CONFESS!!! What bizarre TV show did you like to watch when you were a kid?

[LynneSin]

Me - I loved the TOny Orlando & Dawn show. I had a crush on Tony Orlando.

Can you forgive me?

[Servo300]

1. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

[CO Liberal]

2. "The Progressive Farmer"

It was on early Sunday mornings on Channel 4 in New York. I learned all sort of interesting stuff, such as why chickens have gizzards....

[underpants]

3. Donnie and Marie/Real People/Rat Patrol

I'm a little bit country I'm a little bit rock n' roll, they did 3 or 4 LIVE network shows a week-Fridays was when they did the medley thing.

[ForrestGump]

40. Didn't see "Rat Patrol" (bet I'd have liked it) but the other two were

classics of their time.

[SarahB]

87. I liked Donnie And Marie too

(embarassing)

[ForrestGump]

95. Captain Purple!

Speaking of purple, I was so happy when I was a kid and my parents (coincidentally) bought me a shirt that was identical to Jimmy's on the Killer Joe LP.



I even made a point of, at some girl's birthday party (she was destined to be an early entry in my extremely long list of unrequited loves), posing in that same studly position. Oh, I was indeed a smooth operator. Not.

[SarahB]

109. Sounds like you need some of these.

For all those lost, unrequited (or otherwise not unrequited) loves. :pals:

[Richardo]

4. "Fractured Flickers"

On for about 13 episodes in 1963 or so... voice-overs to public-domain silent films, from the Jay Ward (Rocky and Bullwinkle) Studios.

Still makes me laugh when I think about some of the episodes, and I havn't seen that show in decades... :D

[MrBenchley]

80. Didn't think anybody else remembered that...

It was priceless!!

[Richardo]

82. I think it was just you and me, MrBenchley

which is why it only lasted for 13 weeks :)

[burythehatchet]

5. Disco Beaver From Outer Space

One of the first HBO series, I believe.

[murielm99]

6. I used to watch this strange cartoon called Clutch Cargo.

They were not really animated, but pictures like cartoon frames that moved. They bobbed up and down oddly when they walked.

Their mouths moved though, and looked like real mouths. I used to like to stare at the mouths.

[bearfan454]

8. Don't forget about Spinner and Paddlefoot on Clutch Cargo.

They used to come on during the Garfield Goose show with Frasier Thomas.

[CO Liberal]

10. I Remember That One!!!

I grew up in North Jersey, and in the Late '50s my father rotated our TV antenna so my older sister could watch "American Bandstand" from Philadelphia - WFIL-TV carried the show for a full hour, and WABC-TV in New York only carried it for a half hour. Afterwards, there was "The Mickey Mouse Club" and a woman named Sally Starr who wore a cowgirl outfir and introduced the Popeye cartoons. The last cartoon Sally Starr showed every day was Clutch Cargo.

[ForrestGump]

38. They don't make 'em like that any more

Possibly a good thing...I can't remember well enough, but old Clutch and his buddies made me happy, all the same.

[yellowcanine]

7. We didn't have TV. I was "deprived" and have been permanently

scarred, no doubt. I did get seriously into "Tom Swift" and "The Hardy Boys", however, which are the literary equivalent of bad TV.

[jpgray]

9. MST3K -- my bro and I got in on the ground floor

I think I was about 9 years old when it appeared on the ol' TV. It's actually really great for kids, and improved our ability to be sarcastic. :)

[XNASA]

11. Tom Slick

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

And 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' was a big favorite of mine, as well.

[demon67]

12. Sigmund and the Sea Monster

Unwatchable now, but as a kid, it was a real favorite.

[ForrestGump]

39. I used to love that one, too, along with

true (earlier, when I was really young) classics like The Bugaloos, The Banana Splits, and the magnificent HR Puf'n'stuf. The good old days, man....wouldn't mind seeing these shows now, just to see how they really were. Then again, maybe they could only really be what they really were to a kid.

[Tripper11]

93. They're on Friday nights on TV Land

It's like a Sid and Marty Kroft night or something.

HR, Sigmund, Land of the Lost....oh, and Hatsville.

