Is there a TV show that your parents used watch that you, as a kid at the time, would have never been interested in?

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Flyingarrow68@reddit

Mary Hartman, I rarely if ever understood the jokes. I was still in grade school

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Head-Nectarine-1821@reddit

Ah yes, I never liked that one either.

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gotkube@reddit

I remember a run of Columbo in our household for a time. I’d still watch it! (Ditto for Perry Mason that someone else mentioned)

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HumpaDaBear@reddit

I don’t understand how we were allowed to watch Three’s Company.

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Justdonedil@reddit

Funny enough, Threes Company was fine. It was Dukes of Hazzard that wasn't allowed for my brother and I.

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HumpaDaBear@reddit

Half my family are hicks so we watched Dukes all the time.

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naga5497@reddit

I was allowed and I knew about sex at an early age so I understood every joke. I saw every episode. Parents were fine with it.

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I thought this would be further down or not here at all but yes absolutely Lawrence Welk. Because of him, my dad made me learn accordion at age 7. I wasn’t good but it did spur an interest in music later on and a passion for bass guitar so thank you!

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Randall_Hickey@reddit

And Hee Haw

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Littleshuswap@reddit

A one Anda two Anda three

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Bella_LaGhostly@reddit

A comment I can hear! 😆

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Bratbabylestrange@reddit

The Champagne Lady!!!

That and Hee Haw were my grandparent's favorites. I liked them much better than all the soap operas haha

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JEStucker@reddit

I still love reruns of HeeHaw.

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Individual-Ball-9862@reddit

I remember dancing with my grandmother to the ahow!

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keithrc@reddit

Good lord. And Hee-Haw, which was either right before or after Welk. Not my parents, but my grandparents, where I got shipped off every summer.

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original_greaser_bob@reddit

these boys could really ah whoop ah dee doo...

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Justdonedil@reddit

My parents didn't watch it, nor my grandparents. But my Great Grandma loved Lawrence Welk. However, she also let me watch the tiny TV in her bedroom instead. Solid Gold

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CitizenChatt@reddit

Hahahahah. Same here. Mom said "you don't have to watch it"

But we sat there and watched it 🤣

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Ok-noway@reddit

My mom loved The Rockford Files - ugh.

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kevbayer@reddit

Little House, Hee Haw, Lawrence Welk, the news...

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Cereallllllllllllll@reddit

I Claudius

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l00ky_here@reddit

Miami Vice. It came out when I was in elementary school. Also, SOAP.

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Particular_Web2414@reddit

The Andy Griffith Show

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

I actually loved the original Hawaii Five-O as a little kid.

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noisician@reddit

I just loved the theme song

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Appropriate_Answer_2@reddit

Quincy. I didn't get it because I was really little but I named one of my stuffed unicorns Quincy because I must've liked the name.

And the 700 club with my great grandma, that was so so boring. She loved it

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Puzzled-End-3259@reddit

Good answers.

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Altruistic_Food_7961@reddit

St. Elsewhere, Hill Street Blues, Moonlighting, and China Beach. When those came on, I went and played with my toys because I knew it was close to bedtime.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

My dad never really watched TV and my mom mostly watched PBS stuff which I did too or some comedy re-reruns like The Honeymooners, The Odd Couple, Fawlty Towers and some new ones like Cheers or The Cosby Show (and later Seinfeld) which was all honestly good stuff to me. I think maybe some Mary Tyler Moore stuff re-runs or something too at times.

I think at times maybe MASH, which I was not into or some SOAP, same.

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hva5hiaa@reddit

Rockford files. The opening theme spooked me with its piercing synth as I was trying to get to sleep.

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RadHawtLuv77@reddit

I just watched a couple of episodes, and James Garner was the OG who said, "alright, alright alright".

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hva5hiaa@reddit

Police/ detective shows seemed to dominate the TV schedule in my mind in that late time slot.

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RadHawtLuv77@reddit

OMG, I just remembered Hill Street Blues! I loved that show!

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Gen7Malibu@reddit

Awe come on, Angel!

I loved the theme song as a kid. Never cared for the show. One day due during covid, started watching and have been hooked since.

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RadHawtLuv77@reddit

Yeah, I think I am now too. James Garner is not too bad to look at today as an adult. *My first crush was Superman (Christopher Reeves) , then Magnum PI. 😍

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banality_of_ervil@reddit

Watching it now, I realize that Jim Rockford would have some serious brain trauma from how often he got knocked unconscious

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Smittles@reddit

60 Minutes

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Puzzled-End-3259@reddit

I HATED that show! That ticking stopwatch intro still triggers some kind of depression/anxiety in me.

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Justdonedil@reddit

I only watched Andy Rooney at the end.

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Smittles@reddit

Yeah, and really just Andy Rooney’s eyebrows, am I right?

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Common_Moment6006@reddit

Hells yes 😁

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callmeKiKi1@reddit

My mom loved Dark Shadows. I still hate it with a passion, and that includes the Johnny Depp version too.

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BroccoliNearby2803@reddit

Most of the shows they watched - Dallas, Falcon Crest, 60 Minutes (weekend over).

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Ok-Chain8552@reddit

MASH and Taxi which as an adult I have enjoyed immensely.

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MNPS1603@reddit

MASH 100%. I think it was airing in syndication around dinner time every night when I was a kid. My parents watched it a lot, I didn’t understand it. I should probably watch it now to see how I really feel.

