What were your favourite afternoon TV shows

[[1ponders]]

With the death of Bob Denver and Don Adams I started thinking about some of the old shows I used to watch when I got home from school. There were some great programs around during the 60's 70's and 80's for kids to watch in the afternoon/early evening.

What were your top 5 shows from those eras.

Mine were, in no particular order.
Gilligans Island
Get Smart
Dr Who
Lost in Space (Ice in Space - dodo dodo, dodo dodo, :scared: scary isn't it)
The Brady Bunch (I know, sick isn't it :lol: )

[iceman]

What about Batman? Those were classics!

[[1ponders]]

And Superman :D and Astroboy and Prince Planet and Marine Boy and Gigantor and the Beverly Hill Billies etc etc . I know its hard to pick just 5. Those members born after circa 1980 will be wondering what the hell we're talking about :lol:

[RB]

Ditto to all those Paul,
Brady Bunch too, loved it.

I don't know if you could remember another called "It's about time".
About two Astronauts who crashland back in time into prehistoric times with cave people. Comedy v.similar to Gilligans Island.

Ah the good ol' days.

:nerd:

Oh how could I forget "Hogan's Heroes" :doh:

[iceman]

ah Hogans Heroes, what a classic.

Loved that show.

[[1ponders]]

:doh:

[h0ughy]

Hogans heros, MASH, batman, Get smart.

plus all the others you mentioned, including the Goodies, Dr Who etc

[xstream]

The Twilight Zone and don't forget Happy Hammond and also the Gerry Gee Show.

Who's that a peeping round the corner,
Not just me but little Johnny Horner,
I'm the kid who's always got a grin,
Joffa boy Joffa boy please come in.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Memories eh!

Just seems like yesterday.

[Heian]

It's not an afternoon show, but I did enjoy "Thunderbirds". For xmas a couple of years ago I got the dvd box set of all the thunderbird episodes....
that must be nerdis extremis!! :scared:

[h0ughy]

add to that Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and a few others

[Lee]

Grizzly Adams..... plus most of the above too.....

[ausastronomer]

The Beverly Hillbillies at 6:00pm. Just loved Ellie May in those drawstring jeans :)Include all the above except Hogan's Heroes which has never rowed my boat to this day.

CS-John B

[anthony2302749]

What about Professor Julius Summer Miller science show of the 70'S. There was a fantasic show that encourage many to take an interest in science.

Also add UFO, Blake's 7 and The Tomorrow People

Anthony

P.S. here is a list you can pick through http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/topscifi/lists_tv.html

[RB]

Hey that reminds me, The Curiosity Show, Ch9 Fridays @ 4pm.
Loved to try their experiments.

:cool:

[mickoking]

I dream of jeanie and of course Monkey.:thumbsup:


TV is such rubbish nowadays that the only things I really watch now is the AFL and The Simpsons.:D

[slice of heaven]

A lot of those shows above, as well as the Munsters, The Addams Family ,Aunty Jack.
The old shows were great entertainment.
What ever happened to Aussie comedies? They were tops. Kingswood Country, Paul Hogan , Mother and Son.

[xstream]

Lets not forget F-Troop and Casey Jones.

I was starting to get a bit old for this one but The Magic Circle Club. :lol2:

[cometcatcher]

I remember the days when the ABC used to run endless repeats of F troop, My Favourite Martian, and The Ghost and Mrs Muer.

I always looked forward to My Favourite Martian the most I think.

[[1ponders]]

Boy I'd fogotten many of those. How about the Monkeys, the Partridge Family, :lol: HR Puffinstuff :rofl:

[anthony2302749]

You got to love Aunty Jack. "I'ill rip your ****** arms off"

[Striker]

I loved little house on the prairie.....lol

[ballaratdragons]

I still watch practically all the shows listed above! Most of them are on are on TV1 and some on the Comedy Channel and the rest on other PayTV channels. The good don't die, they just move to PayTV.

Bewitched, Munsters, Gilligan, Get Smart, Brady Bunch, Beverly Hillbillies, Hogans Heroes, M*A*S*H, Twilight Zone, Star Trek (every series), Battlestar Galactica, Jeannie, Pettycoat Junction, Green Acres etc etc, etc. are all on TV1,

Superman, Astroboy, Prince Planet, Marine Boy and Gigantor etc, etc. are on Cartoon Channel.

Other old shows are also on Arena (little house, Waltons etc), Disney etc.

I'd be lost without my PayTV!

Especially Discovery, Nat Geo & History Channel.

[beren]

Monkey
Banana Splits {think thats what was called}
Star Blazers
Skippy
Bewitched
Man about the House {and spin offs Robins nest and George and Mildred}
Fawlty Towers
Flipper
Already mentioned but the Goodies and Dr Who were my favourite {ive seen the Graeme Gardener and Tim brooke taylor are touring Aus with a Goodies stage show at the moment }

[ballaratdragons]

This will test the 'older' folk. 2 of my old favourites were 'Spunky & Tadpole', and 'Bronco'.

