It's late 80s and 90s and you're spending the summer with your grandparents. What shows are they making you watch?
Posted by CharlesUFarley81@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 542 comments
Reportersteven@reddit
Haven@reddit
Man this show has aged so well!
OpiumPhrogg@reddit
Just wait until you look up how old they were and what ages they were representing in that show....
Haven@reddit
Which is probably why I love it so much 🤣
sockpuppetinasock@reddit
Isn't there like a huge Golden Girls following with Gen Z?
Fickle_Wrangler_7439@reddit
Yes.
I work with teens. We threw a "Golden Girls" theme party and it was very popular, lol.
shawn615@reddit
It really has. My mom still watches it and it’s on sometimes when I see her. It’s a lot funnier than I remembered from my grandma watching it
vinylchickadee@reddit
You just understand now now! :D
DamYankee77@reddit
I was definitely NOT forced to watch Golden Girls. I was all about those ladies from Miami!
curmudge_john@reddit
Miami is nice, so I'll say it twice. Miami is nice. Miami is nice.... Miami is nice.
cranberries87@reddit
That song popped into my head randomly a couple of days ago 😆
Zenthane@reddit
What's the problem with Thrice? Thrice is a word.
Rose, so is intrauterine.
curmudge_john@reddit
Miami, you're cuter than.. An intrauterine
Polarbearstein@reddit
I used to put this on for myself as a kid. Maybe I have the soul of a grandma. I do love Werthers.
Fickle_Wrangler_7439@reddit
This and Murder She Wrote.
No lie, I bought them on DVD. Super cheap and I can toss on an episode whenever I want.
Alarmed_Drop7162@reddit
Thank you for being a friend
ttw81@reddit
this and nick at nite.
timbone316@reddit
Picture it: Sicily, 1920…
mom_bombadill@reddit
Yessss I watched so much Murder She Wrote and Golden Girls with my Grammy, explains a lot about my personality lol
Deep-Ad4351@reddit
I wrote Murder She Wrote fan fiction semi erotica for this local riot grrrl zine decades ago - in the end it turned out Jessica Fletcher was the murderer all along!
Low-Instruction8353@reddit
Im intrigued! Go on tell me more.
milkandgin@reddit
Yes my friend! Yes!
Happy_Confection90@reddit
Cabbot Cove had a per capita murder rate more than 30 times higher than Boston. You can't convince me she wasn't committing murders to "investigate."
TravelingGoose@reddit
That’s very specific.
LaughingBoulder@reddit
mushydogandplantmom@reddit
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. And also, Tales from the Crypt
RealityOk9823@reddit
Every OTA channel plays Walker, Texas Ranger at some point. I tried watching it. Nope, terrible. :|
gluscccc@reddit
Baywatch
ImmediateLoquat6877@reddit
Yes
I_like_flowers_@reddit
I watched murder she wrote on my own. heck yeah, jessica fletcher.
NedRyerson_Insurance@reddit
I haven't watched it in probably 25 years but I can still whistle the theme song.
CharlesUFarley81@reddit (OP)
I still watch it to this day
I_like_flowers_@reddit
i take it it holds up? its one of those things i haven't dared go back to because i loved it.
Glittering-Most-9535@reddit
Beautifully. I can't say it's perfect but...alright so there's an early episode where one character is outed as a drag queen, and the show makes sure to separate being a transvestite from homosexuality while also not using either as a punchline or suggesting either is a bad thing. Which I thought was surprisingly open minded for the 1980s.
TAckhouse1@reddit
It absolutely holds up!
TAckhouse1@reddit
One of my favorite shows, it holds up surprisingly well
I_like_flowers_@reddit
thats good to know!
_hi_plains_drifter_@reddit
Me too!!! It’s one of my favorite shows.
cybah@reddit
It gets alot of heat but the episodes and writing are solid.
fbman01@reddit
Mrs Fletcher, 286 people murdered. Whereever this lady went. someone died, yet they never suspected her
I_like_flowers_@reddit
https://crimereads.com/your-guide-to-not-getting-murdered-in-a-quaint-english-village/
StephInTheLaw@reddit
Murder She Wrote was great TV, but every single person in Cabet Cove, Maine must have died at least three times.
I have no idea what my grandparents watched because they lived halfway across the country but my family was watching this show every week.
CountryCaptain26@reddit
I just learned there’s a Jessica Jog held in Mendocino, Ca. See you there.
StephInTheLaw@reddit
I just saw that somewhere. I need in next year.
I_like_flowers_@reddit
::tightens laces::
BravaCentauriGFL@reddit
I have the whole series on DVD!
UnlikelyAssociation@reddit
It’s free on Tubi in the US too!
fyrefly_faerie@reddit
Same! We’re currently on season 4
moediggity3@reddit
Right, nobody’s “making” me watch some of these lol
DecemberPine@reddit
I have the full series on DVD….I say it’s for my octogenarian mom, but it’s not. It’s for me.
cantwejustplaynice@reddit
Same here. I have no idea if my grandparents watched it, but I did. She sure did manage to be present around a lot of murders.
seymourscagnetti420@reddit
I have done an amateur standup bit to my friends over the years about why anyone would be friends with Jessica Fletcher. Everyone she knows either gets murdered or goes to prison for murder. Why does she continue to get invited to anything?
TravelingGoose@reddit
Because of her bangin’ sartorial choices, certainly.
icouldlivewoutbacon@reddit
Jeopardy, then wheel of fortune. (Or was it wheel of fortune and then jeopardy?) That lineup was like a grandparent double-header.
itsjakerobb@reddit
I don’t recall my paternal grandparents having a TV at all.
Maternal, we’re watching Wheel of Fortune.
TheLastBoat@reddit
awesomeCC@reddit
During the summer, I would come inside for the evening for an hour to watch this, then go back outside to play with my friends.
makestuff24-7@reddit
Yes! My granny fucking loved Unsolved Mysteries and didn't care at all that it was the scariest show I'd ever seen. She always watched this, Jeopardy!, Little House on the Prairie, Bonanza, and Kung Fu lol.
HicJacetMelilla@reddit
I couldn’t with this show. The music is terrifying and I’d scramble for the remote to change the channel before Robert Stack could amble out and tell me about another woman going missing.
Key-Shift5076@reddit
The theme song is still unsettling to me.
chrisobrien13@reddit
Maaaatlooockk!
Also, Murder She Wrote,.. who is always believed was the real serial killer in the show.
ihasclevernamesee@reddit
Bonanza needs to be on this list.
Farm-Alternative@reddit
the golden girls and old black and white cinema classics
somoor80@reddit
Any of these were a possibility, though by the late 90s my grandmother always made us watch JAG, for the plot (not the attractive male lead).
Doridar@reddit
I still love it. It's my madeleine de Proust
Cake_Donut1301@reddit
Love Boat
Sunshineal@reddit
Where's perry mason
texan01@reddit
late 80s? game shows and the news, and variety shows.
BusterVGiner@reddit
In the Heat of the Night
Smorsdoeuvres@reddit
The only TV show I remember my grandparents watching was masterpiece theater
Capable-Impress3296@reddit
Unsolved Mysteries!!
DamYankee77@reddit
We watched most of what's already been listed... Golden Girls, Empty Nest, Matlock, Murder She Wrote, In the Heat of the Night, but I have NOT seen Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman listed once! For shame. LOL
I do appreciate watching all the Black and White shows on Nick at Nite. Dick Van Dyke has always been a comedy genius.
Awkwardpanda75@reddit
The price is right with Mrs grass chicken noodle soup.
Santa_Hates_You@reddit
https://i.redd.it/lvm4foeeyd2h1.gif
DamYankee77@reddit
I loved Matlock!!!!!
Poetress@reddit
definitely this!
WendyPortledge@reddit
Grandparents? My mother and I watched this religiously.
Metzger4Sheriff@reddit
Any of these (but especially Murder, She Wrote) were better than what my grandparents watched: Lawrence Welk
DamYankee77@reddit
We would listen to Lawrence Welk on the old-ass radio on the kitchen every night at dinner.
