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Schmoopie
07-11-2019, 02:28 AM
Are there any shows that conjure up memories? I have a lot but a few that come to mind are:


1-Watching Leave It To Beaver, SNL, and Barney Miller with my parents. My dad absolutely LOVED Barney Miller. He'd be thrilled to know that it still comes on.



2-Once while we were watching All In The Family, I asked my dad how you could hear the laughing when you couldn't see anyone but the characters (I was really young-or kind of dumb, I guess when I asked) but he told me to imagine our living room and the wall in front of us gone and the audience there. I have always remembered that and I love that explanation. Cleared it right up for me.


3-Watching "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper on MTV for the first time at my dad's house.


4-More recently, my husband got me hooked on "Monk" so I remember us watching that every Friday night together. I think after a while I got more excited about it than he did.


5-Whenever Frasier was on, my husband woudl come into the room where my computer is and turn on the TV to Frasier for me because he know that I love that show so much.

Schmoopie
07-11-2019, 09:32 AM
Omg, I ❤❤❤❤ Dobie Gillis!! I remember watching that and Donna Reed on Nick At Nite with my little brother!

Race's Girl
07-11-2019, 10:07 AM
I remember watching Spin City on Friday nights after Friends and before Frasier with my mum and sisters

Torgo
07-11-2019, 11:03 AM
As a kid:

Watching Doctor Who (Tom Baker years) on PBS with my parents.

Also with my parents: Dukes Of Hazzard, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers

My dad would record late night showings of The Best Of Johnny Carson, SNL, Benny Hill, Bizarre on VHS then we'd watch them together the next day.

Also with my dad: The Incredible Hulk, Hawaii 5-O, Vegas, Barney Miller, Simon & Simon, Riptide, CHiPS

Watching (during their original runs) with my parents and sisters: Wonder Woman, The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Real People, That's Incredible

Can also remember watching Hee Haw with my parents


I can remember watching the premiere of the spinoff Enos with my parents.


As a teen:

Sitting in our basement family room watching Robin Of Sherwood on Showtime. It's the show that made me a big fan of Robin Hood, and to this day remains I think the best version.

Watching the Showtime sitcom Brothers with my parents.

Again, with my parents, watching the premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation.


As an adult:

Watching the animated The Tick, and Goosebumps with my roommate.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer was the first series my wife and I watched regularly together- we started watching it while we were still dating, and watched it to its finale after we were married and parents.

Watching So Weird and Strange Days At Blake Holsey High re runs with my daughter.
Introducing to shows I loved as a kid/or from before my daughter was born- from cartoons/live action kids shows to shows like Monsters, Tales From The Darkside. Plus Gilligan's Island, Leave It To Beaver and other classic series I love.

Watching The Walking Dead with my wife and daughter. That became our show we would try not to miss watching together.

A few years ago, watching re runs on DVD of Greek and Smallville with my niece when she lived with us for several months.

MA
07-11-2019, 12:23 PM
I've mentioned this many times before, but I remember watching the Saved By The Bell reruns on TBS every morning before going to school.

Tubehead
07-11-2019, 11:45 PM
the ones i remember watching were foxs 1990 x-men Anmited tv series & fox's 1990 spider-man Anmited tv series!! & i remmeber watching the ending to alf!!

danderson400
07-12-2019, 04:45 AM
My first TV memory interesting enough, was a soap opera. Because the character, Kathleen(Julie Osburn) was about to get married. But her husband was kidnapped! I was watching Another World, which had this character. My grandmom was watching with me, and her jaw dropped big time when it happened. She then expanded to me that she had been watching AW for years and years(since 1964.)

andress_jade
07-12-2019, 11:38 AM
Watching Frasier with my mom, and hating it and now it's my favorite show.

Watching Full House in the afternoons as a kid after school.

Watching Sesame Street as a kid with the neighbor girl that my aunt babysat and we would try to find our names in the end credits.

Watching Golden Girls with my aunt and really liking it. Now it's one of my favorite shows.

Watching Days of our Lives with my stepmother and hating it. I love the show now and was even obsessed with it in high school.

factsoflife
07-12-2019, 10:00 PM
Falling in love with daytime soaps as a kid because my mother and grandmother watched them. Being completely captivated by Susan Lucci as Erica Kane and being transfixed on the glamarous lives and adventures of these characters.

Watching "The Facts of Life", "Designing Women" and "The Golden Girls" with my mother.

Watching "A Different World" and "The Cosby Show" with my grandparents.

Coming of age to the WB Network shows "Felicity", "Dawson's Creek" and "Popular" and all the Aaron Spelling dramas on in the 1980's and 1990's ("Beverly Hills, 90210", "Melrose Place", "Models Inc", "Savannah", "Dynasty" and so on)

Merry24
07-13-2019, 01:53 AM
Watching Romper Room & He-Man when sick from preschool

Watching Audrey Lee from Kids Beat. Watching The Flintstones & The Brady Bunch & She-Ra & The Monkee’s On TBS.

Friday’s watching..
Perfect Strangers & Full House & Mr.Belvedere & Just The 10 Of Us
(As a kid Family let us have a pizza picnic in The Family room instead of the table).

Friday’s watching Newhart reruns after the news on an old black and white TV

Watching Muppet Babies & Pee Wee’s playhouse Saturday Mornings.

Acting out Double Dare & catching it Saturday Nights For Family Double Dare) & Acting like I was Richard Dawson playing Family Feud.


Watching NICK at NITE (Waiting All Nite to watch The Monkee’s)

Acting out Where in the World is Carmen San Diego

dee2364
07-13-2019, 04:00 PM
Every single morning at the age of five or so, I'd wake up exactly on the dot at 5:30 AM to catch Mighty Mouse/Hekyll and Jekyll, followed by a slew of shows on WPIX-TV here in NYC, including Scooby Doo and Tom and Jerry. On rare occasion, I'd catch the tail end of Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines.