Childhood TV Nostalgia Poll and Discussion

[rachelmanija]

Poll beneath cut.

Poll #24813 Childhood Nostalgia TV Poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 176

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When I was a kid, I watched (in re-runs or when originally aired)...

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The Brady Bunch
74 (42.0%)

Bewitched
90 (51.1%)

The Mahabharata
2 (1.1%)

The Ramayana
0 (0.0%)

Robotech
18 (10.2%)

Cosmos with Carl Sagan
32 (18.2%)

The Waltons
28 (15.9%)

The Twilight Zone
46 (26.1%)

Star Trek: The Original Series
86 (48.9%)

Star Trek: Next Generation
81 (46.0%)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
42 (23.9%)

Star Trek: Voyager
32 (18.2%)

Max Headroom
27 (15.3%)

M*A*S*H
84 (47.7%)

Doctor Who (which incarnation?)
45 (25.6%)

Dungeons & Dragons
24 (13.6%)

Max Headroom
26 (14.8%)

Land of the Lost
27 (15.3%)

The Animals of Farthing Wood
8 (4.5%)

The Wizard
4 (2.3%)

Probe
10 (5.7%)

Scarecrow & Mrs. King
34 (19.3%)

Murder, She Wrote
64 (36.4%)

He-Man
55 (31.2%)

She-Ra
51 (29.0%)

Dark Shadows
16 (9.1%)

Mystery! (credit sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAmGsM4Dids)
29 (16.5%)

Sesame Street
120 (68.2%)

Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
98 (55.7%)

Sonny & Cher
26 (14.8%)

Sapphire & Steel
6 (3.4%)

Remington Steele
38 (21.6%)

The X-Files
45 (25.6%)

The Simpsons
49 (27.8%)

Quantum Leap
48 (27.3%)

Beauty and the Beast
35 (19.9%)

The Wonder Years
43 (24.4%)

Mission Impossible
28 (15.9%)

Lassie
24 (13.6%)

My Mother, The Car
4 (2.3%)

Strange Luck
8 (4.5%)

Horrifying public service announcements about drunk driving and so forth
58 (33.0%)

Threads, and I am now scarred for life
3 (1.7%)

Never mind actual shows, let me tell you about the weird commercials of my time!
15 (8.5%)

I didn't watch TV as a child because it didn't exist back then
0 (0.0%)

I didn't watch TV as a child because it was banned or we didn't own a television
11 (6.2%)

Wildly inappropriate late-night movies
22 (12.5%)

Something very popular in my country which you didn't name because you didn't grow up there
21 (11.9%)

Something so weird that maybe I hallucinated it
9 (5.1%)

Something else which I will describe in comments
33 (18.8%)

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Comments

[yhlee]

I watched tons of Army/American propaganda because AFKN (Armed Forces Korea Network, pretty much the only English-language TV available in S Korea at the time) did not HAVE commercials. They only had propaganda infomercials. I learned at an impressionable age that if I was ever captured by the enemy, I was only to give out my name (yes), rank (hahahahaha), and serial number (?!?!). Also that if you are feeling suicidal, you should go to the chaplain or something for help.

[rachelmanija]

Hahahahaha! At least the suicidal part was useful.

[yhlee]

Actually, aside from the obvious PATRIOTISM!!!! bias, the infomercials were surprisingly good! There was stuff on domestic violence (!) and getting help, health care and getting help, and a fun series called "Back to the Drawing Board" that was like two-minute presentations on great ideas that became really, really, really terrible and unworkable inventions.

someone writes about other AFN commercials (some of these sound like they were after my time, haha)

Oh, and occasionally there were spotlights on minor military heroes - not the really big famous ones but I remember there was once one on a Major? John Jernstad and there was a kid in our class named John Jernstad so the next day at school EVERYONE teased him about it and he was pleased as punch about it. XD

[rachelmanija]

a fun series called "Back to the Drawing Board" that was like two-minute presentations on great ideas that became really, really, really terrible and unworkable inventions.

That sounds really fun.

[carbonel]

I remember something like that "Back to the Drawing Board" that I associate with a cartoon -- maybe Tennessee Tuxedo? Does that sound familiar?

[rilina]

The infomercials! Great moments in American military history! (thunk)