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writing_on_the_wahl@reddit

Came here for MASH. As a kid, it meant bedtime was close (or when it was in syndication it meant that cartoons were over for the adternoon). Now it's gold.

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Halya77@reddit

I can still hear the theme song playing as I grumbled down the hall to bed…ahhh good times

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calisai@reddit

I remember putting a walkie talkie behind the TV with the button taped, so I could watch/listen to MASH while peeking out of my bedroom down the hall. A few years of it being just past my bedtime, so it was interesting as it was "forbidden". Beyond that i actually enjoyed it for itself later anyway.

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Feeling-Ad-2490@reddit

MASH and Taxi were the first 'grown-up' shows I started to watch as a kid. I didn't get 95% of the jokes but I still watched them. I should start a binge watching.

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MiMiinOlyWa@reddit

Gunsmoke

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nnahgem@reddit

MASH

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extra_napkins_please@reddit

60 Minutes and This Old House. And of course I ended up watching both shows as an adult.

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ExaminationNo9186@reddit

I remember my dad watching the BBC show "Yes, Minister" when i was a kid. Given the political satire of the show, it went right iver my head.

I've watched snippets of the show on youyube, and now i understand how politics works, i find the show great and alot of it holds up.

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Puzzled-End-3259@reddit

Dallas and Knots Landing

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Ok-Abbreviations9212@reddit

I loved Dallas as a 8-10 year old. I distinctly remember the summer of "Who Shot JR".

Knots Landing I considered boring. I don't think my parents watched it though....

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werewookie7@reddit

For some reason reading these two names makes my brain spit out Falcon Crest as if it’s the answer to the implied question. Is it odd I’ve never seen any of these but I’m willing to bet they were all on at the same time

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HarrietsDiary@reddit

Plex has a channel that shows falcon crest and Knox landing non-stop. I am not accepting questions about how I know this.

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Puzzled-End-3259@reddit

Not odd at all. Falcon Crest and Dynasty were the other two evening soap operas on at the same time. Seemed like at the time that you were either a Dallas family or a Falcon Crest Family LOL

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Self-Comprehensive@reddit

You read my mind.

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JoeN0t5ur3@reddit

Matlock and Murder She Wrote. No I don't watch them.

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kapchis@reddit

I 💕💕💕 those. I watch them both regularly. It helps to watch Murder She Wrote with the theory Angela Lansbury is a serial killer.

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Silocin20@reddit

Now that makes things interesting. It is plausible too.

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kapchis@reddit

She was just taunting everyone by writing books

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midwesternmayhem@reddit

In third grade, we had to write an essay about our favorite television show. Mine was Murder She wrote. In my defense, at the time we only had one color TV (so if parents wanted to watch something, that’s what we watched).

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Mickyfrickles@reddit

My wife LOVES Murder She Wrote and Columbo. So much so that my son (14) dressed up as Columbo for Halloween last year. He kept turning back on people after he trick or treated and saying "One more thing, my wife, she loves chocolate...would you mind one more piece for her? I'd sure appreciate it."

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JEStucker@reddit

I tried doing a Columbo cosplay at a comicon, spent all con being called "Castiel" or "Constantine" and told what was inaccurate about my costume.

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bondibitch@reddit

I loved Columbo as a kid. Still watch them now when I’ve got time. The newer ones were rubbish but the originals were iconic tv.

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FoundationAny7601@reddit

I see it lately and when I see the later episodes, like nope. Not as good as earlier seasons.

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Mickyfrickles@reddit

We just watched a 90s one where there was a murder at a rave, it was rad.

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FoundationAny7601@reddit

OMG !! Funny

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SunshineAlways@reddit

That’s hilarious!

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PinkUnicornTARDIS@reddit

When I was in junior high my mom took me to California. I wanted a picture with the Delorean. My mom forced me to get a picture with Columbo's car instead.

30+ years later, I understand her love. Still wish I got the Delorean picture, though.

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galtscrapper@reddit

Murder she wrote was one of like 2 shows my mom would watch with me/us as tweens/teens. I loved it and got really into mysteries with that and the all the mysteries I would read that were aimed at kids.

Angela Lansbury was such a treasure.

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LeoMarius@reddit

I loved Murder She Wrote in high school. I read 3 dozen Agatha Christie novels back then.

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SunshineAlways@reddit

Angela Lansbury had a lot of those elderly actors in the show so they could keep their insurance benefits. She seemed like a pretty cool person.

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Yarnprincess614@reddit

RIP legend. She would’ve turned 99 tomorrow.

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LeoMarius@reddit

Big stars like Van Johnson, Cesar Romero, Ernest Borgnine, and Buddy Hackett

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keithrc@reddit

+1 for Murder, She Wrote.

I mostly had the opposite problem: I never got to watch anything I liked, because my mom didn't like them. Dukes of Hazzard, anyone? A-TEAM?

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ritchie70@reddit

A-Team and Incredible Hulk were my dad’s favorites.

And Rumpole of the Bailey on PBS.

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untactfullyhonest@reddit

Ha! Me too! And Perry Mason. All 3 of these.

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ritchie70@reddit

I watched about 5 minutes of Murder She Wrote recently. So little that Angela Lansbury was not on screen. The acting was just so bad that I turned it off.

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MissBeemis@reddit

Murder She Wrote and Columbo. I have a Murder she Wrote T-shirt with Jessica saying “I killed them. I killed them all”

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guitarsean@reddit

I hated ending the weekend with Murder She Wrote

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thesturdygerman@reddit

My mother was a big Agatha Christie fan so she watched MSW all the time. I never have.

