Nick at Nite 🌙 | TheaterFire

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Comfortable-Pea-1312@reddit

Batman, Gilligan's Island...lovely the old shows. Even Haopy days.

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-Boston-Terrier-@reddit

I found out that Sean Astin was Patty Duke's son in '07 or '08.

I know this because I was at a New York Islanders game and, on the other side of the Nassau Coliseum, there was a lot of commotion because Hillary Duff was in the stands. She was married to Mike Comrie at the time who played for the Islanders for basically a season and a half between '07 and '08.

Anyway, on our side of the Coliseum there was an even bigger commotion. Every stoppage of play fans kept running up to someone sitting about two rows in front of us. I was with my dad who kept asking who the person was but I couldn't see them. Finally, the guy just behind us told us it was Sean Astin from Lord of the Rings. He then added something along the lines of "I wish it was his mom instead" which got my dad and him talking about Patty Duke. For some reason they spent the rest of the period talking about Sean's paternity which I had never even heard about but was apparently a huge scandal in the '70s.

After the second period I decided I was going to go down there and get a picture too. Smart phones still weren't ubiquitous and cameras were only so good on "dumb" phones so I still carried a digital camera places for moments like that. The first thing I picked up on as I got closer to Astin was how thin he had gotten since LOTRs. Movie stars and their diets, right? When I got close to him I motioned with my camera and asked if it was cool, he told me it was very cool, and I handed the camera to someone that was with him. He took a couple of pictures then we talked movies. I told him how much I loved LOTRs and he agreed that they were incredible. I told him Rudy might be my favorite sports movie of all time and still cry whenever they start chanting his name. He agreed it was an incredible seen. We shook hands and I went back to my seat.

Later that night I posted the picture on Facebook with a caption of "Met Sean Astin at the Islanders game tonight. Pretty cool". I woke up to all my friends roasting me. I did not meet Sean Astin. I met Kevin Connolly from Entourage - which I have never seen so I had no idea who he was.

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Azuras_Star8@reddit

And Mary Tyler Moore.

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lurkermurphy@reddit

oh yeah for sure, way way too good for DVD, how did that dufus snag her?

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SeasonIllustrious629@reddit

"Because they're cousins, identical cousins..." lol

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SalamanderNo6861@reddit

Was it because or but? I have not listened to that intro in decades, but I remember them as, “… but they’re cousins, identical cousins all the way, one pair of matching bookends…”

I also remember the song talking about the minuet, ballet, crepe suzette, etc

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SeasonIllustrious629@reddit

Omgosh, you're probably right. Like you, I've not heard it in decades, but yeah, your words seem to fit better, for sure.

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Cloud_Disconnected@reddit

"Smokeshow," you Bill Burr wannabe, she was 16 years old.

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lurkermurphy@reddit

yeah guess how old I was, not 16 that's for sure or i woulda been watching skin-emax

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misterlakatos@reddit

I loved that show at a young age. I always remember being astonished at a young age by the father also being the teacher in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

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dlgirl81@reddit

Mr. Ed, Car 54 Where Are You? The Donna Reed Show, F Troop The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, My Three Sons, Make Room for Daddy. So many good shows. Used to watch Nick at Nite with my parents when I was little

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ElectricLego@reddit

Taxi

What do you do at a yellow light?

Slow down

Ok. Whhaat doo youu dooo at aa yellloww liight?

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Cattle-egret@reddit

Where the love for Mork and Mindy?

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LegallyRegarded@reddit

i rewarched a bunch of episodes jsut a few months ago. its still a good time!

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misterlakatos@reddit

I used to watch it as a kid. Apparently that show really took a nosedive in the last season or two.

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Cattle-egret@reddit

It kind of jumped the shark after Jonathan Winters joined. Both amazing actors / improve guys but it left the show behind.

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misterlakatos@reddit

That makes sense.

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noonesaidityet@reddit

Best of SNL. It usually stuck to the 70s episodes and it was a Friday night, after grocery shopping, ritual at my house when I was a kid.

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sbernardjr@reddit

SCTV

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Human-Put-5569@reddit

Welcome Back Kotter Fridays! 🎶

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B-Rad911@reddit

Classic Nick at Nite brings back memories of staying up late at my grandparents out on Thor screened in porch, same as your memory. Much simpler times!

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S_A_R_K@reddit

Lassie

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PermitInteresting388@reddit

Dragnet

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Elevated_Misanthropy@reddit

Anyone else miss "Car 54, Where Arrrrreeeeee Youuuuuuu?"