[Hotler]

13. The Gong Show

Great entertainment

[Servo300]

15. That was funny!

:crazy:

[boobooday]

119. I LOVED this one

Gene, Gene, the dancing machine!!!

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[arwalden]

14. Land Of The Giants... And Wrestling

[terrya]

23. I remember "Land of the Giants"!

Luscious Gary Conway

Yum....

[ForrestGump]

42. That was the first show I thought of when I saw the topic.

A highlight of my week. I didn't watch a ton of TV, but I loved to park myself in front of it for Land of the Giants.

[LDS Jock]

128. I loved wrestling on Saturday

So much better than the pro stuff on tv now. It was like free porn to me as a kid.

[mithnanthy]

16. Queen For A Day...

A show in the 50's, featuring women contestants with a multitude of hardships, competing for the Grand Prizes of new appliances, new wardrobe and beauty make-over, among other prizes. I would always cry with joy, when they crowned her, draped her in a beautiful long cape and handing her long stem red roses. These poor women had the most horrific lives and it made a lasting impression on me, to become concerned for the dis-advantaged.

[chelsea0011]

34. And right after "Queen"..Art Linkletter's House Party

Queen for a Day was very sick. I kept watching the Game Show Network when it was playing all those 40's and 50's game shows looking to see if they would run Queen. Never happened, but I did see an old Price is Right when the prize was a submarine!!!???

[marigold20]

110. I remember that one!

The contestants truly had terrible lives, or so we were told. When "Dorothy from Iowa" won a refrigerator, I was overjoyed. Mom and I watched TV while ironing white cotton shirts - that was hot work!

[Commendatori]

17. Space 1999

Watching it now, it's astonishing to see how bad it was. I loved it back then, though.

[ForrestGump]

45. And all the other Gerry Anderson shows, live action ("UFO") or

puppets (Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Stingray, Joe 90 -- though, even as a kid, I thought Joe was a dweeb of the highest order -- and the rest). UFO was an obsession of mine, coming out when I was six to nine, but the aliens totally terrified me. Used to play UFO on the playground with other kids, using the jungle gym as a central prop (always remember how the interceptor pilots used to plunge into chutes that led to their cockpits). Cool!





I remember that a huge deal was made of how much Space 1999 cost to produce...can't remember the series as much, and it didn't rock my existence as much as UFO probably because I was a few years older, but I do have vague memorie sof it sometimes seeming a bit 'slow.'

[SmokingJacket]

18. There was a guy on public TV in the early 1980s who

would just stand there at a podium and read the Iliad. He looked like Bob Dobbs -- you know, the iconic guy with a pipe? My mom and I used to get up early to watch it. The theme music was from Holst's The Planet Suites. Still makes me nostalgic.

I used to really love Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse too. (Not Mighty Mouse! WHole different rodent.) There was something tragic about it.

[terrya]

19. The "Cher" show...because of the fabulous Bob Mackie outfits...

Cher would wear on the show. :-)

[bearfan454]

20. Sherry Lewis and lambchops.

[starroute]

21. What in the World

Pre-PBS public television in New York City, c. 1960. Three prominent anthropologists would be handed enigmatic objects and have to figure out what they were and where and when they came from. Tribal masks, Roman roof tiles, nineteenth century kitchen devices -- all sorts of weird junk. I loved it.

On edit: It just occurred to me that its appeal was very similar to "Antiques Roadshow," only without the greed factor. I wish it was still on.

[1monster]

22. I'm not sure of the Title... think it was IT'S ABOUT TIME IT'S ABOUT SPACE

Premise was that two astronauts take off for a short space journey (a la Apollo missions) and somehow travel back in time to the Stone Age and cave men.

I think it was only on the air for a season or two, but, to my single digit years persona, it was hilarious...

[Zolok]

43. "It's about Time"

Facts are found herein:
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-6357/


www.chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com

[Tom_Foolery]

24. Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp n/t

[ForrestGump]

46. Yeah, baby! This and "Hong Kong Phooey" were two of the highlights

of the '70s for me. Both had great title tunes, too.

[2bfree]

65. I was going to say Secret Chimp!

I loved that show!

