Combat. We probably shouldn't have been watching this one but no one regulated TV then.

Smothers Brothers, too.

My first memory of watching TV was the Flintstones. On the console tv that had the small screen on top, and the bigger speaker on the bottom.

We got a TV in time to watch the coronation of Elizabeth II. My grandmother was a big 'royals' fan -- can't imagine why, as she was Scots Irish. She had a hissy-fit about the expense, but enjoyed watching enormously.

I'm not a Boomer. I'm a slightly pre-WWII model. DH and I married in 1964. I had traded my Ford Fairlane for an Austin Healey 3000 a year or two earlier.

Definitely all of those and the others mentioned also.

How about:

Leave it to Beaver
Ozzie & Harriet
The Danny Thomas Show
Perry Mason
Father Knows Best
I Love Lucy
Lawrence Welk

I loved the Donna Reed Show....remember Shelly Fabares singing Johnny Angel?

Jasdip---my dad sold Electrolux vacuum cleaners door to door for 14 years....it's all we ever used...they wore like iron.

Remember Laugh In with Goldie Hawn. Any one remember Car 54 where
are you?

There's a holdup in the Bronx, Brooklyn's broken out in fights....we LOVED Car 54. Fred Gwynne, long before The Munsters!

Here is a link that might be useful: Car 54 on Youtube

This post was edited by joan_mn on Tue, Mar 18, 14 at 15:56

I adored Perry Mason!

Bewitched always made me squeamish, even in those far-off days;
the husband ranted & raved & raged, frothed & foamed at the mouth, yelled, bullied, demanded that his wife not use her power, threw fits about her being just a 'normal' (controllable) housewife, pitched temper tantrums...

I never could understand why she didn't just turn him into a teakettle soo his steaming would at least serve a purpose, why she coddled him & soothed his ruffled feathers & saved his bacon every time he messed up at his job, or why she even 'loved' such a jerk in the first place.

Thank goodness she had Endora (Agnes Moorehead) for a mother!

I read not long ago that the show was created to give expression to some of the fears that men of that era had about women having control over their sexual & reproductive lives & moving into positions of power economically.

so sad.

I liked the mysteries & detective shows;
someone mentioned Mannix.

Through the years (don't remember when things happened, & I know these weren't all 50 years ago), I've really liked:

Matlock
Columbo
McCloud

& of course the game shows in which people had to actually know something:
Jeopardy
Wheel of Fortune
Password

Thanks for the stroll down Memory Lane!

How about:
Roy Rogers
Hopalong Cassady
Annie Oakley
Fury
Rin Tin Tin
It's been mentioned, but I absolutely loved Sky King.

I was twelve years old then and remember a lot of them. Trivia: did you know there was never any cussing on combat? DH mentioned Occasional Wife. Does anyone remember that one? He said he really liked that one. Here in SD they had Captain America. I grew up in ND so when they talk about Captain America I can't relate to it. It was only in this part of the country though.

I remember when they all came on didn't watch Peyton Place. We still gt old Perry Mason and some other on oiur cable stations.Weget HeeHaw too.

Who could forget:

The Ed Sulivan Show

Candid Camera

The Saturday Cartoons: Bulwinkle, Road Runner, Elmer Fudd.

And for a touch of class? - Guy Lumbardo and the Canadians; Lwrence Welk; Monkeys; Beach Boys;

OMG!! I scrolled past this thread a dozen times thinking, "50 years? Well, gee, I won't remember any of those shows." Uh oh. Guess what? I remember them all. :(

It CAN'T have been 50 years ago! Could it?

Mom never let us watch Peyton Place. She thought it was too risqué. Anybody remember Dark Shadows? She wouldn't let us watch it either. Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason were favorites. And Lassie and the Cisco Kid and Sky King. My VERY favorite was Leave it to Beaver. (I told my son that one of his friends reminded me a great deal of Eddie Haskell. Son said, "Who?")

lol..we passed around peyton place, the book, to read in jr hi, without our parents permission...it seems so tame in today's standards...

Doesn't look like anyone has mentioned Dragnet with Sgt. Joe Friday. We got our TV in 1952 just in time to watch the Republican convention nominate Ike for President. We had a very high antenna on our roof in order to get Los Angeles stations. We lived 100 miles north of L.A. with a mountain range between our town and L.A. One TV which the whole family watched together and we watched whatever program my dad wanted to watch.

I still watch Lawrence Welk. It sure brings back good memories.

Petticoat Junction

Yes, Lawrence Welk on Saturday evenings. And Ma and Pa Kettle every Sunday morning.

Dark Shadows (Thought it was the scariest thing ever)
Laugh-In (scandalous!)
Davey & Goliath (Sunday morning cartoon)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

So many good memories.

I remember most of 'em - with pleasure.

Did you folks get "Upstairs - Downstairs" ... or was it just a Canadian thing (imported from Britain)?

ole joyful

Yes, we got Upstairs Downstairs....loved it!

I always liked the cowboy programs--Maverick, Rawhide, Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke.

Never liked the Ed Sullivan show, guess I was too young to enjoy that kind of entertainment. I recall it was on Sunday night, and I thought it was an awful way to end the weekend.

The Avengers....."Mrs. Peel, we're needed!" Thought she was so classy!

Sing along with Mitch
My favorite was Red Skelton, could send me into histerics
My three sons
My brother was such a fan of David McCallun on Man from UNCLE, he made mom get him a white turtleneck!
Little Brother watched Rawhide into adult hood and don't bother him when it's on.
I was always a big fan of Heckle and Jeckle and rarely got to see them, not on network?
Wow, long time ago...

Bonanza
Rifleman
Stoney Burke. Anything with a horse in it. LOL.
Our Miss Brooks
The Danny Thomas Show

I remember most of the shows mentioned in the above posts. I think I watched too much tv!

Did someone mention GreenAcres yet? I still love to catch that one in reruns--hysterical!--Arnold the pig, Fred Ziffle, and the wonderful Eva Gabor!

Also loved the Adams Family and Get Smart ("lower the cone of silence!")

It seems to me that this kind of TV was simply zany and fun--real "entertainment." I can't name any shows today that are like that.

And then there's "I Remember Mama," "The Gale Storm Show," "Big Top," "Space Patrol," and "Peter Gunn" -- how's that for eclectic viewing!!!

It's funny how those shows stay in our memories. I watched them all except Peyton Place. Sky King was one of my favorites, too.

I guess I am really old. Kukla Fran and Ollie. Dinah Shore Show. It was a 15 minute show and also the Andy Williams show. Sometime later she had an hour variety show during the day. One man's family.
Mary

My Friend Flicka, The Mickey Mouse Show...

Lassie...sunday nights...it's one of the reasons we've had collies for the last 22 years!!

I like some of the Green Acres re-runs, too!
Something that I didn't notice when the show was new was how sweet Lisa was;
she really loved that old Oliver Wendell Douglas!

Trivia (I think):

Danny Thomas, the real one, not the character in his tv show, was often out of town, & his wife would let the kids sleep with her.

If they were all snug in bed when he came in the front door, she'd nudge them & say, "Make room for Daddy!"

Maybe it took 50 years for this bit of information to surface because when Make Room for Daddy was on the air, married people weren't supposed to be depicted as sharing a bed at all.

Oh yes Lassie! I was in love with Timmy--Jon Probst (?) I think. After that wasn't Lassie some ranger's dog? I lost interest after Timmy left.

Lassie had two different shows, with two different kids. Can't recall shows names, kids now. The dog trainer for both was the same. Yes, TV was much more "entertaining" back then. Todays shows lack integrity.

We liked Lassie when Jeff was her master, we thought Timmy was a whiny brat. Seems funny now that we thought that, I think we didn't like him replacing Jeff. Supposedly, they fired him because Lassie wouldn't take commands from her trainer, but from Tommy Rettig(Jeff).

Then there were the Hanna Barbera cartoons. Yogi Bear, Flintstones, Jetsons. And Bugs Bunny on Saturdays-"Overture, curtain, lights, this is it, we'll hit the heights".

What a fun thread. Most of these I remember but some were either before my time or on when I was too little to know about them. I remember a show about a ship and Susanna and Midge, I think it was, but I was only 5.
When my parents were teenagers they spent a summer housesitting (actually it was his ranch, so ranchsitting) for the actor who played Sky King. What I think is amazing-things we saw on The Jetsons came true ! The moving sidewalks are treadmills, and remember George talking on what is now Skype?

I was born in the summer of 1949, so, yes, I am a Baby Boomer.

"remember Shelly Fabares singing Johnny Angel?"

When I was in the 8th grade (last year of junior high school), and first semester of 9th grade (freshman in high school), we lived in Whittier. I had a huge crush on Johnny Crawford, who was on The Rifleman. Well, he and quite a few other "celebs" appeared at a sort-of concert thing in Whittier, and my sister and I got to go, because Johnny Crawford was going to be there, to sing. Shelley Fabares was also appearing, to sing Johnny Angel.

Shelley was on stage, apparently singing her little heart out, when suddenly the music stopped. And so did she. She had been lip synching! While the stage hands were trying to get the record going again, she just stood there on stage, smiling at the audience and saying repeatedly, "thank you... thank you" while she nodded and curtsied.

When the show was over, my sister and I got to go backstage to meet Johnny. He even gave me a kiss on the cheek!

I remember standing in the pavement in front of the big window in the RCA building in NYC, watching the live telecast of the TODAY show with Dave Garroway, and J, Fred Muggs.

The cartoons were the best! Remember Fractured Fairy Tales? So witty!

I loved Fractured Fairy Tales ! They're on You Tube. I loved that dog who lived with a little old lady and had kind of an evil, wheezy snicker. What was that cartoon, and what was the dog's name?

Oh deeby, I know just what you mean. Have to think of the name. . .

Just remembered a few other great cartoon dogs--Snuffles from Quickdraw McGraw who went into ecstasies over dogbones; and Auggie Doggie and Doggie Daddy--"Oh, father of mine!"

We got our first TV in 1950, to watch the Phillies in the World Series.
Anyone lived in the Phila back then, should remember "Willie the worm", obviously a kids show.
"The Big Top", a live circus show, broadcast from Camden, NJ....starring as the Ringmaster, a young Ed Mc Mahon.

and, of course, "American Bandstand" started out as a local show. in Philly.

Oh, yeah, Oggie ! I LOVED Oggie and Yogi Bear.

I just found Oggie on You Tube, it's spelled "Augie". It was fun watching and hearing the old music. Probably Popeye and everything else is there too. Fun !

Yogi Bear
Top Cat
Mighty Mouse ("Oilcan Harry" has to be the best villain's name ever, & "Pearl Pureheart" is pretty good too!)

What was the one with the Professor & Sherman & the Wayback Machine?
I always liked that one.

& we always got the ones that were oldies even 50 years ago:
Betty Boop
Tom & Jerry

must be more but I can't think of them!

I liked Touche Turtle too. "Help, Mr. Wizard !"

I was only 2 50 years ago, but I remember some of those shows....may have been in re-runs though I remember:
Red Skelton
Laugh-In
Dark Shadows
Bewitched
Dragnet
Bullwinkle
Elmer Fudd
Road Runner
Bugs Bunny
The Micky Mouse Club

I grew up everywhere else but in the US. So, I didn't get to see these wonderful family shows.

Hey, but now, there are quite a few TV channels that are broadcasting all these shows such as AntTV (Antenna TV), MeTV, Cozi TV, etc.

Now, I get to see almost all of them and they're like new shows for me since I've never seen them before. I love these family oriented shows, no foul language, no gruesome scenes, etc. They are real family entertainment.

I was just thinking of Car 54, Where Are You? today!!! Small world.

Remember Hawaii 5-0 and that wonderful drumbeat solo toward the end?

Reruns of My Little Margie on at noon.

A bit OT, but in the 70s:

It Takes a Thief with Robert Wagner. LOVED him.
Welcome Back, Cotter (love the song to this day)

Back to the 60s:

77 Sunset Strip. Cricket.
Dr. Kildare
Burke's Law
F Troop!!!! What a song!
Lost in Space
McHale's Navy
Outer Limits
Twilight Zone
Shindig
Sugarfoot
Jim Bowie, Jim Bowie!
Carol Burnett
Dick Van Dyke: Roo-oo-bbbb!
The Rat Patrol

What a trip. Glad I saw the link!