What's Your Favorite 50's/60's TV series? (Lost, sitcoms, shows)

[otterhere]

I also love Turner Classic Movies. I watch both often just to see how life and the world used to be. In a word: better! It's comfort viewing.

[Iconographer]

Growing up in early 60's Atlanta, my siblings and I never missed Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color; seriously, I think it was why my parents bought a color television. We would lie stomach down in a semicircle about 3 feet from the screen (Mom: "Slide back a little; that's not good for your eyes"). Color TVs were still a novelty, so our next door neighbors came over to see what the fuss was about.
So there we were watching WW of C, when on comes a commercial for Lark cigarettes (a cigarette commercial during a kids' show; go figure). Up flashes a black woman smoking a cigarette, and the neighbor (who always kind of reminded me of Foghorn Leghorn) about falls out of his armchair. "Well!" he declares, "Welcome to the Wonderful World of Color!". I guess that was something he never thought he would see in his lifetime.

[RetireinPA]

Hands down: "Bounty Law"


With Rick Dalton as Jake Cahill.

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by RetireinPA

Hands down: "Bounty Law"


With Rick Dalton as Jake Cahill.

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[RetireinPA]

Originally Posted by Iconographer

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Less burn!

[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.

[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!

[thinkalot]

I started watching Highway Patrol a while ago. I like the cars and the young actors before they were famous like Clint Eastwood, Guy Marks, and Stuart Whitman.

In the past I loved The Great Adventure and Combat when I was a kid. I even took German in high school because of Combat.

[tijlover]

I stumbled across Father Dowling Mysteries. I bought the first series and ordered the last 2 series and you wish there were 5 more series. What an awesome series to watch. Not sure that fits into the 50's/60's.

[Babe_Ruth]

Originally Posted by tijlover

I stumbled across Father Dowling Mysteries.. Not sure that fits into the 50's/60's.

Yeah, Father Dowling was 30-40 years too late for a good late 50s series.. but it did have Happy Days' Mr Cunningham.. that could count