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Retro Shows revisited

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Post a list of GOOD shows(both cartoon and live action) that you saw in the 70's, 80's and/or 90's

For me, I remember the GOOD shows that I watch when I was a kid:
-G-Force(the first anime that I saw)
-SWAT Cats
-Wing Commander(the cartoon)
-Super Mario Bros. TV show
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(the original)
-Gargoyles
-Home Improvement
-Mighty Max
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Speed Racer
the original Johnny Quest
Marine Boy
Gilligan Island
Star Trek (the cartoon)
Sesame Street
Felix the Cat
UnderDog
the Electric Company
and Zoom
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Gilligan's Island - top show I loved as a kid
Passe Partout - french kids show
Romper Room
Transformers
Dungeons & Dragons
Solid Gold - hot women dancing
Captain Kangaroo
Fat Albert
A-Team
Air Wolf - The Best
Blue Thunder
Knight Rider - lame today but was cool then
The Osmonds - hmm Marie
Benny Hill
Starsky & Hutch
Chips
Batman - Live action - POW
Battlestar Galactica - Original series
Incredible Hulk - Live action
V - mini series
Adam 12
Justice League - the best
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Just a few off the top of my head.....

The Incredible Hulk - 70's series

Six Million Dollar Man - mid 70's series

Land Of The Lost - mid 70's series

Godzilla - 70's series

Kung Fu - 70's series

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oh and from the 80's - The Greatest American Hero
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CDN_Merlin wrote:Gilligan's Island - top show I loved as a kid
Passe Partout - french kids show
Romper Room
Transformers
Dungeons & Dragons
Solid Gold - hot women dancing
Captain Kangaroo
Fat Albert
A-Team
Air Wolf - The Best
Blue Thunder
Knight Rider - lame today but was cool then
The Osmonds - hmm Marie
Benny Hill
Starsky & Hutch
Chips
Batman - Live action - POW
Battlestar Galactica - Original series
Incredible Hulk - Live action
V - mini series
Adam 12
Justice League - the best
All of these minus passe partout, transformers and dungeons and dragons.
Also there was...
Emergency!
Hee Haw (forced to watch by parents)
Rat patrol
Mod squad
Monty pythons flying circus
The flintstones
popeye
Tom and Jerry
Bugs bunny and roadrunner show
Mutual of Omaha's wild kingdom (were gonna watch from this helicopter while Jim wrestles that 10 ft long anaconda. Watch out Jim!, He's a fiesty devil!)
oh and everyones favorite sports show
The wide world of sports! ( I still cringe when I think of the agony of defeat)

LATE EDIT
The wife wanted to add a few that native washingtonians might remember from the 60's.
The Stan borson show
wunda wunda
PJ Patches

Oh and we also wanna know why anyone hasn't mentioned the Mickey mouse club or the Wonderful world of disney? oh wait, We just did! :P
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Emergency! - I forgot that one
Wonder Women
Bionic Women

Mentioning Six Million Dollar Man reminded me of those.
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Sapphire Wolf wrote:-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(the original)
-Gargoyles
Just so you know, those are out on DVD. :)
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Just reminded of a couple here at work:

UFO (I understand that a remake is in the works)
Thunderbirds.
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Was Stumbling tonight and found this...
http://www.nbc.com/Bionic_Woman/
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Let's see, how about;

Mission Impossible
Time Tunnel
Laugh In
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Lost in Space (first season, gets to campy after that)
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I think I watched just about everything posted so far. In addition, though, my mom and I loved watching M.A.S.H. together. Some episodes were actually a bit funny. ;) I also got up early on Saturday mornings to watch Battletech when they started airing them. I actually bought the Dungeons & Dragons DVD and went back and watched some of the episodes.. it's not as good as I remember it. ;p

And G-Force (in it's original Saturday morning format and version) was my all-time fav.
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Blasphemy! You know that it's SWAT Kats! KATS!

Shows I used to watch a lot...

- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

- Batman: The Animated Series. Still one of the best cartoons ever made in terms of, well, everything. I love the art deco, anachronistic art style. It puts the jumpy X-Men and Spider-Man animation to shame.

- Looney Tunes. I can't believe they don't show these anymore. Screw political correctness. Screw you, Ted Turner, for buying them up. Generations of Americans grew up with these and we're all fine, right? Right?

- Inspector Gadget. It was probably my most watched cartoon. It's so formulaic and goofy, but it's a good formula. Live action movie, not so much.

- C.O.P.S. It still looks pretty nice 20 years later, the anime-like art style was a bit ahead of its time on US airwaves.

- Dinosaucers. I blame them for making me a furry, even though I think this cartoon is incredibly stupid today. We need more cartoons with dinosaurs, though. Every kid loves dinosaurs.

