What are your favorite older TV shows?

[Johnnythefox]

american gothic (1995)

This was classic, is it really that long ago?

 

[waived]

This was classic, is it really that long ago?

I think it was part of that x-files and millennium line up.

 

[Johnnythefox]

I think it was part of that x-files and millennium line up.

Yes, I still remember watching the very first episode of the X-files, I used to be into all that, my ex was watching me like a hawk as she assumed it might be porn because of the X.

 

[killing me softly]

Remember China Beach?

Dana Delaney was my first serious star crush as a kid!

 

[Smilla]

Dana Delaney was my first serious star crush as a kid!

I had a girl crush on her.

Saw her in a play here in Boston. Still looks great.

 

[Buddyluv19]

• Kung-fu
• Starsky and Hutch
• Taxi
• Barney Miller
• Married with children
• Futurama
• Dave Allen show
• Tales of the unexpected
• The twilight zone
• The outer limits
• Lost in space
• Star Trek (original series)
• Land of the giants
• Batman (original series)
• The Addams family
• The Avengers
• The man from uncle
• Mission impossible
• Father Ted
• The Old Grey whistle test
• The Tube
• Anything by Dennis Potter (no relation to Harry)
• The Prisoner
• Spike Milligan
• Scotch and Wry

This is slightly off topic but I just have to share this with @Johnnythefox related to his first pick here, Kung Fu. @Johnnythefox, Thank you, this actually got a sick person up out of the chair and dancing.

 

[Jiva]

Red dwarf.

 

[TheCrow]

A comprehensive list.

firefly
american gothic (1995)
my so called life
xfiles
strange luck
david the gnome
aeon flux
land of the lost (90's)
clarissa explains it all
CBS sunday morning (90's)
dino ryders
the wonder years
captain planet
perfect strangers
reading rainbow
are you afraid of the dark
The adventures of the little prince
bill nye (the science guy)
murder she wrote
columbo
cheers
inspector gadget
eureeka's castle
northern exposure
salute your shorts
wild america with marty stouffer
3-2-1 Contact!

Spoiler: an unmedicated rant

i'm pretty tired of looking up various tid bits of info on 90's subculture and media while hoping to go down a pleasant rabbit hole of nostalgia, and seeing that an uncanny amount of the results are late 90's. Upon further investigation, most of the time, a particular subset of a particular generation is responsible for this desperate saturation of rewritten historical fact, to make sure the memories that they do not actually have shine the brightest. While outside of the purview of this early morning rant, they have even allowed video games to become about as fun as going to work. The post 90's generation is the living embodiment of a death rattle.

First of all, you've had about 18 years to get it together and produce something objectively measurable as good, or at least iconically bad, you haven't. What you've allowed is a cluttered mess of banal music and super hero movies. You've also successfully allowed for the destruction of what is probably two dozen legendary stories and lore from the previous two decades. You're a generation of starving vampires who despite being professional narcissists cannot look your own faces in the mirror no matter how hard you try and with nowhere else to turn you have abandoned your posts and fallen upon the world to feast. If only that was the quick death it sounds like but there is nothing quick about trough fodder like the walking dead or game of thrones.

Second, i'm genuinely sorry that you are spiritually destitute from being born into an increasingly self created desert but being four or five years old by the time the 2000's arrived doesn't make the cut on a technicality. Instead of carrying the brightly lit 80's and 90's torch through the rain you immediately sat down, dropped it into a puddle and filled your mouths with mud. Well done. w/e n/m stay off our turf. *throws gang sign*

-genuine 1990's overlords


P.S. Twin Peaks actually sucked.

My So-Called Life
omg, Reading Rainbow!

 

[TheCrow]

Golden Girls

 

[Smilla]

Golden Girls

The way they made fun of Rose, god bless her for playing that part because in reality her IQ is off the charts.

 

[wiIIow]

I enjoy The Twilight Zone or Forensic Files to soothe me to sleep at night. Sometimes Unsolved Mysteries


!!!!UPDATE!!!!:

I also really like Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth

 

[Buddyluv19]

Does anyone remember Mary Tyler Moore? This funeral of Chuckles the Clown.

 

[Angst Filled Fuck Up]

I wonder if any fans of the Young Ones remember the spinoff show "Bottom" with Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson. It was also one of my favorites.

 

[TheCrow]

The way they made fun of Rose, god bless her for playing that part because in reality her IQ is off the charts.

I'm going to save you from a novel of a response, but let's just say you're talking to a Betty White super fan :)

 

[Johnnythefox]

I wonder if any fans of the Young Ones remember the spinoff show "Bottom" with Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson. It was also one of my favorites.

Rik Mayall was a genius mate.

 

[iiii5555]

I can't really remember that much about the things i used to watch on my childhood, but the one i do are very special to me:

- Pink Panther
- Chaves
- Chapolin Colorado
- Everybody Hates Chris
- Woody Woodpecker
- Popeye The Sailor
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Dragon Ball Classic
- Wacky Races
- The Road Runner
- Sylvester & Tweety

I mean, they aren't that old, but i used to watch them when i was a child, so i've some found memories of these TV Shows. In fact, i love them. I remember talking about them all day long with my only friend, and watching them when i was sick and alone. I miss those days sometimes. Simpler times; when loliness was a choose and people didn't just see you as "unredeemable".

 

[Purgatory]

So many listed I really enjoyed! I will keep my list short by adding a few I have not seen mentioned:
Battlestar Galactica (original and new versions)
Torchwood
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Sanford and Son
Anything with the Monty Python cast!
Growing Pains
Press Your Luck

 

[TriggerHappy]

anyone remember the Carol Burnett Show?
I was really young but she was fucking awesome. some killer cameos
go scour youtube. esp for the Gone with the Wind skit!




anyone remember 3rd Rock from the Sun...?
props to Fawlty Towers & even Ab Fab.

 

[DeadButDreaming]

Married With Children
Beavis and Butthead
Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge
That's My Boy (UK)
Everyone Loves Raymond
Monty Python's Flying Circus
and others.

 

[JustAMatterOfTime]

The X-Files is my favourite if that is classed as old.

 

[DunnoWhyButYeah]

I don't remember all... But these are first what came in my mind:
* Midsomer murders (mostly old seasons, original Barnaby)
* Keeping Up Appearances
* OZ

 

[Donk]

Beverly hills 90210....I still love you Brenda!

 

[Green Destiny]

Invader Zim and Futurama off the top of my head.

 

[Manaaja]

A million children's programs.
Poirot.
Sherlock Holmes.
Teen Dracula, hahhaha
A tv-show which was like harry potter (wizards in a magical school), but I can't remember it's name
The one Robin Hood adventures.
Itsevaltiaat (it was a 3d animation in which every character was a famous Finnish politician, really controversial, really funny and good. Imagine such a show today in different countries. A show about a Trump and Biden and Melanie and Putin and Macron. And it would make fun of all of them.) I suggest you watch an Itsevaltiaat episode on youtube even if you don't understand the language!
Manne-tv (it was a show about Romanians living in Finland. "My husband says I just become more beautiful the older I get.""Hai, but your husband sells antiques,"
Kyllä isä osaa (about a normal family with a husband, wife, and teen-aged daughter and son, the husband was unlucky and the children roasted well)
Kumman Kaa
Team Ahma
Aarteenmetsästäjät (probably treasure hunters, the one with sidney fox or something, the hot woman and a nerd guy and a hot blond going all tomb raider and indiana jones around the world (it was very exciting for a child). If you think children can't feel anything sexual, you should have seen me watch the vampire episode.
Kymppitonni
Greed
A million other competition programs
And lots of shows that were already mentioned here.

 

[DunnoWhyButYeah]

A million children's programs.
Poirot.
Sherlock Holmes.
Teen Dracula, hahhaha
A tv-show which was like harry potter (wizards in a magical school), but I can't remember it's name
The one Robin Hood adventures.
Itsevaltiaat (it was a 3d animation in which every character was a famous Finnish politician, really controversial, really funny and good. Imagine such a show today in different countries. A show about a Trump and Biden and Melanie and Putin and Macron. And it would make fun of all of them.) I suggest you watch an Itsevaltiaat episode on youtube even if you don't understand the language!
Manne-tv (it was a show about Romanians living in Finland. "My husband says I just become more beautiful the older I get.""Hai, but your husband sells antiques,"
Kyllä isä osaa (about a normal family with a husband, wife, and teen-aged daughter and son, the husband was unlucky and the children roasted well)
Kumman Kaa
Team Ahma
Aarteenmetsästäjät (probably treasure hunters, the one with sidney fox or something, the hot woman and a nerd guy and a hot blond going all tomb raider and indiana jones around the world (it was very exciting for a child). If you think children can't feel anything sexual, you should have seen me watch the vampire episode.
Kymppitonni
Greed
A million other competition programs
And lots of shows that were already mentioned here.

Good choices. Kyllä isä osaa and Kumman kaa makes me feel good every time I watch those :) You can't see Team Ahma anywhere anymore, right? It's shame that new finnish series aren't so good as those old ones was.

 

[WornOutLife]

"The Wonder Years", definitely!

 

[sadbadpsychogirl]

they even have one where one of the girls ctb with barbs called "breaking point" its great

 

[Jumper Seoirse]

Buffy the vampire slayer,



Cheers

Jumper Seoirse

 

[WorthlessTrash]

Law & Order and Survivor. Buffy and Angel as well.

 

[Tomino'sNightengale]

The old Twighlight Zone show with Rod Serling. so spooky yet entertaining.