My post on television programs was to lament the good shows of long ago TV. I used a few examples of shows. I could have named a few more but the list would have been short.
As usual, readers know best and you listed many great TV programs. I had forgotten many of them. You mentioned many good shows.
And then I started thinking about what you left out. Some of these may not be the greatest of shows. Who could forget Archie Bunker. When I would come home from school , I would sit with the kids and read the paper with one eye and watch the show they were watching with the other eye. The Jacksons were on every afternoon. George was such a fool! They also watched the one with Don Knotts and then it alternated with "Jack" . I can't remember the shows name or Jack's name.
And then I get some anonymous comments. I'm usually very cautious with them.
I thought the one was my friend as he mentioned M.A.S.H. I remember that he really liked M.A.S.H. So I took a guess and used his name Uncle Bobby in the reply . My son replied and asked who is Uncle Bobby ? So all this time the "anonymous" was my son! Uncle Bobby was a teacher I taught with and he also taught my son.
It is fun to recall the good shows we watched, Andy Griffith, perfection. My husband and I found out we both watched Gunsmoke when we were young with our families. How cool you found out Anonymous is your son!
ReplyDeleteI never watched Andy Griffith. Thanks for visiting Hiawatha house.
DeleteThere were a lot of shows that I enjoyed back then. One of them was definitely All In The Family with the character Archie Bunker. I've actually watched the series a few times.
ReplyDeleteAll in the Family was hugely popular.
DeleteMASH etc was the generation after the shows that I was trying to remember, but that and Archie were good ones. Are the Jacksons that you recall really the Jeffersons that I recall? I didn’t love that show.
ReplyDeleteYes, it should be Jeffersons.
DeleteI think I have a few Anon. readers who are really friends but just won't admit it. Dunno why. Did you mention "The Honeymooners"?
ReplyDeleteI didn't mention the Honey Mooners and I've never heard of that show.
DeleteJackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows. From the 1950s. One of the funniest shows in the history of television.
DeleteIt does take one back. I guess we're the first generation to grow up with TV!
ReplyDeleteHey, and I almost grew up without TV. Being in the north, I missed five years of TV.
DeleteIs the Jack from Three’s Company with the character Jack Tripper? Our daughter watched that show.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is. He was good.
Delete"Jack" was Jack Tripper (the actor was John Ritter) and the show was "Three's Company." Don Knotts showed up as the landlord in later seasons, replacing earlier landlords the Ropers (played by Norman Fell and Audra Lindley).
ReplyDeleteYou mentioned "The Jacksons" but did you mean "The Jeffersons"? Those old Norman Lear shows ("All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," "Maude," "Good Times") were great '70s TV.
I was trying to talk about the Jeffersons. John Ritter's Dad was a very successful country singer.
DeleteA long time ago I loved Fury on Saturday Morning and Sky King a few years later Hazel and Father Knows Best! I always watched Combat with my Dad:)
ReplyDeleteThe only one of these I'm aware of is Father Knows best.
DeleteI could forget Archie Bunker because I never saw him on TV though I have heard the name before. I thought it was a sand trap at Augusta.
ReplyDeleteNice play on words! I did et it and it didn't go over my head.
DeleteFor some reason, Google usually doesn’t let me log into this blog as me. So you’ll have to just keep guessing which Anonymous commentors are randos, and which are me
ReplyDeleteYou are still on the blog as a writer. Maybe that's why you have difficulty,
DeleteLots of great shows from the past and still better than the ones today. :) All in the Family and the Jettersons were some of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteMy kids watched those two shows after school.
DeleteI don't know how I missed your TV post, but I did. We watched a lot of TV when my siblings and I were young. I remember Sunday nights when we started with The Ed Sullivan Show and ended with Bonanza. We loved the Dick Van Dyke show. When we were really young we watched The Three Stooges. Now that was a crazy show! And I just remembered that one year my siblings and I went to the Bozo The Clown Show, sat in audience while it was being broadcast. TV was everything to us, back in the day!
ReplyDeleteEverybody had their favorites and remember them.
DeleteAll before my time, Red.
ReplyDeleteI worked in Uijambu, Korea, outside Camp Red Cloud, where the opening theme from M.A.S.H. was filmed. The original movie was filmed there as well.
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ReplyDeletesomehow I've missed some of your posts, so I did a bit of catching up. I was a member of the TV generation. We got our first black and white TV when I was a kid, maybe 8 or 10? I have been addicted ever since. It seems harder to find good shows now, but we do still watch quite a bit of TV.
Did you mean George from The Jeffersons? I miss Saturday morning cartoons. I like watching "Lassie" until they started producing episodes that ended "To Be Continued." I couldn't stand a week's worth of suspense. To Heck with Timmy and the Well! Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteoh, I do love MASH
ReplyDeleteI guess I watched a LOT of TV in my childhood. I loved M.A.S.H. and All in the Family and The Jeffersons, the Ed Sullivan Show, Green Acres, Lassie, I Love Lucy, Mary Tyler Show, The Dick Van Dyck Show... Wow! Such good memories. I love that your son is reading your blog and commenting.
ReplyDeleteremembering older shows specially from childhood or youth brings back so many beautiful memories no doubt :)
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