Britt601@reddit
I hate to say it. I kinda liked the Lawrence Welk show.
elkniodaphs@reddit
There are two's of us. I used to volunteer at a home and the elders loved the Lawrence Welk Show, so I'd sit and watch it with them. Just sit down with it, absorb it, there's nothing wrong with slow comfort.
Elenakalis@reddit
I work in memory care. Sometimes Lawrence Welk or Gtand Ole Opry is way more effective than Ativan on a bad night. If you had a good relationship with your family, and you always watched those shows together, it brings back that feeling of safety and peace.
It's kind of funny that it goes both ways. Many of my residents enjoy watching movies like The Princess Bride, The Neverending Story, and Bring It On. I'm pretty sure they didn't like them when they were out originally, but they love them now.
It's comforting because it reminds them of us, their kids and grandkids. A lot of my residents actually bought those movies on vhs for the kids/grandkids so they could save an trip to the local video rental place (and the late fees). You should see the smiles when the movie knocks lose a few memories they can't recall at will.
LaLa_820@reddit
Aww! Yes, old TV was the only thing that would settle my grandma and grandpa at night. Sometimes I watch METV or GRIT to remember them. I try to keep up with WWE for my grandpa.
Sofagirrl79@reddit
My late father in law loved Lawrence Welk and we would watch it when I visited his house, wasn't really a fan at first since it was kinda corny but I grew to like it
I like to think he's watching it or jamming with Lawrence in the afterlife playing his concertina lol
Metzger4Sheriff@reddit
I can appreciate the quaintness of it, but I still have zero desire to watch it.
Koss424@reddit
I loved Lawrence Welk. It was peek back to the theatre future that doesn’t exist anymore
Norwester77@reddit
Same (though my grandma also watched Murder, She Wrote, and Benson).
Sofagirrl79@reddit
My late grandma entered a Angela Lansbury contest through a tabloid magazine (I forgot which one) and won third place
C-ute-Thulu@reddit
My deceased grandfather looked and sounded a lot like Lawrence Welk. It was eerie
MSGeezey@reddit
Hell yeah, Murder She Wrote doesn't belong with the rest of that swill.
HicJacetMelilla@reddit
My ringtone is Bubbles in the Wine lol
Grandpa never missed it. The Goodbye song still makes me misty eyed. And I still watch the Christmas specials on YouTube around the holidays when I’m feeling really nostalgic.
No_Willingness5313@reddit
You can still watch those old eps on Fridays (I think or maybe Saturdays) on PBS.
daydreams83@reddit
What I would give to hear my grandmother sing “goodnight, sleep tight, and pleasant dreams to you” when she’d tuck me in bed at her house! 💜 Watching Lawrence Welk was a tradition.
besleysfw@reddit
My parents watched this every Sunday. They were silent gen though so it tracks.
Relevant-Bit-7394@reddit
The schmenge brothers https://youtu.be/I0mwv0rqmso?si=Yr4tiSrMjaGSS7hT
Okra-Tomatoes@reddit
Good night!
CrypticTurbellarian@reddit
🎶Auf wiedersehen!🎶
sugarturtle88@reddit
my grandma explained the seriousness of a situation this way once 'they (my great grandma and great great aunt, who were twins) skipped watching Lawrence Welk to pray about it!'
kinetic_cheese@reddit
You beat me to it lol
CSWorldChamp@reddit
Came here to say this!
rebelangel@reddit
I was gonna say, where’s Lawrence Welk on the list?
JHerbY2K@reddit
My grampa loved this show. Crusty old curmudgeon
fiendishthingysaurus@reddit
Mine too. How was that shit ALWAYS on
triple_cloudy@reddit
My grandma loved Walker Texas Ranger. But she called it Texas Walker Ranger for some reason.
darkwillow1980@reddit
Touched by an Angel and Walker Texas Ranger were my parents, actually. At my grandmother's house it was Betty Boop and Little Lulu.
Nyotree-001@reddit
I came to say wheel of fortune, and pice is right… after that I didn’t remember I think it was bed time lol
Enough_Worth8868@reddit
Wow this brings back so many memories. I used to spend one Saturday a month with my grandparents when I was in grade school. We would go to mass at 5 then go out to eat and then come home and watch dr Quinn medicine woman and walker Texas ranger. They didn’t have cable and only had like 4 channels. If those said shows weren’t on ( usually in the winter months) grandpa and I would watch an old vhs tape of John Wayne anything as long as we didn’t have to watch Lawrence welk on pbs.
Glittering-Most-9535@reddit
It's the mid 2020s and I've discovered what a delight Murder She Wrote is, to the point that I now have the completed DVDs. It trades back and forth with ST:TNG as my mid afternoon on a weekend comfort show.
Tootalou25@reddit
Grew up in the deep south so In the Heat of the Night was one my grandma and mom watched.
cranberries87@reddit
OMG I hated all of these shows 😩
Jolly-Owl-7583@reddit
None - Unsolved Mysteries
Jealous_Club_298@reddit
Jayne_Purchase@reddit
I had to scroll too far to find this, but “I love it when a plan comes together!”
Jealous_Club_298@reddit
Yes, by The A Team leader Col. John "Hannibal" Smith.
Well played.
Financial-Tie9958@reddit
Those were the days!
melcheae@reddit
you have all spelled "The Price is Right" wrong
Polarbearstein@reddit
That was a sick day show.
QuesoChef@reddit
Ha. I think more of daytime shows, too. Including their “stories” (soap operas).
GivesYouGrief@reddit
My kid doesn't understand when I say "I'm going to watch muh stories" in an kindly old woman voice. Miss you grandma.
Sofagirrl79@reddit
I joke with my boyfriend when I watch FB, YouTube vids or my cartoons on Hulu that "I'm watching my stories" or I'll say "quit it mamas watching her stories" a reference to a Simpsons episode where Lisa imagined herself living in a trailer park and she had like 7 kids and Ralph Wiggun was her husband 😆
pinkocatgirl@reddit
I have fond memories of staying over at my grandmother’s house, she’d make hot dogs for lunch and we’d have them while watching PIR on the TV she rolled into the breakfast room. She only had one working TV that she kept on a cart and rolled from room to room lol
wrldruler21@reddit
I got stuck on "making you watch"
p8nt_junkie@reddit
Bob Barker as host
5WattBulb@reddit
Thats the show you watch when youre home sick from school lol
CPC_Mouthpiece@reddit
"What's My Line", and I can't remember the name but the one where celebrities held up cards to fill in the blank.
MasterPhilip@reddit
My stepmother and I used to watch Murder, She Wrote and MacGuyver.
WherestheTac0s@reddit
Matlock and Murder She Wrote. Both shows went on forever.
WompaONE@reddit
Wheel of Fortune / Jeopardy - everytime.
LaLa_820@reddit
jfrii@reddit
Murder she wrote, golden girls, matlock, hee haw.
Vivid memories unlocked there.
LaLa_820@reddit
Alllll of these plus some old westerners like Gunsmoke.
InfiniteBleps@reddit
Columbo, the Commish, and In the Heat of the Night
ExperienceFantastic7@reddit
This is exactly how it was for my cousin and I. We spent weekends hanging with our Grandma and this was literally her TV playlist. Golden Girls and Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman were also in repetition.
The-disgracist@reddit
QVC non stop qvc
Internal-Ad9039@reddit
Add golden girls and that’s all of them
Nomadzord@reddit
I don’t remember any of these shows from staying at my grandparent’s trailer home in Robert Lee, TX. I only remember seeing soap operas during the day and sports on my grandpa‘s black and white TV on top of the fridge in his work barn.
ImmaDrainOnSociety@reddit
Maternal Grandmother: Basically whatever was on. Grandad died in his 50s and tv basically became her pacifier until she died.
Paternal Grandparents: Nothing, lived out in the sticks and didn't watch tv. I would probably have to help Grandpa tend to all his plants.
Drhenrygriffin@reddit
Walker
Touched by an angel
Nash bridges
And that one where the guy gets the tomorrows newspaper today and has to do something because reasons ?
