no, this isn't some lecture thread. :lol:

However, I was just curious since we have a wide age range of people here, what shows do you identify with your childhood, the years when you "grew up"?

here are the ones I usually think of when I think of being a little kid and the shows I watched when I was growing up

Cosby Show, Family Ties, Diff'rent Strokes, Facts Of Life, Gimme A Break, Fame, Who's The Boss, ALF, Roseanne (well, the really early years, I was in my teens for over half of the run)

OMG Buffy, you are young!!!! that's a compliment okay. LOL
okay, the following are the show's that remind me of my childhood:
Brady Bunch
Looney Tunes cartoons
Sigmund The Sea Monster
HR puff N stuff
Land of The Lost
Scooby Doo
Shazam!
Happy Days (9 years old)
Laverne & Shirley
Gilligan's Island
The Mothers-In-Law
I Love Lucy (reruns)

All In The Family, Alice, ODAAT, Sanford And Son, Chico And The Man, Maude, Happy Days, Laverne And Shirley, Three's Company, Waltons, Little House On The Praire, Life And Times Of Grizzley Addams, NBC Mystery Movie, Baretta, SWAT, Police Woman, and I could go on and on.

I wish I had been a few years older. I remember my sister watching ODAAT but I was so young then. I didn't "discover" the show until it was on E in the mid-90's, I'd remember coming home from school and watching them. I have faint memories of Happy Days coming on after the noon news here being downstairs with my mom, but I didn't actually pay attention to it until TBS.

All In The Family, Alice, ODAAT, Sanford And Son, Chico And The Man, Maude, Happy Days, Laverne And Shirley, Three's Company, Waltons, Little House On The Praire, Life And Times Of Grizzley Addams, NBC Mystery Movie, Baretta, SWAT, Police Woman, and I could go on and on.
oh yes you reminded me of a few others: Baretta, SWAT (I loved that Italian guy) Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, Starsky & Hutch, Police Story. It was all those cop shows that made me want to be in law enforcement

All In The Family, Alice, ODAAT, Sanford And Son, Chico And The Man, Maude, Happy Days, Laverne And Shirley, Three's Company, Waltons, Little House On The Praire, Life And Times Of Grizzley Addams, NBC Mystery Movie, Baretta, SWAT, Police Woman, and I could go on and on.

Those are pretty much the same for me. :lol:

oh yes you reminded me of a few others: Baretta, SWAT (I loved that Italian guy) Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, Starsky & Hutch, Police Story. It was all those cop shows that made me want to be in law enforcement
Yea I could put them on my list too. :lol:

Growing Pains
Who's The Boss?
Wonder Years
Dukes of Hazzard
One Day at a Time
ALF
Alice
Married with Children
Gilligan's Island (on WTBS)

I am quite a youngster compared to some of you.

Home Improvement
Boy Meets World
Full House
The Simpsons
Friends
Roseanne
Seinfeld
The Drew Carey Show
Step By Step
Family Matters
Frasier
Spin City

here are the ones I usually think of when I think of being a little kid and the shows I watched when I was growing up

Cosby Show, Family Ties, Diff'rent Strokes, Facts Of Life, Gimme A Break, Fame, Who's The Boss, ALF, Roseanne (well, the really early years, I was in my teens for over half of the run)


Those are the same ones for me ;) Plus Silver Spoons, Dukes of Hazzard, The A Team, and many others

:lol: I thought this was a thread about the show, "Oh Grow Up." Which was funny, btw. Anyhoo...

Duck Tales
Smurfs
Whatever shows were on TGIF from the early to mid 90s
Ray Combs version of Family Feud
Let's Make a Deal and Name That Tune, because The Family Channel used to show them
Saved by the Bell
Hey, Dude
Welcome, Freshmen
Salute Your Shorts
You Can't Do That on Television
MMC...but before Britney and Justin were there. We're talking the Keri Russell years here.
Kids, Incorporated...ha, I knew Jennifer Love Hewitt and Stacey Ferguson before they were anyone.

The only real one I can think of is Friends

Great thread!

I grew up w/ a variety of TV shows. Game shows, etc...

