My parents are gone now, yet I remember with fondness the shows they loved to watch. My father loved Murder She Wrote, College Football and of course, the New England Patriots.

My mother loved The Golden Girls, Designing Women and Frasier. During the day, she always had Lifetime on, and loved those made-for-tv Lifetime movies. My mother enjoyed watching the Red Sox, actually more than my father. My mother went wild for 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' when it hit the scene. We used to call each other during tense moments on the show.

They watched Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy together every night. Going way back, they enjoyed Columbo and Quincy.

My Mom's favorite shows were The Waltons, Little House on the Praire, Columbo, Quincy, Touched By An Angel, Murder She Wrote.

My Dad never really had a favorite show though he liked AITF. He mainly watches sports now.

Murder She Wrote.
Sonny, I think there's some sort of law that parents must love this show. :)

Awesome Thread!!!!!

Ok, I was too young to know what my mom loved to watch, but I know for a fact she loved watching at Easter time THE TEN COMMANDMENTS and all the biblical movies.

My dad, HE WAS THEEEEEE BIGGEST DODGER FAN EVER! He bought a satellite dish (back when they were the thing to have) so he could watch Dodger home games. DODGERS DODGERS DODGERS, if there was a game on, he would watch it.

He also loved to watch the westerns, BONANZA, GUNSMOKE, etc. And oh yes! ALL THE COURT TV SHOWS, Judge Judy, Divorce Court, People's Court (he especially loved the original People's Court with that white-haired judge, can't remember his name). Any court show, he watched it. He had a television at his business. That tv was on all day long. In between work and customers, my dad would watch it.

He was also a huge fan of QUINCY.

I remember after my dad died, as I went through his stuff at his business, I found his "tv listing" that he wrote. He wrote the times and channels that his fave shows came on.

My moms was little house on the praire and the waltons,and touched by an angel.plus theres a tv show here called only fools and horses my dad was a big fan of that and dads army sometimes allo allo.:)

Sonny, I think there's some sort of law that parents must love this show. :)
She was addicted to it. Every Sunday night. :lol: The Waltons was her favorite show though. She'd watch the reruns for years after the show left the air. And every Christmas we had to watch The Homecoming. :lol:

Sonny,I think most older people liked The Waltons andt he yougner ones didnt, cause I abhor it

I remember after my dad died, as I went through his stuff at his business, I found his "tv listing" that he wrote. He wrote the times and channels that his fave shows came on.
*screen gets blurry* Your Dad sounds like he was such a wonderful man, Irene. It comes across in all your posts about him.

Sonny,I think most older people liked The Waltons andt he yougner ones didnt, cause I abhor it
I used to watch it Jack and it is a pretty good show.

I used to watch it Jack and it is a pretty good show.
Maybe you just like westrens, where I dont. Sorry, I just dont like it, when it was on TV Land I thought it sucked

She was addicted to it. Every Sunday night. :lol: The Waltons was her favorite show though. She'd watch the reruns for years after the show left the air. And every Christmas we had to watch The Homecoming. :lol:
Your mother had good taste, Sonny. She liked all the heartwarming shows.

*screen gets blurry* Your Dad sounds like he was such a wonderful man, Irene. It comes across in all your posts about him.
Ohhhhh, my dad loved MURDER SHE WROTE too. :lol:

Janice, how funny you posted blurry screen. I was getting tears in my eyes as I wrote that. I had this smile on my face but the tears were welling up as I was remembering what he watched. God, there are other shows that he loved to watch, but for the life of me I can't remember, the obvious ones came to mind.

Maybe you just like westrens, where I dont. Sorry, I just dont like it, when it was on TV Land I thought it sucked
The Waltons isn't a western. Maybe you're confusing it with Little House on the Praire.

Your mother had good taste, Sonny. She liked all the heartwarming shows.
Thanks Janice. :)

The Waltons isn't a western. Maybe you're confusing it with Little House on the Praire.
Yeah, I dont know, maybe I just dont like dramas that much.

My parents liked to watch shows such as Andy Griffith, Beverly Hillbillies,
Dragnet, Star Trek, Batman and Hawaii Five-O.

