1960s Top 30 Hits

[icecream]

Shows that air on multiple nights just have one entry. includes 1959-1960 and 1969-1970 to get all the top 30 hits from the 60s in.

[icecream]

Ranking the shows I voted for
1. Dragnet
2. Family Affair
3. Alfred Hitchcock Presents
4. Petticoat Junction
5. Bewitched
6. The Andy Griffith Show
7. The Patty Duke Show
8. I Dream of Jeannie
9. The Jack Benny Show
10. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
11. The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
12. The Dick Van Dyke Show
13. The Munsters
14. Hazel
15. The Addams Family
16. Hawaii Five-O
17. Candid Camera
18. Gilligan's Island
19. Green Acres
20. The Beverly Hillbillies
21. My Three Sons
22. Dennis the Menace

Shows I have not seen but would like to
The Danny Thomas Show
The Real McCoys
The Ed Sullivan Show
What's My Line
I've Got a Secret
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Route 66
Car 54, Where Are You?
The Defenders
To Tell the Truth
My Favorite Martian
The Fugitive
Hogan's Heroes
Get Smart
I Spy
The F.B.I.
Julia
Mission: Impossible
The Bill Cosby Show
The Jim Nabors Hour

[scrapple]

Oops, I realized I accidentally voted for Bewitched in the 70s poll..then I realized that they were the Dick Sargent episodes. I love Bewitched, but only the Dick York 60s episodes.

Hey, where's The Big Valley?

[icecream]

Originally Posted by scrapple

Hey, where's The Big Valley?

The Big Valley doesn't qualify for this thread since it never made the top 30.

[scrapple]

Wow, that surprises me. It was on for four years, and was the best Western on TV in my humble opinion.

[Crusinforabrusin]

My rank:

Gunsmoke
Wagon Train
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Price Is Right
Wanted: Dead Or Alive
Perry Mason
The Rifleman
Dennis The Menace
Rawhide
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Andy Griffith Show
My Three Sons
Bonanza
The Flintstones
The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis
Hazel
Car 54, Where Are You?
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Lucy Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Virginian
Petticoat Junction
The Patty Duke Show
The Fugitive
Bewitched
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
The Munsters
Gilligan's Island
Batman
Green Acres
Get Smart
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Daniel Boone
I Dream If Jeannie
Family Affair
The F.B.I.
Ironside
Here's Lucy
Mission Impossible
The Mod Squad
Hawaii 5-0
Mannix

[William Hogan Jr]

3 of the shows were in the top 10 their whole runs. The Andy Griffith show, Gomer Pyle,U.S.M.C., and The Lucy Show.

[MrCleveland]

Originally Posted by scrapple

Wow, that surprises me. It was on for four years, and was the best Western on TV in my humble opinion.

F Troop didn't make the top-30 either. I know the second season, the show was struggling as it was in color!

Other shows like that have similar problems?

[Sal]

Can you do a 1950s group too? I've already got at least a top 10 list picked out from that era. The 1960s was easily the best time for TV. I'll need a little time to figure out how to fill in the poll. Keep up the good work!

[icecream]

Originally Posted by Sal

Can you do a 1950s group too? I've already got at least a top 10 list picked out from that era. The 1960s was easily the best time for TV. I'll need a little time to figure out how to fill in the poll. Keep up the good work!

I can probably do a 50s poll sometime soon.

[Sal]

Originally Posted by catsrule

I can probably do a 50s poll sometime soon.

Thank you. I'll be looking forward to it.

As I was voting for my favourites and then looking to rank them from most to least favourite like others have done, I was surprised to see that "The Monkees" didn't make the list. I can't believe that it didn't make the Top 30 in its first season when it won the Emmy for best comedy series.

Even without its presence, this is still a very impressive group. I have managed to rank them this way:


1. Gilligan's Island
2. Bewitched
3. The Dick Van Dyke Show
4. Green Acres
5. I Dream Of Jeannie
6. Get Smart
7. My Three Sons
8. The Beverly Hillbillies
9. The Andy Griffith Show
10. Family Affair
11. Petticoat Junction
12. Here's Lucy
13. The Addams Family/The Munsters (tie)
14. The Donna Reed Show
15. Dobie Gillis
16. Dennis The Menace
17. The Lucy Show
18. McHale's Navy
19. Car 54, Where Are You?
20. Gomer Pyle USMC

[Dude111]

The price is right from the start to the end of Bobbys time..
Lassie
Candid Camera
To tell the truth

[icecream]

Originally Posted by icecream

Ranking the shows I voted for
22. Dennis the Menace

Shows I have not seen but would like to
The Danny Thomas Show
The Real McCoys
The Ed Sullivan Show
What's My Line
I've Got a Secret
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Route 66
Car 54, Where Are You?
The Defenders
To Tell the Truth
My Favorite Martian
The Fugitive
Hogan's Heroes
Get Smart
I Spy
The F.B.I.
Julia
Mission: Impossible
The Bill Cosby Show
The Jim Nabors Hour

I can't believe I voted for Dennis the Menace originally. While Father Knows Best will probably never be a favorite, I will take it any day over Dennis now.

I have now seen and liked: The Real McCoys, best of The Ed Sullivan Show (but no full episodes still ), What's My Line, Route 66 some (didn't like the pilot but it got better), My Favorite Martian, Get Smart, and Mission: Impossible. Get Smart is the best of those, Don Adams really steals the show. Not on my original would like to see list, but I really became a fan of the Raymond Burr shows Perry Mason and Ironside. I have seen and disliked The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (thought that was really stupid!) and Hogan's Heroes (great theme song but otherwise boring). I tried 3 episodes of Car 54, liked it some but stopped at that point and went to something else. Saw I've Got a Secret once, not terrible but no What's My Line either. The Jim Nabors Hour, like American Bandstand, I will probably never see because of lousy music clearance issues.