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Tinkerfan57912@reddit

Watched I Love Lucy every night.

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LeftOn4ya@reddit

Never had cable but local stations would air reruns of black sitcoms 227, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Benson, then later Sister Sister and Living Single. Been rewatching Living Single and it holds up as Friends ripped them off and is worse version IMHO.

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orangepaperlantern@reddit

I think Nick at Nite or TV Land played Good Times! DY-NO-MITE! My older sister’s first and middle initials are JJ and my mom later said she got super pissed when a friend of the family called my sister JJ Walker. Why it pissed her off I have no idea.

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Quirky_Ball_3519@reddit

Dobie Gillis will always be my favorite

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compunctionfxn@reddit

I really liked the Munsters and Mork and Mindy. And I don't really remember the show, but remember the theme song for Petticoat Junction.

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TemperatureTight465@reddit

My fave was I Love Lucy. the Disney channel also had a version of 'at night" programming where they showed their classic movies, which was a trip

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BugEquivalents@reddit

It kills me that Friends is on Nick at Nite now

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ladyboppette@reddit

The many loves of Dobie Gillis. Loved it.

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EmmalouEsq@reddit

I loved Dragnet. I found it somewhere to stream and it's still great.

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roopjm81@reddit

I'm not here, I'm over there I'm a tree.

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Sparkle8022@reddit

"I'm on the train, I'm on the train!"

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Illustrated-skies@reddit

That is seared in my brain from childhood

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sassooal@reddit

I've watched a LOT of TV in my day and "Blue Boy" is one of my favorite episodes.

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Illustrated-skies@reddit

The Dick Van Dyke show was (& still is) my all time favorite show. It’s still funny & packed full of amazing talent. “Buddy can you spare a job” is insanely hilarious as is “Coast to coast big mouth”

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dangrous@reddit

I Love Lucy

The Jeffersons

Three’s Company

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nola_mike@reddit

Dick Van Dyke show

F Troop

Get Smart

Dragnet

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ImaginationRadio-@reddit

Bewitched!!

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tamarask@reddit

My first crush was Mary Tyler Moore. I was 6 years old.

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Hot_Key_9971@reddit

Lancelot link!

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Illustrious-Lead-960@reddit

The Dick Van Dyke Show > everything else ever.

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Frosty_Ad_5472@reddit

Monkees. Still holds up.

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Electrical-Pie-8192@reddit

Finally someone else who watched the monkees! None of my friends did

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Rhizobactin@reddit

There are dozens of us!

After school for about 8 months. Loved the show.

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WhatTheCluck802@reddit

The theme songs that totally slapped!! Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, Mister Ed, Gilligan’s Island, Brady Bunch, Patty Duke Show, Jeffersons. Including those with just music: Munsters, Sanford and Son.

I memorized our Miranda rights at a young age by watching Dragnet.

Television was my third and perhaps most influential parent.

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BlueGorgonArt@reddit

Addams Family, hands down! My text notification sound is the foghorn sound that summoned Lurch lol. My sister’s is Bewitched’s nose twinkle sound. Both of us were Nick at Night kids.

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207Menace@reddit

Get Smart. Don Adams written by Mel Brooks was treasure.

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Purring4Krodos@reddit

The Donna Reed Show was my favorite. Patty Duke and Dobie Gillis ranked for me as well. Also Dragnet and Get Smart. Mr Ed was solid comedy as well :)

My grandparents raised me and they were already in their mid to late 60s when I was born, so we watched the shows together. All in the Family and Sanford & Sons were still in syndication and came on at 5p, after the afternoon cartoons so we watched those too.

I also watched A LOT of AMC when it was all classic movies.

As an adult now I barely watch anything new. I have been on a big Cheers binge lately and also Frasier.

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pink_faerie_kitten@reddit

AMC was the BEST in the early '90s. I watched every movie. Drama, comedy, four stars, or B, I loved it all.

I was sad when TCM bought up all the movies because my cable provider didn't carry that channel. I started scouring the TV Guide for late night airings of classics and the library (Blockbuster didn't have many) for my fix.

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Amazing-Basket-136@reddit

Norm!

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Purring4Krodos@reddit

It's a dog eat dog world and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear.

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misterlakatos@reddit

The Donna Reed Show was my favorite. Patty Duke and Dobie Gillis ranked for me as well. Also Dragnet and Get Smart. Mr Ed was solid comedy as well :)

Loved all of these + My Three Sons, Make Room for Daddy and Green Acres.