PiginthePen@reddit
Walker for sure
Dimplefrom-YA@reddit
wheel of fortune and jeopardy!
roadrunner00@reddit
As the world turns
SpoonwoodTangle@reddit
Grand parents? My parents ate this shit up and I’m on the younger end of xennials this sub
lalacourtney@reddit
Absolutely no notes except to add all were prefaced by wheel of fortune
KatuahCareAVan@reddit
My grandmother was not much of a TV person and she didn’t have cable like I had at home in the suburbs. I remember her just turning on whatever before bed and it being “Rescue 911” and the episodes scared me to death over scenarios that I had never given much thought that I could picture happening to us alone in the huge farm house surrounded by a hundred acres on all sides from the nearest neighbor.
Business_Curve_7281@reddit
Matlock and Columbo
CommitteeTechnical23@reddit
Hands down Murder She Wrote and Matlock.
Assika126@reddit
The Love Connection was my grandma’s favorite show
Starkravingbrie@reddit
Mine too and it would make my mom so mad 🤣 Grandma was mad because my mom let me watch shows like Unsolved Mysteries.
Starkravingbrie@reddit
Love connection
SuccessArtistic1161@reddit
Unsolved Mysteries and The Andy Griffith Show
Scibidami@reddit
Falcon Crest Highway to Heaven
Xandania@reddit
Cosby show was what my Grandparents permitted xD
HansVonHansen@reddit
HansVonHansen@reddit
and
TheJasperCollective@reddit
I once got sucked into a plot of Days of Our lives while my grandmother watched me during the day in the summer. Stefano had Marleena trapped in a golden cage in the Paris Catacombs and I was just absolutely fascinated with how wild the stories were.
Salty-Tea6815@reddit
Wheel of Fortune. It’s the only show I ever saw my grandmother have the patience to sit down and watch, and she didn’t miss a night!!
7askingforafriend@reddit
Every. Single. Night. Followed by Jeopardy.
BigConstruction4247@reddit
Ah! You live in a backwards game show city, too!
ginger-inside-007@reddit
I had no idea that was backwards! TIL.
BigConstruction4247@reddit
I grew up in a backwards game show city and moved to a right way game show city.
Salty-Tea6815@reddit
What is backwards? The times? I thought wheel came on at 7/8 everywhere and jeopardy always followed!
SibylBee@reddit
Same! Wheel of Fortune, then Jeopardy. What are these people talking about, backwards?
Koss424@reddit
Yeah. That’s the right way to
BigConstruction4247@reddit
Jeopardy first!
Akvavit78@reddit
Wheel of Fortune in my grandmothers kitchen
p8nt_junkie@reddit
Pat Sajac and Vanna White
Salty-Tea6815@reddit
I think my grandma really only watched for Vanna and Pat and not the puzzles. Her and her girls would meet at the local McDonald’s for free senior coffee every morning and gossip about what Vanna wore the night before and how she got on with Pat!!
Podwitchers@reddit
My grandma never missed a night and even had a WOF sweatshirt that said “I’m a Wheel Watcher!”
Vistaer@reddit
That and Jeopardy. The twin winners.
At home I got Nick at Night with my mom. Dragnet, Dick Van Dyke, I love Lucy were the mainstays. Got weird when color shows like I dream of Jeanie and Mary Tyler Moore came into the mix.
Lala5789880@reddit
What about Benny Hill reruns?
tealraven915@reddit
Or Carol Burnett reruns?
Feisty-Bar7391@reddit
I saw the entire OJ Simpson trial one summer when my grandma got cable just to watch it. We also watched a ton of trash talk shows like Jerry Springer. It’s no wonder I love “reality” tv.
tealraven915@reddit
Ricki Lake, Jenny Jones, Maury Povich, Phil Donahue, Sally Jessy Raphael
FineIJoinedReddit@reddit
Jeopardy, Wheel, Father Dowling, John Wayne movies on VHS, and random stuff on PBS
ezio8133@reddit
wbhipster@reddit
The whole CBS lineup (in order): Young and the Restless, Bold & The Beautiful, As the World Turns, and Guiding Light.
tealraven915@reddit
My Grandma not only watched them when they aired, but recorded the entire lineup every day on VHS to watch over and over in case she missed something while washing dishes or making food. The kitchen was literally connected to the living room on an open floor plan, but every single day they must be recorded. Hundreds and hundreds of tapes after a few years
FrostyPolicy9998@reddit
Yasss! How did I have to scroll this far to see The Young and the Restless?
ezio8133@reddit
It more applies to my mom but it was the longest 2 hours of the summer.
mia_sara@reddit
Public TV in Cleveland watching people polka dance because we’re Polish/Hungarian dammit and my Grandma was obsessed. I feel like the show was called Polka! Polka! Polka! Every time I would put my head down to escape back into my V.C. Andrews paperback she would yell “Watch! Watch!” It was a real bummer but Grandma’s been gone 14 years now and I hope she’s up in Heaven dancing the polka.
unnccaassoo@reddit
My wife used to have lunch at grandma's home when she was a child and every single day there was a Murder she wrote episode airing at 12:30 pm. Now she' s almost 50, but when I jokingly played the main theme she admitted of getting hungry. Pavlov was right.
SeaSkimmer2@reddit
Regis and Kathy Lee in the morning, Vanna at night.
I_AM_DEATH-INCARNATE@reddit
And Bob Barker while she made lunch
tealraven915@reddit
And every single soap opera on CBS that came on afterward. Recorded daily on VHS to watch over and over and over. Hundreds of tapes.
brainvheart143@reddit
100 % Regis yes
Dickrubin14094@reddit
My grandpa loved Hogan’s Hero’s
DjPandaFingers@reddit
hacksawomission@reddit
Really? No Kojak?
SlimyPurpleMeteor@reddit
Wheel of Fortune (which I liked), Walker Texas Ranger, and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman
TheCodeTeam@reddit
Murder she Wrote was my grandma and my favorite show, followed by the BBC version of Sherlock Holmes!!
NPC261939@reddit
Murder, She Wrote, and Matlock. If I was good for that hour period my granny would give me Slurpee money and send me off to 7-11.
Practical-Witness796@reddit
Murder She Wrote and I Love Lucy, on repeat.
TemperatureBasic4860@reddit
Days of Our Lives
BumbaBee85@reddit
Nothing. I wasn't allowed to watch TV when I was at their house. All I could do was feed the chickens grass and pet the horses.
StageCrafts@reddit
Murder She Wrote, Diagnosis Murder, Father Dowling Mysteries, Matlock, Columbo, and The Rockford Files were always on at my grandparents' place when I was growing up.
BritOnTheRocks@reddit
Brookside and a bit of Michael Barrymore. But all my fellow Brits are asleep so nobody will know what I’m talking about.
LeftHandedGuitarist@reddit
Don't forget Heartbeat!
DoctorsSong@reddit
PercentageRoutine310@reddit
I watched none of those shows.
From late 80s to early 90s, I used to watch WWF Prime Time Wrestling on Monday nights with Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby “the Brain” Heenan. Bobby was such a great heel. He was Charles Barkley but for wrestling.
By the early 90s, I never techinically watched it but put in the background: Northern Exposure on CBS. And also a lot of Nick and Nite sitcoms. I watched shows like Leave it to Beaver, Patty Duke, and My Three Sons.
Paxis001@reddit
My grandmother always watched “Songs of Praise”. When they moved the timeslot she rang the tv station to complain because it messed up her gardening schedule
chypie2@reddit
the ball game and nick at night later
Nikolalala0010@reddit
With my dad's mom's parents it was "The Lawrence Welk Show" and with his dad's mom it was "As the World Turns". With my mom's parents it was "Nova".
Prudent-Soil6116@reddit
The Benny Hill Show and reruns of Little House on the Prairie. Designing Women for my grandma.
BrittaUnfiltered67@reddit
I much preferred Golden Girls than reruns of Lawrence Welk, but after it classic British comedies and scifi like Are You Being Served and Doctor Who.
zenigmatic@reddit
sjm7@reddit
Are you free?
Key-Shift5076@reddit
Spelled B-U-C-K-E-T.