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ManyLintRollers@reddit

Those were my mom's favorites!

I'm just not a big TV person so I don't watch them.

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Ok-Abbreviations9212@reddit

My mom used to watch "30 something", which I referred to as "30 nothing". I hated it. It was all about these idiot boomers and their dumb lives.

Almost 30 years later, and I still hate the show, for the same reasons. Turns out I had good taste :).

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HurtsCauseItMatters@reddit

China Beach, Twin Peaks, Cagney and Lacey, Scarecrow & Mrs King .... I hated all of them.

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FuggaDucker@reddit

SOAP to be sure. I just didn't get it as a kid.

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SlidersAfterMidnight@reddit

Masterpiece Theater

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menap2002@reddit

My mom loved masterpiece theater! When I was young, I would laugh at her for watching PBS because I thought it was so boring, now I love it!

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BaconToTheBaconPower@reddit

Father Murphy.

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Head-Nectarine-1821@reddit

My mom used to watch Lawrence Welk and Austin City Limits, I believe they were on Sundays at the time. Boring!! Would I watch them now? Uhhh... no.

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500SL@reddit

The FBI, starring Ephram Zimbalist Jr.

It came on Sunday nights, opposite the wide world of Disney.

It was a battle I rarely won, but sometimes Jacques Custeau or some other National Geographic show would come on and he would let us watch it.

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DafuqJusHapin@reddit

Any Soap Opera

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icy_co1a@reddit

Walter Cronkite on the news. Everyone stopped what they were doing to listen to his reporting. I wish we had journalists of that caliber today. All we get is repeated Associated Press on every channel.

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OhSusannah@reddit

Same with my parents. As a little kid, I completely misunderstood Walter Cronkite's job. I thought he spent the whole day out in the field gathering information and then returned to the station in the evening to report what he's learned. I thought they only brought in other people when it was too far for him to travel, such as war zone reports.

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New_Guava3601@reddit

And opinions that too many people think are news.

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Illustrious-Buddy941@reddit

60 Minutes. I remember being SO BORED.

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OhSusannah@reddit

The evening news. They never really followed anything else but might randomly switch the TV on if they were bored and some or another old movie caught their eye. But the nightly news was Must See TV. It bored me to tears. Now I understand why it was so riveting to them.

These days they watch too much TV, which they never used to do, but I think that's part of being extremely elderly. Still mostly the news. But now they toggle back and forth between CNN and MSNBC. It's almost too much news.

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International_Boss81@reddit

The Huntley/Brinkley Report

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SpiceTreeRrr@reddit

Poldark and Bergerac. Still wouldn’t watch either of them though.

I do however have a soft spot for the old Agatha Christie series.

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palmveach1972@reddit

60 minutes

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modest_irish_goddess@reddit

My dad loved a show called "Black Sheep Squadron". I HATED IT. I couldn't take Robert Conrad even as a six year old.

I'm confident I wouldn't watch it today either. 💙

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mjkulm@reddit

What?! That show was amazing! My 5th grade friends and I would break down every episode and repeat the phrase... Going swimming today? Not today Boynton! ' Damn, thank you for the memory jog!

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MachineProof5438@reddit

It was bad bad black sheep, I used to watch with my dad and liked it. He also got me into war and westerns and I still watch when I can. John Wayne Clint Eastwood Audy Murphy James Stewart Green Ford etc.

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modest_irish_goddess@reddit

Thank you! I looked it up again and it seems the name was changed in syndication. 😊

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Stillpunk71@reddit

The movie was good. We are poor little lambs…

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Much-Chef6275@reddit

Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Hee Haw, Lawrence Welk - shall I go on?

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mjkulm@reddit

Ironside, McCloud, McMillan and Wife, Love, American Style

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Agitated-Two-6699@reddit

Better quality of tv then. Now it's all rehashed drivel

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FoundationAny7601@reddit

Any Hardy Boys love here??

I was an official charter member of the fan club and still have the credentials.

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Wide_Breadfruit_2217@reddit

Sixty minutes

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Thirty_Helens_Agree@reddit

All Creatures Great and Small.

I’ve been really enjoying the modern reboot.

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Yarnprincess614@reddit

Random Zoomer here - but I LOVE the modern reboot! My mom and I watch it when they re air it in the US.

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Zestyprotein@reddit

This is what 47 used to look like.

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TXRedheadOverlord@reddit

I was just going to post this one as well! My dad loved the original (he also had all the books). I haven't watched the original but love the new version.

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keithrc@reddit

I found the show to be too slow, but I got hold of the books and loved them.

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TXRedheadOverlord@reddit

Honestly, the new show is worth it to watch if for absolutely no other reason than the scenery. The shots of the Dales are breathtaking. But, truthfully, I just love the characters. Tristan's my favorite.

I will say they do stray from the books with the new one [e.g. Mrs. Hall is younger], but I think the tone and humor are true to form.

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KatJen76@reddit

The books are an absolute delight as well. I constantly recommend them. They have the same cozy feeling and they are written as a series of short anecdotes. Though they follow the "storyline" of Jim starting his career, meeting and marrying Helen, and starting a family, you can read them in most any order. If you're really busy and have trouble finding reading time, if your attention span and focus is trash from health issues, you can still enjoy the books.

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jbenze@reddit

I had liver and kidney problems 4 years ago and reading was really hard (still don’t read half as much as I used to) and I reread all of the books while I was in the hospital.