[Dave47tuc]

Well back then :whistle: Lost in Space & good old Bugs bunny :rofl:

"Ooooohhh I hate that rabbit" :rolleyes:

[anthony2302749]

"O" I forgot to mention "Scoopy Doo". We are talking about the Scoopy of the 70's here. I had to run home (at least 2km) after school so I could watch it. No Video Recorders in those days.

Anthony

[asimov]

You guys have pretty well covered my whole list! All of the above were/are/still my favorites :thumbsup:

[cahullian]

I loved
space 1999
the outer limits
happy days
crackerjack (its friday and its 5 to 5)
why dont you, full name (why dont you switch off your television set and go do something less boring instead) phew...

[cahullian]

I also loved a show called Family

[asimov]

Space 1999 was just great! I've been waiting 20 odd years for a re-run of it but no dice..

[cometcatcher]

Maybe that's because it's 2005 and the moon is still there lol. :P

[Starkler]

And when I was a real little tacker, HR Puffinstuff and the Wacky Races .
I think my first ever crush was on Barabara Eden from I dream of Jeannie :love:

[gaa_ian]

Dr Who & the Goodies !

[xstream]

Talk about dumb! :doh:

How could we forget "Hey Hey It's Saturday"

You just gotta love Ossie. :thumbsup:

[norm]

Skippy
Lost in Space
Land of the Giants
Gomer Pile - sad yes I know.
Brady Bunch - even worst !
Tom and Jerry.

[33South]

Ballaratdragons - from one of the older folk

Bronco - one of many great TV westerns loved em all, my favourite at the time "Have Gun Will Travel" aka Paladin.

No idea about 'Spunky & Tadpole'.

80% of my tv time is spent with TV1, UKTV and ClassicTV channels.

[Mick]

I remember Wacky Races Geoff, do you remember The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show and the missus liked watching Captain Pugwash (http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/pugwash/pugwash.htm)LOL :)

[wavelandscott]

Many of the shows already listed make my list so here are a few that I did not see mentioned...and I don't remember seeing them listed earlier

I have no idea if these shows were ever on TV here in Australia...

The Andy Griffith Show...classic Southern US (read hillbilly) life...where Gomer Pyle was born and raised...Ron Howard starred as Opie Taylor (he was a young boy)...Don Knotts was Deputy Barney Fife...TV Gold...

Project Blue Book...(1978-1979) Secret US Air Force UFO files exposed...some debunked some not...cool stuff

I Love Lucy...veetavitagvegimin anyone?

[cometcatcher]

Project Blue Book was great! Forgot about that one.

[toetoe]

I loved ZIG & ZAG and World Championship Wrestling.:) as well a lot of the others mentioned.

[ballaratdragons]

Yep, we had all 3 of them. I loved all of them.

Anyone remember Dobie Gillis? It was Bob Denvers' (Gilligan) first TV series.


It was a cartoon show but they banned it coz of it's name. Back then, spunk was a rude term for Sperm, and the tadpole was a symbol of the same. So therefore, the title was deemed offensive. Boy times have changed!

[slice of heaven]

Yep. :lol: Bob Denver was Maynard G Krebbs...a beatnik

What about...Welcome back Cotter ?

For cartoons... Fearless Fly, Atom Ant and the greatest of all time (till the Simpsons came about) The Flintstones, though that was a prime time show.

[Omaroo]

My faves were UFO (fave of all time), Joe-90, Capt. Scarlet & the Mysterons, Thunderbirds, It's About Time (Gronk, Shad & the astronauts), Get Smart, Banana Splits, Jeopardy, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, Gilligans Island, Green Acres, The Munsters, Lost in Space, Daktari and the The Beverly Hillbillies. :)

Sick, huh!

[ving]

:D

[ving]

space 1999...

[Omaroo]

OOhhhhhh :eyepop: How could I forget that?

[ving]

i dont know...

[ballaratdragons]

I used to work on that show, John. It was cooool! Even got my 'Live-on-air' Farewell from the show on tape. :thumbsup:

[xstream]

I'll Have to check it out next time I'm down, Ken. ;)

[Shawn]

Joe 90 , Thunderbirds, etc, just like oomaroo,,,Space 1999 ring a bell too..memory jogger anyone,,

[Ric]

In the cartoon stakes dont forget "Super Chicken" and "Roger Ramjet".
Ah yes the deadly Solenoid Robots.

[RAJAH235]

Hey! What about 'Car 54, Where Are You'? Fred Gwynn before he became Herman Munster. Then there was 'Top Cat'..A very clever cartoon.
& what was the name of that cartoon with the 'horse character' + his little offsider, as "El Kabong"? Had the mask too! Used to whack em with a guitar...."kabong"******
Great stuff...:D L.

[sheeny]

Hey, you forgot Rocky and Bullwinkle!!!!:thumbsup: I loved Rocky and Bullwinkle as a kid, then rediscoverd the adult humour in it again later!:lol:

The vast majority of the shows listed so far were favourites from time to time. Not only did I like UFO, but I also had the UFO board game!:P

There was also a show on TV when I was really little (early mid 60's) that was animated but it had real mouths overlaid on the character's faces so the lips moved when they talked. I think there were three characters, and it had a spacy theme - I seem to remember rockets... anyone remember that?

Al.

