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Old TV Shows

January 26th, 2005 david

We recently surfed into the Sci-Fi Channel's remake of Battlestar Galactica, and got hooked. We really didn't want to add another TV show to our weekly schedule, but then again, Alias is pretty bad this year, so maybe there's no net change. Anyway, we got to thinking the other day, about older TV shows we used to like when we were kids. It was sort of fun to try to remember what we'd watched, so here's a list, that I'll update as I remember more shows.<!–break–>

I also figure this might be good background information for when we have the inevitable “When I was your age I didn't watch this kind of crap!” conversations we should be having in a few years….

Silly 1-hour action / adventure / drama / reality:

  • Battlestar Galactica / Galactica 1980
  • BJ and the Bear
  • Simon and Simon
  • The A-Team
  • CHiPs
  • Emergency
  • The Fall Guy
  • The Six Million Dollar Man
  • The Bionic Woman
  • Wonder Woman
  • Spiderman (live action)
  • The Greatest American Hero
  • The Hardy Boys
  • Quincy
  • Knight Rider
  • The Dukes of Hazard
  • The Incredible Hulk
  • Murder, She Wrote
  • Remington Steele
  • Moonlighting
  • Buck Rogers
  • Little House on the Prarie
  • Real People
  • That's Incredible!
  • Believe It or Not!

Half-hour comedies and such:

  • Happy Days
  • The Muppet Show
  • M*A*S*H
  • Benson
  • The Cosby Show
  • Family Ties
  • Cheers
  • Night Court
  • Quark
  • Mork and Mindy
  • Barney Miller
  • Newhart (the one with larry, daryl, and daryl)
  • Welcome Back, Kotter
  • WKRP In Cincinnati

Shows we were too young to see live, but watched in endless after-school and weekend syndication:

  • Spiderman (cartoon)
  • Superman
  • Hogan's Heros
  • Get Smart
  • Star Trek
  • I Love Lucy
  • Space: 1999
  • Andy Griffith
  • Bewitched

Stupid afternoon TV shows that only kids can stomach:

  • The Brady Bunch
  • Anything by Kroft (Land of the Lost, etc.)
  • Gilligan's Island
  • Battle of the Planets
  • Starblazers
  • Batman
  • The Jetsons
  • The Flintstones

And shows we've watched since High School / College and into “Adulthood”:

  • Early 90's Kids WB lineup: Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, Earthworm Jim
  • Star Trek: TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise
  • Spin City
  • Nothing Sacred
  • Family Guy
  • Seinfeld
  • Simpsons
  • Soap (another TV Land show for me)
  • The Prisoner
  • Sports Night
  • Lois and Clark
  • The West Wing
  • The X-Files
  • Alias
  • Lost
  • Battlestar Galactica
  • Law and Order (plus SVU and CI)
  • Home Improvement
  • The Sopranos
  • The Shield
  • Dead Like Me
  • The Critic
  • Twin Peaks
  • ER (we gave up on this a few years back, tho)
  • The New Yankee Workshop
  • This Old House
  • Mythbusters
  • Northern Exposure

Sometime later, I'll have to go through and add dates to these, so they can be in a more reasonable order…

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