TV Shows you loved as kids

[fuzzyoctopus]

Wow, not cartoons?  That's hard.

Definitely  Land of the Lost. (man I LOVED that show)
Quantum Leap
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Doctor Who, (hooked by age 8.  It was on after Sesame Street on Saturdays)

Slant, what age did you start watching it?  

Of course, Sesame Street.
Square One TV is the love of my life, and if they EVER put it on DVD, I'll sell my soul to buy it.  (I still know most of the songs from it by heart)

We watched the Muppet Show a lot, but it was in reruns by the time I was a kid.  

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Pirates of Dark Water
Thundercats
GI Joe
Popeye
Speed Racer
Starblazers

Sadly all disqualified as they are in fact Cartoons.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

National Geographic, Nova
the Electric Company, Newtons Apple, Reading Rainbow, Ohhh ohhh and Nickelodeon before it became stupid...

The Tommorow People, The Third Eye, You Cant do that on TV.

[Slant]

Oh, and don't forget Dangermouse!  (thanxx for reminding me, Dangerjeffe)

I guess I started watching Dr. Who at about age 5-6 or so.  It's been so long that I can't remember exactly.

As for other live action shows:

Mork and Mindy reruns (when will they put it on dvd?)
F-Troop ("Who sez I'm stupid?")
What's Happening
Banana Split Show (especially the Danger Island episodes)
All Creatures Great and Small (hard to explain why it appealed to me as a kid, but it did greatly)

[Maxwell]

paleoworld
science of the deep
snl
beyond the stars

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Ditto on the James Herriot for me as well Slant, dont know why though.

[42]

Wild America
Brady Bunch
Archeology (on the discovery channel)
This Old House

[JP Dogberry]

Slant, if that Tiger thing is an Australian thing, how come I've never heard of it?

[Entsuropi]

Probably for the same reason i have not heard of some of the British shows that Americans on the board love. We were too busy playing computer games

[Slant]

Tiger Tyler was really big when I was a wee nipper, or maybe it was just some fringe thing that I thought was real cool at the time.  I used to watch it with my dad.  It was kind of a tongue-in-cheek Australian version of Captain America.  A top-drawer goverment agent who didn't age and sometimes operated behind a superhero-type costume.  He was so laid back and lucky that he often succeeded in his adventures without even realizing that he was on one.  He would sometimes get really angry at the bad guy (or anybody) over some mispercieved slight and go "you b*st*rd!" and clock them with one punch, even if it was a giant robot or mutant or some such.  It was usually the funniest part of the show, but really hard to explain in words why (kinda like how "kiss mah grits" really doesn't sound funny unless you see it in context).

[EUOL]

Oh, and don't forget Dangermouse!  (thanxx for reminding me, Dangerjeffe)

Ah, Dangermouse....  Man, memories.  One of my friends when I was in grade school found out that Nickelodeon was going to be replaying Dangermouse for a 'short time only.'  He said that we HAD to watch it, because it was so cool--like, James Bond cool.  It was a status symbol to us that WE knew when Dangermouse was on, and were able to watch it.

But, unfortunately, that one's a cartoon, so it's disqualified.  (From what, I don't know.  But it's certainly disqualified.)

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

The reason I didnt want cartoons is that given the popularity and sheer volume of Cartoons its too easy a task. Fortunately for me the 70's and 80's had tons of live action TV for kids, live action that today is replace by Beetleborgs and Power Rangers and stuff like that.

My top 5. Shows I loved as a kid are... with descriptions so that others wont get bored....

5. Land of the Lost... Cheesy stop motion Dinosaurs, two kids and a dad trapped in a land that time forgot with viscious lizard men (Sleestacks) and did I mention Dinosaurs.

4.The Electric Company... more contemporary and grown up than Sesame Street with Spiderman!!! But still educational. TEC rocked more than 3...2...1... Contact and was full of semi urban kitch.

3. Knight Rider... When I was living in Texas my dad and I went to a car show and lo and behold... KITT was there, (I've got a polaroid of me in KITT) Yeah Hasselhoff was a tool, but I loved that his car was smarter than him.

2.The Muppet Show.
RANT
Kids today dont have it as good as we do, The muppet show is one of the top 50 TV shows of all time, filled with music, humor and creativity. Each episode spotlighted the muppets and some special guest of some kind in a humerous way. Mark Hamel apperead as himself and Luke Skywalker on an episode of TMS, and the muppets were able to make John Denver cool.
Sadly I think the muppet popularity was eroded by frequent bad movies (anything after the first one actually (even though I loved Great Muppet Caper as a kid)) and the Muppet babies cartoon. The new muppet show failed to capture the vaudville aspects of the Muppet Show. All that being said Im glad I got to see them in their heyday.

1.Battle Star Galactica...
In my mind this show beat the living stuffing out of Star Trek and made it beg for its mommy. BSG was action packed (for a kid) and just out there enough that I could get into it. After all fighter pilots are cool right?
So fighter pilots in space must be really cool.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

What about that one with the semi-realistic talking dinosaurs? I think it was called "Dinosaurs." With the baby and the father, I think his name was Earl.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

word thats the spirit Gemm

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Hmmm this thread sure is a popular read!