[Davelrkn]

How could we forget ''The Three Stooges''
I recently found out that they had all passed away by the mid 1950's with Moe being born in the 1870's which was somewhat of a surprise


Dave

[jjjnettie]

What a great thread. So many memories.
I remember watching most of those shows.

The Banana Splits seemed really good at the time, Uh-oh Congo, it's Danger Island next. I bought a video of it a few years ago, and it was so lame. Sometimes it just doesn't pay to relive your youth.

And what about "The Nutty-Squirrels"? The pair of Beat-Nik squirrels who wore dark suits, berets and had goatees, they spoke beat-nik speak and they had that funky jazz music intro and background. The tune was called "Uh-Oh" Uh oh, dooby wuh, di dibbity dooby wop, doo whaa doo whaa.

Marine Boy with his oxygum so he could breathe under water. Didn't work in real life, I tried it with PK gum and just got lots of water up my nose.

Gigantor, Gigantor, bigger than big, taller than tall. Not too bad, but not a patch on Astroboy.

HR Puffinstuff, Jack Wild was so cute.

Did you know that Julius Sumner Miller studied under Einstein? That explains the crazy hair do.

Don't you think that the quality and originality of the programs back then was so much better than today?

[jjjnettie]

I just remembered, "Captain Pugwash"
And everyone thinks that SouthPark had the cardboard cutout idea first.

[RB]

:lol2: jjj, you should've tried "Habba Babba" bubble gum.

[gaa_ian]

Thats Easy !
Dr Who & The Goodies are clear winners :thumbsup:

[Omaroo]

YEEHAAAAA!!!!!

After this thread got my "wish I could see it again" juices flowing, I had a real search session to find anything at all on "It's About Time", the 1966 show about two astronauts (Hector & Mac) who take a wrong turn and break the time barrier to end up back in the stone age with a cave couple (Gronk, Shad & their kids). They eventually repair their ship (a Gemini capsule if I remember rightly) and take off again with the family in tow. They make it back through the time warp and end up back in Los Angeles in their present-day. Then the second half of the series is about the cave people trying to adjust to modern city life in the 20th century. A comedy that was done on a budget but should have gone on longer.

Anyway.... I FOUND THE ENTIRE SERIES ON DVD!!!!!!! :) :) :)

Good old eBay!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140026949097&ssPageName=MERC_BC_ReBay_Pr4_PcY_BI N_W0_IT&refitem=140026537387&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=bin_confirm&usedrule1=CategoryProximity&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget

Can't wait!

[Ric]

Who could forget Danger Mouse and his trusty sidekick Penfold.
That was another one that was great for the kids but had some great one liners for the adults as well that the kids would miss.

cheers

[RB]

Yeeeeeees !!!!!
That's it, that's the one I was talking about in my post too.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showpost.php?p=51027&postcount=4

Good one, hope you enjoy it.

[Omaroo]

$42 landed here Andrew. I suppose it'll be in NTSC format, but most DVD players/TV's cope with that these days. 7 x DVD's will take a while to watch :D I'm just glad to find it. I've been looking for it for decades.

I really can't wait to see it - the last time was in the mid-70's when it was re-run once only.

:thumbsup:

[Adrian-H]

i used to watch seasame street

then when i got older, discovery science channel and the history channels

when i moved out of my parents house i didnt bring a tv and havent watched since then. about 9months.

[Omaroo]

What do you miss most? ;)

[Adrian-H]

hmm tough choice, eather discovery science or...

SEASAME STREET!

[mickkk]

Everything i loved has been mentioned I think.

These shows were all intertwined in some way and theres one other I forgot. I think they were made by the same studio

Petticoat Junction
Casey Jones
Green Acres
Bevilery Hillbillies

Hogans Heroes is my fav all all time show.

Hey Hey before everyone caught on was priceless. Allnighters ending up with hey hey, ahh so good. Its sad all of it was not kept on tape.

I thought I was the only one that remembered Its about time, great price you got those for.

Homicide, division 4, cop shop, matlock police, solo one, all got a run in the afternoons. Even "cops" got an afternon run once.

[Omaroo]

Yep - and the bloke I got them from is the ONLY source worldwide. Here's his return email to one I sent him earlier:



How cool? :D

[jjjnettie]

I remember that show, It's about Time. Mainly by the theme music though. It's about time, it's about space etc etc.
Doesn't that girl in the picture you posted look like Gina Reily, you know from Kath and Kim.

[Omaroo]

LOL! Her name was Imogene Coca. She died in 2001.

She also played the ditzy "Mary the Good Fairy" in Bewitched... and many other sitcom roles. Her most famous was probably as a dead granny tied to the roof rack in "Vacation".

A true comic genius....

[jjjnettie]

Talking about theme music, here's a link to the Nutty Squirrels, with a real audio of their tune "Uh Oh". http://www.toontracker.com/nutty/nutty.htm
This predated the Chipmunks by a couple of years and is much classier than anything they put out.

[Omaroo]

"It's About Time" has just arrived from Canada. I've just watched part of the first episode and I'm already laughing :D They just don't make them that way any more. Can't wait to get home and have an IAT fest...