I can still hear the theme song to The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. My parents watched his monolog in bed every night, for as far back as I can remember. It was a mainstay of growing up for me.

My father was hardly around, but I do remember him watching TV randomly, nothing specifically.

My mother loved Too Close For Comfort, Mama's Family, Mary Tyler Moore, The Honeymooners, Dallas, and Knots Landing.

I can still hear the theme song to The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. My parents watched his monolog in bed every night, for as far back as I can remember. It was a mainstay of growing up for me.
Oh yea my parents both stayed up watching Carson. I used to hear them laughing when I was in bed. :lol:

My Mom has always watched Bewitched. She used to watch it as a little girl/teen, and still does. She designed this heart necklace because she always wanted one as a kid b/c Samantha on the show always wore one. The thing is decked out in diamonds. Now she watches every christmas show possible, Gilmore Girls and The King of Queens mainly.

My parents liked Little House on The Prairie, Magnum P.I. Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, All In The Family, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, They liked the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson too.

Nowadays, they like Good Morning America, Little People Big World, American Idol and Dancing with The Stars to name a few.

My parents liked Little House on The Prairie, Magnum P.I. Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, All In The Family, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, They liked the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson too.

Nowadays, they like Good Morning America, Little People Big World, American Idol and Dancing with The Stars to name a few.
My dad also like All In The Family. He laughed a lot at the stupid things Archie said. The sweet moments between Archie and Gloria remind me of me and my dad.

Both of my parents love Gunsmoke and The King of Queens. My dad is crazy about Walker, Texas Ranger. My mom likes Clean House.

Mom:
Lost
The Office
Scrubs
The Sopranos
Suze Orman Show
Sex and the City

Dad:
Lost
baseball games
football games
SVU
CI
Law and Order
The Weather Channel
Old Westerns on TV
Andy Griffith

My Dad:

All In The Family
Law & Order (and its 17 spin-offs :lol: )
Murder She Wrote
Moonlighting
The Avengers
In The Heat of the Night
CSI:Crime Scene Investigation

My Mom:

Hunter
Magnum P.I.
Airwolf
Remington Steele

My parents are gone now, yet I remember with fondness the shows they loved to watch. My father loved Murder She Wrote, College Football and of course, the New England Patriots.

My mother loved The Golden Girls, Designing Women and Frasier. During the day, she always had Lifetime on, and loved those made-for-tv Lifetime movies. My mother enjoyed watching the Red Sox, actually more than my father. My mother went wild for 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' when it hit the scene. We used to call each other during tense moments on the show.

They watched Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy together every night. Going way back, they enjoyed Columbo and Quincy.


My Mom LOVED Frasier and Designing Women as well. She also loved AITF and Bewitched back in the day. Now a days she's addicted to reality shows, no matter what it is, and she TiVo's Young and the Restless, she also watched Glimore Girls.

My dad LOVES Golf and Football, He use to watch Sanford and Son back in the day. But at this moment in time he watch nothing but sports and the News.

Some of my mom's favorites: Bewitched (:D ), Lucy, Little House, Waltons, Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, Bob Newhart Show, Newhart, Seinfeld, Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond. Today she enjoys House, but her real favorites are all the Food Network shows like Paula Deen, Rachael Ray and Barefoot Contessa.

As for my dad: Jetsons, Green Acres, Dukes of Hazzard, WKRP, Seinfeld, Home Improvement, Coach, The Commish. He doesn't like a lot of the current shows, but he'll watch House with my mom and I. Mainly he just watches the news. We have some of the aforementioned shows on DVD, so he'll watch those, too.

My moms favorite tv shows are three's company, who's the boss?, murder she wrote, desperate houswives, ugly betty and things on lifetime

my dad loves to watch sports and his favorite sitcom is night court.

My Mom watches a lot of those true crime shows (Cold Case Files, American Justice, Forensic Files). She'd watch them a lot when she was going to sleep. I think I get my taste for those shows from her :)

My Dad likes the King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Seinfeld. He also loves watching Mets games.

