Classic TV Shows

I love The Rifleman!! Another one that still holds up well after all the years. Have to add The Big Valley (by the same producers) with Lee Majors (another major crush). Barbara Stanwick was one of the few women to helm the lead of a western at the time.
 
Gotta say, that the dramas & sitcoms of years past do seem to be fondly remembered, held in great esteem. compare those to some of today, cannot even remember titles. Some overly raunchy, some disgusting at times. I.E. MOM came on...youngish grandmother & mom are sleeping on a sofabed together, but awake, drunken daughter comes home. Promptly throws up, the dog & cat go running to lap it up, making mom & gramma sick, so they are throwing up, and I think a son was as well. Not even 5 minutes had passed, and boy, did the channel get changed.
Give me LaVerne & Shirley, Lou Grant, Gunsmoke, Archie Bunker any day.............
 
As I said in another thread, Starman from 1986 and Believe from last season, basically had the same set up and episode outline (gifted child loses adoptive parents in car crash, is reunited with previously unknown father and they go on the run from powerful sources wanting to capture and use their gifts).

However, the earlier Starman didn't need to add gross out scenes of the child using their powers to hurt others (also gifted) sent to aid in capturing them. Its not just TV, Due Date 2010 was a remake of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles from 1987, but the characters and their actions sickened me. A definite mean spirited attitude is taking over what used to be warm hearted entertainment.
 
Poirot said:
Hub went off the air? Oh, for cryin' out loud..................
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Yeah it was replaced by Discovery Family about a month ago. I was upset too as they had been airing series from the 90s that I couldn't watch anywhere else. (I.e. Step By Step)
 
Yes, you folks have summed it up. Raunchy, disgusting, and mean spirited. When I think of today's entertainment, it seems there is an overall "dark" tone to most of it. What I look for in entertainment is something that makes me feel good. I want happy endings and I don't want to be grossed out along the way.
 
I don't like most modern sitcoms because they have no substance. They're just played for cheap laughs in my opinion. Some of the dramas are good, but I do prefer the old time ones there too. I love the Twilight Zone. My favorite stories from it are Walking Distance and Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room.
 
Heather4CU said:
Yeah it was replaced by Discovery Family about a month ago. I was upset too as they had been airing series from the 90s that I couldn't watch anywhere else. (I.e. Step By Step)
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Hub wasn't replaced; it was renamed. Hasbro and Discovery owned the channel equally, and now Discovery just took more control over it. It still has the same kid's cartoons during the day, but more Discovery Channel oriented programming at night.

I loved Nick at Night when I was younger. All the old shows on it. My mom loved it because she still could watch The Donna Reed Show. TBS also had a lot of older shows like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie (ah, a youthful Larry Hagman) and The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy.
 
My favorite "classics" are:
I Love Lucy
Full House
Three's Company
All In The Family
Roseanne
Bewitched (True Story: I have a friend Samantha whose first husband was named Darren, when they were married, they played the Bewitched theme and introduction as they entered the reception area! So funny!)
I Dream Of Jeannie
Boy Meets World (The new "Girl Meets World" just isn't as good. eh. I am trying to watch for the sake of my beloved Corey and Topanga on it, but alas, it's just "meh")

Technicolor Cartoons. Seriously- cartoons these days are terrible. I love to pull up the older (and far more awesome) cartoons and sit back with my kids and watch. All the black and white ones, and the first color ones- those are the best.

And the Original Strawberry Shortcake cartoons are FAR better than today's. If you haven't seen it- they have made Strawberry tall and skinny, she is quipped with a cell phone and a teenage valley girl accent. I don't allow my kids to watch it. It's like a horror story. SCARY! lol
 
Lol, DaysLady, somehow a tall and skinny cartoon character with a cell phone and a teenage valley girl accent sounds too ridiculous, yes, even scary, for anybody to watch! Good for you--surely there are better things for your kids to watch.

I once bought videos of Heckle a Jeckyll, and Little Lulu, for my grandkids to watch. Strangely enough, they didn't find them as entertaining as I did when I was a kid. Ha ha!
 
Ah I remember My Three Sons being on Nick at Nite as well. I was always fascinated by how the show started out in black and white and then shifted to color and the sons kept changing too LOL.

DaysLady: You're making me feel very old by calling Full House and Boy Meets World classics. :)
 
I have no idea why, but Dragnet just popped into my head. And then CHiPs. and can't forget 77 Sunset Strip. Used to laugh at "Cookie" always combing his hair. Ha. (Edd Byrnes played that role) Used to love Hart to Hart, McMillan & Wife. The latter two proving wonderful adventures can had with a married couple, who love and are devoted to each other, something Days writers cannot seem to comprehend.
 
Emergency, Adam 12 and 60's/70's Dragnet, Route 66, Bachelor Father, Father Knows Best, Family and Family Affair

Marcus Welby, MD; I would love to see that show again. Trapper John, MD.
 
Poirot said:
Hart to Hart starred Robert Wagner., Stefanie Powers.....McMillan & wife starred Rock Hudson, Susan St. James.
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Fun fact... I am named after Stefanie Powers. Specifically from this show Hart to Hart. My mother and father always watched this show together. They actually wanted to name me after the character she played... Jennifer Hart. But then they decided to name me after the actress, though my mother wasn't very fond of the way she spells it. So my name is Stephanie.

Though it is spelled different... Stefanie Powers is my namesake. :)
 
Yes, he did, and it annoyed me very much - the first two episodes of the season were stinky because he was featured too prominently for my tastes. But just as they were getting back to basics, and I was enjoying it again, BOOM, cancelled. This was especially surprising to me since the site I use to keep tabs on shows had listed it as "safe" from cancellation at the beginning of November.
 
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