TV shows you used to love.

[Sahara]

China Beach. Tour of Duty. Mash before it got preachy. WKRP. Mary Tyler Moore. More as I think of them.

 

[Kern Dog]

"MASH, before it got preachy".
I never watched the show regularly. What happened?

 

[72redbird]

Dukes of Hazard
Hogan's Heros
Justified

 

[Skytrooper]

Saturday morning cartoons
Car 54 Where are you
Lost in Space
WKRP
Scrubs
BaaBaa Black Sheep
Dragnet
Adam 12

 

[moparedtn]

"MASH, before it got preachy".
I never watched the show regularly. What happened?

The early couple years of the series, it followed the theme of the very popular movie it was based on
which was a lot of comedy, with some drama mixed in here and there.
When Wayne Rogers left and Mike Farrell replaced him - and especially as Alan Alda got more say
in the production of the show - the comedy gradually took a back seat and every episode turned into
a "lesson" of some sort, with lots of intentional angst and remorse sort of stuff.
It got "darker", in a word.

 

[ricks_RR]

rat patrol

 

[Sahara]

"MASH, before it got preachy".
I never watched the show regularly. What happened?

For the first few seasons it was a comedy. Then they made Allen Alda a producer and every episode had to have a “message” and comedy became secondary.

 

[moparedtn]

For the first few seasons it was a comedy. Then they made Allen Alda a producer and every episode had to have a “message” and comedy became secondary.

I wish I had said that....

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Budnicks]

Many here won't know (too young to remember)
Flip Wilson, Red Skelton, Red Foxx show, Carol Burnett, even Sonny & Sher
I hate Sher now, with a passion, but in the early years she was tolerable
& Sonny was actually funny
All variety shows & comedic stand-up stuff
Back when the country wasn't 'offended by everything'
& Comedy was actually funny, much of it even self-deprecating...

 

[Kern Dog]

The Carol Burnett show with Harvey Korman!

 

[Budnicks]

Saturday morning cartoons
Car 54 Where are you
Lost in Space
WKRP
Scrubs
BaaBaa Black Sheep
Dragnet
Adam 12

all good ones from yesteryear

I never watched Scrubs

the rest I saw/watched regularly

 

[Budnicks]

"MASH, before it got preachy".
I never watched the show regularly. What happened?

Alan Alda gained a bunch of creative control & ruined it...

 

[Pops1967GTX]

The Carol Burnett show with Harvey Korman!

 

[PlymCrazy]

Many here won't know (too young to remember)
... even Sonny & Sher

Pulling a @Kern Dog here, but I remember the Cher with a "C" not an "S". We talking about the same one?

@Budnicks be saying...

 

[moparedtn]

Pulling a @Kern Dog here, but I remember the Cher with a "C" not an "S". We talking about the same one?

@Budnicks be saying...

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My mama used to refer to her as "the bellowing cow".

 

[DeltaV]

All In The Family
Andy Williams
Ed Sullivan
Hee Haw
Outer Limits
Laugh-In
M*A*S*H
Night Gallery
Porter Wagoner
Star Trek
Starsky & Hutch
Twilight Zone

Also, as far as cartoon shows go:

Bugs Bunny
Bullwinkle
Dastardly & Muttley
Foghorn Leghorn
Jetsons
Jonny Quest
Pink Panther
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

 

[ESOXER]

Burn Notice

AFV...
Needs a new host, Alphonso sucks.

 

[Kern Dog]

Bob Saget, the original host of Americas Funnniest Videos was a smarmy, dorky and annoying guy.
I never liked that guy.

 

[eldubb440]

mentioned in another thread...... I'm not a TV guy, but "My Name is Earl" is extremely good