11 TV Shows that Defined Your Childhood

[longknife]

The HuffPost saying Hee Haw was the “Worst” shows just how ridiculous the site can be. These are all shows we will always remember. Hogan's Heroes, Lucy, Gunsmoke, Bewitched, and The Carrol Burnett Show will never be matched by modern performers.

Read the list, plus a piece on 22 Amazing Actors who never won an... @ 11 TV Shows That Defined Your Childhood, Ranked From Worst To Best

 

[rightwinger]

My List

Get Smart
Leave it to Beaver
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Honeymooners
The Rifleman
Twilight Zone
Flintstones
Andy Griffith
Star Trek
Hogans Heros

 

[JOSweetHeart]

This is my list.

1.) Full House (started when I was 5)
2.) Family Matters (started when I was 7)
3.) Home Improvement (started when I was 9)
4.) Step By Step (started when I was 9)
5.) Saved By The Bell (started when I was 7)
6.) Reba's show (started when I was 19)
7.) Perfect Strangers (started when I was 4)
8.) The Dinosaurs (started when I was 9)
9.) 7th Heaven (started when I was 14)
10.) Walker, Texas Ranger (started when I was 11)

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. I can't think of a show outside of my top ten.

 

[UllysesS.Archer]

1. Doctor Who(Tom Baker era, PBS late 70's)
2. Hee Haw(I live in Archie Campbell's hometown)
3. The Golden Girls(Me and my grandmother would watch this every Saturday night)
4. Dallas(Me and grandma on Friday nights)
5. The Six Million Dollar Man
6. The Incredible Hulk
7. 60 Minutes(I hated this show, but my grandfather watched it every Sunday)
8. The Dukes of Hazard(I hated this show, when it first started, it replaced the Hulk).
9. The CBS evening news(with Walter Cronkite, and that's the way it was.)
10. NBC's Tuesday night lineup(A-Team, Riptide, Remington Steele)
11. USA's Prime Time Wrestling(Monday nights, now it's WWE Monday Night Raw.)

 

[DGS49]

Popeye cartoons
Ponderosa
Twilight Zone
Boris & Natasha (Rocky & Bullwinkle)
Life is Worth Living
Firing Line
ABC's Wild World of Sports (the crazy sports nobody ever heard of)
Beverly Hillbillies
The Munsters
Have Gun - Will Travel

 

[longknife]

I loved Wide World of Sports - by far the best sports show ever aired.

 

[FJO]

When I was child my weekly entertainment was a radio show in communist Hungary. So, no TV show defines my childhood.

After I found my way to Canada in 1957, the TV shows that defined my earliest take on entertainment not defined and controlled by government were the ones that gave me a heartfelt laughter and/or an appreciation of the value of humor, politically or otherwise.

So here is my list in no particular order:

The Red Skelton Show
Lucille Ball (in all its reincarnation)
Dean Martin (in all its reincarnation)
All in The Family
Sanford and Son
Get Smart
Carol Burnett
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
Smother Brothers
Any show with Bob Hope.

Nowadays we have crap like Jon Stewart, Miley Cyrus, Beyoncé, any and all rap "artists" and Steven Colbert and
Barbra Streisand and Bill Maher.

If there is any doubt that America is in decline., no more proof is needed.

 

[Papageorgio]

Flip Wilson Show
Carol Burnett Show
Dragnet
Emergency
Hogan's Heroes
Gunsmoke
Mannix
Mission Impossible
Get Smart
Adam-12

No particular order.

 

[Mr. H.]

Combat
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Star Trek
Mannix
Rockford Files
Mission Imp

Yeah- a bunch that's already been posted.

Oh- cartoons... Roger Ramjet
And Danger Mouse- although that was from my adult-hood LOL.

Damn, I'll never grow up.

 

[sealybobo]

My List

Get Smart
Leave it to Beaver
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Honeymooners
The Rifleman
Twilight Zone
Flintstones
Andy Griffith
Star Trek
Hogans Heros

I just saw the new get smart with Steve correll Anne Hathaway and the rock and I have to say it was pretty good. I’d seen it before but I’m watching it on one of my hbo channels. I was definitely entertained.

I’d love to see some new twilight zone or a new rifleman done well. They don’t do westerns like they used to.