[Ganja Ninja]

25. The Avengers.

[ForrestGump]

47. Still get freaked out by memories of some of its episodes.

The one that has this bird-man walking around on the ceiling leaps to mind. I'd love to see the series now.

[SiouxJ]

75. The "Plant" episode was the one that got me

it was the one where the plants in the greenhouse grew into these massive viney things that killed people.

I have all the Avengers on tape. Years ago A&E (i think it was them) aired all the eps in order and I taped them all. Funny but the plant ep. doesn't seem near as scary now ;-)

:hi:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

26. Donny and Marie

I also watched "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" (although Ollie drove me up a tree).

[Insider]

27. Winky Dink & You

we bought the crap at the five & dime, and we drew ON the screen!

"quick kids, draw me a bridge!"

[Gildor Inglorion]

124. Oh, yes...I loved Winky Dink. They don't make 'em like

that any more!

[cedahlia]

28. Small Wonder

You remember...it was the one with Vicki the robot, her "brother" Jamie who looked like Billy Corgan, and Harriet the nosey red-haired neighbor.

Fun stuff. :)

[7th_Sephiroth]

71. OMFG!!!!!

I loved that show

[7th_Sephiroth]

72. OMFG!!!!!

I loved that show

[moof]

29. The Prisoner n/t

[ForrestGump]

48. Too young for its first time around (though my parents said I loved it),

but when I caught it at about the age of 20 it blew me away. One of the best series ever made, I thik, and that final episode is one giant mindfreak.

What does it all mean? Even Patrick McGoohan doesn't know.

[GOPisEvil]

30. Battle of The Network Stars

[LynneSin]

35. I loved those shows

I always rooted for ABC because at the time my favorite show (which I can't remember what it was) was on ABC

[GOPisEvil]

36. It was quite cheesy though.

Remember Laffalympics, the animated version?

[zbdent]

31. "When Things Were Rotten"

Not sure, but I think it predates the "Airplane!" movies.

Parody of the Robin Hood theme. My mind couldn't wrap around the guy playing the dual role.

[ForrestGump]

49. I think it came out a few years AFTER "Airplane." Excellent show, I think

produced by Mel Brooks.

[CO Liberal]

56. "Rotten" Was around 1975 or 1976

The "Airplane" movies were in the 1980s.

[ForrestGump]

59. Oops. I didn't see "Rotten" 'til around 1984, after "Airplane"

Guess I missed the orginal run.

[CO Liberal]

66. It Didn't Run for Long

If I remember correctly, it debuted on ABC in the Fall of 1975. I remember celebrating New Years with a few other couples in the apartment complex ex #1 and I lived in, and a lot of the other guys were ticked off that "When Things Were Rotten" had just been cancelled.

[peekaloo]

50. I loved that show.

The "watch what you say, the walls have ears" scene has stuck with me over the years.

Mel Brooks had a hand in the production of this show. Not nearly as classic as 'Get Smart' but it had its moments for me.

[chaska]

32. T.H.E. Cat

He was a pseudo super hero that used a grappling hook and rope to climb buildings and wore all black. This was a live actor not animation.

[qwertyMike]

33. Perry Como

Catch a Falling Star

Dino too

[chelsea0011]

37. As a small child....a show called "Rescue 8"

A lot like "Emergency" ....it ran Sunday nights. Saturday mornings........"Sky King". As a youth, I loved "Combat" and "Streets of San Francisco", both still in reurns.

[sundog]

41. h.r. pufnstuff & the bionic woman

--

[geniph]

44. Dark Shadows

Boy, that show was odd. It was on right at the time I used to come home from school, so I'd turn the TV on long enough to watch that, then turn it off. I wasn't much of a TV-watcher. I'm still not.

[1monster]

74. I loved that show!

I'd run home from the bus stop every afternoon to be able to watch it for months. Then my grandmother watched it and told my mother that it was filled with evil witchcraft and other satanistic type things and I wasn't allowed to watch it any more. :(

Fast forward thirty or so years into the future: Sci-Fi channel reran the whole series and I finally got to see the rest of the episodes. I just wish it had run for a longer time...