- The later version of Family Feud with Ray Combs on it (I missed the Richard Dawson years :()
- Love Connection
- Tic Tac Dough
- Hollywood Squares
- Win, Lose or Draw, daytime edition (1987 - 1989), as well as the nighttime edition (1987 - 1991, I think)
- Pyramid
- The Price is Right
- Shop Til You Drop
- DuckTales
- Chip 'n Dale
- Rugrats (the VERY VERY early years -- 1991 - 1993)
- Doug
- Big, Bad Beetleborgs (I miss this show :()
- Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (6th grade in 1996, the year it debuted -- graduated from HS the year it went off the air in 2003)
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show (it debuted in the summer of 1996, before I started 6th grade)
- Home Improvement
- 3rd Rock from the Sun
- You Can't Do That on Television (I remember this being on when I was growing up in the 80's)
- Eureka's Castle
- Charles in Charge
- Who's the Boss?
- Cheers
- Hey Dude
- Salute Your Shorts
- Are You Afraid of the Dark?
- Anything Marc Summers or Mike O'Malley hosted in the late 80's/early 90's -- the original Double Dare, Family Double Dare, Sloppy Double Dare, What Would You Do?, Get the Picture, Global Guts, etc.
- Full House
- The Simpsons (I was 4 1/2 when it debuted in 1989 and very much remember the hoopla surrounding it. It rocked to popularity after the first season in 1990)
- Seinfeld
- The Cosby Show
- Alf
- The Golden Girls
- Saved By the Bell

Good lord, I could go on FOREVER. And yes, I did get out a lot during my childhood. ;) I just watched something different every day. :lol: Some of the shows I mentioned above continued their runs when I was in junior high or high school.

The Fresh Prince of Belair. (years 1995-1996)
Moesha. ( years 1997-2001)
My Brother and Me
Rugrats. (1996)

I feel too young. :crying:

The only real one I can think of is Friends
I guess I also grew up with Sabrina, I was 5 when it started and I was 11 when it ended.

I guess I also grew up with Sabrina, I was 5 when it started and I was 11 when it ended.

Mee too! :cheers:

Alice
One Day At A Time
Facts of Life
Charlie's Angels
Little House on the Prairie
The Waltons
Apple's Way
Family
Maude
What's Happening
Good Times
Land of the Lost
Godzilla cartoon show
Valley of the Dinosaurs cartoon
Scooby Doo
The Amazing Spider-Man (I'm surprised this 70's live action show is not on DVD)
Incredible Hulk
Kolchack, The Night Stalker
Night Gallery
Wonder Woman
Shazam!
Mighty Isis
Batman/Tarzan Hour
Brady Bunch
Family Affair
Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Nanny and the Professor
Bionic Woman
SixMillion Dollar Man
almost all Hanna- barbera/ Filmation 70's kids shows and cartoons
Grizzly Adams
That's Incredible
Ripley's Believe It or Not (Jack and Holly Palance version)
In Search Of...
Real People
Solid Gold
Tic Tac Dough
The Joker's Wild
Sale of the Century
Price Is Right
Dark Shadows
Prisoner Cell Block H

- Big, Bad Beetleborgs (I miss this show :()



I use to watch that show. I didn't care for it after they switched actresses for the girl beetleborg. I remember the episode explaining how that happen. It was so stupid.


Boy Meets World
Step By Step
Family Matters
The Facts of Life (this show and Small Wonder were the two shows I was hooked on during the early 90's)
Small Wonder
California Dreams
Saved By The Bell The New Class
Roseanne
Empty Nest
The Golden Girls / The Golden Palace
Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers
DuckTales
Gummi Bears
The Simpsons
Melrose Place
Beverly Hills 90210
Party of Five
All My Children (1989 - present. I watched it with my great grandmother a lot of times.)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer


I watched more, especially those TGIF comedies, but these are the ones I liked watching when growing up.

Sesame Street (I wish they still showed it in England!)

Mork and Mindy (Channel 4 used to show re-runs in the 1990s; I must have been about five, six, or seven when I was watching it.

Popeye

Wacky Races

The Snorks

Scooby Doo

Friends

Albert the Fifth Musketeer (cartoon show)

Chucklevision (British kids' show; I don't believe it's shown anywhere else)

Frasier (I believe I must have seen an episode for the first time when I was 10 or 11, or so, I managed to see a few when I was 12 and liked them, and finally started watching full-time in early 2002 when I was 14. So I've sort of grown up with it.)

