T.V. Shows From Your Youth. Are They Corny Now?

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Sometimes some obscure channel will play some old TV show that I loved in the sixties (I'm 53). But seeing them now they don't knock me out anymore or really make me feel all nalstalgic.
Well, my favorite show was the Wild Wild West. The entire box set goes for around $80, a little less used. I'm wondering if I got this it wouldn't turn me on like it did when I was a kid or seem lame now. This show was tongue in cheek and campy, like Lost In Space, and I like that aspect of it now. So I'm not just talking about being spoiled with the high tech computer generated Sci-Fi stuff that's out there now. How do you feel about these old shows from your youth. Do they still work for you now?
 
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I still like "Leave it to Beaver". But stuff like Red Skelton and Danny Kaye make me feel creepy. I always thought slap-stick and funny faces were stupid after I was 10 year old. I had an Uncle who would still think Clem Kaddlehopper was the funnist thing in the world and giggle his A$$ off, but I would just look at him and think "what the hell are you laughing at"? Even shows like McHales Navy leave me cold. How did Tim Conway ever get that job? On the other side of the coin, I think Don Knotts was very talented.
 
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Funny,Wyatt feels the same way about the Wild Wild West as I do.I liked it as a kid,I don't care for it now.McHales Navy didn't do it for me as a kid but I like it now..

D.G.
 
I always enjoyed Commando Cody each week. There was a western titled, Donovan that I enjoyed as well.

Sky King inspired me to get all my pilot license and ratings.
 
I am dissatisfied with today's youth programing. My 6 year old is fed a steady diet of "Leave it to Beaver", "Bewitched", "The Brady Bunch", "The Beverly Hillbillies" and anything else from the era that I can find. She loves the old Batman series as well.

Myself, I love the old cop/detective dramas. Burk's Law is a favorite, 77 Sunset Strip, Surf Side Six, Bourbon Street Beat and Dragnet. I also never pass up Mission Impossible. Retro-TV is where I find most of these, along with American Life Network.
 
Yes they were corny were but they beat the current vacuous TV shows like a drum!
 
I did not like Wild Wild West when it was new, and still don't. I liked Hogans Heros in the day but not so much any more. Still like Combat, Twilight Zone and Star Trek though. Death Valley Days is also still very watchable, though hard to find.
 
My 5 and 8 year olds are watching Bullwinkle now, on dvd. I find many of the shows from my youth holding up pretty well; some are even better this time around as the campiness is appealing, like Three's Company.
 
They were just as corny to me back then as they are now. The only thing the current moronic TV shows have over the old ones is the technology advantage of better quality video, better special effects, and a much more frequent use of foul language, bare skin, and bad manners that a dumbed down majority of todays viewers seem to enjoy. The actors and the writing is just as bad as it was in the 50s and 60s.
 
Well, I found some stuff on U-tube and I loved what I saw. The music, the colors, everything brought back the good old days when I watched this every Friday night. Don't laugh, but this warm feeling came over me just hearing the theme song. I think I loved this show so much I'll still like it now. I'll go watch some more.
 
Here are some I remember, all "Westerns."

Davey Crockett, w/Fess Parker
Have Gun Will Travel w/ Richard Boone (was in "Big Jake" with the Duke
Gunsmoke w/ James Arness
Rawhide w/somebody and Clint Eastwood
Wagon Train w/the Duke's roomate @ USC
 
Oh, and Wyatt Earp w/?? can't remember his name either

The Lone Ranger (I was very young!)
 
There are 249 episodes of The Andy Griffith Show. I taped all of them. Best show ever.
I am a "24" addict today, but prior to that the most recent new show I watched was Seinfeld. Nothing else interests me in the slightest.
 
I just can't watch "Hogan's Heroes" or "The Beverly Hillbillies" anymore. The only thing that allows me to even think about watching "I Dream of Jeannie" or "Bewitched" is the female leads.

As far as "The Wild Wild West" goes, I can still watch that, because the stories were often clever and inventive, and it was a showcase for the great character actors of the 1960s, such as Victor Buono and Michael Dunn, the two greatest villians, Count Manzeppi and Miguelito Loveless, of the show.
 
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