I grew up with TV series and movies of the late 50's and 60's.

Yeah, they are "corny" by today's standards but I expect them to be that way. Acting techniques, scripts, directors, special effects and audience expectations have evolved.

I try to put myself in the time period a movie or TV series was set as well as the time period in which it was made. Makes it much more enjoyable and enables you to see some things that were truly remarkable in their time.

Much like cars. I really enjoy the muscle and sports cars of that same era. But, compared to cars of today they are almost laughable in performance and comfort. But if you evaluate them in context of the time and technology of when they were built, you'll get much more enjoyment and appreciation out of them.

Today's TV and movies are often much too graphic in my opinion. I consider and expect TV and Movies to be entertainment. Too much realism and graphic content, particularly in certain subjects, is not entertaining. See enough of that in the daily news.

No body had TV when I was growing up in the 30's & 40's. But we had radio for the kids. Came on about 4PM, had to do my chores & homework before I could listen. Jack Armstrong, the All American Boy was one. Another one had an offer for a decoder ring, needed 2 box tops & 25 cents I think sent to Battle Creek, Mi. The ring was a cheap junky thing that didn't work half the time.Then the Lone Ranger show came on later. My grandfather & I would listen every week. Inner Sanctum & I Love a Mystery came on about bed time. This was during WW2 mostly. Good memories.

I find the older programs more "mature" for lack of a better word and less insulting to my intelligence. And in better taste.
There was an actor named Roy Barcroft. He was the "heavy" and the "barins heavy" in many old serials, westerns, etc. It has been said of him that he understood how important those movies were to the kids, he took his roles seriously and he insisted his fellow actors do so as well.

That was a GREAT ('70s?) cheesy TV movie! I was really starting to get into helicopters back then. Other than in "Where Eagles Dare" you didn't see many Alouette IIs outside of reference books.

Of course the best thing was the soundtrack. I've been a fan of swing music ever since I saw it, especially "Sing, Sing, Sing".

Corny? If'n yore callin Dan'l Boone corny, me and old Mingo will be a heading your way with our freshly sharpened tommy hawks! Nah, nothing corny about many of those old shows.

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Nah, it's WAY too close to Bazhanov!

Trust me, I've read more books on the purges than some people here have read books on guns!

I grew up in the 70's and 80's and my parents did not willingly allow me to watch "Benny Hill" wich back then was a late night thing unlike todays anything and everything availability. I would sneak downstairs and catch a midnite showing of the show. Now days the humor is so corny and tame that the younger than me crowd doesn't get it.

"Monty Python" hit Chicago public TV when I was in high school. In the most racist city in the country, you could see Catholic schoolboys of every race, ethnicity and religion standing around together talking like elderly Cockney housewives, crying out "albatross!" and singing the wonders of Spam.

The "Piranha Brothers" sketch is a brilliant example of something which holds up over the decades. As a high school kid, it was just a silly skit about British gangsters. Then in the late '80s, the movie "The Krays" came out. I never saw the movie, but I heard the reviews on NPR, and I felt a eerie sense of deja vu. Then I realized that the Piranha brothers were actually the Krays! From their use of bizarre weapons, to their rockstar status, to one of the brothers being a sadistic, psychopathic homosexual, it was all just parody of the actual Kray brothers.

They've been showing "Python" on IFC lately. I still haven't come across the "Naughty Vicar" sketch (the rarest of all, even rarer than their spoken German pilot for German TV), but I'm still hoping...

I always thought it was a play on words of Boris Godunov. Tsar in the late 1500s. Boris Godunov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Anyone remember Tennessee Jed? It was sort of a Tom Mix wannabe, but I loved the beginning:

(sound of runing feet)
"There he goes, Tennessee. Get 'em."
"POW"
Another voice, with satisfaction: "Got 'em, Daaaid center".

That wouldn't last two seconds in today's climate.

I watch andy griffin all the time still now.but I remember the monkees,charlies angels, they could hit someone 100yds away with a snubby. streets of san francisco,cannon,harry O,beretta,I loved the outter limits and the invaders, mission impossible,adam 12,emergency,also watched trapper john md.quincy,night stalker,mash,batman,Ftroop,have gun will travel,mccloud,the munsters,leave it to beaver,gunsmoke,bonanza, I spy, I know I left some out I used to watch,I still watch them or buy them if I can way way better than the **** today. and I forgot the three stooges I got all them on dvd and the little rascals.

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Don't forget about Bonanza.......Gunsmoke.....My dad would beat you if you talked or got into a fight with the little brother during Gunsmoke, nothing was so important that it couldn't wait till after Gunsmoke.....

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I'm 51, and as a kid I watched "Gilligan's Island", "Star Trek", "McHale's Navy", "Dark Shadows", "Andy Griffith", "Petticoat Junction" and a few others on a fairly regular basis. I liked 'em then and like 'em now. But the stuff kids see today can't hold a candle, in my opinion. The silliness they had then doesn't bother me much, it is Hollywood, after all. Check your realism at the door.

I've been watching the old black and white Gunsmoke shows most every day. One a day on Netflix. I'm on season 10 as of now.....

These old shows are better than anything offered on TV today.

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Talk about nastalgia. I forgot about this thread. I got that box set of The Wild Wild West and am slowly watching each episode in order. They are great! Even though every episode is identical with a different villian, I am really getting a kick out of it. The vibrant colors and campiness brings me back to my youth where we only had three channels. Robert Conrad sometimes wears a green outfit. Green! And he pulls it off.

