Favorite TV shows of 70's, 80's & 90's!!

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Have fun in here, people!

Share your favorites, and don't be shy! I expect this thread to really get HUGE, because there are so many tv shows to talk about.

I'll get this avalanche started with ten...

Knight Rider
Starman (the series)
A-Team
Three's Company
Wonder Woman (yeah, it's cheesy NOW, but back then I loved it)
Airwolf
Cosby Show
Transformers
Hardcastle & McCormick
The Scarecrow and Mrs. King

I could EASILY go on, but I want others to contribute, so go ahead!

Oh man... soooooooooooo many shows!! I'm not sure where to begin. I think that I will do this when I get home from work in a little bit!!! But, GREAT topic, Sierradaddy!

*St. Elsewhere- so moving and so creative.
*The Cosby Show-just good old fun!
*The Waltons-great show in the 70's.

I love this thread! I will let others post some then chime back in soon.

I knew YOU'D love it, KJ! In fact, I almost referred to you directly in my first post here, figuring since you're SO FAST, you'd be the first to post a reply!

(Must be my precognitive abilities! )

Ok, 5 more, and I'm going to try to be obscure as best as I can...

Automan
NightHawk
Space: Above and Beyond
Kindred: The Embraced
Whiz Kids

Edit: fuscia, you slipped one in while I was adding this post; glad you like it too. I thought you'd be an early visitor as well!

Yeah well, we Mods are everywhere.

I have never heard of any of those 5. Hmm, must have been because we did not have cable available until the very late 80's.

*Dallas-yes it was a bit cheesy, but I still liked it.
*Family Ties

Automan and Whiz Kids were early 80's, Nighthawk was mid-80's (an attempt to develop a show similar to Knight Rider or Airwolf...). The other 2; Space: Above and Beyond and Kindred: The Embraced, were 90's...

Edit: Just to clarify for those who don't know, Automan was about someone who controlled a computer cursor, and that cursor could produce a car (think it was a lamborghini countach), helicopter, etc...

NightHawk was basically a combination of Airwolf and Knight Rider, but the vehicle used was a streetbike. Frank fontaine from Murphy Brown got his start (in my books, anyway...) from that show, as the technician who kept the bike working...

Whiz Kids was about a bunch of computer nerds, and their adventures.

Space: A & B was about soldiers battling aliens and androids. The effects were great, and the storyline was really enjoyable. It remains my younger sister's all-time favorite.

Kindred: is just about the BEST vampire saga ever put on television. Far better than Buffy or Angel, it looked at the lifestyle and struggles of mainly two clans of vampire that have been at each other's throats (pun intended...) for centuries...

Being more a product of the nineties then anything else, most of the ones above I have seen only as repeats and stuff.

I really liked the 90210, Melrose Place type shows, so much drama, but somehow seemed more realistic than Days of Our Lives, etc.

The Electric Company
Welcome Back Kotter
WKRP in Cincinnati
C.H.i.P's
A-Team
Dallas
Knots Landing
Falcon Crest
Magnum PI
TJ Hooker
Family Ties
Growing Pains
The Brady Bunch
Alice
ALF
Charles In Charge
The Cosby Show
Different Strokes
The Facts of Life
Gimme A Break
Mama's Family (I still watch that late at night if I can't sleep)
Silver Spoons
Buck Rogers
Knight Rider
Three's Company
The Love Boat
Happy Days

Oh man... I could go on and on and on!!! I love the shows from the 70's and 80's! They were the best!

Oh yeah.... The Six Million Dollar Man, and also, The Bionic Woman!!!!
I loved watching the Bionic Woman. Lindsey Wagner ROCKED!
And her german shepard, Max. That show made me want that kind of dog.

And, although already mentioned... I loved Wonder Woman!

Hehe!...

I figured you would've put in Trapper John, M.D.! Or The Littlest Hobo!! Maybe even Fantasy Island!! I just had a feeling you were going to go for some of the good ones, like Silver Spoons!!

It's weird; I can remember SO MANY shows from the 80's onward, and some of the ones that were in syndication from the 70's that aired in the 80's... I would be so thrilled if they could offer those shows on DVD!! They've GOT to be putting the Cosby Show on DVD... I can't WAIT to get something like that...