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pink_faerie_kitten@reddit

My house got Nickelodeon when I was 11 and I watched it all day! The Patty Duke Show was my favorite. My uncle was surprised when I started raving about it, lol. Mr. Ed, Dobie Gillis, Bewitched, I Love Lucy... And then two years later, Nick at Nite gave me the gift of The Dick Van Dyke Show and it's still my favorite show all these years later! It became my ADHD hyper fixation and I watched every episode and wrote down each one in a notebook. I even made a VHS of the flashback episodes in chronological order!

Around that time, TBS had The Andy Griffith Show and S4 is just superb comedy.

Before I had Nick, I loved UHF because it had The Carol Burnett Show. I've always loved reruns. MeTv is fun for this nowadays.

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PilotC150@reddit

Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched, Bob Newhart Show, Newhart, Happy Days, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Welcome Back Kotter,

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Southern_Sea_8290@reddit

These were all mine too!

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misterlakatos@reddit

I watched all these pretty heavily. Circa 1994-96 Nick at Nite had a really solid lineup. The Odd Couple also aired then.

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Sparkle8022@reddit

I miss old school Nick at Nite... idk what's even on there now.

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shinobi-dragonninja@reddit

https://www.nickatnite.com/tv-schedule

Friends

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shinobi-dragonninja@reddit

I turned on nick at night a few months ago. Now it is just episodes of Friends nonstop. I guess it is 30 years from now like how in the 90s we would watch shows from the 60s-70s

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SeasonIllustrious629@reddit

You have got to be kidding. "Friends", on Nick at Nite? Ew. That Just seems so wrong!

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shinobi-dragonninja@reddit

https://www.nickatnite.com/tv-schedule

Oh I forgot they also play big bang theory

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SinnU2s@reddit

I remember a show called my 3 sons I used to watch.

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SalamanderNo6861@reddit

I had a very similar experience. Watching N at N late during summer

I remember watching those shows, and also My Three Sons, The Patty Duke Show, Donna Reed, Car 54 Where Are You?, and Dobie Gillis.

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Sparkle8022@reddit

This was my favorite Nick at Nite era!

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AMugOfPeppermintTea@reddit

I watched a lot of Nick at NIght with my mother and we'd always sing along to the Mary Tyler Moore theme song. "You're gonna make it after aaaaaaalllllllllll"

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Sparkle8022@reddit

The original comfort watch.

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Boring-Gas-8903@reddit

I remember staying up super late one night as an 8-year-old girl and watching Patty Duke at 2 am. Good times.

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Sparkle8022@reddit

You and me both!

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BetterCallSlash@reddit

Mary Tyler Moore, Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

It's wild to me that Nick at Nite is now programming from my youth and young adult life, but I guess those shows are classics now, as much as I try not to think about it.

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roopjm81@reddit

An episode of Alfred Hitchcock instilled a fear of paralysis in me since I first watched it.

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Sparkle8022@reddit

I know which one you're talking about... I still can't rewatch it.

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thomas_ardwolf@reddit

Batman!

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goat_penis_souffle@reddit

The bumpers and promos were every bit as entertaining as the shows themselves. Every now and then at work, I’ll drop in “doing it right the seventeenth time is just as important as the first” from the Nick At Nite switchover bumper.

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Sparkle8022@reddit

I often think back to that commercial, "There'll be good times, groovy times, the kind you'll remember long after you've lost your mind..."

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_Maxxx1mus_@reddit

https://youtu.be/QnyjsAcggfg?si=Bf-TwCGhi9HXJ_ao

This one has stuck with me for 40 years!

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iam317537@reddit

I love Lucy, bewitched, I dream of Jeanie and leave it to beaver were my favs.

I also loved that classic batman show ( with Adam west I think), CHiPs and Matlock.

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GuerillaRiot@reddit

I was a "USA Up all night" lad myself when we finally got cable. I was hooked on the cheesy horror B movies and relentless phone sex commercials.

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iam317537@reddit

Ohhhh I remember these days. This and silk stocking.

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Wyldawen@reddit

Def. Mr. Ed. Horse of course, famous mister, yup.

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misterlakatos@reddit

I have not watched Mr. Ed since I was really young. It's a show I am afraid to revisit.

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krissym99@reddit

I watched an episode recently where Mr. Ed flew an airplane and it was actually making me laugh.