[Sequoia]

96. I was forbidden to watch Dark Shadows and Batman

but I saw DS when I went home for vacation. Loved that B. Collins.

[SnohoDem]

102. Me too.

I watched it with my next door neighbor every afternoon when he and I were in fifth or sixth grade.

[ForrestGump]

51. Anyone remember "Make a Wish"?

Some early-'70s kids show that I suspect was watched by at least as many teenaged stoners as kids...hosted by a moustachoied, embroidered-denim-clad hippy dude witha guitar and filled with rapid cuts (way before MTV's derivative gimmickry) and a kind of stream-of-consciousness content. Far out.

I caught it maybe when I was about nine or ten, maybe in rerun, and remember it being very clever with a lot of wordplay and that kind of thing, and a lot of information (including a vast amount of trivia) being conveyed. I'd love to see it today to see just what it was like, but I'd bet it would be far more worthy in content than much of the garbage served up to kids today. And it's got bellbottoms!

I still get its theme song running through my head on a disturbingly regular basis, though it's not a bad sentiment:

If you want it
You can get it
But to get it
You've got to want it
Anything you want to try
Just let go, fly high
And make a wish.

[ForrestGump]

53. Cool. Just did a Web search and discovered that, not only is this show

not one that I imagined (and here's me not even having been drugged during the '70s) but that its host was Tom Chapin, Harry Chapin's brother.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

103. Make a Wish was one of my favorites

Shame that not too many people remember this one. It was TRIPPY.

[Spirochete]

52. Supercar and Fireball XL5

a couple of puppet shows. I always laughed at the way the puppets moved around.

[Richardo]

60. But the flying cars were the COOLEST!

I even had a Supercar lunchbox!

Check it out...

[DontBlameMe]

54. The Space Giants

Strange Japanese show about kids who transform into rockets. Had a giant gold rocket called Goldar. Weird shit.

[Paragon]

98. Damn...

Thought I'd be the only one to remember that one.

[LoZoccolo]

55. The Tommorow People

It was a british sci-fi kind-of a show about these people who were like, supposed to be the next step in evolution. It was "bizzare" to me because it was from the seventies so everything looked a little bit different, plus all the indoor scenes were shot in video which gave it that kind-of trippy look, and it had cheap special effects. Another thing that made it weird and ambiguous was that they never really explained how this whole new transformation that people went through - they called it "breaking out" - came to be. Like people would all of a sudden start hearing voices in their head which would be the people who had already been broken out calling to them, and then someone would come and explain that they should think of their mind as a closed fist and now they should open it. After a bizzare sequence where they'd show images being zoomed into ending on this picture of a face, they would have "broken out".

[LoZoccolo]

58. Someone put up a fan page.

http://www.effdee.demon.co.uk/tp/tomorrow_people.htm

[CO Liberal]

57. Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse

Source: http://www.toontracker.com/

[ForrestGump]

61. And, of course, classics like "Planet of the Apes," "Logan's Run," and

"Buck Rogers in the 25th Century." Mmmmm....Erin Gray.

[ironflange]

121. Ooooh yeah, Erin Gray

Those outfits she wore must have been sprayed on. :bounce:

[truthbetold]

62. The Smurfs.

I didn't realize at the time that they say "smurf" every other word. I guess it makes sense when you're a kid.

[ForrestGump]

63. Ooo...another one: "The Goodies"

Goodie-goodie yum-yum...

[ForrestGump]

64. ...and the Wombles...

Underground, overground
Wombling free
The Wombles of Wimbeldon Common are we




Orinoco was my favorite. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that they'd named a river after him.

[SiouxJ]

76. The Goodies were absolutely hysterical!

you have excellent taste in odd old TV shows :-)

[ForrestGump]

79. You, too! Let's go seek the elusive Rolf Harris!

Look, it's Des O'Conner!!! Run away! :D

[izzie]

67. My God we did not have a TV until 1947. I was 13 years old.

Test patterns played big as I recall.

