TV Shows I Watched Growing Up
I sat down the other day and tried to remember all the albums that I’d listened to frequently in my life. It wasn’t a list of my favorite music per se but a list of entire albums that for one reason or another I’d listened to a lot. I thought I’d do the same for TV shows. Television was the great babysitter back when I was young, and I watched a lot of it. Even so, I was surprised at how many TV shows I could remember watching. I wonder when I had the time!
Adam-12
Addams Family
Alice
Baretta
Batman (66-68)
Beverly Hillbillies
Bewitched
Brady Bunch
Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour
Candid Camera
Carol Burnett Show
Columbo
Dick Van Dyke Show
Emergency!
Gilligan’s Island
Good Times
Happy Days
Hogan’s Heroes
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Kimba the White Lion
Kojak
Kung Fu
Laverne and Shirley
Little House on the Prairie
Lost in Space
M*A*S*H
Mary Tyler Moore Show
Monkees
Munsters
My Three Sons
Odd Couple
One Day at a Time
Partridge Family
Rockford Files
Room 222
Scooby-Doo
Six Million Dollar Man
Star Trek (original series)
Starsky and Hutch
Three Stooges
Twilight Zone
Underdog
Waltons
Welcome Back Kotter
Wonder Years
Yogi Bear
Most of this is fluff. Take the Road Runner Hour. Isn’t that about a coyote who dies repeatedly and then comes back to life, often after being blown to pieces by sticks of Acme Co. dynamite or malfunctioning rockets? I mean, where does he get all this stuff from, and why doesn’t he just die for good?
Patrick Cowsill
September 3, 2008 at 1:52 am