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kapchis@reddit

Upstairs Downstairs and Crockett's Victory Garden

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Alternative-Dig-2066@reddit

Watch the episode of The Vicar of Dibley, season one, ep six, Animals.

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HuckleberryFun7518@reddit

Barnaby Jones

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toadgoat@reddit

Did our moms actually sit and watch tv while we were growing up?? Wow….thinking back, mom never sat down with us in the family room to watch tv. Never. She was always just working in the kitchen or folding laundry on the dining room table ( 5 kids, so…) Actually, the first time I visited a school friend at her home and her mom was plopped on the couch with rollers in her hair and watching a soup opera in afternoon…I was utterly confused.

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Zestyprotein@reddit

She had time to make 5 kids . . .

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toadgoat@reddit

You’re not wrong there

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SqAznPersuasion@reddit

M.A.S.H. And Golden Girls. Both shows are top notch funny and 'realistic' in the context of their subject eras. The military realness in the O.R. is met with hijinx and hilarity. The woes and wonders of retired life liven up the Girls world.

Whenever I heard the theme songs for either as a child, I rolled my eyes and tried changing the channel as quickly as possible. Now both of those theme songs make me want to snuggle up in the couch with a crochet project.

I am turning into a grandma before my very eyes.

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EDG33@reddit

The Golden girls.

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FantasticTumbleweed4@reddit

Lawrence Effin Welk

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EDG33@reddit

You said it!

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248Spacebucks@reddit

Magnum PI is still great. The shorts and the scenery will always play. WKRP is a fun rewatch. The MASH theme song still signals my brain its time to go to sleep.

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Stay_At_Home_Cat_Dad@reddit

My mother watched Barney Miller. It was the most boring thing to me. Just a bunch of adults standing around talking.

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Zestyprotein@reddit

Watch it now. It's hilarious, and was way ahead of its time, in many societal ways.

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Annhl8rX@reddit

Some of my earliest memories are being bored out of my mind by my mom’s soap operas (or, as I called them as a preschool aged kid, “so poppers”).

I also hated the news. For some reason, though, I always kind of liked 20/20.

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Silver_Objective7144@reddit

WKRP in Cincinnati, now I love to watch the reruns

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Zestyprotein@reddit

I miss the original music. They got rights to some of it, but still quite a few major songs are missing, and the stuff they inserted sometimes makes no sense.

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ZombieJoesBasement@reddit

Eastenders!

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Adept_Advantage7353@reddit

Dallas.. I didn’t get into it but my mom loved it.

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chromatoma1@reddit

My parents watched Dallas & Dynasty. For the life of me I couldn't understand why😆

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Zestyprotein@reddit

Not a lot of choice back then.

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4l0N3D@reddit

Huh, yeah, I think citizen smith might be quite appropriate in the current times...

"Power to the people!!"

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ice1000@reddit

The news

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CyndiIsOnReddit@reddit

Barney Miller and Fish. I hated how dark and dirty everything looked. I never went lookin for these shows as an adult but I would probably appreciate the humor more now. Perhaps even the cop crossdressing jokes. Gotta get those johns somehow!

Even though Taxi had the same sort of backdrop I freakin LOVED that show as a kid. Also MASH and All in the Family.

I never cared for murder mysteries either and still don't.

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blessing-chocolate32@reddit

MASH…never “got” it

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DynamiteWitLaserBeam@reddit

Mama's Family. What absolute crap that show was.

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UnitedFederationOfFU@reddit

The 700 Club or whatever it was called. My mom basically kept the TV on the religion Channel 24/7

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RichardPryor1976@reddit

I'm sorry. That stuff gets old quick. Fundamentalists are just sooooo tacky.

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UnitedFederationOfFU@reddit

No apology needed for me I just stayed away from the house all the time LOL

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polymorphic_hippo@reddit

Barney Miller

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Corporation_tshirt@reddit

I loved Barney Miller. I had people in my family who were cops and they said it was the most realistic depiction of the work of police work on television. That was all well and good, but I just thought it was funny

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Justdonedil@reddit

Fish was always my favorite.

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Corporation_tshirt@reddit

Abe Vigoda was a legend.

As I recall, even though they had characters who were people of color and LGBT and trans, and they made jokes about them, the characters were still human and even relatable. They had some pretty strong moral messages.

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Zestyprotein@reddit

I rewatched the whole series last year. You're spot on. And the jokes were mostly still funny, if off color. They had a recurring gay male character, a crossdressing Teamster who was really a great charavter, etc.

What's scary is how young Abe Vigoda actually was during the filming, despite being depicted as ancient.

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RedLaceBlanket@reddit

Seconding the Barney Miller love.

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morethanonefavorite@reddit

Loved that sick base at the beginning of the theme song!

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Designer-Mirror-7995@reddit

Gah, yes. Forgot about that one.

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Motomegal@reddit

I never cared for MASH as a kid. I know, unpopular opinion.

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fakename4141@reddit

The Watergate hearings. God, so boring for a kid, but my mom ignored everything else when they were on.

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RichardPryor1976@reddit

I was a kid too, but for some reason I was interested. Still am all these years later.

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TRIGMILLION@reddit

Quincy and White Shadow.

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Icy-Tough-1791@reddit

Dallas. It came on after the Dukes of Hazard so I usually ended up watching it. JR was such an asshole.