 

[rightwinger]

My List

Get Smart
Leave it to Beaver
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Honeymooners
The Rifleman
Twilight Zone
Flintstones
Andy Griffith
Star Trek
Hogans Heros

I just saw the new get smart with Steve correll Anne Hathaway and the rock and I have to say it was pretty good. I’d seen it before but I’m watching it on one of my hbo channels. I was definitely entertained.

I’d love to see some new twilight zone or a new rifleman done well. They don’t do westerns like they used to.

The Rifleman was too violent for todays audiences

Someone counted and found that Lucas McCain killed 113 people during the course of the show

 

[Scorpion]

5 y/o loved
Speed Racer
Ultra man
Johnny Sako

 

[my2¢]

I need more than 11. Back as a kid TV was starting to hit its stride, for just 3 channels we had a wide variety of offerings. But way back then our family like most had only 1 TV in the house and so many of these shows I became a regular viewer only because they were something my parents or older brothers watched. So the variety was sort of forced on us.

1. Cartoon: Flintstones
2. Children's, Daily: Captain Kangaroo
3. Children's, Prime Time: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
4. Comedy: Leave It to Beaver
5. Talk Show, Daytime: (Art Linkletter's) House party
6. Talk Show, Nighttime: they all were past my bedtime
7. Drama, Police: Highway Patrol
8. Drama, War: Combat
9. Fantasy / Science Fiction: Twilight Zone
10. Game Show: To Tell the Truth
11. Music: American Bandstand
12. News: CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
13. Reality: Candid Camera
14. Sports: The Wide World of Sports
15. Variety: Ed Sullivan Show
16. Western: The Rifleman
17. Wildlife: (Mutual of Omaha's) Wild Kingdom

 

[rightwinger]

I need more than 11. Back as a kid TV was starting to hit its stride, for just 3 channels we had a wide variety of offerings. But way back then our family like most had only 1 TV in the house and so many of these shows I became a regular viewer only because they were something my parents or older brothers watched. So the variety was sort of forced on us.

1. Cartoon: Flintstones
2. Children's, Daily: Captain Kangaroo
3. Children's, Prime Time: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
4. Comedy: Leave It to Beaver
5. Talk Show, Daytime: (Art Linkletter's) House party
6. Talk Show, Nighttime: they all were past my bedtime
7. Drama, Police: Highway Patrol
8. Drama, War: Combat
9. Fantasy / Science Fiction: Twilight Zone
10. Game Show: To Tell the Truth
11. Music: American Bandstand
12. News: CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
13. Reality: Candid Camera
14. Sports: The Wide World of Sports
15. Variety: Ed Sullivan Show
16. Western: The Rifleman
17. Wildlife: (Mutual of Omaha's) Wild Kingdom

Great list, brings back memories

I remember having to watch Art Linkletter's House Party at my grandmothers...hated it
Captain Kangaroo was must watch every morning
In addition to Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason from beautiful Miami Beach was much watch (loved Crazy Guggenheim)
I never missed Wide World of Sports on Saturdays. NASCAR, skiing, barrel jumping, boxing...they had it
I remember test patterns when TV went off the air

 

[longknife]

I still think the Sunday Wonderful World of Disney was the most awesome TV show of all time.

 

[fncceo]

Defined my puberty ...

 

[rightwinger]

I still think the Sunday Wonderful World of Disney was the most awesome TV show of all time.

I remember they used to call it The Wonderful World of Color because it was one of the only shows broadcast in color

Didn't matter to me....we had Black and White till 1972

 

[Fang]

Three's Company
6 Million Dollar Man
Charlies Angels
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley

 

[PredFan]

my list:

Sanford and Son
Gilligan’s Island
Combat
Bugs Bunny Cartoons
Rat Patrol
Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
Star Trek
Hogan’s Heroes
Carol Burnett Show
Laugh In
Hee Haw
The Monkees

 

[my2¢]

I still think the Sunday Wonderful World of Disney was the most awesome TV show of all time.

I remember they used to call it The Wonderful World of Color because it was one of the only shows broadcast in color

Didn't matter to me....we had Black and White till 1972

I recall it was around 1963 that I saw color TV for the first time. It was Monte Hall and Let's Make a Deal at a friend's house. We got our first color TV a year later. It was a Heathkit that my dad with his soldering iron put together in the basement. He'd call out the transistor next needed, the transistors were coded with a variety of color bands that he'd call out and me and my brothers would search the pile of transistors spread out on a table looking for a match. He soldered it to a circuit board and then it was on to the next one. Took a couple of weeks.