What TV show would you bring back?

[MikeBjerum]

Crusader Rabbit pointed it out on the James Arness thread, but I'll talk about it here:

I grew up in the 60's and 70's when you could watch tv without the sex and language we have now.  My parents had very little they had to be concerned about when we all sat down to watch tv.  With our kids in the 80's and 90's there were more shows that we turned off than we continued to watch.

I remember in the 70's when everyone was ranting about sitcoms and other programs not being "realistic."  "They solve every issue in 30 minutes, and that isn't real life."  #1.  That 30 minutes covered several days, and #2.  It is entertainment with a moral message in it!  I was at a church where they had a Sunday School program that used the old Andy Griffith shows for the discussion.  How many of today's shows could you use in a family setting much less Sunday School.  I can think of several 60's and 70's, and even a few 80's shows that could be used.

I guess this is why I like our DishTV.  When I want to watch tv I can see the different History and Discovery Channels, Military, and of course the Outdoor Channel.  But when I want good old entertainment there are the old shows we are remembering here and the movies on the Encore Channels.

Ok, I am now officially an old fuddy duddy 

[Ping]

We did not spend as much time watching television back then m58 cause we were outside using our imaginations to entertain or hunting and fishing.

Kids today always have to be entertained. It's a shame.

[tombogan03884]

BRING BACK REAL CARTOONS ON SATURDAY MORNING !!!! (Yes I'm yelling    )  

But then I guess Bugs Bunny wasn't "PC"
Watch to the end  

[MikeBjerum]

We did not spend as much time watching television back then m58 cause we were outside using our imaginations to entertain or hunting and fishing.

Kids today always have to be entertained. It's a shame.

Also true!

Try and explain to a kid that instead of sitting in front of a computer or tv with a laser thingy that they can come out and shot real guns.  I had a kid in Firearm Safety and Hunters Education explain how much fun it is to sit at his computer and "hunt deer" and some day he is going to do the hunt where there is a gun on a stand in Texas that you control from you home computer and shoot deer and hogs    He looked at me like I had grown a third eye when I told him he could go outside and shoot a goose, duck, rabbit, deer, coyote or fox for less money than he had rapped up in his electronic stuff.

[PegLeg45]

BRING BACK REAL CARTOONS ON SATURDAY MORNING !!!! (Yes I'm yelling    )  

But then I guess Bugs Bunny wasn't "PC"
Watch to the end  

Egads, my favorite cartoons of all time.....................................How could we have went this far without bringing up Bugs Bunny??   

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Egads, my favorite cartoons of all time.....................................How could we have went this far without bringing up Bugs Bunny??   

becuase they still play the reruns.   I have to say the old cartoons are 10 million times better then the new ones.

[PegLeg45]

becuase they still play the reruns.   I have to say the old cartoons are 10 million times better then the new ones.

The only ones I've seen on TV are edited for 'violence' and PC content......plum butchered....which is why I bought the DVD's.

[jlc]

Hill Street Blues

NYPD

Combat

Tour of Duty

[alfsauve]

From the Arness thread:

Yancy Derringer, Jim Bowie, Bat Masterson

Yes.....SOMEONE ELSE REMEMBERS YANCY!   Loved that show.  Remember Pahoo?


I spent my childhood in what was Burke County, GA and some historians have Bowie spending some childhood there as well, so I always felt an affinity towards Mr Bowie.    I figured I possibly stomped some of the same ground and parts of the Ogeechee River as he did.

And who couldn't resist the man with the cane and derby hat.   The James Bond of the west.  "Hi, my name is Masterson.  Bat Masterson."

[Ulmus]

I'm with Tom, bring back Bugs! 

And just for guilty pleasure. Tremors the series.