When I was growing up here are the shows I watched:

I outgrew the following:

The Cosby Show
Popeye
The Price Is Right (still love those synopses on www.golden-road.net (http://www.golden-road.net/), tho'!)
Tom and Jerry

I still like the following:

The Brady Bunch
The Waltons
The Wonder Years

Any shows that were on the old classic TGIF on ABC. Like Full House, Family Matters, Boy Meets World, Perfect Strangers. Whatever other ones were on, but those were the main ones that seemed to last many years. Or just shows from the late 80's to present (I really wouldn't remember anything before that). Of course, the Simpsons too! I've been watching that show since it went on the air so I was like 5.

Oh yeah...I grew up on Seseme Street and GUTS too.

Ohh... I remember "Beetleborgs". I think it was some kids who go inside a haunted house, and wish to some monster that they become superheroes. I was only 5 when it premiered so I may not remember some of the stuff about it. But I think "Bettleborgs" is the show I described.

I grew up with
1.90210,
2.Melrose Place,
3.Full House
4.My little pony
5.Are You Afraid Of The Dark,
6.Salute Your Shorts,
7..Hey Dude
8.Reruns of You Can't do that on Television,
9.All Saved By The Bell series
10.Head Of The Class
11.Charles in Charge
12.Who's The Boss,
13.The Babysitters Club
14.The New Mickey Mouseclub(MMC),
15.Step By Step
16.Kids Incoporated
17.Care Bears

and many more all thanks to showing reruns threw the years. ;)

I am a child of the 1970s. In the 1970s this is what I watched and loved---and still love today:


The Partridge Family
The Brady Bunch
My Three Sons
Love American Style
Room 222
That Girl
The Odd Couple
The Courtship Of Eddie's Father
Bewitched
The Beverly Hillbillies
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Three's Company
Scooby Doo
Yogi Bear
The Pink Panther
Family Affair
Green Acres
Welcome Back Kotter
Sesame Street
The Electric Company
Sha Na Na
The Archies
Sonny & Cher
The Captain & Tennille
American Bandstand (which I've read is coming back with Ryan Seacrest as host)
Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch
Sabrina The Teenage Witch (cartoon series)
H R Pufnstuf
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
Mr. Dressup
The Friendly Giant
King Of Kensington
The Trouble With Tracy (1971-72---a Canadian cult favorite)
Gilligan's Island
The Monkees
Laugh-In
Donny & Marie
One Day At A Time
Good Times
The Jeffersons
Alice
Sanford & Son
Chico & The Man
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Bob Newhart Show

Cartoon series featuring various celebrities: The Harlem Globetrotters, The Osmonds, The Jackson 5, The Brady Kids, The New Adventures Of Gilligan, The Partridge Family 2200 AD.

Many Hanna-Barbera series
Many Sid & Marty Krofft series
Schoolhouse Rock

and most of all....Hockey Night In Canada every Saturday night! (and Wednesdays too!)

Other than that, I didn't watch much TV as a child. Can you tell I had a happy childhood?

I am a child of the 1970s. In the 1970s this is what I watched and loved---and still love today:


The Partridge Family
The Brady Bunch
My Three Sons
Love American Style
Room 222
That Girl
The Odd Couple
The Courtship Of Eddie's Father
Bewitched
The Beverly Hillbillies
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Three's Company
Scooby Doo
Yogi Bear
The Pink Panther
Family Affair
Green Acres
Welcome Back Kotter
Sesame Street
The Electric Company
Sha Na Na
The Archies
Sonny & Cher
The Captain & Tennille
American Bandstand (which I've read is coming back with Ryan Seacrest as host)
Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch
Sabrina The Teenage Witch (cartoon series)
H R Pufnstuf
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
Mr. Dressup
The Friendly Giant
King Of Kensington
The Trouble With Tracy (1971-72---a Canadian cult favorite)
Gilligan's Island
The Monkees
Laugh-In
Donny & Marie
One Day At A Time
Good Times
The Jeffersons
Alice
Sanford & Son
Chico & The Man
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Bob Newhart Show

Cartoon series featuring various celebrities: The Harlem Globetrotters, The Osmonds, The Jackson 5, The Brady Kids, The New Adventures Of Gilligan, The Partridge Family 2200 AD.

Many Hanna-Barbera series
Many Sid & Marty Krofft series
Schoolhouse Rock

and most of all....Hockey Night In Canada every Saturday night! (and Wednesdays too!)

Other than that, I didn't watch much TV as a child. Can you tell I had a happy childhood?I like many of those shows too.I used to watch The Brady Bunch All the time and when ABCFamily was Fox Family 5 and 6 years back.The Partridge Family was played on there.Plus I grew up on Seasme Street as well.That show is around years now.My sisters now 12 and 14 were watching it when they were very little.