- All of those Mario cartoons, not so much Zelda or Captain N, actually. And not so much the singing that caused my ears to bleed. Egad.

- Most of the original Nicktoons before the line became synonymous with Spongebob Squarepants and crappy low-budget animation. Doug, Rugrats, Rocko's Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy.

- Anything on the Disney Afternoon. Ducktales, Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, and so on. Back during the second coming of Disney when they had incredible production values. Aww, Disney. Why'd you have to blow it all sky high?

- Anything Warner Bros. did. Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Freakazoid. Man, Freakazoid... they sure bent the rules on that one. Although I think WB's ideas are trite at best today (Loonatics Unleashed?), they still have top notch production value when everyone else seems content with stilted anime or sloppy let's-not-color-within-the-lines Ren and Stimpy animation.

- Anything on Nick at Nite before it delved off into Normal Lear sitcoms and the 90s. I think I scare people when I make some reference to the Mary Tyler Moore show and wonder why I even know what it was - it doesn't change the fact that Get Smart was brilliant. Brilliant, I tell you, Lucy! Ba-ba-looo!

Also, if you like the simple good versus evil inanity of 80s cartoons, keep an eye on the artistic side project I'm working on right now. :)
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G-Force (AKA: Battle of the Planets) - great show! Tiny, Mark, Jason, Princess, Keyop & 7-Zark-7 ..names very close to my heart. But what was the name of the rather camp \"I never-leave-home-without-my trusty-escape-vehicle\" Baddie? I've forgotten.

But I haven't forgotten:

The Banana Splits
Chatanooga Cats
Atom Ant
Secret Squirrel
Precious Pup
Squidley Diddley
Sea-Lab 2020


...THE GOODIES!!! (Who could forget them! Still hilarious - My kids love 'em too!)


Doctor Who
The Bugaloots
HR Puff-N-Stuff
Flappers Factory
Fat-Cat, Percy & Humphrey B Bear (Aust. shows)
The Monkeys
The Brady Bunch
Tomorrow's Children
Blake's 7
Monkey Magic (\"In the world before monkey, primal chaos reigned... :lol: )
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\"Kids'\" Shows I watched as a kid, in rough chronological order:

Sesame Street
Mister Rogers's Neighborhood
Electric Company
Muppet Babies
Heathcliff
CBS Storybreak
Today's Special
Superman: The Animated Series
Hello Kitty's Furry-tale Theatre
Garfield and Friends
Tom & Jerry
Square One TV
Punky Brewster
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Batman ('60s show)
The Secret City
Disney Afternoon (Rescue Rangers, Tale Spin)
Beetlejuice
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Batman: The Animated Series
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (when my brother had it on)
Tiny Toon Adventures
Animaniacs

...and then high school just made things too busy.
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I only watched Looney Tunes as a kid. The rest was too childish, and flat-out boring. (Yes I was 8 when I said that.)

That said, when was, what, 18?...I found that Fraggle Rock was simply hysterical after a joint. But that was a rarety because TV is such a waste of time, I had better things to do.
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Sedwick wrote:"Kids'" Shows I watched as a kid, in rough chronological order:

Sesame Street
Mister Rogers's Neighborhood
Electric Company
Muppet Babies
Heathcliff
CBS Storybreak
Today's Special
Superman: The Animated Series
Hello Kitty's Furry-tale Theatre
Garfield and Friends
Tom & Jerry
Square One TV
Punky Brewster
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Batman ('60s show)
The Secret City
Disney Afternoon (Rescue Rangers, Tale Spin)
Beetlejuice
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Batman: The Animated Series
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (when my brother had it on)
Tiny Toon Adventures
Animaniacs

...and then high school just made things too busy.
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Crap! I meant Edit, not Quote! Mod: feel free to delete that and this.
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Smurfs, Brave Starr, Looney Toons
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Hmm...
Well, in the 70s, 80s and 90s, I lived only 2 months and 21 days... so I don't think I can answer that one.

However, this is the point were I laugh at everyone and call you OLD!
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And we laugh right back and call you inexperienced :)
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TIGERassault wrote:in the 70s, 80s and 90s, I lived only 2 months and 21 days...
You're remarkably well-spoken for a seven year old.
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also, some of these shows date in the 60's.
Sesame Street and Gilligan's Island, Family Affair, My 3 sons all are 60's shows.
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Lothar wrote:
TIGERassault wrote:in the 70s, 80s and 90s, I lived only 2 months and 21 days...
You're remarkably well-spoken for a seven year old.
Must be those uber growth spurts. ;)
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Get Smart
Rockford Files
Magnum PI
Saturday Night Live
Doctor Who
Star Trek
Star Trek Next Gen.
Cheers
Bugs Bunny
Mash
?What was the name of the show with two detectives who were brothers?

I rarely watch TV anymore.
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