Large_Cardiologist23@reddit
The Littlest Hobo
MaestroLogical@reddit
I was lucky. My grandpa was a big 'wrasslin' fan so it was always WWF during the Hulk/Macho Man/Jake the Snake era.
Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit
All of these except Father Downing and Hee-Haw
_M0THERTUCKER@reddit
My dads mom would watch QVC all damn day.
My mom’s parents would be bob ross in the morning and sports/news at night. Mostly the tv was off and we were doing stuff.
sllh81@reddit
The Merv Griffin hour (honestly, not a chore at all) of Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune
Economy-Cookie-4724@reddit
He ha and mash
Kazoo113@reddit
You forgot Remington Steel
Usual-Bag-3605@reddit
Elmo-Mcphearson@reddit
Golf. All day.
tellmywifiloveher1@reddit
The Red Skeleton show, Gun smoke, and the NBC 10 pm news was all that was ever on that tv.
Mind-of-Jaxon@reddit
Evening Shade
LoloVirginia@reddit
Bold & The Beautiful , ugh 🥱
Haraldr_Hin_Harfagri@reddit
Takes from the Crypt HBO. I was very lucky
Ceilidh_@reddit
And Friday the 13th, the tv show not the movie.
But hey, I saw Poltergeist III in the theater at age 6, so…
Blenderx06@reddit
No cable we watched Unsolved Mysteries! I still remember how scary it was to go back down the dark hall and stairs to our part of the house after watching lol .
davesmissingfingers@reddit
My grandma had HBO so I’d go to church with her on Wednesday nights just so I could watch this afterwards. She did not care for it.
IloveMe80@reddit
My grandpa loved cable tv and we watched all the scary movies on HBO together, they were not age appropriate cause I was 6, but I would just bury my face in his shirt and he would say the movies weren’t real and all was ok. Then we would watch Fraggle Rock too. I miss him! Happy you were lucky too!
ConnectKale@reddit
I had to watch this on the black and white TV in the kitchen with volume turned down super low. She didn’t allow horror movies in her house.
buckybadder@reddit
Don't you mean very leaky*? Cackle cackle cackle."
CharlesUFarley81@reddit (OP)
One in a million
Bright_Respect_1279@reddit
Some of my favorite memories are watching Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune w/ my grandparents after dinner each night when I stayed with them. I still watch Jeopardy to this day.
Goongagalunga@reddit
Law And Order
Goongagalunga@reddit
I loved Murder She Wrote, and now I live there!!!
Turdfurgeso@reddit
Missed the whole PBS BBC pantheon
GoddessRespectre@reddit
Ok all the available gifs are jokes but QVC
I hadn't seen them mentioned yet. And food network! My grandma loved Emeril. BAM!
OmegaRainicorn@reddit
Needs more spice weasel.
Jupitersd2017@reddit
The food network came along later than these shows lol, I wish my grandparents had lived that long 😂
GoddessRespectre@reddit
I'm sorry you lost them so soon. I lost my mom in the 90s and spent that summer with her parents watching tv. It looks like Emeril had a ton of shows, weird but ok. They started in the late 90s on food network, at least that's what Wikipedia says. I don't fully trust my memories!
sasssyrup@reddit
I challenge you to say Angela Landsbury without some kind of accent
OmegaRainicorn@reddit
Seeing these made me realize that Poker Face with Natasha Lyonne is our generation’s Murder She Wrote.
Magnificent95@reddit
The_best_is_yet@reddit
I loved Murder She Wrote
jenncrock@reddit
Fraggle rock and the Elephant show.. but my parents were touched by an angel, walker Texas ranger, and Dr. Quinn Medicine woman lol
RuncibleFoon@reddit
You left out In the Heat of the Night...
rialucia@reddit
This one. It always seemed to be on in my grandparents kitchen.
skarlitbegoniah@reddit
Omg my Papa LOVED this show! Thank you for bringing that memory up!
Quikies83@reddit
This. My grandfather was all about this show lol
RuncibleFoon@reddit
It was my grandma's must watch
Quikies83@reddit
Grams would be in another room watching Columbo lol.
JacksonMcGillicutty@reddit
My grandmother would not allow the tv to be switched from the Hallmark channel or TCM. When she passed, grandpa had a bit of a second life discovering all the other channels that were available.
One year when we were out there, they decided we were all going to go see a family-friendly movie: The Santa Clause starring Tim Allen. I (‘78) just wanted to brood and listen to Skinny Puppy on my Walkman. I’m sure I’ll grow out of it someday. My sister (‘81) decided to make a big stink that it was a “lame” movie and we should see something else.
And that is how I ended up sitting through Dumb & Dumber, next to my grandma who had not been to a movie theater since The Sound of Music. To her credit, she sat through the whole thing.
After it was over, she whispered to my sister, “We know what goes on in the world.”
Same_Soil7237@reddit
Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy.
Candle-Different@reddit
Murder, she wrote was a great show. The matlock jingle they played when they went to commercial is permanently burned into my brain as well
lartinos@reddit
I liked Matlock!
Klaatwo@reddit
Murder She Wrote and Matlock.
But also Cheers and Quantum Leap.
Specific-Library-312@reddit
No Hercule Poirot?
dreemkiller@reddit
Where's "In the Heat of the Night"
DBDIY4U@reddit
In addition to the first two you posted pictures of, wheel of Fortune and Rush Limbaugh. My grandma was obsessed with Rush Limbaugh. It was funny because up until Carter, she was a Democrat then took a hard turn to the right. We used to prank call her and say we were fundraising for Bill Clinton. She would say she was a Republican and we would tell her that no we had her on our list as a Democrat and Clinton would really appreciate her support. She would get so mad and tell us she had not been a Democrat for years and to take her off our list. My wife says that we were mean and it was wrong of us to deliberately get her upset like that. She is probably right.
Backbreathboy@reddit
Bold and the beautiful.
Poetress@reddit
most of what's listed in comments were with one parent or the other. wheel, jeopardy, news, westerns, bob ross, rifleman... my grandparents. my grandmother "made" sure i got to watch Three's Company :D
LatinBotPointTwo@reddit
I watched this voluntarily last evening.
FootballKind@reddit
Literally all of this, but replace Hee Haw w The Bold and the Beautiful 😂
Alertox@reddit
M*A*S*H*
striper97@reddit
BigConstruction4247@reddit
🎶 We love you Matlock, oh yes we do! 🎶
GarminTamzarian@reddit
Zenthane@reddit
Making me? Fuck man I'm in Matlock, Murder She Wrote, Golden Girls, MASH.....lets fucking do this. Get me some milk and knock off oreos while we're at it. I'd take that with my grandma more than anything I can do right now.
NavierIsStoked@reddit
sapient_pearwood_@reddit
Golf. Just so much golf.
PlauntieP@reddit
Silk Stalkings
ThinkFree@reddit
Nobody needed to force me to watch Matlock. I love that show.
natronmooretron@reddit
Glow with Granny
Fun_Committee1478@reddit
You forgot “Dr Quinn medicine woman”
Intrepid_Secret5@reddit
I flew cross country at age 9 tospend the summer of 94 with my grandparents and my British Nan watched this and Are You Being Served. 💙
dewihafta@reddit
Murder and Matlock.
But also Seinfeld. They got a kick out of that one.
nochumplovesucka__@reddit
Highway to Heaven
Embarrassed-Bike3450@reddit
Taxi!! 🚕 On my grandma’s tiny black and white in her bedroom when I couldn’t sleep.
Slightly_ToastedBoy@reddit
The Heat Of The Night
monina79@reddit
In the Heat of the Night
Stang1776@reddit
Ohh I forgot about Father Dowling
TifCreatesAgain@reddit
Hee Haw is so good!
Lace_and_pearls@reddit
CeleryintheButt@reddit
Johnny Carson
wbhipster@reddit
Scrolled too far to see this! She would always let me stay up and watch the monologue at least haha. She didn’t love David Letterman as much but we watched him too sometimes if I stayed up late enough as I got older.