My Mom liked to watch Everybody Loves Raymond with him too.

My mom loves Paula Deen. She watches her all the time.

Mom and Dad both love Antiques Road Show.

Dad loves old war movies and action movies. Not really into sitcoms.

My parents also watch quite a bit of PBS: Antiques Roadshow, Nova, Masterpiece Theatre, This Old House, etc.

My dad loved Laugh-in. My mom hated it. They also used to watch Hee-Haw. Dad also loved the Looney Tunes cartoons, even as he got older. He also liked the History Channel. My mom has been watching The Price is Right for years. I think I grew up watching 2 shows, TPIR & All My Children, like, all the time. I don't AMC as much anymore but I still watch TPIR.

My mom loves Paula Deen. She watches her all the time.

Mom and Dad both love Antiques Road Show.

Dad loves old war movies and action movies. Not really into sitcoms.my mother watches pula deen almost every day she also like to watch the home and garden network kyle xy and boston legal

Mom: (early years) As The World Turns plus others I can't remember
(later years) Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, L.A. Law, Barbara Madrell Show

Dad: (early years) Westerns, not too sure what else
(later years) History Channel, Jeopardy!, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Happy Days

Both of them: Jack, Benny and other variety shows, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, The Flintstones, All in the Family, Laugh-In

My mom loved:

Murder She Wrote, Andy Griffith Show, Dick Van Dyke Show and The Golden Girls.

My dad loves:

Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Jeopardy, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

Man...my dad has probably watched everything. Back when The Monkees first came on Nick at Nite (summer of 97 I believe), he could still sing along with some obscure song he hadn't heard since 1967! (I think it was Your Auntie Grizelda if there are any Monkees fans reading).

Anyway, so my dad has lotsssssss. Spends his days off mainly watching TV while playing handheld freecell. :lol: Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Magnum, Rockford, Matlock (I think he's seen every Matlock more times than Grandpa Simpson), Perry Mason, Andy Griffith, Adam-12, Dragnet, Quincy (which seems pretty popular in this thread!), WKRP (HUGE FAV. Knows all the lines), Hunter, bad comedy movies, baseball games (Cussing the Cubs is a past time around here), races and NASCAR related shows, Reba, Still Standing...I'm sure there's more I can't think of. Watches Sleuth, Lifetime, Hallmark Channel, and Speed a lot during the day.

Mom...well, I can't remember what she used to watch. I know she was a fan of Airwolf and St. Elsewhere. I remember her watching Falcon Crest. Used to watch Guiding Light. Now it's basically what's on CBS; most of the dramas and Two and a Half Men. Oh, and she's always had a fondness for Ozzie and Harriet.

They also used to watch Hee-Haw.

lol...My dad used to watch that all the time as well. Junior Sample and the Hee Haw Honies.

my Dad told me once that when he and my mother got married, in 1954, his favorite show was GUNSMOKE. He always thought that it went off sometime in the early 60s, though. He was AMAZED when I told him once that it went off in 1975.
He also used to like THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW and ALL IN THE FAMILY. (he had never even heard of THE JEFFERSONS or MAUDE until receently!)
Now he LOVES sports, and he likes LAW AND ORDER, and westerns (he calls them "shows about cowboys and indians:lol: ). And he'll watch MASH if he runs across it.
And my Mom likes MASH and reruns of THE NANNY. (she used to LOVE that show when it was on)
She CAN'T STAND ALL IN THE FAMILY and THE HONEYMOONERS.