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RedLaceBlanket@reddit

My friend and I made a series of comic strips about a mean teacher called Mrs. JR. We were 8. Our parents thought it was hysterical. Probably not for the same reasons we did. Lol.

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Zestyprotein@reddit

Until one of you shot JR.

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OccamsYoyo@reddit

Dallas came on at the same time as The Dukes of Hazzard in my area so I very rarely got to watch the latter. That said, I really enjoyed Dallas from a young age and it probably played a role in me being such a sucker for soapy writing. Same reason I could get hooked on CW teen shows like The OC or One Tree Hill despite being too old for them.

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Busy_Ordinary8456@reddit

Hee Haw, Austin City Limits, Grand Ole Opry

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PleasedPeas@reddit

MASH

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Gottagettagoat@reddit

I hated that show when I was young. I hated the music and the weird coloring and the subject matter that I was too young to care about. It also meant that kid TV time was over and I had to go to my room.

It’s probably a good show and I might even like it but until it’s last left in the world to watch–I probably won’t watch it.

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revdon@reddit

The Waltons and Little House On the Prairie were my Mom’s favorites and I couldn’t care less at the time. Now I appreciate their wholesomeness and they remind me of her.

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Otherwise-External12@reddit

My dad watched the original Star Trek, I remember seeing Mr Spock and wondering what the hell he was watching. Years later I love all of the Star Trek series and movies.

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DHLovesBlue@reddit

Heehaw

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CityBoiNC@reddit

MASH, ugh when I was a kid it was so boring and my grandmother would watch general hospital which was even worse.

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Extension_Case3722@reddit

My Dad loved The Rockford Files, he called James Garner his twin laughingly . They had very similar features but my Dad was not a handsome man. If I catch it nowadays I get super sentimental and misty.

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zbornakssyndrome@reddit

Northern Exposure in the early 90s/ Parents loved it, I was too young to "get" it, but now I love it. Great writing!

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keithrc@reddit

Hey, my cousin was on that show! (Janine Turner)

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zbornakssyndrome@reddit

She’s gorgeous!

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keithrc@reddit

I can't comment on that.

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jbenze@reddit

I LOVE Northern Exposure. My parents had friends over after work like 3 days a week and we would all watch it.

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FillAffectionate4558@reddit

Dallas which was huge in its day, to me it was just another soap opera, my wife who never never watched it some how end up and still has it a who shot J.J Uwing bag. Sorry if I spelt his name wrong not interested enough to look up the correct spelling.

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lordyloo@reddit

Quincy - I loved it!

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naga5497@reddit

Soap

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Gobucks21911@reddit

Omg I loved Soap! Still do.

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naga5497@reddit

I was too young to understand it. Now, I can appreciate it.

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fusionsofwonder@reddit

My father and I used to watch TV together, that was our thing, so I watched Black Sheep Squadron with him when I was little, and MASH, and Rockford Files. My mother was more Laverne and Shirley.

Rockford Files is still my jam. Too bad the reboots never made it, though I'd rather they not do it than get it wrong.

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Rude_Concentrate5342@reddit

Minder

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NorCalFrances@reddit

Rockford Files. Yes he tried to do good, but at the core he did it by conning people and being dishonest.

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RetroClubXYZ@reddit

Hart To Hart, Cagney & Lacey, LA Law.

Never got to watch the cool shows like Miami Vice or The Equlizer at time because I was only 9 in 1984.

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aDirtyMartini@reddit

Lawrence Welk. Hated him then and hate him now. I also have an irrational aversion to bubbles.

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Eaudebeau@reddit

The news.

Borrring as a child, now addicted to doomscrolling.

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King__Moonracer@reddit

WATERGATE.

I hated Richard Nixon because he DOMINATED TeeVee with super BORING news when I was 8. 1 TV in the house and my parents were riveted.

No Bugs Bunny, no Little Rascals, just boring news after school every damned day.

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IllustriousDingo3069@reddit

Benny hill

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Gobucks21911@reddit

This too. My dad loved Benny Hill but little me didn’t get it.

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Gobucks21911@reddit

I hated MASH when it was airing. Same with Hogan’s Heroes. Too much context missing for a 6-10yo kid to enjoy.

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sucks2bdoxxed@reddit

Monty Python. I thought it was the STUPIDEST when I was a kid.

You live and learn.

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caryn1477@reddit

Sure, My mom watched General Hospital, All My Children and One Life to Live when I was a kid. Never could get into soap operas.

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evility@reddit

I grew up watching those soaps with my mom. I went the opposite direction as you, I love my stories. I see them as a little treat for getting through the day.

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Justdonedil@reddit

If she was on that channel for her soaps, I wpuld bet Ryan's Hope was on her list too.

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rharper38@reddit

Dallas, Dynasty. All those

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Mysterious_Green_544@reddit

The Waltons. Now I’d like to see it

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Ipickthingup@reddit

Eastenders. My parents moved us to California in 1980. Me as a little almost American kid had zero interest in it

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evility@reddit

Not my parents, but my grandma loved Murder, She Wrote. It is one of my go to comfort shows. Angela Lansbury was an inspiration. Perhaps I will have a 2nd act solving murders and traveling the world!

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bravenewwhorl@reddit

MASH

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glueintheworld@reddit

Hogan's Heroes.

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otterrx@reddit

My dad loved MASH. I was little, like less than 10, and we would cuddle on the couch & watch MASH. He was always laughing at the things they said, I didn't find it funny but I laughed along with him. I didn't want to look like I didn't understand! Just a few years ago I visited him & he turned on a MASH rerun. Yeah, I was way too little to get those innuendos.

