What's the silliest T.V show...

[goober]

You've ever actually liked!? Don't be afraid to admit it, I used to watch Batman reruns as a kid and loved it! Geez, was that not a corny show..


POW! BAM! KERPLOO!:rolleyes: :D

[computer mutt]

I watch very little TV these days. Mostly news channels, and the occasional home improvement type shows. Before I became addicted to the web, I was a TV junkie! :D

Some of the silly stuff I used to watch and like:

Get Smart
Benny Hill
Dr. Who (just plain corny, and low budget)
Gilligan's Island (guess this one belongs in another thread)
Green Acres (loved Eva Gabor don't ask me why, I don't know)

The list could go on forever.

I might list more..... it's no wonder I'm messed up in the head, when I think back on what I used to call quality entertainment.

Computer Mutt

[Budfred]

I'm sorry, but there are just too many to choose from. :rolleyes: When I was a kid I watched almost all the really dumb shows:

Ozzie and Harriet
Beverly Hillbillies
Batman
Gilligan's Island
Leave it to Beaver
The Andy Griffith Show
Father Knows Best
The Donna Reed Show
and on and on and on and...........:D

[pentachris]

Red Dwarf! (http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/)

Pure silly. Great fun!

[goober]

How could I have forgotten Beaver! Used to watch it before school in the mornings..unfortunatly, Eddie Haskel was the only one who came close to anyone I knew:p

My childhood viewing...


Dukes of Hazard (what was I thinking!)
Punky Brewster
and let us not forget( I've tried!) Urkel!!

There was a local guy who introduced the late night monster flicks, called Sammy Terry..loved it, soooo cheesy!

[computer mutt]

Sammy Terry! Remember him well.:D

Stayed up till practically dawn watching b-rated horror flicks and eating Jiffy-pop popcorn.

Wasn't his pet spider named George? I cant remember.

[gracious]

Wow, stirring up some memories here! I watched:

Scooby Doo
Johnny Quest
Get Smart (Love that show)
McHale's Navy
F Troop
Flipper
The Wonderful World of Disney
Laugh-In (Here come the judge)
Bewitched
I Dream Of Jeanie
Green Acres (loved that pig Arnold, "Oliver, where you trying
to shoosted Arnold?....Mr. Haney LOL LOL"
and of course Star Trek!!!:D

I also watched another program but for the life of me can't remember the name. It was about the British spy who wanted to quit so they sent him to this bizzaro island. Everytime he would try to escape he would get nabbed by a gigantic baloon. They all were identified by numbers. I think he was #6. Anyone remember that show?

I too was a t.v. junkie and I could probably go on and on...oh I used to love to watch Car 54 Where Are You on Nick at Nite, hilarious show. They don't make em like that anymore.

We also stayed up late watching B Horror flicks, (The Creature From The Black Lagoon!!) with a local guy named Seymour. He was hillarious. During the movie, you would see him doing stuff. Be over in the top right hand corner of the screen playing the banjo...One time during one of those great flicks, a monster was going into room and you didn't see it after it went into the room and all of a sudden you heard a toilet flushing. Cracked me up. Seeeeeemooooooooour!
:)

[Budfred]

"It was about the British spy who wanted to quit so they sent him to this bizzaro island."

The Prisoner

[goober]

Wasn't his pet spider named George? I cant remember.


Yep! I watched that show all the time!:) Sammy's laugh scared the heck out of me, way more then the movies they showed. Liked the nights channel 4 put on the Twilight Zone, Outer Limits and the Night Gallery back to back..


There was one cheesy show I watched as a kid, maybe someone can tell me the name. It was an 80's show, with a little girl playing an robot...it was awful.

[computer mutt]

with a little girl playing an robot...it was awful.

The show was called Small Wonder. Your right it was stupid/cheesy!

In case somebody is wondering what we are talking about click here (http://smallwonder.hispeed.com/)

[Jiggy]

I think TizWas falls into that catagory, who can forget TizWas brings a smile to my face ever time TizWas.

[BigBlue66]

I tell you what, I can point out a show so silly, it's downright stupid. I can't bare to watch it.

Third Rock from the Sun

[yawningdog]

My favorite of all time was a show called "Parker Lewis Can't Lose". It was very tongue-in-cheek and hip and hysterically funny in a surreal way. Anyone else remember it? It ran in the early 90's.

[Budfred]

I liked "Third Rock From the Sun" when it first came out, but it did get less interesting as it continued. It reminded me of the Jerry Lewis movie "Visit to a Small Planet"....

[Jason1971]

As a kid I loved Land of the Lost. As I got a little older I liked Buck Rogers and Battle Star Galactica. Speaking about Battle Star check this
out (http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/)


Jason

[gracious]

I remember Parker Lewis Can't Lose, isn't Parker now one of the StarGate SG1 characters? He has filled out since Parker.

Geez, I just remembered, I used to watch The Monkees..they had that ridiculous "Danger Island" tee hee, and of course not to forget those loveable "Banana Splits"
http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/ban.jpg :D

[Budfred]

I am pleased to say that I have only the vaguest awareness of several of these shows, having gone through extended periods since I was 15 years old of not having a TV.... I have heard of the Parker program and Banana Splits, but never seen either... I may have seen part of a Land of the Lost episode, no clue at all about TizWas or Small Wonder. I definitely saw a few episodes of BattleStar Galactica in reruns though...

[Lucias_Clay]

Two words 'Dark Shadows':D

[pentachris]

So, I've been holding out, and it's time to come clean...

I have to admit that my wife has gotten me hooked on the worst of the worst - a soap opera. I regularly watch All My Children.

[gracious]

ALL MY CHILDREN???

Geez I haven't watched that show in hmmm, a long time, tee hee.

Let me see, I will just die if you tell me that Erica is still on that show! Gosh, remember watching Knots Landing LOL, I actually almost got a speeding ticket for trying to to get home to watch a season finale! Pretty pathetic eh?:p

[dilsburger]

Xena - Warrior Princess makes most of those 60's sitcoms mentioned seem like Mensa material....

[Budfred]

Hey, I liked Xena... it totally distorted Greek mythology, but it was fun, especially the musical shows....

[dilsburger]

Ya know - after I posted it I knew I'd get a response similar to yours Budfred!:D

It all boils down to what you like and why you like it. Myself, I loved(and still do) Gilligan's Island and The Munsters for what they were - FUN!

[LadyGrey]

I can remember most if not all of the shows you all have mentioned!! Yeah I know, older than dirt here!!:D But I tell ya, I still think the monkeeys are cooool, and I loved the Beatles cartoons and I still to this day think the REAL Batman was awesome!:D :D :D :D
Captain Kirk did not die, he just went to the second star on the right and kept on till morning and Spock will never die!
I still love the REAL Dracula and the REAL Frankenstein and the
REAL Mummy has no equal!!
Those were the days when they left something to us, to our imagination. Not the slash and blood stuff now days. There hasn't been a good horror flick in years.
Oh, for the days of the Ed Sullivan show, topo gigo.
LG;)

[steveo]

My first foray into cable was 1975 when I started hanging out with a chap from school who had cable. My first and only cable experience was Star Trek which came on from 430-530, five days a week. What an invention this cable was I thought. He moved away during summer holidays so it was back to peasant vision for 2 more years until we moved into the city.

There wasn't a lot to choose from on peasant vision being it consisted of 2 channels, one of which was always fuzzy. Thank god for the CBC eh! The mandate of the CBC at the time was to air as many crappy shows as humanly possible. The Americans had Ed Sullivan, we had Tommy Hunter. They had Johnny Carson, we had colour bars. They had American Bandstand, we had Hymn Sing. Yeah there's nothing like sitting around the tube with the family getting all geared up for Hymn Sing! The CBC was just plain silly.

But we did have a few shows that got me through childhood and helped heal the emotional scars left by the CBC. First there was the venerable Hockey Night in Canada which spawned a generation of hockey players. Then there was The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour that taught me the Acme Company was just a postmark away. Finally we had The Hilarious House of Frightenstein starring Vincent Price and the late, great Billy Van. You may remember Billy from the Colt 45 commercials as the guy sitting at the bar table in the middle of the ocean while a shark circled around him (25 years ago or so).

[dilsburger]

Oh LadyGrey - Topo Gigo - now I'm back there with ya!!:D

[essayons]

Since pride or self-respect is obviously not an issue in this thread...

Speed Racer
Marine Boy
Tobor the 8-Man

Land of the Giants
Lost in Space
Superman (with George Reeves) - especially the 2-parter with the little men from the oil well)

Back when I used to get up at 6am to cram in as many Saturday morning cartoons as I could, I would settle for Colonel Bleep (puppets, I believe)

I VAGUELY remember a puppet show (think it was Diver Dan) about a deep-sea diver with a mermaid who liked him, and the bad guy was a barracuda.

Then there was every parent's favorite - Winky-Dink. I never had the magic screen, but didn't let that stop me from having fun (until I got caught drawing on the tube)

And a TV series called (I think) It's About Time, about astronauts who go back in time to the stone age.

There's tons more - I was a real couch potato as a kid - but I'll stop here (for now).

Don

[ZURKE]

I will put Knightrider near the top of my list of silliest tv shows.
I say near because I am sure I have seen something lamer.
I could not beleive that they are still playing reruns on scifi.

[scroatbagg]

How about

Thunderbirds
Fireball XL5
Captain Scarlet

Great TV, great puppets!!:cool:

Someone has already mentioned TISWAS, it was a kids show watched by teens and students due to its slapstick humor. TISWAS stood for - Tomorrow Is Saturday Wakeup And Smile. The guys who did the show, Chris Tarrant and Lenny Henry both went on to make an adult version called OTT (yes Over The Top) that didnt work, even when you where drunk!!:D

[FrankSG]

Ozzie and Harriet My wife and kids used to like it, but I used to call it "TV's longest half hour." I couldn't wait until it was over. However, considering what they show these days that the kids are exposed to, I guess I'll take Ozzie and Harriet. At least it was decent. I know--I know--I'm old fashioned--go ahead and say it if you want to.

[Dougie Quinn]

Most of the soaps I think are the silliest programs out there. The programmes that I got fun watching was the
Lone Ranger
Bat Masterson
the fugitive
the flower pot men (cartoon)
Age showing here

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