CeleryintheButt@reddit
Home shopping Network during the day and Carson at night. Then she got the Carson VHS box set and it was Carson 24/7.
wbhipster@reddit
Ha, amazing! I used to love when Joan Rivers would step in for him, too. Before their fallout that is.
dandypandyloaf@reddit
At my grandmas it was Walker and Dr. Quinn. My other grandma was a ride or die wheel of fortune.
Cold-Ad-1978@reddit
Matlock
OpiumPhrogg@reddit
Andy Griffith Dynasty Bob Newhart Rowan and Martins Laugh In Get Smart Columbo
Far-Bumblebee-7216@reddit
Don’t forget Perry Mason
correct_eye_is@reddit
Coronation street, Faulty Towers, Benny Hill
omnes1lere@reddit
McGuyver
snwbrdj@reddit
I subscribed to Paramount Plus just to watch them with my girls. We love making fun of all the tropes.
brainvheart143@reddit
Awesome - had no idea they were on Paramount +!
Hatecookie@reddit
Quantum Leap, Unsolved Mysteries. It was a treat when I was allowed to stay up late enough to catch both. They also loved that I watched Nick @ Nite a lot, we'd do that together and catch the Dick Van Dyke Show, the Doby Gillis show, I Love Lucy, etc.
Nancy-Drew-Who@reddit
In the Heat of the Night, reruns of Dragnet and Get Smart, and the Golden Girls.
gb997@reddit
Golden Girls and/or The Price Is Right 😭
brainvheart143@reddit
Not made me but yeah Golden Girls and Nurses!! And sometimes Night Court.
What were the other shows then on that network?! Omg I loved staying w my nana and watching those so much
Tetro75@reddit
M.A.S.H.
Teckknight@reddit
Every weekend, yeehaa.
yellaslug@reddit
Unsolved Mysteries
Murder she Wrote
Days of our Lives
adammonroemusic@reddit
Yep, grandma watched most of these. And football, she loved football
IchGeheJetzt@reddit
Watched Golden Girls while video taping that days rerun of Murder She Wrote so we could watch back to back - I remember being floored that my grandma has that all set up and like a timed VCR lol
mzshowers@reddit
My grandma and aunt (also like a grandmother in both age and care) lived together during the latter portion of this time and I remember watching lots of old school movies on VHS like the “Tammy” films with Sandra Dee. That was a favorite of my aunt and it drove my grandmother nuts! I also remember seeing My Girl 😭, The Lion King, Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight. My aunt amassed quite the collection of movies when she got a VHS player! Of course, we watched Wheel of Fortune there and at home. Aunt also loved Murder She Wrote before my mother and I did, but we came to love it!
In the 80s into the early 90s, my grandma lived next to my uncle. During the day we watched Young and the Restless, Guiding Light, and maybe Days of Our Lives at her house. The Price is Right! At night, we’d go down the hill to my uncle’s and that’s where I saw the Beverly Hills Cop movies, Eddie Murphy Raw, and Bachelor Party 😂 I’d get lots of good snacks like those Hershey’s mini chocolate bars, black cherries, and ice cream!
Zeveroth1@reddit
I liked matlock…
eddiegordo83@reddit
You forgot The Golden Girls. Also, my grandma had EVERY Shirley Temple movie and short on VHS.
Poetress@reddit
yes @ shirley temple!
skarlitbegoniah@reddit
Nephite11@reddit
Whatever they made me watch, as soon as the MASH theme song starts playing, it’s time to go to bed…
DrMasterBlaster@reddit
I remember being in my bed and hearing MASH start playing from the living room. I knew that meant I wasn't going to go to sleep easy that night, and my mom was about to go to bed.
redditshy@reddit
Yes!! Wasn’t the theme song strangely unsettling? It always gave me heebie-jeebies.
Metzger4Sheriff@reddit
The movie used the lyrics-- if you ever listen to that version, you'll realize the song was very rightfully unsettling!
CPC_Mouthpiece@reddit
"Suicide is Painless" is the name of the song if anyone is wondering.
LateCareerAckbar@reddit
My grandparents bought the is incredible electric organ that came with these little cassettes that would help you learn different songs to play, with an accompanying book that had the sheet music. I remember my brother and I being like 9 and 10 trying to play that song and then being like “whaaaa???”
Ippus_21@reddit
The lyrics are VERY unsettling.
silver_tongued_devil@reddit
It was time to go to school when the reruns of happy days started playing their theme.
FerryHuckster@reddit
This hit home hard
short_story_long_@reddit
Missing Sanford and Son, Columbo, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, Murphy Brown, Moonlighting, and probably many others. I didn't watch it, but Dallas was big with the women in my family.
p8nt_junkie@reddit
Angela Lansbury (spelling) its been a minute
The_Spectacle@reddit
What, no Highway to Heaven?
Poetress@reddit
That was my thought when I saw Touched by an Angel && I'll Fly Away earlier....
Blenderx06@reddit
I used to watch Diagnosis Murder with my Nana. And Unsolved Mysteries!
AuntBBea@reddit
Quincy
alehanjro2017@reddit
Sabado Gigante.
Obi_Wan_Benobi@reddit
They had a TV in a separate room and I remember watching Sledgehammer and Sidekick.
That_Skirt7522@reddit
I still love those shows. Murder she wrote, Matlock, In The Heat of The Night, Diagnosis Murder, Head of the Class, The Young And the Restless and The Bold And The Beautiful. Game Shows like Press Your luck, Let’s make a Deal, Classic Concentration, Win Lose or Draw. Then we had Bob Ross and PBS.
Poetress@reddit
I wondered if anyone else Diagnosis Murder and/or Head of the Class!
CharlesUFarley81@reddit (OP)
I can't believe it's forgot In the Heat of the Night
Classic-Arugula2994@reddit
Touched by an Angel
wetfloor666@reddit
My grandparents didn't watch any of those, but my parents watched pretty much everything from the thumbnails. It was that or HGTV and eventually nothing, but IDTV. Oh and always Law and Order when it is on. God I hate that show with a passion..
snwbrdj@reddit
Columbo… “Just one more thing”
Poetress@reddit
pfft, I'd watch on my own! .. but ya, dad liked this & Matlock
ConnectKale@reddit
Poetress@reddit
yup, my mother loved Hee-Haw too
rangoon03@reddit
During the day with my grandma it was PBS: Bob Ross (she loved him, would always be glued to the TV when he was on), Graham Kerr, Julia Child, and The Frugal Gourmet. In the evening when my grandpa came home, he took over the TV. Mostly Nick at Nite but he had to watch the news and lottery numbers first.
autocosm@reddit
If Carol Burnett wasn't on, it was non-stop QVC.
False-Cookie3379@reddit
It was either golden girls or whatever was on TCM (Turner Classic Movies)
firecracker_doc@reddit
My grandma picked up an original NES from who knows where in the early 1990s and hooked it up to the ancient TV upstairs. We spent most of our grandparent TV time playing original Mario and Duck Hunt.
That, and wheel of fortune.
FromBoomBapToTrap@reddit
Matlock and Murder She Wrote had my mom in a chokehold 🤣🤣🤣
fengshui@reddit
Golf with Grandpa.
noxuncal1278@reddit
Matlock and Murder She Wrote for sure I enjoyed them very much.
greendress888@reddit
I live in the states, but my grandma looooved Are You Being Served. That show was so old and British and funny. Ms. Slocum and Mr. Humphries and Mr. Peacock were so funny!!
Terr1fyer@reddit
Matlock and In the Heat of the Night.
Happy_Confection90@reddit
Father Dowling Mysteries, Moonlighting, and Golden Girls/Empty Nest/Amen/227/Nurses/Designing Women for the laughs.
BooBoo9577@reddit
Dallas and falcons crest
SunniMonkey@reddit
I don't see Columbo or Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman...
travistyle@reddit
I have memories of watching Hogan's Heroes with my WWII vet grandpa.
DreamCrusher914@reddit
CashOwn1913@reddit
Dallas
watchyerheadgoose@reddit
None of these. They weren't on the history channel.
DreamCrusher914@reddit
The history channel and Hogan’s Heroes were all that my grandpa watched.