Yes, I think that there are A LOT of shows from the 70's and 80's that they could put out on dvd and people would buy them. Those were the best shows ever.

Oh, I wasn't in to Trapper John, M.D.
I did watch Fantasy Island though... good show!!

How about....

The Dukes of Hazard - I love Bo and Luke Duke... and oh yeah Diasy and those shorts too!

The Greatest American Hero
Bosom Buddies
Hawaii 5-0
Moonlighting
LA Law
Our House
All In The Family (my dad WAS Archie Bunker)
Designing Women
The Golden Girls (another tv show that I still watch late at night)
Eight Is Enough

OMG, OUR HOUSE!!!

That's where my brother's love of Shannon Doherty got it's start, and where I first met Wilfred Brimley. Bosom Buddies; who could forget Peter Scolari and Tom Hanks dressing up as women!! Moonlighting connected me to Bruce Willis, but I never really liked the female lead, whose name escapes me at the moment... Oh, Cybil Shepherd... And one of my personal favorites, whose theme song is still kicking around in my head to this day: Greatest American Hero! I used to dream about what it would be like to find a suit like that and have all those powers... I used to jump into my parents' couch at the part in the opening sequence where he flies into a billboard!

I still watch the Golden Girls on cable. I loved Bosom Buddies. Kip was so in love with Sunny Sunny Sunny.

My favorite 70's show was Laverne and Shirley. I loved Lenny and Squiggy. They were so funny. I loved the shows when they would sing. They did a Christmas song about Christmas Eve at the Poorhouse. It was a riot.

Laverne & Shriley were great!!!!! I still love Penny Marshall.
She was in Hocus Pocus... loved her!!!

She was so funny in Hocus Pocus. I loved it when she kicked the witches out.

Remember boo boo kitty?

My favorite TV shows: Simpsons, Quantum Leap, Picket Fences, Soap, Police Squad, Buffy, Friends, Green Acres, 'Allo 'Allo, erm... I'll just stop here for now

Here are some more...

Simon & Simon
Hunter
Hill Street Blues
Cagney & Lacey
Head of the Class
Max Headroom
Fame (was that mentioned already??)
A Different World
It's a Living
Riptide (anyone remember this one???)


For Cartoons:

SilverHawks (this actually premiered during PRIMETIME, but it was a cartoon similar to Thundercats)
Thundercats
Bravestar
Force Five
He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
Rocket Robin-Hood
Hercules

Who's the Boss, Family Ties, and Growing Pains!

My personal faves. Some of these have already been mentioned.

1970's:

The Waltons
Little House on the Praire
Six Million Dollar Man
Wonder Woman (hey, I was just a kid)
Mission Impossible

1980's:

Miami Vice
Crime Story
Hill Street Blues
St. Elsewhere
Magnum P.I.
Simon and Simon

1990's:

Sienfeld
Star Trek tng
Star Trek Deep Space Nine
Star Trek Voyager

2000's:

24
Farscape
Alias
Stargate
Battlestar Galactica
Survivor
Dead Zone

I forgot about Little House on the Prairie. Wow, that was one of my favorites in Elementary school.

I was a HUGE Battlestar Galactica fan. Well, the SciFi channel has done a new mini series, and saw the first part last night. I really liked it!!

My husband loves Farscape. We lost a few of the episodes, so now we don not know what is going on with it.

Mr. Belvadere

Fuscia,
Farscape got canceled after the third season. It was a blow to the Whidden family. We loved that show.

They ended it on a cliff hanger. However, they just announced on SciFi.com this week that they are making a Farscape mini-series to wrap up the show and tie up the loose ends.

No word as yet to which station it will air on. (Even though SciFi posted the message.) Jim Henson inc. is making the show, then will try to sell it to a station.

Did anyone say Fraggle Rock yet?

I didn't catch on to Farscape. It seemed too reminiscent of Buck Rogers to me, so I never fell into it...

I forgot to mention Star Trek TNG, or Voyager. I once liked DS9, but lost interest after a while. When the Dominion storyline came up, I got back into it briefly, but I have to say, I cannot STAND Major Kira... She disgusts me... And I didn't too much like the replacement Trill for Dax either, but then I didn't enjoy the original that greatly for that matter... I liked Captain Sisco, but I found the show to be going nowhere, literally, for too long...

