What's Your Favorite 50's/60's TV series? (cartoons, trailer, filmed)

[saibot]

I was born in 1969, so they were all reruns for me. But I loved:

Bewitched (all-time favorite)
The Addams Family
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
The Twilight Zone (though I was a timid child so only watched when my brother or sister was with me)
Gidget
Patty Duke Show

In slightly later years, the original Star Trek.

I HATED I Love Lucy. Just seemed dumb to me and not funny at all. My mom and sister liked it, but I would leave the room. Our TV was in the laundry room, so it was easy to avoid.

[b29510]

dont yell at me, but think about it


anything with white people, brady bunch, I dream, get smart, gun smoke, old mission impossible, even dr who. growing up i didnt care for the orignal star trex, I was more lost in space fan
i just feel when archie bunker came, tv went down hill, and when. reality shows started, I turn the tv off

[AtkinsonDan]

There was a tremendous shift in television between the 1950s and 1960s. The 1960s were much more fantasy oriented as compared to the 1950s. I was born in the mid-70s and came of age in the 1980s. I don't like much from the 1950s as compared to the 1960s. I find the 1950s family sitcoms to be boring. Many of 1960s shows were also in syndication / reruns during my childhood.

1950s:

• Alfred Hitchcock
• The Honeymooners

1960s:

• The Twilight Zone
• The Dick Van Dyke Show
• Green Acres
• Bewitched
• Hogan's Heroes
• Gilligan's Island
• I Dream of Jeannie
• The Addams Family
• The Munsters
• Batman

I appreciate the quirkiness of many 1960s TV programs.

[2goldens]

I Love Lucy
That Girl
Bewitched
Monkees
Flipper
Lassie
I Dream of Jeannie

Follow The Bouncing Ball - (For me - the first CC closed captioned)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAwW9lPDtKk

[ccm123]

Star Trek, of course.

Originally Posted by ccm123

Batman
Brady Bunch
Hee Haw
Andy Griffith Show
Room 222
Mission Impossible
Hawaii 5-0 (initially released in 1968)
Wild Wild West
Gentle Ben
Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
Get Smart
The Flintstones
Night Gallery

Probably many more I’ve forgotten. Great era of TV, I must say.

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by saibot

I HATED I Love Lucy. Just seemed dumb to me and not funny at all. My mom and sister liked it, but I would leave the room. Our TV was in the laundry room, so it was easy to avoid.

This might be the most interesting thing I've ever read on C-D.

[tijlover]

Anyone remember the TV Series Man With A Camera with Charles Bronson, back in the 50's, I believe? I have the Complete Series, a very quirky TV series.

[Summerz88]

Originally Posted by Nearwest

My favorite TV show from my childhood (late 1950s-early1960s) was "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkel and Friends."

This program combined wry humor with rapier-like wit. The writers employed humor, puns, and political and social satire in each episode.

In retrospect, I have come to realize that "Rocky and Bullwinkel" was a cartoon program that was written on an adult level.

Loved it!

I practically lived for that show, and Captain Kangaroo.
Writers of Bullwinkle were brilliant.
Fractured Fairytales fit right in.

[Clark Fork Fantast]

Kudos to the OP for buying their favorite series. We have no faith that (1) everything we enjoy watching will always be available as streaming/in a cloud/ online or (2) that providers won't be messing with language and contents all depending on what is considered offensive at the moment (which is already happening). We have all seasons of Rawhide, my all-time favorite, and have binged the whole thing twice so far. It's like coming home after a long, stressful day. In addition, we own Combat, 12 O'Clock High, and Wanted: Dead or Alive, plus a few other series that we used to love/still love.

We never watched I Love Lucy when I was a kid, but my mom got addicted to the sequel, The Lucy Show. I "feel" that it was a show with more qualities, but I may just be biased.

Yes, in retrospect some of those series were endless parades of the same plot with different guest actors, but we see that clearly now when we watch 3-4 of them in one evening on YouTube. In the old days, with one week in-between the episodes ( plus, we were kids) it didn't seem that obvious. Nobody in the "industry" could have foreseen that people in 50-60 years would have access to shows that were essentially considered ephemeral, throw-away products.

[Hawk J]

Rawhide
Wagon Train
Gunsmoke
War of the Worlds
Jaws
Rifleman
Little House on the Prairie

I enjoyed these very much, & many more.