I watched the OJ Simpson trial with my grandma and their maid (who worked for them for decades).
watchyerheadgoose@reddit
There were history channel breaks for Bonanza and Gunsmoke
RoyalPuzzleheaded259@reddit
Grandparents? This is all the shit my parents watched back in the day.
thyleullar@reddit
I scrolled way too far to find this before commenting the same thing.
goodhobbies@reddit
Murder She Wrote, and after that show ended, Cold Case. I think that my grandmother especially liked how Cold Case showed the same characters when they were young (when the crime occurred) and when they were old (when the coppers finally cracked the cold case).
gmccolgan3@reddit
Are you being served?
Little_Peon@reddit
...making me?
I had an aunt 3 years younger than me. I played. If I watched tv, I picked.
My grandmother was young. She took me to guns n Roses concert, backing the appetite for destruction days.
I rarely stayed with other grandparents.
80s_angel@reddit
• The Bold and the Beautiful
• Columbo
• Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman
• The Price Is Right
PixieInTheWoods1234@reddit
Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune
Kalel42@reddit
I enjoy that it's "grandparents" and not the shows I was watching with my early 30s mom.
Slippery-Pete76@reddit
We never spent the summer with our grandparents, but if we did I imagine Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman would be on TV.
When we visited my mom’s dad always had the Cubs on.
GivesYouGrief@reddit
PBS Masterpiece Theater, The Wizard of Oz, Nick At Nite reruns of 50s shows, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.
Ok_Percentage5157@reddit
My grandma watched PBS stuff like This Old House and some cooking shows. She also had cable, so she watched Star Trek and syndication sci-fi shows with us. with us.
She ABSOLUTELY loved some HeeHaw though.
el_pyrata@reddit
Primer Impacto. But on the weekends, definitely Sabado Gigante
No_Willingness5313@reddit
Diagnosis Murder, Empty Nest, News Radio.
anonmygoodsir@reddit
I'm blaming my childhood for my love of murder mystery. This, Colombo, and perry mason. Oh yeah can't forget Father Dowling.
DeadHead2002@reddit
They had cable because they lived in town, so when they went to bed I got to watch Unsolved Mysteries.
i_Eat_Ur_Planet@reddit
In the Heat of the Night for damn sure
Munchkin531@reddit
Making me watch? I tuned in every week for Touched by an Angel, Walker, Matlock, Diagnosis Murder, and Murder she Wrote. They were my favorite shows!!
daydreams83@reddit
Dark Shadows during its run on the SciFi channel! That was my middle school obsession circa 1995.
Efficient_Shame_8539@reddit
Nobody "made" me watch Diagnosis Murder.
jeffrotull2000@reddit
Picket fences
wonkasmiata@reddit
Little houae on the prairie
Jezebellrae1@reddit
threepair13@reddit
QVC
Key-Shift5076@reddit
Star Trek!! And Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Walter Cronkite.
Jerzee_Implant2012@reddit
Your lineup 🥰
Grandmom- Young and the Restless, General Hospital, Price is Right, wheel of fortune, $50,000 pyramid, People’s Court w Judge Wapner, Dynasty, Dallas
Pop Pop- THE LOCAL NEWS ON A LOOP 😩😩😩, Magnum PI, A Team, Hill Street Blues, baseball games
zenigmatic@reddit
Wapner!
Jerzee_Implant2012@reddit
Yes! “I’m ‘Douglawellen’ thanking you for joining is and reminding you don’t take the law in your own hands… you take em to court.”
I didn’t learn his name was Doug Llewelyn until I was grown.
Potential-Jaguar6655@reddit
🎶WHERE, OH WHERE, ARE YOU TONIGHT? WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME HERE ALL ALONE?!🎶
just-_-just@reddit
My grandfather pretended to tough but never missed an episode of Loving. (soap opera)
Lcky22@reddit
Yas! Hee haw and unsolved mysteries here
KickAggressive4901@reddit
I swear, to this day, there is a TV channel in western Kentucky that shows nothing but Andy Griffith.
Delicious-Tea-1564@reddit
Gunsmoke, Hee Haw
LotharOfHillPeople3@reddit
Mama's Family, Mattlock, Perry Mason, All in the Family, Sanford and Son
Silentlaughter84@reddit
This is a question that I would have ask my cousins because they visited my grandparents and me and my siblings didn't actually visit them much.
Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit
The last time I saw my grandfather he was giggling at how Walker et al are always winning fights without their hats falling off.
DustedGorilla82@reddit
My mom moms “stories” aka soap operas. Price is right and golden girls theme always reminds me of Friday nights in the summer there
aliaswyvernspur@reddit
Was I the only one forced to watch The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour? Talk about boring a kid.
rthander13@reddit
Where’s MAS*H ?? And Gilligan? And I Dream of Jeannie.. and Three’s Company.. there was also The Golden Girls and Hee-Haw, for sure. I also remember The Price is Right.
Key-Shift5076@reddit
Three’s Company was great!!
Ill-Percentage-3276@reddit
My grandparents lived right above us in the 80s and start of the 90s (Boston area triple decker houses) so we were back and forth up there constantly instead of having any special trips.
The Price Is Right was king, The $100,000 Pyramid, I know some Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous snuck in somewhere, and soap operas (I still can't understand soap operas snd never ended up watching them when I was older.) They also had a copy of The Wizard of Oz recorded from TV. I do remember them having a box set of The Godfather, but they never watched that when we were there.
Johnykbr@reddit
Gilligan's Island
Key-Shift5076@reddit
Yes!! I lovedddd Gilligan.
C0V1Dsucks@reddit
Matlock. Walker Texas Ranger.
surrealsunshine@reddit
The only one of those you'd have to make me watch is Touched by an Angel. Guess I was very into old people TV as a kid.
goat_penis_souffle@reddit
Followed by an all new I’ll Fly Away
GoodChuck2@reddit
Omg I haven’t thought about that one probably since the 90s for real!!
MildColonialMan@reddit
I started watching reruns of that show ironically in my 20s and eventually grew to unironically love it on its own terms. Cute and wholesome.
7th heaven, on the other hand, never made the transition. The values are weird and unsettling to me. There was a time when it was fun to laugh at, but now it just feels creepy and unpleasant.
National-Cat-4063@reddit
I'll watch heehaw right now.
frecklemimus79@reddit
In the Heat of the Night. Always.
soundbombing@reddit
MAS*H; but I'm a fan and it was great.
AntisocialFlutterby3@reddit
Pay-Per-View wrestling events! Kids controlled the TV at gram's house. She was otherwise busy chain smoking and reading tabloids.
Dare2BeU420@reddit
M.A.S.H. and Golden Girls
BeRad419@reddit
Golden girls (the goat), murder she wrote, and my grandma loved I love Lucy, and had that time Warner thing back in the day where they sent her I love Lucy video tapes every month
Kopesetic@reddit
Back in my day it was cnn stock reporting until my Gramps passed out. Luckily he passed out frequently. We’d sneak the remote out of his hand like we were Indiana Jones. Since they had cable and we didn’t we’d slam cartoons until he woke back up. Boomerang, at the time, still had hanna barbera non stop throughout the day. It was dope.
Unless my uncle was there, then it was nothing but Walker Texas Ranger and Bonanza. Honestly Bonanza was pretty good for its time.
Kemosaby_Kdaffi@reddit
With my gramma, it was Golden Girls, Newhart, Major Dad, Designing Women, Murphy Brown, and Evening Shade
drew13000@reddit
Austin City Limits - which I didn’t love at the time but I do now.
Treadingresin@reddit
My Dad watched Hee Haw, so we watched it too. Grandma made us watch Lawrence Welk and the 700 club.
learntosayno1@reddit
NY Mets baseball
frolicndetour@reddit
I voluntarily watched Murder She Wrote, Matlock, and Father Dowling. My mom made me watch Diagnosis Murder, lol.
AbbreviationsBorn276@reddit
This dude is missing. I used to watch murder she wrote and matlock as well. My grandma was chinese and didnt speak or understand a word of english, but she was mighty impressed by macgyver! She said he was a very intelligent person 😂. She loved that show, as did i! Memories!
