What were your favorite shows growing up?

[BigManMike]

Originally Posted by Svenfan1234

Since I am younger than you people, most of my memories are of watching PBS Kids, or Nickelodeon, or Nick Jr:
Arthur
Postcards from Buster
Maya & Miguel
Cyberchase
Teletubbies
Boohbah
Barney & Friends
Elliot Moose
PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch
The Amanda Show
The Fairly OddParents
(The early seasons of) SpongeBob SquarePants
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
The Angry Beavers
Ahh!! Real Monsters
CatDog
... and others. I can't remember right now.

Same here. I was born in 1990 and I never had cable so I mostly watched PBS:
Mister Rogers Neighborhood
Sesame Street
Barney & Friends (and the predecessor video series Barney and the Backyard Gang)
Lamb Chop's Play Along (and the successor series Charlie Horse Music Pizza which only lasted one season due to Shari Lewis death)
Wishbone
Reading Rainbow
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Shining Time Station
Magic School Bus
Kratts Creatures
Zoboomafoo
Zoom
Arthur
And I watched their news shows too with my parents:
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Nightly Business Report
Washington Week in Review
Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser

Then game shows:
Jeopardy
Wheel of Fortune

My parents really didn't watch much prime time tv so I never really saw much of what was on then when it first aired. I occasionally watched it with babysitters but I don't really remember what they watched.

I discovered Nick at Nite at a relatives home in the spring of 1998 and thus started my interest in old sitcoms. The first ones I remember watching were:
I Love Lucy
Brady Bunch
Happy Days
Laverne and Shirley
Dick Van Dyke Show

[BigManMike]

Originally Posted by Yong Fang

I went to a private elementary school ran by a evil, petty woman, and I was sooooo happy to get the hell out of there at 2:30. I would come home and watch Leave it to Beaver at 3:00 and The Munsters at 3:30 on Channel 3 in Memphis.

This was a CBS affiliate and CBS had a show that was similar to the "ABC Afterschool Special". Forgot the name of the show, but I would get MAD when they took off Beaver and the Munsters for that crap. This was the 1970's and we had three channels on, and this was what I did after school, and that damned Afterschool dreck ruined my afternoon.

I was an only child and so I was exposed to a lot of adult programming and watched what my parents watched as a child, all the famous 1970's shows like MTM Show, Bob Newhart, All in the Family, Sanford and Son, etc. If I was home sick from school (freedom from jail) I would watch Donahue and The Price is Right. Donahue was very interesting (I wish he still did that show, that type of talk show was ruined by trash artists and Okra Winfrey) and well done, and watching television with my parents, I had a good understanding for a child on a lot of subjects. We would watch 60 Minutes religiously on Sundays. My father would get beat red angry when an NFL game bled into his precious show and he would bitch and pout like a spoiled child if he didn't see Mike Wallace and Morley Safer at 6 PM on the dot. Never saw "The Wonderful World of Disney" because it was on at the same time. We would also watch the Nightly News and my father would race home from whatever he was doing to watch the CBS Evening News with Uncle Wally and whoever succeeded him. My father loves the news, now he constantly watches FOX News all the time. But I also think that he watches FOX all the time because regular TV is so bad and trashy mostly and not made for someone in their 80's. Moving on...

Just thought of it, but another late afternoon show on Sundays was Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom where we saw a crazy old man named Marlin Perkins and his sidekick Jim go into Africa and elsewhere to bother the wild life while selling insurance from Nebraska. His sidekick Jim did all the dangerous stuff while Marlin was safely away cheering him on "Go Jim, grab that King Cobra by the neck!" "Run faster Jim, that hungry Polar Bear is right, right behind you!" Yeah, I am exaggerating a bit, but Wild Kingdom was a great show which educated and entertained.

My parents were good, hardworking people who had an outside life, but they were also television addicts in their free time and our TV would be on from the time we woke up until time for bed.

Saturday Night was the only night where I was allowed to stay up until midnight to watch the old Saturday Night Live Show with the original cast. Pretty much watched SNL until college in the late 1980's. I also loved the ABC show Fridays. I was 12 or 13 then, Fridays humor was a lot more sophmoric and hilarious for a kid my age. Fridays was a kick ass show which deserved to have stayed on for twenty years, but I think they pushed the envelope a bit too far for that era (Cannibal Diner was a bit far....). 1980 was an awful year, the Iranian hostages (and that awful "Tie a Yellow Ribbon song......) and the HOTTEST summer of my life, the hottest day was 108* with full humidity, with night time temps still in the 90's. Fridays filled the void when SNL had a cocaine cardiac arrest after the first cast left and before Eddie Murphy (who for you youngins, USED to be funny, USED is the term here).

My favorite cartoons were Pink Panther (the old 1960's stuff, the newer ones are not as good) and The Roadrunner. Loony Tunes cartoons were good, except for the French Skunk. Watched Fat Albert, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters. Didnt like Scooby Doo, that show was lame and don't understand its appeal at all.

So, pretty varied as a kid. Sorry for the ramble, and I hope it was a trip down Memory Lane.

I live in Memphis too. What was the name of that school you hated? I've probably heard of it.

[Babalu]

Originally Posted by Yong Fang

Just thought of it, but another late afternoon show on Sundays was Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom where we saw a crazy old man named Marlin Perkins and his sidekick Jim go into Africa and elsewhere to bother the wild life while selling insurance from Nebraska. His sidekick Jim did all the dangerous stuff while Marlin was safely away cheering him on "Go Jim, grab that King Cobra by the neck!" "Run faster Jim, that hungry Polar Bear is right, right behind you!" Yeah, I am exaggerating a bit, but Wild Kingdom was a great show which educated and entertained.

That was Johnny Carson's old routine. "While Jim goes out and wrestles the wild alligator in heat, I'll sit here and drink my banana daiquiris."

Marlin Perkins actually did some pretty dangerous stuff, especially for an old man.

[AB]

The Partridge Family
The Andy Griffith Show

[Race's Girl]

Okay, my go now:

sitcoms
Saved by the Bell
Step by Step
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Boy Meets World

cartoons
The Simpsons
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1980s cartoon
Captain Planet
Rugrats
Ahh Real Monsters
Doug
Duck Tales
Goof Troop
Muppet Babies
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Tiny Toon Adventure
Animaniacs
Two Stupid Dogs

[Yong Fang]

Mr. Perkins was a brilliant man who made a wonderful and entertaining program, which also educated and informed. I also liked that the show went into far, far off places. I know Marlin liked to get into the jungle action, but Jim was just younger and stronger.

[scrapple]

The Time Tunnel
The Outer Limits
Bewitched
Dark Shadows
The Andy Griffith Show
The Wild, Wild West
The Fugitive
The FBI
Leave It To Beaver
I Love Lucy (reruns)
Perry Mason (reruns)