Also faulty towers,love thy neighbour,steptoe and son,open all hours and porridge.The latter two starring the late great Ronnie Barker! ;)

Anyway, so my dad has lotsssssss. Spends his days off mainly watching TV while playing handheld freecell. :lol: Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Magnum, Rockford, Matlock (I think he's seen every Matlock more times than Grandpa Simpson), Perry Mason, Andy Griffith, Adam-12, Dragnet, Quincy (which seems pretty popular in this thread!), WKRP (HUGE FAV. Knows all the lines), Hunter, bad comedy movies, baseball games (Cussing the Cubs is a past time around here), races and NASCAR related shows, Reba, Still Standing...I'm sure there's more I can't think of. Watches Sleuth, Lifetime, Hallmark Channel, and Speed a lot during the day


My dad watches Quincytoo! :D

My Mom- Moonlighting, Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Due South, Anything on HGTV or Food Network, Santa Barbra, Trading Spaces, Sports Night, How I meant your mother and ER

Dad: Sports, O.C., Boston Legal, Men in Trees, Austin City Limits, What about Brian, Seinfeld, American Idol, SNL (The older ones) and The Bachlor

Show's we like to watch as a family- Gilmore Girls, Red Green, Friends, Fraiser, The next food network star, Judging Amy, and couple britcoms like Keeping Up Apperances, Are you being served? and Mr. Bean

Dad's favorites;

50's- The Honeymooners
60's- Hogan's Heroes
70's- All In The Family
80's- Simon and Simon, Bosom Buddies, The Greatest American Hero
90's- Roseanne and Golden Girls
2000's- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Smallville, Lois and Clark, X-Files


Mom's;

50's-I Love Lucy
60's- Dick Van Dyke Show, Dean Martin Show
70's- LaVerne and Shirley
80's- Facts Of Life
90's-X-Files
2000's- I don't know

My mom likes Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, E.R, Boston Legal and Gilmore Girls. I don't know what shows she liked when she was younger. EDIT: I forgot that she also likes CSI :)

My dad doesn't really watch many tv shows.

My dad also like All In The Family. He laughed a lot at the stupid things Archie said. The sweet moments between Archie and Gloria remind me of me and my dad.

I love those father-daughter moments. :)

Oh, I forgot a couple of shows -- older ones: Adam-12, Emergency, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Ryan's Hope.

My Dad likes Deadliest Catch and Judge Judy. My mom likes Gillmore Girls and House Hunters.

They used to love MASH, though. So much so, they named me after their favorite character lol!

My dad also like All In The Family. He laughed a lot at the stupid things Archie said. The sweet moments between Archie and Gloria remind me of me and my dad.
lol...Homer and Lisa Simpson are me and my dad...except my dad is much smarter than Homer. :lol:

My moms favorite was Roseanne

Briannas, is your avatar a pic of Lucy and Desi at their real wedding?
I've never seen it before.

Being that I grew up on reruns, my parents used to always tell me what they watched when they were younger. Over the years, my mother's mentioned..."Dallas," "Dynasty," "Little House on the Prairie," "My Three Sons," "Petticoat Junction," "The Beverly Hillbillies," "Green Acres," "Eight is Enough," "The Dukes of Hazzard," "The Rockford Files," "Falcon Crest," "Flamingo Road," "The Incredible Hulk," "The Colbys," "The Love Boat," "Hart to Hart," "Fantasy Island," "Match Game," "Family Feud," and a whole bunch of other stuff. She's always been a huge Lifetime fan, too. She'll spend an entire day off in bed watching LMN. Let's see what else..."American Idol" and "Dancing with the Stars" are some of her current favorites. She likes reruns of the "Law & Order" shows and she used to watch "Third Watch" reruns before they stopped airing them. There's definitely a lot more stuff that I'm forgetting too.

My father pretty much watched the same stuff she did, they like a lot of the same types of TV. He also watches "The Young and the Restless" and "The Bold and the Beautiful" every now and then when he's on break from work. He loved "Oz" on HBO too. Both of them love "Deal or No Deal." They were both BIG on the primetime soaps in the 80s. BIG. BIG. They know all of the stories from all of the shows and can still tell you everything that happened on all of them.

For most of 2005 and 2006, my mother would get home from work at about 2 or 3 and turn the TV onto our local FOX station. On Tuesdays, that TV would stay on that channel for the rest of the day. All the court shows would come on, followed by "Dr. Phil," followed by the news, an hour of "Family Feud," and then "American Idol" followed by "House." And then the news would come on again and when that went off, they'd usually go to bed. FOX changed up a lotta stuff, though, so they don't watch nearly as much as that anymore.