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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 05:51 PM
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Shows your whole family sat down to watch religously? Every week.
I'm a boomer so I'd have to say:

Ed Sullivan Show
Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Bonanza
Get Smart
Jackie Gleason Show
Gomer Pyle USMC
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LiberalinNC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 05:54 PM
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1. Friday night, Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Odd Couple
Saturday nights, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett

Sunday, Football games
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kikiek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 05:54 PM
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2. I remember Mission Impossible for some reason.
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 05:56 PM
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3. My List is Similar to Yours
Ed Sullivan Show
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Disney's Wonderful World of Color (when we were younger)
Bonanza
Get Smart
The Dean Martin Show
The Carol Burnett Show
All In The Family
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Man From U.N.C.L.E (because my older sister though David McAllum was hot)
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 05:57 PM
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4. The whole family watched
Dragnet every Friday evening. In glorious black and white.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 05:58 PM
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5. A few
Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Dick Van Dyke
Andy Griffith Show

and later on:

Mash
Monty Python's Flying Circus

RL
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 05:58 PM
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6. My list is quite similar
The Ed Sullivan Show
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
Gomer Pyle
Disney
Carol Burnett Show

Also watched The Mike Douglas Show in the daytime.
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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 05:59 PM
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7. Lawrence Welk
And the Wonderful World of Disney.

Both on Sunday nights.

The TV was off the rest of the week and we were expected to do homework, chores or read.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 05:59 PM
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8. 700 Club. Religiously.
I just hadda.
;-)
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:00 PM
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9. Nova, Cosmos, Monty Python, I Claudius... to name a few
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Bronco69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:09 PM
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10. Disney's Wonderful World of color
even though I can't remember even one episode. :-)

Also, Wild Kindom with Marlon Perkins. I always laughed everytime he said something like, "I stayed in the Jeep while Jim wrestled the bear!" LOL!

Saturday afternoon wrestling.

And believe it or not, Hee Haw!

Damn, that brings back memories. :-)
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:10 PM
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11. all those mentioned, we only had 3 channels, it was B.C...before cable
god help me, i watched the jeffersons religiously
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:10 PM
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12. Gunsmoke, Outer Limits, Lassie, Perry Mason, Ed Sullivan
That Was The Week That Was
The Defenders
The FBI, Disney
Bonanza
Get Smart
Jackie Gleason
Rocky and Bullwinkle (Mom and Dad laughed at the 'unfunny' stuff:P)
Have Gun. Will Travel
Bronco, Maverick, Sugarfoot and Cheyenne (they alternated on Sundays IIRC)
Branded
The Rifleman
Rawhide
Mission Impossible
Wagon Train
The Untouchables
Dick van Dyke
Mr Novak
The Rebel
McHales Navy
Twilight Zone
Alfred Hitchcock
The Fugitive


Those are some I remember
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blueknight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:23 PM
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13. during different years
brady bunch
nanny and the proff.
family affair
bonanza
happy days
red skelton
carol burnett
hawaii five o
dallas
and im sure several more that will come to me later
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 08:47 PM
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28. I see your family was big on the Warner 7Arts Westerns too
you remembered some I had forgotten like Branded, Bronco and Cheyenne
and I completely forgot the Fugitive.
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:02 PM
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30. My dad was born on an extremely large ranch in Wyoming
and his grampa and dad had been cowboys. My great grandpa had been quite successful (hence the monster ranch) as a drover, spent years driving dogies between Wyoming and Texas; took his pay in stock. My grampa died when my dad was 12, and he and his mom had to leave the ranch.

