I have no idea if these shows were ever on TV here in Australia...
The Andy Griffith Show...Project Blue Book ...I Love Lucy...
Yep, we had all 3 of them. I loved all of them.
Anyone remember Dobie Gillis? It was Bob Denvers' (Gilligan) first TV series.
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No idea about 'Spunky & Tadpole'.
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!
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.
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... L.
Hey, you forgot Rocky and Bullwinkle!!!! I loved Rocky and Bullwinkle as a kid, then rediscoverd the adult humour in it again later!
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!
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?
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
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?
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!!!!!!!
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.
Bob Denver was Maynard G Krebbs...a beatnik
How could I forget that?
jjj, you should've tried "Habba Babba" bubble gum.