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Hot-Mess_Monster@reddit

WKRP

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keithrc@reddit

Oh man, even as a kid, I thought WKRP was great!

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

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Hot-Mess_Monster@reddit

I remember how Lonnie Anderson and Burt Reynolds were the hot topic couple, then! Joan Rivers was heard everywhere, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Battle of the Stars, and Dallas were on around the same time,( or a little later?)! So many crazy options!!

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keithrc@reddit

Yes, I thought about calling out Loni Anderson specifically as a high point, but didn't want to look like a creep (40 years later, lol).

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MyriVerse2@reddit

Jan Smithers!

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keithrc@reddit

It's the classic "Ginger vs Mary Ann" conundrum.

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Bratbabylestrange@reddit

My mother recorded All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live every single weekday. So we couldn't watch anything while it was recording (this was the 80s) and we couldn't watch anything else in the evening while she watched them. She didn't have TIME to get into any other shows 😅. But no, I certainly don't watch those (are they still on?)

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slightlyused@reddit

My heart always sank after Dukes of Hazzard on Friday night when the dumb Dallas theme started. I'm sure if I were an adult I'd have liked the show but I've never revisited it.

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Daisy0712@reddit

MASH. But I like MASH as an adult.

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claytonejones@reddit

Dallas. I couldn’t stand that show.

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RalphWastoid319@reddit

I really hated Hee-Haw but my dad loved it.

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charliefoxtrot9@reddit

Barney Miller & MASH

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MyriVerse2@reddit

A lot of westerns.

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oopswhat1974@reddit

Taxi and MASH

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emmsmum@reddit

No I loved all the crap my mom watched and I watched with her. Dynasty, Falcons Crest, Dallas. My dad worked weird hours so he want home at night. And I don’t think I ever saw him put the tv on. He loved music but not so much tv and movies. Now he loves tv. I actually watched quite a bit with my Grannies. They loved golden girls, the love boat, fantasy island…

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sstokes2746@reddit

My dad used to watch All in the Family on Saturday evenings and sometimes SNL after the 11 o'clock news. Of course I never really understood the premise of either when I was a kid.

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Amanda_here@reddit

Fucking MASH it's garbage

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devoskitchen@reddit

St. Elsewhere, Hill Street Blues

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OldBanjoFrog@reddit

30 Something

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TunaToonaTuna@reddit

Barney Miller. The music still makes me want to vomit

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ObviousChatBot@reddit

MASH. My parents loved that show and I never gave a shit. Still don't.

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CelticArche@reddit

Lawrence Welk.

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PowerUser88@reddit

Soap. The jokes went over my head. Love it now though!

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So_Many_Words@reddit

My mom loved Dallas. We had to be quiet for the entire hour. She always talked through our shows, though. I still hate Dallas.

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mot_lionz@reddit

Whatever was on, I watched. There weren’t many choices. Bionic Man, Bionic Woman, Hulk, Wonder Woman …

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CoastalKid_84@reddit

Hee Haw and The Lawrence Welk Show

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cardprop@reddit

M.A.S.H.

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MarvinParanoAndroid@reddit

I have to disagree with you. Since English wasn’t my first language I learned a lot of bad jokes thanks to M.A.S.H.

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Goldbrahma@reddit

Gunsmoke and HeeHaw

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MarvinParanoAndroid@reddit

Marcus Welby M.D.

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Acceptable_Mirror235@reddit

60 Minutes. It was the most boring show ever . Now I find most of the stories interesting

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Plane-Fan9006@reddit

Remington Steele, Hart to Hart, Dr. Quinn - Medicine Woman, and currently Tombstone

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BubblySmell4079@reddit

Early 80's General Hospital !!!

My mom was obsessed, bought every gossip mag (Star, National Enquirer, Globe) there was for Luke and Laura, Scorpio, and whomever Emma Samms played (LOL) writeups. Let's just say my brother and I were forced outside so we wouldn't disturb her.

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thisgirlnamedbree@reddit

My mom and grandmom were NBC soap fans, apart from Young and the Restless. But they tuned in for Luke & Laura's wedding, and I remember the scene of Scotty catching the bouquet, and Elizabeth Taylor showing up.

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Ryyah61577@reddit

Highway to Heaven

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Mickyfrickles@reddit

M.A.S.H. and Moonlighting.

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ChiJazzHands@reddit

I remember throwing temper tantrums when I heard the "60 Minutes" clock. That show came on immediately after "The Muppet Show," and I felt like the news was taking away my fun. Today, I watch "60 Minutes" every week, and though I don't find a lot of the current news to be fun, it is kinda fun in an "adulting" sort of way.

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72ChevyMalibu@reddit

Matlock all day.

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YamAlone2882@reddit

Golden Girls (love it now because I can relate)

Matlock

Murder She Wrote

Touched by an Angel

Highway to Heaven (my mama loved her some Michael Landon. Cried big tears when he passed.)

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digdugnate@reddit

M*A*S*H. Like other commenters, that show coming on meant bedtime, lol. I don't mind it so much now.

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InterviewMean7435@reddit

Perry Mason

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PoptartsofSadness@reddit

My parents liked Masterpiece Theater and I always thought it was so boring. Both sets of my grandparents liked Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw and I really didn’t like either show. So I’d go find something else to do while they watched their shows.