We all sat a horse real good, and grew up doing it. I think dad lived vicariously through all those westerns. I remember him really liking Matt Dillon's buckskin, because it reminded him of the horse his dad gave him when he was 6 or 7.
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cdsilv Donating Member (883 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:29 PM
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14. most of those (except gomer pyle)...
I'd have to add Star Trek (original and TNG), MASH, West Wing (now),
and 60 minutes.
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denverbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:31 PM
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15. Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian, Mr Ed.
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:57 PM
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16. Let's see.
Cheers
Nova
Amazing Stories (anyone else remember that show?)
Little House on the Prairie (except for my dad, who'd snort and leave the room :) )
Mork and Mindy
Nature
Ripley's Believe it or Not
That's Incredible
M.A.S.H
The Muppets
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msgadget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:58 PM
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17. Merv Griffin every night
and Mission Impossible weekly.
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AwakeAtLast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 07:07 PM
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18. Here's my list
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Donnie & Marie
Sonny & Cher
M. A. S. H. (I never liked it much, though. Hey I was only 10 or 11 when the last episode aired!)
The Hardy Boys
Nancy Drew
Little House on the Prairie

That's as much as I can remember. We thought we were cool because we had cable - 13 channels, LOL!
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 07:11 PM
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19. Star Trek
Dean Martin (blech)
Disney
Gunsmoke
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Thor_MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 07:11 PM
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20. I try not to watch religious shows.
Televangelists need to be given their own channel, 24/7 so that I can block it on all my TVs. It's not fair sneaking that garbage in amongst all the infomercials - it's too easy to forget what crap they are trying to get you to buy.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 07:20 PM
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21. Wonderful world of disney - ewoks, 60 minutes
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 07:31 PM
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22. Hrm, geeky stuff :)
Fraggles, for as long as they were on. Star Trek the Next Generation (my dad has them all on tape...). Jeopardy, pretty often. Dr. Who. Other than that, nothing that I remember... We didn't watch too much TV as kids, which I think was a good thing!
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 07:35 PM
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23. Walt Disney and Ed Sullivan
Edited on Tue Feb-01-05 07:37 PM by Lydia Leftcoast
Earlier in the 1950s, I recall my parents faithfully watching I Love Lucy, December Bride, and Crossroads.

Oh, and my grandparents never missed Lawrence Welk, while my grandfather never missed an episode of the soap opera Love of Life.

Later on, in the 1980s, my father, by then a retired Lutheran pastor, became hooked on Dallas and Hart to Hart, while my mother and grandmother oohed and ahed over how "cute" Little House on the Prairie was. ("Cute" was their highest word of praise. To this day, I cannot stand self-consciously cute entertainment.)
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 07:38 PM
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24. Wide World of Animals, Lawrence Welk, Hee Haw...fast forward to
80's...Family Ties, Hill Street Blues
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blueknight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 07:43 PM
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25. i forgot hee haw,
we watched that show alot because my aunt was on there a few times
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 08:45 PM
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26. Gunsmoke, Lawrence Welk, Mitch Miller Sing Along
Edited on Tue Feb-01-05 08:45 PM by yellowdogintexas
Disney
Ed Sullivan
Saturday Night at the Movies
Andy Griffith
Dick Van Dyke
Get Smart
Paladin
Wild Wild West
Hogan's Heroes
Perry Mason
Mission Impossible

and way back when"

Playhouse 90
Armstrong Circle Theatre
Philco Playhouse
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 08:46 PM
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27. All In the Family
We'd go over to my grandmother's house every Sunday night. The extended family would all be parked in the living room. Floors and furniture, you couldn't move.
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 09:17 PM
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29. Boomer here, too
All in the Family
Disney
Ed Sullivan
Bonanza
Hockey Night in Canada
Red Skelton
Sonny & Cher
Carol Burnett
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:15 PM
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31. Friday nights with Brady, Partridge, Odd Couple and Love, American Style
also we all watched Monday nights with Gunsmoke, Here's Lucy and The Doris Day Show.
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:26 PM
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32. All in the Family, Maude, Streets of San Francisco
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:34 PM
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33. M*A*S*H
My father was an Army medic in WWII, and he said the show pretty much captured the tension and insanity of it all. Granted, the show itself was influenced a lot by the Vietnam War, but it still struck a chord with my father.
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