While I was lying on the couch earlier today trying to recover from the severe pain I was in last night and trying to sleep I scanned through the channels and I came across a station that was playing really old television shows.
I watched episodes of Lassie, Happy Days, Maude, and All in the family – remember Archie Bunker? I haven’t seen any of those shows in ages! You know, shows like All in the Family are still funny today. Yeah it was a politically incorrect show, but it had it’s funny moments.
It was sad to think that the majority of the cast that I saw on All in the Family are long gone. It just goes to show how old that show really is I guess!
Do you ever scan the channels and stop to watch an old show that you might not have seen since you were a kid?
Last week there was a mini-marathon of “The Bob Newhart Show” (the 70s one, not the 80s). It was great to see how funny they all were. Makes wish I could find the one from the 80s now too!
When I was a kid, Archie Bunker was my dads favorite show. We watched it all the time. I can still hear Archie yelling, “meathead!”
It was a sad day in our house when carol o’conner died.
Happy Days is the one I remember best. Fonzie yelling eeeeehhhh. Incredible how that Ron Howard turned out!
Right now I would love to see some episodes of Who’s the boss or something glamorous like the Love Boat. Yes I’m an 80s child and not afraid to say it!
Oh yes… often!! I loved the old shows… All in the Family being a favorite of mine as well. Let’s see…. there was My Three Sons, Andy Griffith (another favorite of mine), I Dream of Jeannie, Rhoda, I Love Lucy (Ethel & Fred were the best!), Mod Squad, Ed Sullivan, Dr. Kildare. I think I’m aging myself here. I remember my mom loving The Avengers.
OK, the best paced comedy show I ever saw was an episode of Car 54 Where Are You? It was all based around a misunderstanding and it positively zipped along. What can compare today? Nothing I can think of except earlier Simpsons, they used to crackle along too before the writers left. On the subject of old comedy shows, I have a theory that Kelsey Grammar bases a lot of his comedy personna on Fred Gwynne, Herman Munster to you. Watch Fred as Herman act lovable by waving his arms around being big and helpless and therefore being disarming, and watch Kelsey as Frasier waving his arms around looking all lovable and cute. Thing is, both these guys are big guys, and they have to work hard to get away from being threatening because of their size. Watch them one after the other, I theorise that Kelsey gets his licks from Fred.
I also suspect that Brent Spiner who played Data in Start Trek The Next Generation got some of his inspiration from Stan Laurel – but that’s another story!
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Every once in a while I tune into TVLand. Ah, nostalgia….