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I've been a couch commander for over 2 weeks in the run up to and post surgery, not something I'm used to. The post surgery has been some of the worst times I've had, but that's another story.

I'm not a couch guy, but I've grown thankful and so happy to have the quality TV you can can find on TV Land. Week days it's Gunsmoke, Bonanza, then M.A.S.H. Morning's are Lucy and Andy. I miss those days and shows, shows that had a message, you laugh at the stuff Hoss and Little Joe get into, Hawkeye is a riot, Andy was the Man.

We lost a lot when it went to the drivel that's on now. Pregnant trash, reality trash, immoral filth.

You can keep your progress, I'd go back to watching Carson, the old Westerns and TV at my Grandparents in a flash and the Country go back with it. The Christmas's with 70 people just enjoying each others company, casserole dishes, desserts and each other around a fire at the Lion's Club building.

I'm afraid we lost this country and it's soul 30 years ago and it's never coming back. Please forgive a guy who's getting older reminisces and longings, I'm feeling old and nostalgic today.

I thought there might be a few of you out there who are old enough to remember along with me.
 
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TV Land used to be a place of refuge.

I still like watching it when I can catch Bonanza or Gunsmoke.

I do have Me-TV.

They show a lot of old shows. (Sanford and Son, All in the Family)

My all time favorite show is The Andy Griffith Show. I've seen them thousands of times yet I keep on laughing.

Did you know the street that Mayberry was on was the same set they filmed the "Adventures of Superman" of the 50's?

And it is the same set a couple episodes of Star Trek was filmed on.

This s a great website for Mayberry fans.

A little depressing to know its all gone now.

40 Acres - The Lost Studio Backlot of Movie & Television Fame - The Desilu Years
 
Scan for MeTV as well!!! Big Valley, Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, Lost In Space, Batman, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, ...

S&W45Colt said:
I've been a couch commander for over 2 weeks in the run up to and post surgery, not something I'm used to. The post surgery has been some of the worst times I've had, but that's another story.

I'm not a couch guy, but I've grown thankful and so happy to have the quality TV you can can find on TV Land. Week days it's Gunsmoke, Bonanza, then M.A.S.H. Morning's are Lucy and Andy. I miss those days and shows, shows that had a message, you laugh at the stuff Hoss and Little Joe get into, Hawkeye is a riot, Andy was the Man.

We lost a lot when it went to the drivel that's on now. Pregnant trash, reality trash, immoral filth.

You can keep your progress, I'd go back to watching Carson, the old Westerns and TV at my Grandparents in a flash and the Country go back with it. The Christmas's with 70 people just enjoying each others company, casserole dishes, desserts and each other around a fire at the Lion's Club building.

I'm afraid we lost this country and it's soul 30 years ago and it's never coming back. Please forgive a guy who's getting older reminisces and longings, I'm feeling old and nostalgic today.

I thought there might be a few of you out there who are old enough to remember along with me.
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I must be the only one that never cared for Bonanza or Big Valley, but really liked Sky King, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin , Rawhide, Jeff's Collie, The Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid, Wagon Train, Dragnet, and least we forget The Twilight Zone, and Star Trek from latter years..
 
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I must be the only one that never cared for Bonanza or Big Valley, but really liked Sky King, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin , Rawhide, Jeff's Collie, The Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid, Wagon Train, Dragnet, and least we forget The Twilight Zone, and Star Trek from latter years..
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All great shows.

Don't forget The Rifleman.

Still funny to watch the whole show and it wraps up in about 30 seconds right before the end!
 
Boys I agree with your previous comments. Now for a little trivia, only from your fertile imaginations. Can you name 3 of the 4 original cast of "The Hit Parade"? No fair usin google. For some reason those folks stuck in my mind as a young man. My Grandmother loved that show and thusly we had to watch it. We only had one tv station in those days in Shreveport, La., so it was not like we had a choice. Then along came Arthur Godfrey and Mickey Mouse Club (I was in love with Annette Funichello). Oh well, sure glad we still have TV Land. I just finished watching a George Rath Mystery on TCM. Like OP said, you can have this other drivel.
 
