60s TV 4 those in 60s

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Thomas said:
Hogan's Heroes, check.
McHale's Navy, nope, never got that over here (afaik).
Perry Mason, check.
Hitchcock, check.
Dragnet, check.
Rifleman, check.
Carol Burnett, nope.
Rockford, check.
Mannix, not sure?
petticoat junction, check.

Beverley Hillbillies. 77 Sunset Strip. Greenacres. Mr Ed (? the talking horse). Tugboat Annie. Superman. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. The Virginian. Laredo. Gunsmoke (I can still remember half the cast!) Rawhide, Bonanza ...
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Ya oughta Google some McHale!

And Bonanza...that map they burned in the beginning, I lived there, the field they rode up...it is houses....the Cartwright ranch...been there.

One day in the show the boys rode to Virginia City, and got in trouble, one of them rode back to the ranch who got Pa and then back to VC to straighten things out and back to the Ponderosa....that is 30 miles each way up and down over two mountain passes over 7000 feet total elev change each time...and such bad dirt trails they have never been improved to a road for vehicle traffic in the past 150 years.
 
Did ya get Smothers Brothers, Adam12, Maverick, Wagon train, F troop, wanted dead or alive,

I swear this old man will look at the modern offerings and watch old reruns much of the time...of course sitting outside listening to birds chirping is often enough for me.
 
Andy Griffith,
Leave it to Beaver,
Perry Mason,
Alfred Hitchcock Presents,
I Dream of Jeanie,
Bewitched,
Dennis the Menace,
Hazel,
Green Acres,
Burns and Allen,
Land of the Giants,
Twilight Zone,
Outer Limits,
Time Tunnel,
Sliders,
Quantum Leap, to name a few.... 50's thru 80's all currently airing on, Antenna, Charge, Comet and MeTV :)!
 
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And Bonanza...
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HaHa. Where my father-in-law lived in Norfolk, someone moved onto a farming estate and ringed the place with a white rail fence. It was immediately branded 'The Ponderosa', and it wasn't a compliment!
 
wil said:
Did ya get
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Smothers Brothers:
I don't recall, but it was, a show on the BBC.

Adam12
Nope, don't think so. We had 'Car 54 where are you?'

Maverick, yes. Wagon train, Oh yes! F troop, I think so ... wanted dead or alive, not sure.

I very much doubt it, but did you get Brit TV there?

wil said:
... of course sitting outside listening to birds chirping is often enough for me.
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I swear that, since lockdown, the birds are getting more and more bolshy. I keep telling people, "Remember Hitchcock? Be ready ..." but they won't listen.
 
Andy Griffith, nope ... Leave it to Beaver, (that just sounds rude!) ... Perry Mason, yes, and Ironsides ... Alfred Hitchcock Presents, yes, he's a Brit! ... I Dream of Jeanie, Think so ... Bewitched, Oh yes! ... Dennis the Menace, we had a Brit comic character of that name:

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Hazel, no. We had Hazell, a private detective. And we had I Love Lucy! ... Green Acres, yes ... Burns and Allen, no ... Land of the Giants, don't recall it, but I know the title, so maybe ... Twilight Zone, oh yeah! ... Outer Limits, and again! ... Time Tunnel, no-o-o? ... Sliders, no ... Quantum Leap, Yes.
 
Cable was first sold to us as commercial free....and then we were paying for commercials...

All of them hook you on commercial free..and then it is pay us AND you get commercials, even PBS!
 
oh yeah...on my little 20 buck 10x10 square I get 50+ channels...all the major US including 2 PBS, CNN, BBC, Aljazeera, hispanic, japanese, cant see no reason to pay...
 
Our problem is all the damn trees and the nearest transmission tower being more than 30 miles away! Still, between that antenna array and the cheap PC we have attached to our set, we're able to watch programming from around the world. All for free!

Of course we never paid for TV even when there was only 3 channels and no remote! ;)
 
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I'm not in my 60s (almost 55, though) but here are a few shows that I barely remember or I used to watch almost faithfully from the 60s:

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Sesame Street
One Step Beyond/Next Step Beyond

There are/were others, too, but I don't have a television to check on the series plus I live in an apartment complex (neighbors all around me that I've posted about on the Daily Rant thread.) :oops:

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
 
juantoo3 said:
The Prisoner
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And it's predecessor, Danger Man (although nothing like The Prisoner).

Trivia: Actor Patrick McGoohan only agreed to do Danger Man on condition that: all fightfights were different; that he would think rather than draw a gun; no kissing.

He was shortlisted for the role of James Bond (twice) but refused on moral grounds! (He was Catholic)
 
It started with a soap "Hum log" (We people) on Indian TV (Govt. owned) on July 7, 1864. I do not enjoy any rerun. Not even Ramayana and Mahabharata.

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