Or at least talk about a carnival is a plot point?

Growing Pains had 2

- S2.E18

Carnival
Episode aired Mar 10, 1987


- S6.E22

Carol's Carnival
Episode aired Mar 27, 1991

Oh, if they call it a ‘fair’, or some other word like that, that’s fine too.

I guess school carnivals would count.

Diff'rent Strokes - "The Lie" (S6 E4)

Willis lies to Arnold about knowing first aid in order to get a job at the school carnival, but when Arnold gets an electrical shock, Willis doesn't know how to save him. He later confesses to Arnold what happened and Arnold is angry when he finds out the truth.

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I guess school carnivals would count.



The first Growing Pains up there is a school carnival.

The Brady Bunch make a dunk tank for a school carnival, although I don't think we ever see it leave the backyard.

Who's the Boss? Season 4 Ep 1= "Frankie and Tony are Lovers"= The whole family heads to Brooklyn for a street fair.

Who's the Boss? Season 8 Ep 1= Seer of Love=Angela is ready to profess her love for Tony, but her hopes for a romantic anniversary night with him are dashed when he invites her and the whole family to a carnival.

Young Sheldon Season 3 Ep 6=A Parasol and a Hell of an Arm= The Coopers visit a church carnival.

Family Ties= Season Ep 4 = The Other Woman= Andy is disappointed when Alex keeps missing their together time because he is with Lauren. Alex apologizes by taking Andy to a carnival, but also takes Lauren.

The Middle Season 4 Ep 1 & 2 = Last Whiff of Summer= The Heck Family goes to the fair where Brick enters his tomato.

My Three Sons: "Make Way for Yesterday," dunking booth at a college carnival.

Andy Griffith Show: Opie and the Carnival

Laverne and Shirley went to NYC and a street festival

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Malcolm in the Middle Season 2 Ep 23= Carnival= Reese and Malcolm plan with Stevie to sneak into the county fair that is in town.

There was a Leave it to Beaver episode where Beaver, Wally, Tooey and Lumpy were [planning to go to the carnival but their plains were ruined when Aunt Martha and her friend Mrs. Hathaway came to visit. After Wally and Beaver sulked in their room, the family spent the evening at the carnival.

Dobie Gillis: "The Devil and Dobie Gillis"

1963, with Barbara Babcock

Full House, ‘Divorce Court’ episode, they talk about the Halloween carnival.

The Adventures of Hiram Holiday: "Dancing Mouse"

The Lucy Show - Lucy Misplaces $2000. The $2000 winds up at a carnival, where Lucy and Viv have to track it down.

Not a sitcom , but on the Waltons there was an episode called " The prize " . The family getting ready for and attending a county fair .

It looked like so much fun. So old fashioned and wholesome !

Another carnival episode on the Waltons . Elizabeth has recurring nightmares of being stuck on. A ferris wheel going round and round and not getting off. Turns out it really happened a year before when the carnival was in town. A thieving Carnie worker took off when he saw the sheriff and left the ferris wheel unattended with Elizabeth still on it.

A cool, spooky kind of episode .:eek:

This is a movie: ROLLERCOASTER - 1977

An unnamed young extortionist (Timothy Bottoms) sets off a bomb on an amusement park roller coaster, causing multiple fatalities, then says that he will do the same to five other rides around the country simultaneously unless he's paid one million...
He gets his though!

There was a later Leave it to Beaver episode where Beaver won a gold locket at a carnival and he gave it to Donna Yeager. But her parents wouldn't let her have the locket and forced her to return it to Beaver, so he gave the locket to June.

A couple of Leave it to Beaver besides one mentioned --

--Larry treats Beaver to carnival booths using money he took from his mother's sewing basket, and "found" on the grass below.

--Beaver wins a locket at the carnival and gives it to his girlfriend, which is fine until her father finds out. [Ha! Same-time post...]

In a Father Knows Best episode, Bud falls for a crooked carnival game.