Hey, I learned how to swim from Little House on the Prairie... In the episode where Laura's young boy friend falls out of a tree and into a pond, he's coached by Michael Landon's character. That coaching is what I used to learn how to swim! By the way, that boy ended up starring in one of my faves from the 80's: The Whiz Kids.

One show that they should do a mini-series to complete is Kindred: The Embraced. That show was cancelled, unfortunately, and I would've really liked to see how they could have wrapped that one up...

Also, Space: Above and Beyond should get a mini-series to complete it's run, as it was cancelled too early...

Does anyone remember: You Can't Do That On Television
It was on the Nikelodian channel... one of their original shows!

Sierradaddy,

Yeah, Major Kira was messed up. I liked the show anyway. Me and the wife used to grimace when Odo and Kira started kissing.

That has to be the worst pair up in the history of television.....a butt ugly shape shifter and a cranky butch Bejoran. Ughhhhhhhhh!

I got into the show once Worf came on board.

The thing I loved about Little House on the Prarie was it was uplifting.
Even with someone going blind, or the horse having to be put down or the crop getting wiped out from a hail storm or the barn burning or the kid dying from some desease..........it somehow was positive and uplifting. Go figure!

Wow...

Somehow, I usually gravitated to seeing things from that show the other way...

For me, even the starting of the show, with laura running down the hill (or maybe that was the ending...) seemed kinda depressing somehow... With the older daughter being blind, I felt bad for her, and it caused me to walk around my apartment with myy eyes closed, trying to imagine how terrible her world must've been if she were a real person. That was around the time I first heard of Helen Keller, which made it even worse...

I totally agree with Kira and Odo... That was the epitome of horrific coupling...

The thought of being blind does not bother me too much.

The thought of being deaf does not bother me too much.

But to be like poor Helen Keller, who was blind and deaf, I find that terrifying! That would suck.

If I was blind, I would listen to some music, go outside and hear some nature, that sort of thing. Same with the deaf, go outside and look at nature or watch a movie.

Blind and deaf, your options are shot.

Anyone remember the live-action primetime comedy show about Dinosaurs? I think it was CALLED Dinosaurs... The father worked in construction, there was a little pink baby that was a handful...??

NOT THE MAMA! NOT THE MAMA!

There ya go!! I just remembered that show while on the bus to work the other day... I kinda liked it for a while. I thought that the costumes were really well-done, and the expressions of the characters were extraordinary. The show wasn't always that funny to me, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Anyone else get the feeling that it was a new take on the Flintstones???

Hey, how about Parker Lewis Can't Lose? Corin Nemec starred, and now he's on Stargate SG-1... Remember the Kube??

Wasn't that a take off on the Ferris Bueller movie? I only saw a couple of minutes of it when it came out.

I think your right, it's the guy on Stargate.....

I Loved:
Fraggle Rock
Electric Company
3-2-1 Contact
Little House
Silver Spoons
Facts of Life

Also, does anybody remember "That's Incredible" and another show that was called something like "Real People or Amazing People"?
What about Hee Haw?
Did anyone ever watch Picture Pages with Bill Cosby? (It was an interactive T.V. show and you had workbooks to go along with the program.)

I remember Real People with Sarah Percel. My 9 year old self thought she was hot....

What's Real People about? I don't think I remember it...

I definitely remember Picture Pages.

Picture pages pictures pages,
Time to get your picture pages.
Time to play with crayons and with pencils!

La-la-la-la
La-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la (Don't remember the words here... )
Time to help Bill Cosby make a picture page with you!

Well, that's how I remember it!

Real People was kind of like a cheesy That's Incredible .

It has 3 hosts that went around and did stories on people doing funny things, or weird things, etc.

Sarah Purcell was one of the hosts. I think it did real well the first season, then fizzled.

Does anyone remember, "I'm Audra Lee! See you next time on KID'S BEAT!!"

No one's mentioned WKRP In Cincinatti yet? One of the best sitcoms of all time, especially the first two seasons. Taxi always got higher ratings but WKRP was my favorite.

I was in Love with Bailey from WKRP. She looked good with those eyeglasses.

How old are you Old Scout? I will have to listen to that butter commercial again. I know the ones you are talking about.