[achtung_circus]

68. Gumby & Pokey, My Mother the Car nt

[m-jean03]

69. Hmmm... Anyone else remember "The Mysterious Cities of Gold"?

It was a French/Japanese animae from the mid-80s that aired on Nickelodeon.

I LOVED that show, but hardly anyone else remembers it... :shrug:

[Babette]

70. I loved it too!

It was my favorite show for a long time. It even inspired me to do research on the cultures featured in the show. It's amazing how accurate the show was (for an anime).

There is a petition to have it released onto DVD. I think you can even find people willing to trade tapes.

[m-jean03]

73. Hi! Yeah, I ran across some tape traders on the 'net.

Haven't contacted them though. DVD of course would be cool as well.

I loved the sense of adventure, the ancient cultures, the mysticism of the whole thing. I can hardly remember any details now though.

I used to play "pretend" that I was in that show when I was little. There was a jungle gym at the park with a ship wheel, I'd pretend to be sailing the ship they sailed on.
:-)

[4dsc]

77. Soupy Sales

[SiouxJ]

78. All the Sid & Mary Krofft creations and also "Danger Mouse"

I think Pufinstuff, Lidsville and the Bugaloos were my favorites. I watched Land of the Lost but even as a kid thought it was pretty dumb (poor acting etc., they really needed a Charles Nelson Reilly or Martha Raye).

Danger Mouse was just really funny in an adult sort of way. I watched that in my teens when Nickelodeon picked it up. I will admit I have a weakness for British humor so maybe that's what the attraction was. :shrug:

[fryguy]

81. Riptide

That crazy detective show with the two action dudes and a geek - not to mention a funky-ass helicopter and a running gag about how many times their noses were broken......

[ForrestGump]

83. That was cool

Almost at the Simon & Simon and Magnum PI level.

[rinsd]

84. Riptide rules!

Thom Bray,the nerdy guy, graduated from my high school. Between him and Jon Stewart, we're a certifiable hollywood star mill!

[ronnykmarshall]

85. Get Christie Love!

w/ Teresa Graves ! "You're under arrest, Sugar!"

[StopThief]

86. The Night Stalker. . . . . .Karl Kolchak was. . . .

the man.

[TN al]

89. Let me second the night stalker...

...but have you ever seen it after you grew up? Just didn't hold up to the test of time.

[NightTrain]

115. If the special-effects technology on THE X-FILES had existed in 1974...

...can you imagine how awesome THE NIGHT STALKER might have been?

[SarahB]

88. The Love Boat

I don't know why they let me watch it (one night stands on a cruise ship?), but they did and I loved that stupid thing.

[CBHagman]

90. I blush to admit...

...that I was crazy about "McHale's Navy," "F Troop," "Hogan's Heroes," and whatever kiddie host was showing Little Rascals features. I also liked "The Monroes" (Boy, THAT dates me) and "Mr. Terrific."

On edit: And anything with Walt Disney, Sandy Becker, or Paul Winchell connected to it.

[kymar57]

91. Dark Shadows

Ran home from school to see this strange soap opera.(OK I was a disturbed child)

[CBHagman]

92. That one used to drive my mother up the wall.

She hated the way it showed what was going on in people's minds.

I did have a friend whose mother tuned in during the afternoon, so I sometimes saw it.

After seeing it on the SciFi Channel a few years back, I didn't find it quite as intense as I once did. But when you're a kid, your imagination does strange things...

[SnohoDem]

101. Me too.

I watched it with my next door neighbor every afternoon when he and I were in fifth or sixth grade.

[Sequoia]

94. "The Invaders"

A Quinn Martin production (I can still hear that add on line) about aliens who would drink with their pinky's up. Roy Thinnes was the star and it didn't have a long season.

[ForrestGump]

97. A stellar show. I still remember the title announcement and tag, too!

I loved it. Another one that my parents swore I loved when I was around three, but that I really got into when it aired during my undergrad years.

The In-Vaders

A Quinn--Mar-Tin Pro-Duc-tion

[Hemprus]

99. Land of the Lost!

Here was the girl that kept me coming back every Saturday morning.:evilgrin:

[ForrestGump]

104. Looks more like Land of the Lost Bra

Hubba hubba :D

[jonnyblitz]

100. lol. you and your 'CONFESS" threads...

you must be a catholic girl....

