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

[loligo]

Post-Soviet TV broke my brain once: we were visiting my mom's relatives in Latvia in 1991, and there was a Mexican telenovela that everyone was crazy about. Our cousins insisted we all had to watch it. The vocal track was the original Spanish and there were Russian subtitles, and my cousins were translating every line of dialogue into Latvian for my mom. I knew some of each language but wasn't fluent in any of them, but at the time Russian was my best, because I had taken two years in college. I tried just to focus on the subtitles, but it was futile with two other half-understood languages distracting me. I think I lasted maybe 15 minutes before language ceased to have any meaning whatsoever, and I had to leave the room!

[taelle]

I can imagine! I once watched some anime that was both dubbed and subbed in English and the dub and the sub differed - and that was bad enough.