Holls867@reddit
Columbo, golden girls and love boat
WinterLanternFly@reddit
MASH
No_Mood2658@reddit
Discovery Channel, back when it was actually educational content. It was usually a documentary about wildlife.
zenunseen@reddit
I forgot all about "Father Dowling Mysteries"
Core memory unlocked
ShellyLovesTacos@reddit
Atlanta Braves baseball.
utpyro34@reddit
https://i.redd.it/nxjgqaix6e2h1.gif
Ippus_21@reddit
All of the above except hee haw.
Was kinda into most of those, too, esp the Dick Van Dyke one.
Uncl3j33b3s@reddit
Brooklyn bridge, or maybe that was a fever dream
Financial-Yak-4172@reddit
No one ever made me watch Murder She Wrote. Murder She wlWrote was awesome and I gladly watched with my mom and dad.
pogulup@reddit
Grandparents? No, my parents.
Ozzdo@reddit
My grandparents weren't American. They'd have no idea what any of these were. Instead, I would be treated to hours and hours of televised ministries. HOURS.
ButterscotchAware402@reddit
Picket Fences, In the Heat of the Night and Beauty and the Beast
Healthy-Neat-2989@reddit
Absolutely Murder She Wrote. And MASH reruns!
sourpussmcgee@reddit
Hee haw, and also Benny Hill
Next_Ad_4165@reddit
My grandma had to watch Johnny Carson every night! Afterward she turned on the twilight zone. Oh, and watching Magnum PI was a necessity. Lol! Me and grandma both having had crushes on Tom Selleck is wild!
bassman314@reddit
My grandma only watched Atlanta Braves Baseball. In Medford, OR.
Most of the other shows? We watched and loved them at home.
Markottu@reddit
Definitely hee haw
herearea@reddit
Last of the Summer Wine
Ribky@reddit
There's Matlock! I was worried (I wasn't) he wouldn't be up there. I think I'm going to go do some bong rips and watch Matlock now. It's been a hot minute.
Skywren7@reddit
THC +Walker Texas Ranger= an hour long laughing fit. I was an adult by the late 90s.
In the 80s, my grandma was more into soap operas and Johnny Carson.
elgarraz@reddit
Beauty and the Beast, MacGyver, Murder She Wrote...
GeauxFarva@reddit
Matlock, Murder She Wrote and Walker…. Pretty sure my grandma never missed a new episode of Walker.
PlagueDrWily@reddit
Columbo, The Commish and Detroit Tigers games.
When the parents and grandparents went to bed I’d sneak in shows like Tales From The Darkside and Monsters - these didn’t air where I lived so I had limited opportunities to watch them.
hisamsmith@reddit
My great grandparents (maternal grandmother’s parents) watched Lawrence Welk and Night Court. My maternal grandmother was a James Bond movies and musical movies. My maternal grandfather (my maternal grandparents were divorced) watched a lot of Jerry Springer, Oprah (before she became “respectable”), Geraldo, Sally Jessie Raphael, etc, my paternal grandmother watched QVC 24/7 unless there was a game grandpa wanted to watch.
Rawbeet@reddit
Oh man I watched mr bean, black adder, red dwarf, fawlty towers and the vicae of dibley which has led to my love of the British sitcom to this day.
mistyayn@reddit
General Hospital
Alternative_Mine5343@reddit
Border Town. Dallas. Andy Griffith show.
tasteofhuman@reddit
How did I have to scroll so far for the Andy Griffith Show? Tbf, that was only one set of grandparents. The other grandma tolerated it but HATED Barney Fife.
Global-Jury8810@reddit
Dos Mujeres Un Camino Sabado Gigante Whatever else was on Univision or Galavision, because my grandparents didn’t have telemundo, and we didn’t spend weekends with them because they lived in another state we had to visit them and we only did it one time, but when we did move to the same state… we still watched the same thing on TV.
I did get my Spanish-speaking grandma into Beavis and Butthead though. She really thought that was funny. Her favorite was when Beavis was choking on the chicken pieces and they spent the entire episode trying to rescue him.
knighthawk0811@reddit
Columbo
Remington Steel
carneviva@reddit
ashores@reddit
I loved watching Nick at Nite's Block Party Summer with my grandmother - I Love Lucy is her all time favorite show and I have a fondness for most sitcoms of that era. During the day it was All My Children and General Hospital.
Grinzy@reddit
thisolddog1@reddit
Who remembers Mystery?
My parents watched it. Honestly, I don’t remember more beyond the intro animation
https://youtu.be/rAmGsM4Dids?si=VVy_QKeR1xryk7mO
MarduckRulez@reddit
My mom loved it. I love Edward Gorey. He is the illustrator of the cartoon.
zenigmatic@reddit
I dressed up as the Edward Gorey esque lady with bat headwear and fan for Halloween last year!
thisolddog1@reddit
Gorey’s illustration style is great. Years ago I contributed to a kickstarter for a doc about him. Not sure it ever got released though
InvestmentMain8414@reddit
Had to be back at the cottage for yogi bear, for my grandfather. As in they had a bell to ring to bring us home for dinner...and the only time it rang outside of dinner, was for Yogi Bear.
Gram never really had a show she made us watch. But I watched Young and the Restless for a bit, because it was something she always watched. And the Late Show with Johnny Carson. She wasn't a fan of late night TV after Carson. Although she did enjoy some of Lettermans shows.
oksweetheart@reddit
Days of Our Lives with Grandma and Hee Haw with Grandpa
lachamuca@reddit
My grandma watched Days and then she got my grandpa hooked on it, but none of us were supposed to know. I still have some random VHS tapes from when they taped their “stories” 😂
hi984390@reddit
And golf. Blegh
rebelangel@reddit
My gramps was into Matlock and the Andy Griffith Show. Also westerns. I used to watch Roy Rogers with Gramps.
Vaqueroalazar@reddit
Dr. Quinn!!!
schrest@reddit
My grandmother loved Night Rider but I think it was for the Hasslehoff lol
BananaHamPanther@reddit
My grandma too. She was also into Highlander and Hercules 😂
thinkingmagic@reddit
Highway to Heaven
Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit
https://i.redd.it/skakfh3tyd2h1.gif
Quikies83@reddit
lol little HJO
Quimbymouse@reddit
No Bonanza?!
I think one Dalton Wilcox is gonna get an anonymous tip concerning a reddit user who might be a vampire.
MotorCycologist@reddit
My grandmother? If figure skating or tennis weren't on, we were watching horror movies or playing video games. One time, she wouldn't let me rent a movie because it didn't wasn't violent enough.
dlgirl81@reddit
My mom loved watching Diagnosis Murder. I actually really enjoyed it too. I'll watch reruns occasionally to bring back fond memories of my mom. 💔
Hoth_Wampa_1980@reddit
I watched Father Dowling on my own as I had a crush on Tracy Nelson.
VVrayth@reddit
GhostCam@reddit
My grandparents are from Mexico. Probably Chavo Del Ocho or Sabado Gigante. Possibly some terrible telenovelas
Salty_Drawing2094@reddit
My grandmother loved Perry Mason lol
ScaryGarry_SG1@reddit
Let's not forget those Murder she wrote / Father Dowling mysteries Double headers. Also I would like to congratulate Victor Newman for having an uncanny run of 238 years on the Young and Restless and I only had to see about 20 years of it
Theory_Unusual@reddit
Perry mason. Columbo. All the reruns!
OutlawJuicyWhales@reddit
This reads like my parents' watchlist actually. Every base here is covered if I include the steps.
Jupitersd2017@reddit
Murder she wrote all the way! My other grandmom had me watch heehaw
Gatorae@reddit
Mine just watched Grand Ole Oprey, Price is Right, and CBS daytime soaps.
drimmie@reddit
227, Night Court, St Elsewhere
AwokenByGunfire@reddit
The Andy Griffith Show
Metamorphica_0226@reddit
Colombo, Matlock, the news
Mogwai02@reddit
Gunsmoke and Bonanza
IguaneRouge@reddit
The news. Golf. And SNL surprisingly enough.
drklib@reddit
Bonanza. My Baubie LOVED her westerns
okieboat@reddit
Gunsmoke is actually awesome. I didn't start watching until about a year ago. One of my favorite shows now and I just got the box set
protossaccount@reddit
Just John Wayne movies.