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beautifulwreck_@reddit

Fish, Barney Miller, sports

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catdogwoman@reddit

The Waltons. No, I won't be rewatching it.

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MondoShlongo@reddit

G'night Johnboy

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keithrc@reddit

G'night, grandpa!

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Designer-Mirror-7995@reddit

I loathed that show with my whole young heart.

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Upstairs-Storm1006@reddit

My dad, a 1940 born Vietnam vet and son of WWII vet, both of whom were doctors and captains in the US army & served overseas, absolutely LOVED MAS*H. I couldn't get into it at all.

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Pnknlvr96@reddit

Yeah I just remember the theme song meant time for bed. I've not tried watching it as an adult. I really have no desire to.

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Happy_Confection90@reddit

Barney Miller. Still not interested.

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kalelopaka@reddit

My parents used to watch The Walton’s when I was young, and it seemed so boring to me. In my 30’s I started watching it every morning since I was working nights and was surprised how much I enjoyed watching it. I can see why my parents liked it since they grew up in that era. Since I grew up kind of poor and on a farm it resonates with me more than I thought.

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TheGreenLentil666@reddit

Latchkey kid, single parent never watched tv. 🤷

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madvilne@reddit

My mom loved "The Paper Chase." Watching law students was not my idea of a good time as a kid.

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Chemistry11@reddit

60 minutes

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mitosis799@reddit

We didn’t have TV but once a month we went to visit grandma and watched the Lawrence Welk show, uggg.

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zork3001@reddit

Battlestar Galactica.

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TheQuadBlazer@reddit

My mom recorded soaps every weekday and watched them at night. So yeah lots.

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Fancy_Average5440@reddit

Westerns. So. Many. Westerns. 😴

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Djragamuffin77@reddit

Dr Quinn Medicine Woman

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TakkataMSF@reddit

Carol Burnette and Star Trek. My Dad watched those. Love Carol now, Star Trek is good.

I used to like Tim Conway on Carol Burnette because he did a lot of physical comedy, but I didn't really get the rest. I love the show these days. The whole cast was so damned gifted at humor. It's one of the shows that can make me cry laughing.

I liked Star Trek until some Tentacled Salt Sucking Monster was killing people by sucking the salt out of them and leaving little red rings. That terrified me. Still does, a bit. Like, why didn't they just leave salt licks around? Save some lives! Or a trail of table salt to a trap! C'mon Kirk! Wake the fuck up man!

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shockerdyermom@reddit

Murder she wrote was awful but oh boy did I learn some stuff from St Elsware

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Sherry0406@reddit

Murder She Wrote, Wheel of Fortune, Dallas. My sister liked MASH, The A Team and Kung Fu. I didn't care for them, but I had to watch them, because she was older.

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FlizzyFluff@reddit

Little House on the Prairie but no way I’m watching that or MASH.

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Justdonedil@reddit

I loved Mash growing up and enjoying Little House. My husband owns all the seasons of Little House on DVD and is quite happy there is an all Little House live streaming channel on Roku.

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FlizzyFluff@reddit

Just not my thing glad u enjoy them u can have my part of both lol

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Justdonedil@reddit

Totally get that.

I have never been into Magnum PI, and I totally don't get the whole Tom Selleck thing among other women my age , so I get it, too.

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FlizzyFluff@reddit

Right? Many of my friends were so into him! I don’t see it either.

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yearsofpractice@reddit

Hey OP. 48 year old in the UK here. Columbo was boring as shit to me as a kid, but through adult eyes, it looks great - like a really high quality amateur dramatics production with interesting stories and characters… slightly camp overall, but in a good way. Peter Falk as Columbo was also possibly the most charming character I’ve ever seen.

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grepppo@reddit

Came here to say this Peter Falk is the GOAT

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superluminal@reddit

Judge Wapner! (You have to hear it exclaimed in my mom's voice when it's after 3pm she hasn't turned the TV on yet.)

Dad would fall asleep to Mash or Cheers or the like every night.

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mylocker15@reddit

My mom watched so much of that show. Every episode seemed the same to me like the dry cleaner ruined somebody’s suit and someone’s small dog bit someone else were the cases on every freakin episode!

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becktacular_b@reddit

I do that now!

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Justdonedil@reddit

Lol, I hear Wapner in Rainman's voice.

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becktacular_b@reddit

“‘Course it’s time for WAPNER…”

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NGVampire@reddit

60 minutes

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mylocker15@reddit

I had a strange aversion to LA Law as a kid. It seems like my parents were always watching that one and talking about it. It looked so boring to me.

Plus my mom had weird taste and just assumed that I hated sci-fi because she hated sci-fi,

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notbossyboss@reddit

My Dad, who had no investments, used to watch Wall Street Week. It enraged me because it was on at the same time as Donny and Marie.

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vermarbee@reddit

Newhart in the 80’s. My grandparents would watch it and I hated it. Recently, I found the series on one of the apps. I hear the theme song start and it reminds me of them.

I used to think it was a “naughty show” because Newhart’s character was named Dick. 😆 My 2nd grade mind at work I guess.

I like to watch it now; it’s comforting in a way.

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KatJen76@reddit

The Yankees games. I don't know what it was. I really wanted to connect to baseball because both of my parents loved it, but it never clicked. Then I got into it a few years ago and I'm all about it now. I even went to Yankee Stadium for a game this summer with my dad and my husband (my mom isn't with us anymore).

