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

[rattfan]

I also watched Skippy [The Bush Kangaroo] but you maybe had to be in Australia for that one. As with the book poll, though, I was an adult for a lot of these. I suspect I'm old.

Among American offerings I don't see here: Time Tunnel and Gilligan's Island!

The late night inappropriates were SF and horror films from the '50s to '70s which were the start of me being an sf fan. TV had only just begun to run through the night, yes, I'm old enough to remember the Test pattern when programming ended each evening. So my brother and I would sneak out of bed to watch these things; a rare example of total cooperation, because neither of us wanted our mother to wake up. [Dad not in the picture so we only had to elude one parent].

[stranger]

Oh, yes! Those, and:
Addams Family (I didn't like The Munsters, but millions did.)
I Dream of Jeannie
Mr. Ed
My Favorite Martian
and anything similar that was twisting the '50s nuclear family by way of fantasy tropes.

Also The Man from UNCLE, the lighter side of the Cold War. I missed I Spy, but I wish I hadn't. I caught up with Danger Man and Bond later. UNCLE in particular introduced a generation of pre- and early-teen girls to the Sexy Foreigner, which blossomed into American screaming-audience fascination with The Beatles a year or two later.

I'm too old to have seen Sesame Street not as an adult...

[musesfool]

And Green Acres....is the place for me! and Andy Griffith as well.

[down]

I watched Skippy in the UK - I still occasionally get the theme stuck in my head!

[davidgillon]

"What's that, Skippy? Sonny's stuck in the well? Again?!?"

Definitely available in the UK. I can't remember what the Skippy/Lassie lookalike with dolphins was called. And there was Daktari, about a family with a safari park in Africa, IIRC

Time Tunnel ran in the UK as well.

[rattfan]

Flipper! Slightly more believable in that you can train a dolphin (g). They had about 20 kangaroos on Skippy. For shots where she had to stand still for the camera, you had somebody out of shot hanging on to her tail for dear life. And of course the fake paw for up close shots where Skippy did something intelligent.

[davidgillon]

Flipper! Of course it was!

[lemonsharks]

We got Skippy in the US! it was syndicated through Nickelodeon!