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xtlhogciao@reddit

I recently saw the one where he’s messing with Clint Eastwood and laughed every time Ed laughed as he hung up the phone.

Then I went and found the only ep I could really remember - the one where he plays baseball with the Dodgers. (best part’s obviously when he slides into home).

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Chemical_Shallot_575@reddit

This is amazing- thank you for the links!

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xtlhogciao@reddit

You’re welcome

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

I had a horse when I was younger that I named Mr Ed because I loved the show.

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creamywhitemayo@reddit

Rhoda, Taxi and Welcome Back Kotter

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apuginthehand@reddit

To this day, Taxi is still the show I will put on to fall asleep to - something really nostalgic about those late night theme songs and laugh tracks that hits differently than doom scrolling a smartphone, ya know? I should have my husband put it on our Plex server.

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creamywhitemayo@reddit

Not quite Nick at Nick, but to relive my days of falling asleep to early Comedy Central I've been sleeping to Dr Katz Professional Therapist (YouTube) and The Critic. Still works like it did in 1994

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lorenzo463@reddit

There are a few lines and episodes of Car 54 that are indelibly painted in my memory.

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Durakus@reddit

Mine was bewitched and I dream of genie. Also Happy Days and I love Lucy. Those were usually the shows I watched before I finally fell asleep.

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PawsbeforePeople1313@reddit

I love Lucy. She came on at 9pm. We would get our baths then my sister would join me in my room on the pull out trundle bed and we would watch until Taxi came on and we fell asleep. Some of my favorite memories.

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MoistPerception@reddit

When I was six my favorite show was Dragnet thanks to Nick at Nite. It was my first exposure to a procedural, which of course is a framework that scratches the itch in many a brain, and the exoticness of LA appealed to me as well. Now I see it as Jack Webb’s weird conserve agenda against “hippies.”

But Nick at Night shows that hold up include Get Smart, Mary Tyler Moore, and Bob Newhart. Also, while Newhart was a late night showing that I only saw when my parents fell asleep early enough I could sneak watching it, that’s a great show.

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roopjm81@reddit

Jack Webb just loved cops. He'd been doing dragnet since the 40s

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roopjm81@reddit

The Best of SNL was a huge favorite! Cemented my love for Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, and the rest. Not to mention so many other greats mentioned here!

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PHX480@reddit

Fernwood 2-Nite

Get Smart

Green Acres

SNL

Alfred Hitchcock

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Kennikend@reddit

Bewitched

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123FakeStreetAnytown@reddit

LOVED Gilligan’s Island!

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Hiciao@reddit

I've been watching a lot of The Dick van Dyke show lately. I watched it growing up on Nick at Night. The show is still great and was quite progressive for its time. And DvD snd MTM are so talented!

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singleguy79@reddit

Get Smart.

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phillysleuther@reddit

I was watching Get Smart in the mid 80s. I felt very special once I got my own VCR and could tape it off Nick at Nite. And The Dick Van Dyke Show. Then TV Land got Hogan’s Heroes and that was just perfect.

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_Maxxx1mus_@reddit

Agent 99 was such a babe. Hearing her say my name during the show didn't hurt either

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OtherlandGirl@reddit

I’ll see your Get Smart and raise you Lancelot Link

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Spartan04@reddit

I loved that show. The voice of Inspector Gadget as a spoof secret agent.

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Born_Tale_2337@reddit

I knew that voice from Get Smart first, and all my friends just looked at me weird when I first saw IG and was excited I knew the voice from GS 🤣

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gpo321@reddit

To this day, I still use the phrase “missed it by that much”

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Crans10@reddit

I love that Mel Brooks is behind the creation of Get Smart.

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Constant_Concert_936@reddit

Never will forget the 1 million doors he walks through in the opening credits

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misterlakatos@reddit

Get Smart and Dragnet always aired back-to-back. Loved both of them.

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Kittycorgo@reddit

Patty Duke, My Three Sons, The Monkees, Donna Reed, Laugh In, etc etc etc!!

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GuessDizzy196@reddit

I haven’t seen anyone say Dennis the Menace yet. I don’t remember if it was technically Nick at Night or if they ran during the day, but it goes in the same mental category in my brain as all the others people are bringing up.

Mr. Wilson and his nerve medicine. Wonder what was in that shit.

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danthemanstoned@reddit

I remember watching The Monkees and the old Batman and Robin.

