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

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Then we have the long forgotten series The Starlost from 1973. It only ran for 16 episodes and was about a gigantic multi-generational colonization ship.

An interesting concept that was too cheaply produced to be enjoyed.

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Gunsmoke. We have been watching it on the INSP channel. I remember watching it when I was a wee lad, but I don't remember the shows. It is kind of funny seeing Burt Reynolds as one of the regulars.

BTW, the man that Matt shoots at the beginning of the show is Arvo Ojala. He was the the technical adviser who taught Arness how to draw.

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Skipped the entire thread. I just had to say that The Twilight Zone is THE single greatest show of all time. No competition. I'm 25 and I haven't changed my mind on that in over a decade.
 
I remember The Odd Couple came on Friday nights, back in the early ‘70s. I loved how Oscar drove Felix crazy.


My older sister liked Room 222, but as a kid, I couldn’t understand why anyone would want to watch a TV show about school. However, I‘ve always remembered the opening theme music. In an odd coincidence, my sister had an uncanny physical and facial resemblance to Karen Valentine (but a Japanese-American version).


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I didn’t watch much TV in the ‘80s, due to having other interests, as well as having moved overseas for many years. But I do recall during a visit back home, catching a few episodes of the Fox TV series Werewolf, with Chuck Connors as the series’ villain...a part he played very, very well. Too bad the series didn’t last long. It was reminiscent of the ‘70s TV version of The Incredible Hulk.

Jim
 
Longstreet, starring James Franciscus, was a show that only had a brief run in 1971. But I did remember Bruce Lee’s appearance. I vaguely remembered him as Kato in The Green Hornet and in a crossover Batman episode a few years earlier, but being so young, those earlier appearances never left much of an impression on me like this one. This was before Bruce Lee became an international movie megastar. But I was never allowed to see any of Bruce Lee’s movies until 1979 (6 years after his death), due to their R rating.


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I was going to post
Fireball XL-5
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Thunderbirds.

Well done, hat tip!

I'll add the other favorite of that era...

 
Kolchak: The Night Stalker was a great, but unfortunately short-lived, show. It was also the inspiration for another, later show, The X-Files, which also became one of my favorites almost 2 decades later.


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Just like The Honeymooners, you can watch a hundred times and it is still funny.

For the fans, back in the 90s we had to go to the German Embassy here in NYC with my Dad. His sister passed away in the old country and there was paper work.....
Very proper.
Very official.
Pop was properly nervous about all the officials.
We waited on line after going thru security checkpoints.
Just as the window emptied and the clerk was about to say "Next"
My wife whispers in my ear:
"Whatever you do, don't mention the war."
I lost it.
Father was not pleased.
 
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