What are some of the best 1950's , 60's , 70's , 80's & 90's Television Shows

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Our last best hope, a shining beacon all alone in the night
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The best Sci-fi series.....ever
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https://www.pbs.org/show/austin-city-limits/

You can find whole episodes on there. A number of PBS shows are available through their websites.

Sea Hunt is a fun show. They made shows differently back then. No mystery or having you figure out what really may be happening. He told you. Still a fun one though.

Honey West is one people seem to not remember.

Not sure how no one has mentioned Mission Impossible

For noir fans Naked City or Peter Gunn (has one of the most famous theme songs and hardly anyone these days has seen the show)
 
De Plano said:
https://www.pbs.org/show/austin-city-limits/

You can find whole episodes on there. A number of PBS shows are available through their websites.

Sea Hunt is a fun show. They made shows differently back then. No mystery or having you figure out what really may be happening. He told you. Still a fun one though.

Honey West is one people seem to not remember.

Not sure how no one has mentioned Mission Impossible

For noir fans Naked City or Peter Gunn (has one of the most famous theme songs and hardly anyone these days has seen the show)
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See post 42;)
 
Adam-12
Blake's 7
Doctor Who
Emergency!
Route 66
That's Incredible
The Incredible Hulk
The Six Million Dollar Man
Ultraman
Wonder Woman
 
The Ernie Kovacs Show (Ernie with beautiful Edie Adams)

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Your Show of Shows — the great Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris (Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show), José Ferrer, and writers Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Neil Simon (Woody Allen wrote for Sid a little later).

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Captain Video and His Video Rangers, TV's first space opera and the best before Star Trek.

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Tales of Tomorrow, adult science fiction developed by Theodore Sturgeon and Mort Abrams, with scripts by Arthur C. Clarke, Frederic Brown, C.M. Kornbluth and other sci-fi greats, and guest stars Lon Chaney Jr., Boris Karloff, Lee J. Cobb, Veronica Lake, Rod Steiger, Paul Newman and James Dean! Like The Twilight Zone but darker and it scared the crap out of me!

For those too young to remember Tales of Tomorrow, Lewis Padgett's "What You Need" was recycled on The Twilight Zone, Season 1 Episode 12 (25 December 1959).

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An Age of Kings, fifteen-part serial adaptation of Shakespeare's eight English history plays, produced by BBC in 1960 with unknown Sean Connery as Harry "Hotspur" Percy.

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Dr. Creep.
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In Chicago we had Shock Theater (1957–59) with Marvin (Terry Bennett) and "Dear" (Joy Bennett) whose face we never saw. Marvin was really funny. The movies were 1930s horror and I was allowed to stay up late for "classics" like Frankenstein and Dracula.

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The Twentieth Century was a weekly documentary series which ran on CBS owned-and-operated TV stations from 20 October 1957 until 4 January 1970. It used historical film footage to document events in early 20th century history, narrated by CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite. There had been TV historical film documentaries of WW2, notably Victory at Sea (NBC 1952–53, 26 episodes) with its beautiful Richard Rogers musical score, but Twentieth Century was an ongoing series for many years and Walter Cronkite's narration was the best. Walter always cracked up my grandfather.
Walter Krankheit! HAHA! He needs to change his name to Gesundheit!
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The Twentieth Century was Ken Burns before there was Ken Burns.

 
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I was a little kid during the 1960s, but I clearly remember these cartoons. I was also a big fan of Johnny Quest, but it’s been mentioned already.






Jim
 
Live-action shows included:

Lost in Space
Star Trek
Land of the Giants
Hogan’s Heroes
Batman
Mission: Impossible
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The Mod Squad
The Name of the Game
High Chaparral
Gunsmoke
Bewitched
The Twilight Zone
The Outer Limits
The Avengers
Night Gallery
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
The Partridge Family
Nanny and the Professor
A Family Affair




In the ‘90s, I liked:
Married...With Children
The X-Files (except for the government/alien conspiracy episodes)
Millennium

Jim
 
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