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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsFavorite Black and White Television Show?
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Perry mason | |
3 (9%) |
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Flinstones | |
2 (6%) |
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Dragnet | |
0 (0%) |
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The Dick Van Dyke Show | |
5 (15%) |
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The Andy Griffith Show | |
7 (21%) |
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Twilight Zone | |
15 (45%) |
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Leave It To Beaver | |
0 (0%) |
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My Favorite Martian | |
1 (3%) |
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Efilroft Sul
(3,604 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,877 posts)My family loved The Jeffersons when I was a kid! My poor mother had to deal with a mother-in-law who behaved just like Mother Jefferson! My father was her spoiled only child, but he actually couldn't stand to be around her. So my mother would be the one who'd try to help her, and she'd typically get rewarded with insults for doing it.
My mother grew up very poor on a small farm, describing how she went to bed hungry many times as a young girl during the Great Depression. Meanwhile, my father grew up on a 3000-acre farm about 12 miles away. (No, it was never a slave plantation.) Dad could've inherited all of that land, being an only-child, but he didn't want to manage a bunch of hired-help to work the land. So his parents finally gave up on it, selling it for "pennies on the dollar" according to Mom. Then the mother-in-law (my paternal grandmother) later spent most of the money like she was a baroness.
EDIT: I researched my family tree years ago. It was pretty easy in my case because all of my ancestors moved from the Northeastern USA to a farming community in the Midwest after the Revolutionary War, and they all remained there until my parents finally moved away. Anyway, land records showed that my paternal grandparents' large farm was slowly acquired by my paternal great-great-great grandfather when he was a young man. Then he finally got married at age 52... to a woman who was only 24! He later outlived her by a few years too, since she died in her 50's.
Efilroft Sul
(3,604 posts)Thanks for sharing that, and thanks for getting my silly attempt at humor, too!
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,877 posts)My paternal grandmother was a white woman, but she dressed and behaved almost exactly like Mother Jefferson! (Especially around my Mom.)
EDIT: Except my grandmother would mispronounce words sometimes, like she'd call a tower a "towa". My older brother used to jokingly say she talked like a Bostonian sometimes. And what did I find out from my genealogical research? Her distant ancestors came from Boston!
Her ancestors were very poor too, like my mother's, but she became high and mighty after marrying my paternal grandfather!
My Dad cried when his mother died, which honestly surprised me because he acted like he detested her when she was alive. He didn't like her pompous attitude, and my grandfather seemingly just tolerated it.
multigraincracker
(32,981 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(25,212 posts)In a Bonanza aircraft,,,,always cool.
Brother Buzz
(36,567 posts)The first Songbird was this 1943 Cessna T-50
Good trivia question: What branch of the service was Sky King in?
Mike Nelson
(10,048 posts)... didn't know The Flintstones was ever B&W. I think I Love Lucy is the best B&W show...
FoxNewsSucks
(10,488 posts)I watched nearly all of them when I was a kid, and last month started watching the B&W Lucy Show on Hulu.
LisaM
(27,924 posts)I chose "pass" because there are no women listed! (Yes, there are women characters in some of them). There are lots of good shows with women as the lead. Our Miss Brooks, Donna Reed, Hazel, Ann Southern, early Bewitched, and of course Lucy!!
House of Roberts
(5,278 posts)Have Gun, Will Travel is a close second.
Squeaky41
(179 posts)Life with Elizabeth
SlimJimmy
(3,191 posts)Tactical Peek
(1,228 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Jupiter
And
You'll Never Get Rich/The Phil Silvers Show.
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Floyd R. Turbo
(27,121 posts)We never had a color tv!
Of course.
Regards,
Sorghum Crow
Mister Ed
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(71,046 posts)mitch96
(14,012 posts)My Mom and I would watch it.. She would laugh and I was the clueless little kid...
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LakeArenal
(29,033 posts)brush
(54,509 posts)Different Drummer
(7,796 posts)MeTV shows reruns of it every Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. and I always watch those.
brush
(54,509 posts)James Garner was also a Democrat. I saved this photo of him during the March on Washington marching holding hands with Dianne Carroll.
Different Drummer
(7,796 posts)James Garner and Frank Gorshin were my two favorite small screen actors.
Clash City Rocker
(3,406 posts)Although the last season of that show were in color.
I chose the Dick Van Dyke show, which I still consider to be the best sitcom ever. But I can respect those who chose the Twilight Zone. Im still a little amazed that a show like that ran on network TV.
Meadowoak
(5,643 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...both had a wonder noirish feel to them...
Skittles
(153,895 posts)MiniMe
(21,737 posts)But it wasn't an option. I remember going over to a friends house and we watched Star Trek in color, and I was amazed.
ForgedCrank
(1,820 posts)was pretty good, but my all time favorite was one called The Outer Limits.
I loved that show when I was a little kid
yorkster
(1,623 posts)Seems like it from about the tv era as Sky King...
yorkster
(1,623 posts)That came back to me as I was drifting off to sleep last night.
I loved that character.
Raine
(30,565 posts)lpbk2713
(42,846 posts)Never missed an episode. A lot of future stars appeared on that show.
Paladin
(28,393 posts)The main thing I noticed: How freaking somber the shows were, much more so than what I remembered from watching them originally, as a kid. Must have really had an impact, during the series' 1960-1964 run.
Biggest remembrance: the show set in Austin TX---it was the one where the dark-haired actor (Maharis) loses his sight from a construction accident. I grew up in Austin, and I believe the whole damn town tuned in for that episode. Loss of sight was a popular gimmick in shows back then; as in all the other shows, Maharis regained his sight before the end credits rolled.
Paladin
(28,393 posts)But honesty makes me admit that "Dragnet" was very tempting. Me and a bunch of old school friends are long-time Joe Friday connoisseurs...
brush
(54,509 posts)Broderick Crawford in "Highway Patrol."
As it happens, Broderick Crawford is the other object of our old TV show worship. Always fun to catch a "Highway Patrol" episode (at around 4:30 AM) and try to see how many (if any) of Crawford's words are remotely intelligible.
Our children and grandchildren just don't know what they're missing...
our TV shows were in monochrome, even The Wonderful World of Color.
malthaussen
(17,307 posts)Didn't watch "Twilight Zone" much, I was very unhip when I was six.
-- Mal
bikebloke
(5,260 posts)Tied with The Twilight Zone.
ificandream
(9,562 posts)The final two episodes of The Fugitive were a little disappointing but overall this was a great show.
Not Heidi
(1,387 posts)Followed closely by Andy Griffith. I loved Barney Fife . . . always armed - with a single bullet in his shirt pocket. He was an endearing character.
But not as much as Shirley Booth's Hazel. I loved her. I was a kid, but I remember her and I loved her.
Edit: she was the recipient of three Tonys, two Emmys, and an Oscar. Despite being the star of a banal (I hate to use that word) sitcom, she was a serious and talented actress.