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RealNews5396@reddit

z cars, black and white minstrel show, when the boat comes in, crossroads.. hated all those...

bullseye, 321, opportunity knocks, tarzan (just after the football results on a saturday) loved all those.. even the outer limits when I stayed at my aunties and was allowed up late

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BrendonWahlberg@reddit

Rockford Files. But the theme music was catchy.

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BigNastyQ1994@reddit

Hill Street Blues and Green Acres

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thesturdygerman@reddit

Green Acres reruns were my go-to on sick days. Also the old school game shows. ARE YOU READY FOR THE SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN?

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Opposite_Banana8863@reddit

The Golden Girls. Hahaha. Every weekend when my grandmother came over to watch us. Got to the point I looked forward to it.

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ImmySnommis@reddit

Aside from the news, I don't really recall my parents watching that much TV, but the two that stand out are Love, American Style (reruns in the mid 70s) and Kojak. I was in the room a lot when they watched them and they were so boring to me.

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Designer-Mirror-7995@reddit

I mentioned arrogant old Kojak too!

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LeoMarius@reddit

60 Minutes

The A Team

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Designer-Mirror-7995@reddit

Frigging Kojak.

There were a few, like Perry Mason, Adam 12, Colombo, and In The Heat of the Night that I learned to appreciate a little more as I got older, but never Kojak. Never. Couldn't stand him.

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EverydaySunshine@reddit

Upstairs Downstairs. And Mystery.

I would probably love them now

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gatadeplaya@reddit

Gunsmoke. Still will not watch it voluntarily

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Hairy-Refuse-3655@reddit

Little house on the Prarie

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kapchis@reddit

All in the Family. I didn't get the humor as a kid. I watch it now and politically it is still spot on.

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Gbonk@reddit

Everything on PBS.

All Creatures Great and Small. Anything on Masterpiece Theatre

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mtoomtoo@reddit

We used to watch Love Boat and Fantasy Island as a family when my sister and I were little kids.

I used to watch This Old House on PBS at my grandparents’ house, which I still watch religiously today.

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racer3x72@reddit

The paper chase

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Kohlerslave@reddit

Columbo. Was playing on MeTV Sunday nights and y wife and I joked about it. Started watching every Sunday and have now seen them all.

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yearsofpractice@reddit

Agreed. Revisiting Columbo’s been a revelation - it’s like a stage show with its set designs. Peter Falk has to be the most charming actor too. Absolutely flawless.

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zedgrrrl@reddit

40 years of Y&R.

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InternationalBand494@reddit

Hee Haw. I thought it was dumb. Now I know my dad was watching for the Hee Haw Honeys, and I get it. Same reason I never missed Benny Hill

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hornybutired@reddit

My parents were fans of St. Elsewhere. I didn't care for it at the time, but I've rewatched it since and really enjoyed it.

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Stillpunk71@reddit

That series finally though. Like wow.

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lilbearpie@reddit

Lawrence Well and the "made for TV movies" I was raised by my grandparents

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Isiotic_Mind@reddit

MASH, Dallas also

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Hattkake@reddit

Columbo. Thought it was super stupid as a kid. Rewatched it at 45 and it is absolutely brilliant.

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LordBalderdash@reddit

Falcon Crest and Dallas - Mom loved these, Dad watched sports instead.

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Commercial_Wind8212@reddit

HeeHaw. it's kind of funny to watch and remember

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Puppiessssss@reddit

Documentaries

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raiseawelt@reddit

30 something

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jcb1975@reddit

Donahue…now I love morning tv

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Puffpufftoke@reddit

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

wtf was that show? I just remember I would rather go to bed than watch it.

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Gecko23@reddit

Lawrence Welk blech

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RedLaceBlanket@reddit

Hill Street Blues. My dad was a fan. I still refuse to watch it even though I like cop shows (thanks to dad lol).

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bdcda43334@reddit

Lawrence F’ing Welk. God I hated that.

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AmerikanerinTX@reddit

Days of Our Lives was my enemy. FML that I know Stefano put Marlena in a coma

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MindlessParsley1446@reddit

Yes, Perry Mason. Which I LOVE now!! Funny how that sometimes works out.

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Elegant-Phone7388@reddit

My mom loved Upstairs Downstairs on PBS. I haven't watched it but I love Downton Abbey and The Gilded Age.

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dystopiadattopia@reddit

My mom liked The Rockford Files but it was too boring for me as a kid

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sev45day@reddit

Oh, a number of them. I grew up with my grandmother in the house. So I watched Columbo, the Walton's, Bob newhart show, MASH, Barreta, streets of San Francisco, Kojak, police woman, Rockford files, etc.

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NateQuarry@reddit

This Old House

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Empty-Back-207@reddit

Never thought about it, but there was one thing I could never figure out. My dad was as country as could be, but he would never miss an episode of Miami Vice.

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sharkycharming@reddit

My dad watched a ton of sports. I hate sports. I think there could be a correlation. When I think of Sundays, I think of the drone of horrible announcers and crowd noise. It used to give me such a bad headache.

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Quirky_Commission_56@reddit

My parents watched things like Soap, Murder She Wrote, Magnum PI, WKRP in Cincinnati when I was a kid. I loved them all and still do.

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GeoHog713@reddit

Dallas

I got to stay up past my bed time when Dallas was on, so mom wouldn't miss any of it.

I didn't really understand the show, but I wanted to be JR Ewing. He was cool enough to put his boots on his desk. I wasn't allowed to wear my boots inside. So I knew he was important.

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nememess@reddit

Airwolf.