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REALLY old TV shows

asopasop Member Posts: 8,976 ✭✭✭✭

Not to take anything away from Kevin but, how about Amos & Andy, Cape. Video & Koka, Fran & Olie.

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  • Kevin_LKevin_L Member Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭✭

    I love the old shows, radio and TV. Thanks for the references, @asop

    Can you imagine Amos and Andy in today's world? It would be totally different to say the least.

    🇺🇲 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇲

  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 59,950 ******

    Little Rascals

    Dagwood and Blondie

    Ma & Pa Kettle

    Bowery Boys

  • chmechme Member Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭✭

    Love That Bib

    I Married Joan

    Life Of Reilly

    Phil Silvers Show

  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,220 ✭✭✭✭

    some of them were the fist to go years ago for racial profiling like the first foot in the water you could say same with a ton of old cartoons

    the internet is your friend ( you tube all old such programs are out their

    I was a captain kangaroo and mr Green Jenes skid

    and the countless Saturday morning cartoons and westerns the good guy always won

    I know its not true but the term simpler times and lifes back then not so much

    a lot of struggle to keep the family fed and together harder and tougher for all

    but we tend to forget that part

  • waltermoewaltermoe Member Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭✭

    On YouTube check out: Ma & Pa Kettle do math. Absolutely hilarious.

  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,220 ✭✭✭✭

    That I have watched many timesaving s classic

    ma and pa were always funny

    Pa was lazy but he must have used up all his enegery creating so many kids

  • buddybbuddyb Member Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭

    Cleo The Talking Dog

  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,431 ✭✭✭✭
    edited April 3

    Our Gang Comedies, Three Stooges, Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke (and many other westerns), Friday Night Fights, Ed Sullivan, The Nelsons, Show of Shows, Dinah Shore, Kate Smith, Red Skelton, Flash Gordon, Tarzan, Ramar of the Jungle, Beany and Cecil, Romper Room, Andy Devine, and The Mickey Mouse Show.

    I could probably go on…

    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • wetnapwetnap Member Posts: 86 ✭✭✭

    My all time favorite is Car54 where are you. Some other favorites are Abbott and Costello and Amos and Andy.

  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭

    You are there with Walter Cronkite…mid Fifties.

    The Big Picture ..produced by the U.S. Army. mid Fifties.

    Industry on Parade..mid Fifties. Would show how products were made.

    You Asked for it, brought to you by Skippy Peanut Butter…mid Fifties

    Zoo World with Marlin Perkins…mid Fifties.

    Home Run Derby, early 1960s.

  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,431 ✭✭✭✭

    I can add "Victory at Sea" to that.

    I LOVED Industry on Parade. Today it is replaced by How It's Made. Fascinating.

    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • 62vld204262vld2042 Member Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭✭

    "Victory At Sea" was one of my favorites.

    A few years ago I bought two(I think) boxed sets of dvds, of the series.

    Great history!👍

  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,220 ✭✭✭✭

    I stil enjoy watching the short news Reals they use to play at theaters

    From war events to the newest news and clips of manufacturing

    To help fill time as people settled in

    But also at that time tvs were scarce so supplied info to the masses

  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,719 ******

    I had a kind of crush on that dog Yukon King that accompanied Sgt. Preston of the Mounties way back in the day. An older brother was made to watch me one time when our folks went out for something. Brother put me in front of the TV and promised that King would be appearing right after the show that was on. I sat there for what seemed to be hours, watching Leonard Bernstein conduct his orchestra!!! 😒 King never came on either!!!😫

    Just may be why I have this love\hate relationship with classical music. 😁

  • chiefrchiefr Member Posts: 14,083 ✭✭✭✭

    Sea Hunt, Sky King, Alfred Hitchcock, Milton Berle, Fury, are few from decades ago.

  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,431 ✭✭✭✭

    I remember ALL of those. Amazing when I also recall that I grew up in the time of B&W on a total of three channels.

    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • waltermoewaltermoe Member Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭✭
    edited April 4

    I’m surprised no one has mentioned the show: The Big Picture. Use to run documentary’s and have that Sargent explain all the new innovations of the army. In the early 50s to around 1960 it ran.

  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,381 ******

    Anyone here remember Wheel of Fortune?

