. That brought back memories!

What a wonderful piece of music. Thanks!

[Systematic Chaos]

24. Star Trek, Bewitched, Twilight Zone, tons of cartoons and other sitcoms.

I remember sitting in the living room in the first house I was raised in until I was 7, and watching all kinds of shows in syndication on WOR and other stations in the New York broadcast area. Things like "blooping the pancakes!!" on Green Acres, the Monkees and the Partridge Family doing their musical numbers every episode, the comedy of errors which was the norm for Bewitched, being way too young to know exactly why I Dream of Jeannie was so...uh...captivating. And the mornings and afternoons both had so many great cartoons from the 60s, as well as the 50s, 40s and even earlier.

Being born in '69 was a good time for it. All that great TV hadn't been shunted off to special cable channels yet, so it was still possible to experience it all retroactively in regular broadcast syndication.

[valerief]

26. Rocky and Bullwinkle. nt

[Art_from_Ark]

27. In no particular order

Cartoons:

The Alvin Show
The Bullwinkle Show
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
The Wacky Races
The Pink Panther Show (w/ The Inspector)
George of the Jungle/Super Chicken/Tom Slick
Tennessee Tuxedo
Bongo Congo/The Hunter
Linus the Lionhearted
The Beatles
The Underdog Show
Inspector Gadget
Magilla Gorilla/Wally Gator
Mr. Magoo
Quickdraw McGraw/Snagglepuss
Yogi Bear
Davy and Goliath
Porky Pig
Jonny Quest
Space Ghost
Top Cat
Beany and Cecil
Clutch Cargo
Milton the Monster
Archie
Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
Scooby Doo
Cartoon Circus
Uncle Zeb's Cartoon Camp

Non-cartoons
Batman
The Avengers
Captain Kangaroo
Mission: Impossible
The Wild, Wild West
The Big Valley
Love, American Style
Nanny and the Professor
Mr. Terrific
Gilligan's Island
I Dream of Jeannie
The Mothers-in-Law
Room 222
Hawaii Five-O
The Partridge Family
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
Branded
Death Valley Days
The Munsters
The Addams Family
The Real McCoys
The Beverly Hillbillies
Petticoat Junction
Green Acres
Hogan's Heroes
It's About Time
Star Trek
The Twilight Zone
Get Smart
Gomer Pyle, USMC
ABC's Wide World of Sports
NBC's Major League Game of the Week

Political Shows:
Meet the Press
Issues and Answers
Face the Nation

Game Shows:
Jeopardy (with Art Fleming)
Eye Guess
Treasure Island
The Who, What or Where Game
Sale of the Century
Let's Make a Deal
The Newlywed Game
The Dating Game

[MuseRider]

28. Fun link

I am having fun looking back.

Is anyone reading the comments? Some of them are rather odd, liberal white media?

Still fun to look at.

My oldest TV memories besides Captain Kangaroo are some of these shows. Pete and Gladys, Car 54 and IMO one of the finest shows ever made, The Andy Griffiths Show.

Lots of fun to look at, thank you.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

30. I still remember that Car 54 episode with comedian Jan Murray

"boom. boom, boom". I thought I'd die laughing when I was a kid, it was so funny. That episode is legendary.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0536356/

[MuseRider]

32. I wish I could remember more about the show

I just remember the call "Car 54 Where Are You" and the two cops, Fred Gwynne and Joe E Ross. I was only 8 and probably not really allowed to watch it often. I did love the character Gunther, not sure why but I did.

If I ever see a place where I can get those episodes I will be certain to watch that one.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

34. Here's a brief clip of that hystericlly funny, legendary episode

In this one, funny man Jan Murray plays himself as the judge of a barbershop quartet contest sung by various dozens of singing groups of New York City government workers. All of them have to sing the same "boom, boom, boom" song which gradually drives Jan Murray out of his mind. Our beloved cops from Car 54, Joe E. Ross and Fred Gwynn (before he was Herman Munster) are joined by Al Lewis (before he was Grandpa Munster). Throughout this episode, Jan Murray tries but fails to escape the sound of "boom, boom, boom", even later retiring to a mental hospital for rest, but the boys pursue him wherever he goes, performing their song outside his window to get an edge in the forthcoming contest.

http://www.car54whereareyou.net/Boomvideo.wmv

[MuseRider]

40. LOL, thanks!

Jan Murray was a lot younger there than when I remember him!

That was funny. Oddly I have to work some auditions this weekend, it will be much like that so I know exactly how he felt.

Thanks

[csziggy]

29. Mission Impossible

Those are the ones I watch at 2 AM even though I am DVRing them.

