Nostalgic TV shows.

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We recently changed from DirecTV to Verizon FiOS, and now we have channels that play really old shows that I grew up with. Anyone remember:

Columbo
McMillan and Wife
McCloud
Gunsmoke
Bewitched
Beverly Hillbillies
Dick Van Dyke Show
Barney Miller
The Honeymooners

We are having a BLAST!!!!!
 
I remember Bewitched, my sister watched that.

For me, definitely Lost. I know it's not exactly a long time ago (though I did start watching it when I was 14, now I'm 19, so it kinda seems like a long time ago to me) but it's very nostalgic to me. The best tv show ever, I am so obsessed with Lost. :D
 
And I love the Disney's classics as well! I love my Direct TV!

Emergency! Randy Mantooth was a hunky! A real cheesy show!
Adam 12
Batman
Superman
Bonanza
I Love Lucy



I noticed in the 70's, there was a lot of cowboys and police shows. Now they have pot on TV, more like soap opera kind of theme.
 
The hubby is currently on a 'Rawhide' kick. I used to watch this show as a kid just to see the horses and cattle. Today, I find the show rather lacking and realize what terrible horseback riders the drovers actually were.

However, I googled information about the show and learned several amazing facts. Rawhide is based on a true story where one man decided to transport a large herd from Texas to Missouri. I think he started with 1,000 steer and arrived with 300. This man did write a diary which the show is loosely based on. His main complaint was the cattle spooked and stampeded on a regular basis.

Eric Fleming who played Mr. Favor was killed in 1966 at the age of 41 while shooting a movie in Peru. He drowned after being tossed from a canoe. He worked at Paramount as a laborer after running away at 8 years of age from an abusive father. He also served in the Navy as a SeaBee and was a master carpenter. (I researched SeaBees and took an amazing trip into naval history) He had several plastic surgeries on his face after lifting a two hundred pound object on a dare. He never married and never had children.

Not that anybody needed to know this but I have fun learning about actors in these forgotten shows.

My next project is the man who played 'Wishbone'. He's such a cantankerous old coot!
 
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I love the Columbo show. My mom would watch it when she and my dad were first married. He was in the military so she spent a lot of time alone. A couple years ago she bought several seasons of Columbo on DVD and we watched them. And the Dick van Dyke show is always a riot!
 
I love MASH (I had a thing for Hawkeye), Gilligan's Island ( I had a thing for the professor, lol), I Love Lucy, Happy Days (The Fonz), Fat Albert, Laverne & Shirley, The 3 Stooges, The Benny Hill Show, Hee Haw, Quincy, and several other shows I can't recall right now. Mhmmmm.
 
I love those older shows, so much better than what's on now days. We have a lot of our favorites on DVD (just got in Leave It To Beaver last week
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). Next on my list is The Dick Van Dyke Show; I used to love watching the reruns of it when I was little. It comes on in the mornings on TV Land; it's been fun watching the episodes all over again. My mom's really been in to watching one of her old favorite shows lately, In the Heat of the Night.
 
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