Miss Bailey Quarters, ahh yes! Part of the classic conundrum about that show -- who do you want most, Jennifer or Bailey?

Basically the same question about Gilligan's Island -- who do you want most, MaryAnn or Ginger?

MaryAnn almost always wins the voting. Bailey, too.

If you drive I-35 North from the Metroplex, cross into Oklahoma and head towards OKC, you'll soon pass the Purcell Exit. It's one of the early ones, near the Arbuckles. I've driven by there a hundred times and everytime I see that sign, I think of Sarah.

I loved Jonny Fever! Les was pretty funny as well.

Lots of cool shows have already been mentioned by others that I liked too...here are a few others though:

Manimal
The Highwayman (he drove an 18 wheeler w/a helicopter front)
B.J. McKay and his best friend Bear
Sheriff Lobo- the deputy on that show cracked me up
Incredible Hulk
Good Times (DY-NO-MITE)
21 Jump Street
Seaquest DSV
NightStalker (this show was the grandfather of X-files kinda)
Mork & Mindy
Laverne & Shirley (what was the name of the two guy neighbors???)
The Phoenix (starred some blond dude....)

Hmmm...if I think of others I will happily post them

Oh yeah....one more I just rememberd a good show "SOLID GOLD"...with the solid gold dancers and that puppet...LOL

I used to love P.J. and the Bear. I also remember the following ones:

Moonlighting
Wise Guy
A-Team
Adams Family
The Monsters
The Hillbillies
Give me a Break
Different Strokes
I Love Genie
Bewitched
Mel's Dinner
Little House on the Praire
and so on.........

MASH, all the way. Gotta love the four oh double natural.

What about those cartoons like:

He Man
Transformers
Smurfs
Tom & Jerry
Bucks Bunny

I thought those were great!

I was the t.v. guide of my family. I looooved Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck ooooo baby! Thur. 8:00 pm CBS
Charlies Angels was also one of my favories. Wed. 7:00 ABC
Ummmm...what else. I wasn't allowed to watch a lot of stuff like Love Boat. I remember Simon & Simon came on before Magnum.
My dad liked Dallas. My mom liked the Waltons. That is all I can think of for now. I will come back later.

"I'm Audra Lee. See you next time on Kids Beat!" I do a terrific imitation. When I was little I secretly wanted to be her. I particularly enjoyed how she pretty much screamed every word.

HAs anyone mentioned Angie or Chico and the Man or Good Times, or Sanford & Son, Donny & Marie, Sonnie and Cher or more recently (80's) Liquid Television?

Does anyone remember Seaquest? I still miss that one.

I saw a couple of them, it had the guy from Jaws I think. Roy somthing. Shrieder?

It was pretty good.

http://www.mettlerweb.de/composer/seaquest.jpg
I don't believe I ever watched that one.

See the boy on the far left in the above picture? That's Jonathan Brandis, and late last year he committed suicide. Sad stuff. He starred in The Neverending Story II.

My father got the DVD collection of Sanford & Son for Christmas, and he almost CRIED. He's a tough guy, but I guess he REALLY loves that show...

http://www.sakuraland.com/ThornBirds/Images/Videos/megralph10.jpg
What about the Thorn Birds. I loved that mini series. Contriversial at the time but irresistable. To me anyway.

FAMILY FUED! Word to a mutha!

<---------- Hey look, Richard Simmons is a fruit!

The Cosby Show
Full House
Saved By The Bell
Buffy
Charmed
Fresh Prince Of Bel Air

Blossom

I used to love that show. Her older brother in the show, I would've cut off my arms to get a chance with him. Funny, now I don't even remember his name? Joey someone?

Martin
parent Hood
Family Matters
Smart Guy
Boy Meets World
7th Heaven
Steve Harvey Show
Jamie Foxx
Waynes Brothers
Married With Children
Sister, Sister
Scooby Doo

LOL- this is bringing me waaay back! I totally remember watching:

1) Punky Brewster
2) Family Ties
3) Facts of Life
4) Knight Rider
5) Three's Company
6) Silver Spoon
7) My So Called Life
8) Dallas (with my mom and grandmother)
9) Falcon Crest (also with them)

I'm sure there are plenty more, but these are the only ones off the top of my head. Great thread!