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ViewAskewRob@reddit

Car 54, Where Are You?
My Three Sons.
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
Dick Van Dyke.
Mary Tyler Moore.
The Munsters.

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OtherlandGirl@reddit

Didn’t see Laugh In mentioned, was that Nick? Could have sworn it was, but I used to watch that show super late at night with my grandmother, when I stayed there during the summer. One of the few times I was allowed to have soda. Good times.

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Musubi0420@reddit

It’s why I loved Bewitched

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metalmonkey_7@reddit

I got my children watching Highway to Heaven when they were little. It might be from the 80’s but it’s a classic now 😊

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Constant_Concert_936@reddit

Did anyone tune in to Nick at Nite years later in the 2000’s and see that they were showing Fresh Prince and other 90’s shows? Made me incredibly sad for some reason.

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Mid-Reverie@reddit

Most of them: I Love Lucy Mr. Ed Lassie Donna Reed Dick Van Dyke Mary Tyler Moore Get Smart Mork and Mindy Odd Couple Taxi Flipper Dennis the Menace

I watched too much TV

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Electrical-Pie-8192@reddit

The monkees, I love Lucy, Donna Reed, MASH.

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kayla622@reddit

I loved Nick at Nite. I watched it every night. My favorite was and still is I Love Lucy. I Love Lucy also was my gateway into Classic film, which I also love. My other favorite Nick at Nite shows were The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Brady Bunch, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Laverne and Shirley, Newhart, Green Acres, and The Bob Newhart Show.

I bought all my favorite Nick at Nite shows on DVD/Blu Ray, so I can watch them whenever I want to. In fact, my husband and I are currently working our way through Laverne and Shirley because he'd never seen it before!

I miss the Nick at Nite jingles and the retro-inspired graphics. I also miss Block Party Summer with Lucy Tuesdays and Bewitched Be-Wednesdays. I used to watch Nick at Nite every night on my parents' black and white TV in their bedroom. Later, I was able to watch in the family room when my parents got my sister and I a color TV for SNES. I occasionally got to watch on the big TV in the living room.

Nick at Nite started going down the tubes when all the classic shows started moving to TV Land (which is a shell of its former self). It's been dead to me since probably the mid-00s. I had a good 10-year run.

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sageamericanidiot@reddit

The Munsters and I Love Lucy were two of my favorites. I still remember at age 8 or 9 being completely devastated by the death of Lucille Ball.

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misterlakatos@reddit

I loved most of the popular shows mentioned here as well. All the early shows were watched a lot.

This is a pretty solid list of all the classic shows: https://hereiselsewhere.proboards.com/thread/208/nick-nite-early-fantasy-schedules

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Sdemon235@reddit

Get smart and Mr Ed were my favorites. Then some Mr. Wizard in the morning (if my childhood memory is correct on the channel)

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SeasonIllustrious629@reddit

"Get Smart" was/is my favorite! I also liked "Mr. Ed!"

I don't remember "The Twilight Zone" being on it in the 90s, but maybe it's because I was watching "Are You Afraid of the Dark?".

I remember "Car 54, Where are You?", "Doby Gillis" and "Dragnet", but definitely "Get Smart" which still holds up today :)

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sleepy_unicorn40@reddit

I'm watching The Twilight Zone right now! Lol

I don't watch as much Classic TV as before but I should start again. It's very nostalgic.

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yayoffbalance@reddit

LAUGH-IN! omg, still obsessed! and Get Smart, Car 54 (where are youuuuuuu), dragnet, Dobie Gillis, Patty Duke, the Addams family.... so many shows!!

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Lazlo_Hollyfeld69@reddit

My Three Sons, Patty Duke too

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ItsDarwinMan82@reddit

Who remembers the early 2000s line-up with The Facts of Life, All In The Family?

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Lowspark1013@reddit

Mr Ed was great. I was just telling my teen son about that show. Describing it and he's just in disbelief like WTF that was on TV?

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therobotscott@reddit

The big ones for me were The Adventures of Superman, the Dick Van Dyke Show, the Munsters, and the Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

I watched other classic TV, as well, but shows like the Beverly Hillbillies, the Fugitive, and the Twilight Zone came on other stations.

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revel2134@reddit

Don’t forget The Munsters and Happy Days!

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MaybeSwedish@reddit

Mary Tyler Moore show and Rhoda

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ebzees@reddit

Get Smart, Patty Duke, I Love Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore

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GaryNOVA@reddit

Me Ed

The Smothers Brothers

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