[nolabear]

33. There were so few shows it seems most of the had some classic characteristics.

But Star Trek, Dark Shadows, American Bandstand, TZ, Alfred Hitchcock, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Prisoner, Andy Griffith (maybe the best of all, I agree), he Wild Wild West, and probably a bunch more. TV kind of saved my life, odd as that sounds.

[spiderpig]

42. Finally some love the The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.

Of course, I agree with most of the above. There were only 3 networks (other than PBS, if you were able to receive it on your rabbit ears), so all us kids watched the same thing.

60s TV still provides constant recollections between Mr. pig & me. We even recall the day and time the shows originally ran.

[nolabear]

46. I was thinking about that. Was the Wild Wild West actually on in the afternoon?

I seem to recall waiting for Sunday afternoon. Am I dreaming this?

[Jetboy]

35. 1. Rawhide

2. Daniel Boone

Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock, Gunsmoke, Combat!, Dick Van Dyke, Hogan's Heroes shoot there were so many great shows. I only watch Me TV, sports and a little PBS. (don't have cable) New shows just don't interest me whatsoever but I can watch 1960s tv shows all day and night.

[RebelOne]

56. Yes, definitely Rawhide.

I lived in California for a year, and my friend's mother was a continuity writer at MGM and got us onto the set of Rawhide where we watched a segment being filmed. I then fell in love with Eric Fleming. But that show was filmed in the '50s and not the '60s.

[Jetboy]

58. Rawhide

aired from 1959 until 1965.

[mysuzuki2]

36. all of them!

[SteveG]

37. Star Trek

Laugh In
Smother's Bros.
I Spy
Outer Limits
Twilight Zone
The Avengers
The Prisoner (though I didn't get to watch it until some PBS stations started airing it in the late '90'0

[femmocrat]

38. Laugh In; That Was the Week that Was; Glenn Campbell; Smothers Brothers.

Steve Allen

Ed Sullivan

Carol Burnett

(I guess I preferred variety shows!)

[GoCubsGo]

43. Laugh-In and The Smothers Brothers were the best!

I wish they would show the reruns. Carol Burnett, too.

Also:

Rocky & Bullwinkle

Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp

The Monkees

The Banana Splits Show

Sigmnund the Sea Monster

I swear that the originators of those last two were dropping acid when they came up with them.

[Still Blue in PDX]

53. Can't forget H.R. Pufnstuf.

That was a seriously messed up show.

I loved Laugh In and The Smothers Comedy Brothers Hour, too!

I was planning on Netflixing (is that a verb?) Mad Men this weekend, but instead perhaps I'll see if I can find Rocky and Bullwinkle. I'd like to see how many layers of humor are there that I didn't fully appreciate when I was a kid.

[sam11]

41. Tv. Series

Room 222 and Twilight Zone

[Bake]

44. After Star Trek, Mission Impossible! And The Ed Sullivan Show

Loved that little Italian mouse, Topo Gigio, and the hand puppet guy, but mainly because he had some of the greatest bands on his show!



Bake

[LiberalEsto]

45. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

and years earlier, Huckleberry Hound.

[hifiguy]

48. #1 going away was Dobie Gillis

When I was a boy I wanted to be Maynard G. Krebs when I grew up. There have been times when I came frighteningly close to realizing that goal.

In no other particular order

- Batman, natch
- Rowan and Martin's Laugh In
- The Avengers (though only with Diana Rigg)
- Room 222 (I had crushes on both Karen Valentine and Judy Strangis)
- The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
- Rocky and Bullwinkle
- George of the Jungle
- Green Acres, the pure surrealism of which I somehow managed to get my head around even as a boy. It was good preparation for Monty Python ten years later.
- The Addams Family (never cared for The Munsters; the Addamses were gloriously weird and reveled in their weirdness. Man, I wanted to blow up electric trains and live in a house with a stuffed polar bear so bad when I was 10-11 years old)
- Mission: Impossible
- Hogan's Heroes

ETA: The Smothers Comedy Brothers Hour, which I had to watch downstairs because my parents didn't care for it.

I generally had pretty good taste for a kid.

[Still Blue in PDX]

54. Looking at your list, I think we could be soul mates. nt

[Initech]

50. Batman!!! Adam West rules.

"We need some more pegs for my Lite Brite!!! My name's not Adam We... Or is it?
"Sir your 11:00 is here "
"Send him in. Nobody screws with Adam We!!!"

[dufan_from_tx582]

52. star trek and Mission impossible

ah, memories...

[hifiguy]

55. kick for nostalgia

[Major Nikon]

57. Sky King

It was actually a product of the 50's, but they used to show the reruns throughout the 60's.

[Eric the Reddish]

59. Test

Hi

[PoliticAverse]

60. Your favorite show from the 1960's was the broadcast test pattern ?... n/t

[machI]

62. Hours of entertainment

[Sienna86]

61. Lost in Space. nt