I guess I also grew up with Sabrina, I was 5 when it started and I was 11 when it ended.

Now I feel old. I was 23 when Sabrina ended! :lol:

Ohh... I remember "Beetleborgs". I think it was some kids who go inside a haunted house, and wish to some monster that they become superheroes. I was only 5 when it premiered so I may not remember some of the stuff about it. But I think "Bettleborgs" is the show I described.

That was basically it. I have not seen an episode since 1997 so I would love to have BBB on DVD. There was a guy in there that resembled Jay Leno as a clown named Flabber, and he would ALWAYS say "Wow! I'm Flabbergasted!" every time something crazy happened.

God, I miss that show.

Now I feel old. I was 23 when Sabrina ended! :lol:

I was on the verge of turning 18 when it ended. :eek:

I know Caroline Rhea left Sabrina the last season to pursue a career as a replacement talk show host for Rosie O'Donnell the season after she stepped down.

(Have I mentioned just how much I miss Rosie O'Donnell's talk show? I don't give a flying **** what anybody thinks about her...I WANT HER TALK SHOW BACK DAMMIT!)

I was on the verge of turning 18 when it ended. :eek:

I know Caroline Rhea left Sabrina the last season to pursue a career as a replacement talk show host for Rosie O'Donnell the season after she stepped down.

(Have I mentioned just how much I miss Rosie O'Donnell's talk show? I don't give a flying **** what anybody thinks about her...I WANT HER TALK SHOW BACK DAMMIT!)


:lol:

The show was never the same without Caroline or Beth Broderick.

I never watched her show, I only watched it when Caroline took over :lol:

:lol:

The show was never the same without Caroline or Beth Broderick.

I never watched her show, I only watched it when Caroline took over :lol:
Yeah, if Sabrina ever comes to DVD I think I'll just get the seasons that Caroline and Beth were in. You're right, it wasn't the same after they both left. :( I was a very heavy ABC watcher when it debuted in the 90's. :)

Haha, Caroline's talk show totally bombed. Funny...I remember so many things about her show.

- She always talked about being Canadian.
- Somebody sent her packaged animal dung one time...I forgot what kind of dung it was but apparently it was a coveted object to have from the place where they resided.
- She had Rosie O'Donnell on her show twice, IIRC. I think both appearances were in September 2002.
- She talked about getting married.
- She did a Christmas countdown thing and would do different things every day to count down.
- During that same time period, Caroline had somebody wheel out a GIANT Lego statue of herself every day so the audience could see how they were progressing on making a statue of her. :lol:
- She bellydanced on her show once.

Can you tell I really, Really, REALLY missed Rosie and watched Caroline heavily the one and only season she was on? :lol:

Now I feel old. I was 23 when Sabrina ended! :lol:

lol, so was I.

Yeah, if Sabrina ever comes to DVD I think I'll just get the seasons that Caroline and Beth were in.



I'll get them all. I actually like the last season. Though her love for Aaron was just odd...it's like it was "Let's go to dinner" to "Marry Me I LOVE YOU!!!" in a week.

And their "explanation" (or lack thereof) for why Hilda and Zelda left was pathetic. They deserved better than that.

I grew up with:

The Muppet Babies
The Wonder Years
The Simpsons
Full House
Saved By the Bell
Dinosaurs
Family Matters
Step by Step
Family Ties
Eureka's Castle
numerous programs on Nick J.R.
Sesame Street
Reading Rainbow
Are you Afraid of the Dark?
Salute your Shorts
Doug
Rugrats
Double Dare
Family Feud
The Price is Right
Legends of the Hidden Temple
Roseanne
Boy Meets World
Home Improvement
Fresh Prince of Belair

and many, many more ;)

-Charles In Charge
-Saved by the Bell
-ALF
-Small Wonder
-Full House
-Roseanne
-The Cosby Show
-A Different World
-Who's the Boss?
-Family Matters
-Moesha
-Daria
-Beavis & Butthead
-Flash Forward
-Are You Araid of the Dark?
-Fresh Prince of Bel Air
-Total Request Live (TRL)- the early years
-Boy Meets World
-Growing Pains
-Married With Children
-Simpsons
-Beverly Hills, 90210
-21 Jump Street
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
-Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
-Ricki Lake
-Jenny Jones