    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
  • 62vld204262vld2042 Member Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭✭
  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,719 ******

    That question could get you into some Jeopardy around here Mr. P.

  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,220 ✭✭✭✭

    Just a few old stanf out thouhts

    How about the newlyweds game show

    The famous where was the strangest place you made woopie

    *That Would be iin the xxx Bob" with every one in shock at the answer that segment is still floating on the internet

    Or the priest is right come on down as the gal comes running to the stage in her tube top and it life down to her waste

    What w as the fame s show a lot of celebrities were in huge segmented box display and had to andwere questions mostly in fuñy responses

  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,431 ✭✭✭✭

    Yup, Charley Weaver, Paul Lind, Betty White, and many other really funny celebs.

    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,719 ******
    edited April 5

    What's My Line……Well! What's My Line???

    Bennett was a Curfer and Dorothy Kilgallen liked to drink a lot! 😁

  • waltermoewaltermoe Member Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭✭

    Almost forgot one of my favorite tv shows when I was a kid. Mr. Wizard.

  • asopasop Member Posts: 8,976 ✭✭✭✭

    I went to high school with "Buzz" the kid that was on that show! We went to YMCA camp together. Good guy.

  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,150 ******

    'member this one?

  • walleyemanwalleyeman Member Posts: 131 ✭✭

    "This Is your life"—-" Millionaire"

  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭✭

    Queen for a day

    Red Skelton show

    Art linkletter

    Adventures in paradise

    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,220 ✭✭✭✭

    I remember as a young kid of 6 or 7 yrs old facing of Mr Dillon at the start of Gunsmoke

    also developed a desire to have a German Shepard due to the western of the day

    Over the years we have had our share of them .1st dog my wife I bought just after getting marred Ginger we named her I miss all of them .

    Walt Disney on Sunday nights was special to all us kids the stories and mini sop operas of other kids kept 7s glued to the TV

    Like most all.of you 2 maybe 3 chanels on a good night snd in a full 24" i think it was but B&W for sure

    Now with hundreds of channels, andd countless programs not counting sites like YouTube just overwhelms me now

  • asopasop Member Posts: 8,976 ✭✭✭✭

    "Man Against Crime" & "Drag Net", God I'm getting old🤨

  • Merlinnv12Merlinnv12 Member Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭✭
    edited April 7

    Lassie, You asked for it, Sky King, The life of Riley The Mickey Mouse club, just to name a few.


    .

    “What we’ve got here, is, failure to communicate.”
  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,381 ******
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
  • notnownotnow Member Posts: 1,852 ✭✭✭

    "John Gunthers high road". It was about mountain climbing. Came on late Saturday afternoon. How about "Osa and Martin Johnson" safari films. Actual footage of African safari trips they made. These were on Saturday morning as part of a kids show along with original Tarzan episodes. Early 60's Pittsburgh area.

  • elubsmeelubsme Member Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭✭

    My Dad never missed Saturday night boxing.

  • Gun Nut 44Gun Nut 44 Member Posts: 22
    edited April 13

    "Rat Patrol" with Eric Braeden as a bad guy long before Young and Restless. "Kimba" the white lion. Japan anime from the 60's who never saw a dime from Disney when they stole it for the "Lion King". "The Cisco Kid", had to move the rabbit ears for that one.

  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,719 ******

    There are a couple of old westerns I never got to watch as a kid, due to the TV station burning down leaving just two stations left in my hometown back in the early 60's.

    Luckily, I've enjoyed seeing them on the GRIT channel reruns.

    The Deputy and Tombstone Territory.

  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 59,950 ******

    Tennessee Ernie Ford show.

  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,220 ✭✭✭✭
    edited April 14

    Who can't remember all the cigarette commercials and sponsorships from the Good old days

    I have lost most all my family and al my old friends a to cancer due to smoking I never got the bug or picked up the habit for some reason not from lack of trying as a young kid but glad it never took hold

    The old TV shows I hate to say it but they pull at out heart strings to simpler and less complicated times in our life's

    most all of us were poor yes, but mostly happy and did not realize how poor we were as every one we knew were also in that class

    But we all made the best if it

    I think TV opened that great world to us we had never seen and gave us some hope as to what was out there

    And gloom and Doom were not pushed as top movies and stories like now

    And just basic,things you were male or female, and what or who you liked was your business .

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