[BlackVelvetElvis]

105. Ultraman!

What a theme song!

Ultraman
Here he comes from the sky
Ultraman
Watch our hero fly

In a super jet he comes
From a billion miles away
From a distant planet-land
Comes our hero, Ultraman

I loved the rubber-suited monsters, bad dubs and the cool late-60's Japanese cars.

[baldguy]

122. Ultraman!

Starblazers!
Speed Racer!

do all japanimation titles automatically have exclamation points?

[flamingyouth]

106. Love American Style

"underneath the red, white & bluuuuue..."

[ForrestGump]

107. That and "Bridget Loves Bernie" used to be back-to-back, I think,

when I was a little kid. Can't remember much of either other than that I thought they were funny.

[kymar57]

108. Just 'cause

:kick:

[Deja Q]

111. "The Great Space Coaster"

Man, am I feeling embarrassed right now...

[NightTrain]

112. "Ghostbusters." Not the 1984 movie, but the 1970s TV kids' show.

It starred Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker as supernatural investigators who always foiled the monster with a device they called the "Ghost De-Materializer."

Isn't it amazing, the shit that collects in your brain? :eyes:

[peekaloo]

113. Wild, Wild West

not your typical western and to hell with that Will Smith piece o' excrement movie.

Always loved the Dr. Loveless episodes.

[Streetdoc270]

114. The Man from Atlantais

with Patrick Duffy

[ForrestGump]

116. Yeah!

Excellent stuff. He doesn't handle very well being out of the water. A lot like me in that respect.

And then he woke up and found it was all a dream...

[amerikat]

117. Diver Dan

http://www.planetxmagazine.com/diverdan.html

[amerikat]

118. Billy Bang Bang and his Brother Butch.....no kidding

A 3 or 4 minute show at the end of the Little Rascals

[boobooday]

120. H.R. Puffenstuff! The New Zoo Revue!

Dancing owls in stupid costumes!

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[ironflange]

123. Beanie and Cecil

Anybody remember Beanie and Cecil?

also

Rocket Robin Hood - Teletoon is running this now, worst animation ever
Hercules - great theme song
Davey and Goliath - hated the show, but it's like a bad car wreck, you can't help but look

[amerikat]

127. I remember Beanie and Cecil

loved it

[Gildor Inglorion]

125. The General Electric Theatre on Sunday nights....

hosted by Ronald Reagan. After that was Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

[solinvictus]

126. The Shazam-Isis Hour

I was in love with Isis. Also, Space:1999 ( a complete turkey), Super Friends, Ark-2, and some other live action cheesy space show on Saturday morning TV. I'm sure it was Filmation.

[LDS Jock]

129. Land of the Lost

I loved that show. The sleestack (sp?) would scare me each week. My older sister tried to ruin it by telling me if the characters were killed, there would be no more show but I didn't buy it. Besides, why let a good scare pass you by?

Anyone else remember it?

Marshall, Will and Holly
on a routine expedition
met the greatest earthquake
ever known
high on the rapids
it stuck their tiny raft
AWWWWWW
and plunged them down
a thousand feet below
to the land
of the lost lost lost lost (echoing)

It went something like that. It was a million years ago, so forgive any errors.

[ForrestGump]

130. "Wacky Races" and "Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines"!

Dick Dastardly and Muttley ruled!




And the "Hair Bear Bunch," too!

[PittPoliSci]

131. The Happy Painter

with Bob Ross, on WQED Pittsburgh.

[saracat]

132. Howdy Doody

Not sure if it was rerun. My older cousins would make up what they thought were dirty songs to the theme "Howdy Dowdy Time" And just remembered my Fav, Rocky and Bullwinkle. I loved Boris and Natasha and Fractured Fairy Tales.And I still loved that show when I grew up .

[andino]

133. Mine were...

(Greatest American Hero)



Yeah, I was a nerd....


By the way http://www.tvtome.com/">http://www.tvtome.com/ is a great place to look up old TV programs. They also have some episode guides as well....

:)