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

[lemonsharks]

So, so many garbage forensics shows and copaganda

Unsolved Mysteries - original run
America's Most Wanted
The New Detectives
Forensic Files
Cold Case Files
Justice Files
WAY too much Trinity Broadcasting Network (I shared a room with my grandma and that was her choice of show)
Hunter
Matlock
Columbo

Plus:

Muppet Babies

Inspector Gadget

Eureeka's Castle

The Magical World of Richard Scarey

Allegra's Window

Gullah Gullah Island (my FAVE, and, probably responsible for both a lot of little Black children feeling like people and for a lot of little white children seeing their Black peers as people for the first time. also there was a giant frog muppet.)

The Brothers Garcia

Pete & Pete

Salute Your Shorts

Hey, Dude! (The first show I remember actually addressing the oppression of Indigenous people and theft of their land and sacred artifacts, with a real! live! Indigenous! Actor!)

Bizarrely, I also got a good lot of Bananas in Pyjamas despite living in Las Vegas at the time. Along with Power Rangers (boring) and Beetle Borgs (FLAWLESS).

[rosefox]

Inspector Gadget! Yes! Next time, Gadget... next time...!

[lemonsharks]

Someday I will have a fluffy gray tabby called MAD Cat, who deserved a better owner.

Penny is definitely the source of my bulletproof fem-aligned people competence kink

[alessandriana]

Beetle Borgs (FLAWLESS)

Agreed.

Power Rangers (boring)

*starts rolling up sleeves* Now you lISTEN HERE

I joke.
...mostly.

[lemonsharks]

Nah I just got power rangers at a super I AM GIRLY GIRL GIRL GIRL GIRL phase and they were A BOY SHOW and thus boring. Gotta love that 7 and under child logic.

Beetle borgs I started watching at almost-9 when I was looking for more butt kickery and it was exactly what I desired (and also was on right before Garfield and Friends)

[alessandriana]

I was 8 or thereabouts when PR came on and I distinctly remember that I thought I was too old for it. And it was for boys. So I pretended I wasn't watching it, I just happened to be in the room while a friend's younger brother had it on...

[silveradept]

Muppet Babies! (Absolutely, and the grown-up ones are just as good. I wish there were a collection somewhere of Muppet Babies to be had because they were right before the wave of animation being cool again and helped bring it back.)

Gadget! Which makes so much more sense if you think of him as a cyborg Agent 86/Maxwell Smart.