When I was working my partner and I would watch Me TV later on in the shift. First we'd watch Combat, then 12 O'Clock High, and then The Honeymooners. In addition to being entertaining, it kept the "kids" on the road because non of them can watch a B&W show. ;)

One thing we noticed about 12 O'Clock High is that it seemed that Picadilly Lily was shot down every other week. We figured that the Allies could have won the war a year earlier if they could have kept Gallagher out of the cockpit!
 
I'm going on 76, and can only partly agree with you guys. I don't watch series TV these days--haven't since "NYPD Blue" closed down. Certainly never watch any of the dung that's falsely called "reality" television. But I find a lot of good stuff to watch in the form of documentaries, nature programming, historical things like the excellent "The Revolutionary War" mini-series that Charles Kuralt narrated, the "History Exposed" things narrated by Heston, and so on.

Andy Griffith was great. Later, Carol Burnett's show was wonderful. The old "Your Show Of Shows" was good stuff, and Ernie Kovacs was thirty years ahead of his time. But there was also dreck like "My Little Margie" and other shows that portrayed old Dad as a hapless chump.

Point is, over the years I've always found programming I could enjoy. "Barney Miller", and "Taxi", and "WKRP In Cincinnati" (I worked for a small radio station many years ago--I knew those characters). "Homicide: A Life On The Street". "Hill Street Blues". There has always been some quality stuff, even if some of the language and situations have become somewhat more raw.

Some of the old shows still play well. Many absolutely do not, in my opinion.

I guess as I near the Big Exit I prefer to live in the present, troubling as the present is in many ways. The good old days weren't always good either.

On the other hand, I still love older revolvers, lever action rifles and side-by-side double shotguns. Some things are timeless!
 
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Amos and Andy was taken off of the air in 1966 due to pressure from the NAACP. Whatever the problem they had with it the end of every episode had the good guys, Amos or Andy getting the last laugh. The good guys always came out on top.

That is a recurring theme in the old shows, I love to watch Perry Mason late at night, good always wins. The Rifleman, Gunsmoke, The Honeymooners, The Beverly Hillbillies, Andy, good always wins. :):):)

Some of them still mention God and faith and honor too. :eek:
 
Didn't that happen to the original Little Rascals too?

Come to think of it, we don't see Road Runner cartoons anymore either.
 
I remember Sundays on the Christian Broadcasting network. We all gathered in the family room and started watching Westerns all day long. I remember part of their Sunday lineup were shows like: The Cisco Kid, The Lone Ranger, The Rifleman, Rin Tin Tin, Sky King, F-Troop, Gunsmoke, Wanted Dear or Alive, Rawhide, Wagon Train and I cant recall the rest. The day of Tv shows ended at 7PM after The Big Valley ended-and then they would have two Western movies after that.
 
When I was a kid, and even into high school (graduated 1969) we had a black and white television and three channels. It was also the only TV we had in the house. Some of the other kids had color TVs, and on occasion I'd be at their houses and see what the opening of the Disney show looked like in color!

I miss good, clean fun TV like the Dick Van Dyke show, I Love Lucy, and many others. The 50s and 60s (at least the early 60s) seem like a much better time, in retrospect. It's hard to believe what you see on network TV these days, almost full nudity, and there are few (if any) moral examples to be found.

We didn't have cell phones, computers, FaceBook, twitter, video games, and so on...we played outside, we played sports, and we respected and obeyed parents, teachers, and officials in general. I think the late 60s ended the innocence of many, and forever changed America....and not for the better. :(
 
I miss the good ol days of TV as well. Now-mostly if I watch anything? its on DvD.

I also greatly remember the days with only 3 TV channels-exluding local PBS station.
 
Y'all are bringing back the memories

When I hear this rundown I don't see how Newton Minow could have been right calling TV a 'vast wasteland'. Sure there was plenty of junk on, but I don't call any of these shows 'junk'. Especially still enjoying them 57 years later.
 
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