Imagine a house in Scottsdale with WW2 memorabilia on the walls, John Wayne playing on the TV, and an old dude smoking 3 packs a day. That’s my grandpas scene.
badhoopty@reddit
wheel of fortune
star search
dr quinn medicine woman
and absolutely any dang old western l
okieboat@reddit
shadowlarx@reddit
Grandparents? Hell, this is the stuff my mom watches.
taradactyl904@reddit
Marshall Law! My grandma loved Sammo.
noonesaidityet@reddit
Westerns. Westerns all day, with a smattering of wrestling.
way-finding@reddit
Lawrence Welk (good)
NickyGolden@reddit
Over and over again on tape
jaksonsmom@reddit
“Come on down!”
FrancoWriter@reddit
Is that a picture of Paul McCartney?
DissentChanter@reddit
Musicals, the only time they watched TV was NASCAR, otherwise it was movies. It was Musicals with The Duke mixed in.
Eziekiel23_20@reddit
Dallas at one grandmas
Remember 227 and Golden Girls at the other.
instant_ramen_chef@reddit
Highway To Heaven
Anyashadow@reddit
I watched all these on purpose
rxjen@reddit
Rude of you to exclude Wings.
MarduckRulez@reddit
Daktari! I miss Clarence the cross-eyed Lion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daktari?wprov=sfla1
whowhatwhat8@reddit
Golden Girls
jrunner6@reddit
Oh…uh…yeah…I only watched these shows cause my grandparents made me. Yup. That’s it. Darn grandparents.
themoonhasgone@reddit
Walker Texas ranger, Dr Quinn medicine woman, and star trek deep space nine. My Nana taught me the word "finagler" when talking to me about Quark's character.
DriftlessHang@reddit
I was seeing a lot of this dude
Cael_NaMaor@reddit
None of the above. In the early morning, Aunt had it on her stories (soaps). Afternoon to evening, I was out with my cousins... doing whatever. I was usually only there gor a week, maybe two... lots of time spent at the pool. Cousins had family pass & my brother and I looked like my cousins—5 village of the damned kids—so we were pretty much dropped & left. Came back... probably hung out being stupid then went to bed.
At one point, my grandma liked Dinosaurs, but it scared Aunt, so we had to be careful with that.
Sad-Dragonfruit9027@reddit
WHEEL OF FORTUNE!
DMNSKN@reddit
Glittering-Stuff-599@reddit
My mom was 40 and my dad was 48 when I was born so they were already old. If I watched tv with mom it was Wheel & Jeopardy, then her shows which was stuff like Dallas, Knots Landing, St. Elsewhere, Falcon Crest, Dynasty and others I’ve forgotten.
If I watched tv with dad it was MacGuyver, The A- Team, Fall Guy, Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, Airwolf, Magnum P.I., In the Heat of the Night, Miami Vice, Cagney&Lacey, Moonlighting and some others.
I definitely enjoyed tv with dad a lot more but my favorite memories wt hung tv with dad were watching 3 stooges on VHS tapes on Saturdays after cartoons.
Funandgeeky@reddit
Definitely watching Murder She Wrote. Honestly when I watch it now it reminds me of my grandparents. Good times.
Brilliantos84@reddit
katiw46@reddit
Depends on which grandma. With my mom's mom, we watched Days of Our Lives and the Joy of Painting with Bob Ross. She also loved Britcoms. With my dad's mom, it was Young and the Restless, Bold & the Beautiful and a Grizzly Adams VHS. That couldn't have been the only VHS she owned, but man we wore it out.
DustyRailz@reddit
Taxi, MASH, then Lawrence Welk. Good times. Much love and respect to our elders and ancestors.
froynlavin@reddit
Yes
throwawayfromPA1701@reddit
For some reason, the Oliver North hearings.
They were on regular TV during the day.
koei19@reddit
No Dallas, Knot's Landing, or Falcon Crest?
NukeBroadcast@reddit
My mom watched all of those except heehaw
Gusgrissomamerica@reddit
have1dog@reddit
Gunsmoke
Grammarhead-Shark@reddit
My maternal grandparents loved renting videos from the local video store and had a taste for war movies with plenty of tits and ass.
My mum's side of the family never where that big on censoring anything I watched (as long as I did my homework and wasn't past my bedtime).
LvlHeadThoroughbred@reddit
Lonesome Dove
BartMancuso1990@reddit
Jeopardy and Wheel of fortune, then 60 Minutes later in the evening
BlackPhoenix1981@reddit
Hee-Haw. So much fun!
59apache01@reddit
Murder, She Wrote and Matlock are American classics. Loved them both.
My grandparents loved Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk. I thought both were corny. I used to make fun of Lawrence Welk and my grandmother would get so pissed at me.
fauxshoyall@reddit
So, so much Walker Texas Ranger. I still know every word of the theme song 30 years later.
Harlllley@reddit
Murder she wrote, jeopardy
Jewbacca522@reddit
My wife and I (both ‘84 born) still watch Murder She Wrote when we go to bed. It’s more just something to fall asleep to, but we always end up watching at least 1 episode before going to sleep.
Dependent_Ad1111@reddit
Wheel of fortune
Grammarhead-Shark@reddit
My grandmother loved her 'serials'.
I think that is how I became addicted to 'The Bold and the Beautiful'. B&B a few years later ended up being to 1630/4:30pm in the arvo in Australia and became the go-to show for half the High Schoolers I knew!
TechnicalAd4328@reddit
Walker
Hungry-Ad265@reddit
My mom watched all of those
WickedlyAvocado@reddit
There’s a comma in the title?! Never thought it made sense before. lol
redditshy@reddit
Gunsmoke. And the one about a Wagon Wheel.
EducationCorrect216@reddit
Mash
EfficiencyNew2872@reddit
Underrated show, up there with MacGyver as far as I'm concerned
lakebistcho@reddit
I love murder she wrote
Frequent-Interest796@reddit
Lawerence Welk
StrategyUnlikely398@reddit
FOR SURE Hee Haw. And Carson, aka the Tonight Show, which they taped on VHS every night.
buckybadder@reddit
Dallas (reruns)
Mindless_Flower_2639@reddit
My grandparents? Freddie Krueger, unsupervised in the basement with my 4 year old sister. What assholes to put that on for us 😂
Hairy_Ad4969@reddit
The Lawrence Welk show!
Fngrbngr79@reddit
I’m currently doing a run through of murder she wrote. Dig the cheesy fun episodes with Easter egg actors sprinkled throughout. I also refuse to skip the intro song.
CharlesUFarley81@reddit (OP)
I'm doing the same with Little House on the Prairie
maybeimbornwithit@reddit
Regis and Kathy Lee, Golden Girls, Beauty and the Beast, and Jay Leno.
Esabettie@reddit
What you mean making me watch? I am watching Murder, she wrote voluntarily. But I am Mexican so it was telenovelas.
holymole1234@reddit
OPs list is perfect for what grandma and grandpa watched at night.
During the day grandma watched Donahue and Oprah and complained the whole time how stupid everyone on those shows was.
whamburglar@reddit
ouryesterdays@reddit
The Price Is Right, Wheel of Fortune, America’s Most Wanted, Unsolved Mysteries, and Walker Texas Ranger.
emptybeetoo@reddit
My super conservative grandma loved Golden Girls, so I’m watching that
CalliopePenelope@reddit
The People’s Court with Judge Wapner. EVERY DAY.
Emannuelle-in-space@reddit
Murder she wrote came on at 8pm when I was a kid. I know this because I watched it every single night when I was like 8-10. I still watch it every day, there’s a channel online that streams it 24/7.
But yeah sick days were great, mainly because I stayed home alone past the age of 7-8. I would bust out the tv guide and schedule my whole day with it. Highlights were the old Riley’s Believe it or Not show, and obviously, price is right.
ObligationSome905@reddit
Loved Pat summer all “murder………………………she wrote!”