Season 1 of Police Story gets released on DVD Sep. 6th at Amazon. Not that I pre-ordered it or anything.

"Gre-eee-en Acres Is The Place For Me." Lisa and her "Hots-cakes".

The Addams Family (and that incredible train layout).
Sanford and Son. "It's the big one, Lizbeth"
Combat. Rat Patrol (I always wanted one of those Aussie hats)

Rocky and Bullwinkle and The Beverly Hillbillies; pure, unadulterated mindless entertainment. Just what I want from television. If I want to be informed, I'll read a newspaper or a book.

Great TZ episode. But I'm pretty sure it was Andy Devine. I have the TZ Complete Definitive Collection. Even has commercials for Gunsmoke and other shows. Plus, Mr. Serling selling Chesterfield cigarettes.

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Barney Miller. Most realistic cop show ever IMHO. You NEVER know what's going to walk in the door...

Muppets--exactly the right dose of insanity to decompress after a tough day.

A year or so ago my wife bought me set of "Rat Patrol" which I had never watched, even when it was in production. Talk about just plain awful...I watched part of it and finally had to give up.

Soooo true! and I could watch that show and identify the guys I worked with......

The shows of the 50's were better to me than those of the 60's. I enjoyed Amos & Andy, Highway Patrol, Colt 45, Have gun Will Travel and many more.

I remember "Tennessee Jed". I think it was on radio 1946-1948.
T.V. Rawhide with Clint Eastwood and Eric Flemming (drowned in a South America river filming a movie).
I liked "Laugh In" and "Boots and Saddle".

McHales Navy and Get Smart still make me chuckle now but for different reasons.

Rat Patrol is still awsome and I miss the man from U.N.C.L.E.

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NCIS' Abby to Gibbs:
"I wonder who Ducky looked like when he was younger?"

Gibbs (with his characteristic smirk):
"Illya Kuryakin."

This morning I'm watching "The Rifleman" series on AMC. This show was before my time (I'm 44), but I remember watching the show as a teenager when I lived in Texas. Is it possible to be nostalgic about a time (late '50's early '60's) when you weren't even alive. If so, I believe I'm feeling it watching this show.

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Superman, running around the house with a towel pinned at the neck.

The Colgate Comedy Hour isn't on any more?
Say it isn't so

What's next? No Groucho?

BTW - Is What's My Line still on? I might drag the TV up from the attic and put the antenna back up to see Kitty Carlisle again

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Let's see Night Rider, yes corny, so is any of the other early shows from the 1980's.

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The cheesy movie channel here runs a block of vintage programming in the wee hours morning - usually two or three episodes of The Outer Limits (not my favorite, but funny seeing famous actors in their early years) Mister Ed, and the Patty Duke Show.

Which is okay filler, I guess. But I stick around for Highway Patrol and Sea Hunt...where there's usually shooting of some kind, and somebody loses the fight when their air hose gets cut.

Still beats the stuff they run during the daylight hours.

I have gomer pyle USMC and rat patrol.I like both of them.and I love andy so I have all of it on dvd.

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This show is great. Lots of really good guest stars and lots of shooting and fantastic holsters on the bad guys. Lucas McCain can just give up ranching and open a gun/tack shop selling all the guns and gear from all the guys he kills. When one or a group of guys ride into town wearing vests and gunbelts and there's that sinister music in the first five minutes, it's a pretty good guess they will be perforated with 44-40 bullets twenty minutes later. And McCain won't even buy his kid a rifle! Not even a pellet gun! Sheesh!
Here's my favorite scene from my favorite episode...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddFqDq8LyKI

Yep, I loved Chuck Connors in 'The Rifleman'. As a kid, I thought his son, 'Mark', had to be the luckiest boy alive!
Also, SWORE, one day I'd own a '92 Winchester! (I do)

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I miss Adam West's "Batman". Vincent Price as the Eggman, Frank Gorsham, Ceaser Romero, and Julie Newmar and Julie Newmar (I was only 10-12)!

I really like Lawman on Encore Western, even if my wife makes fun of me. I also tape Highway Patrol, although I've never seen anything but Colt revolvers on that show.

Ed Sullivan Show

77 Sunset Strip

Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Naked City

Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Wonderful World of Disney

The Twilight Zone

The Untouchables

Sky King

Have Gun Will Travel

Hawaiian Eye

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Dusty's Trail

Taxi

Odd Couple

Banana Splits, Tom of T.H.U.M.B. (vs. M.A.D. - Malajusted, Anti-social, and Darn mean), Adam Ant, Land of the Lost, Milton the Monster.

80's - Buck Rogers in the 25 century (Wilma Derring), Mathew Starr, Battlestar Galactica

"Petticoat Junction" was one of the first T.V. shows where I realized that girls were for lookin' at!!

Netflix has a lot of the old T.V. shows out, including "The Untouchables".

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We didn't have TV in the '30's & '40's when I was growing up. But the radio shows were what we listened to. Lone Ranger, Inner Sanctum, Jack Armstrong, All American Boy,Burns & Allen, Jack Benny Show, & others I can't bring to mind. My folks got a TV in 1948. TV was on one hour at night then. We watched the Paul Whiteman Show then.