What situation comedy/comedies did you enjoy as a kid? Mine was Bewitched, That Girl, Dick Van Dyke Show, What about you

[debm55]

[malthaussen]

1. Dick van Dyke, Lucy...

... my favorite shows were the war ones, comedic or serious. Loved "Combat." Didn't understand until I was much older that it was really an anti-war show. Liked "Hogan's Heroes" and "McHale's Navy."

I suppose if one considers "The Flintstones" a situation comedy (which it kinda was), it would be on the list also.

"Car 54, Where are You?" wasn't a sitcom, but I watched every episode of its all-too-brief run, and can still sing the intro verbatim.

-- Mal

[debm55]

4. Thanks Malthaussen,

[cayugafalls]

2. Dick Van Dyke was my fav along with Leave it to Beaver.

I learned how to do prat falls watching Dick Van Dyke and those prat falls came in useful in school.

I was a little terror in school cause I tried to be a mini Van Dyke...lol

[debm55]

6. Yes, Leave it to Beaver also. Always watched Dick Van Dyke. You did prat falls in school?

[cayugafalls]

14. I was always tripping or falling and making the kids laugh.

I became the class clown due to Dick Van Dyke and it was a lifesaver.

I was a very small kid and got brutally picked on...until I began to prat fall and make people laugh.

'Some' teachers actually thought it was funny...others not so much.

Needless to say, I got to call the Principle by his first name when in his office...

[debm55]

28. Funny story, With bullies you got to do what you got to do. TY

[woodsprite]

3. Petticoat Junction, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, along with

My Favorite Martian, Nanny and the Professor, and Lost in Space.

There were a few more. I guess I watched a lot of tv growing up. 🤣

[debm55]

7. Me too. Good selection.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Car 54 Where Are You?

[debm55]

8. I sort of remember from the theme song. TY

[House of Roberts]

9. Dick Van Dyke, That Girl, Gilligan's Island, Petticoat Junction, and Gidget,

aka Mary Tyler Moore, Marlo Thomas, Dawn Wells, Lori Saunders, and Sally Field.

I watched because of the girl I had the crush on in the show. Notice how they're all brunettes? Even on black and white tv it was always the brunettes I liked.

[debm55]

15. That's funny, I don;t think I ever watched Gidget, But the others I watched. So you have a thing for brunettes? TY

[House of Roberts]

19. Gidget was only one season.

The next year Sally Field played The Flying Nun.

[debm55]

27. I remember the Flying Nun,

[Mz Pip]

10. Leave it to Beaver

My Three Sons, Donna Reed Show, My Little Margie

[debm55]

16. I don't remember My Little Margie. What was it about? the other two I liked and watched. TY

[Mz Pip]

21. I remember watching reruns

In the 50s. It was about a young woman who lived with her widowed father.

[yellowdogintexas]

88. I remember My Little Margie, Life With Elizabeth (starring Betty White!) I Married Joan with Joan Davis

and Jim Backus. Early 50s sitcoms which my mom watched. Danny Thomas had a cute show a couple of years before Dick Van Dyke.
Of course there was Lucy
Dick Van Dyke, Andy Griffith, Beaver, Gilligan & My T hree Sons came on the scene when I was around11 or 12.

I loved Hogan's Heroes, McHale's Navy,

[Lochloosa]

11. Jackie Gleason Show. Red Skeleton.

[debm55]

17. Loved Red Skeleton. He always made me laugh. TY

[patphil]

12. I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver, The Honeymooners

[debm55]

30. I watched Leave It to Beaver. To young for the others but watched I love Lucy in reruns.

[Mad_Dem_X]

13. Laverne & Shirley and Welcome Back, Kotter were two faves of mine

[debm55]

31. I was in college and had no TV, Watched during summer break. Loved John T.

[WhiteTara]

18. I love Lucy

[debm55]

32. I was too young /not born , but did watch the reruns,

[WhiteTara]

71. It's wierd to say that I watched

kinescope!

[debm55]

73. No it's not.. Good for you!

[sanatanadharma]

20. One needs to be older yet to remember these shows

Our Miss Brooks
Life with Father
Life of Riley
My Little Margie
George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Make Room for Daddy

[Mz Pip]

22. Those, too!

Make Room for Daddy was one of my favorites.

[debm55]

35. I do remember a little of Make Room for Daddy. But the others, I don't

[Glorfindel]

37. I remember them well.

Also, the Phil Silvers Show, "You'll Never Get Rich."

[lastlib]

23. "My Favorite Martian"

Funny show! Poor Mrs. Brown........

[debm55]

36. Thank you lastlib. I have never seen it. My husband was a huge fan, though,

[Jeebo]

24. The Life of Riley

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I was nine years old 1959, and that was about when I used to watch William Bendix in the title role of Chester A. Riley. "What a revoltin' development this is!" was his signature phrase. I didn't know it at the time, but before I was born, in the 1940s and I think in the late 1930s too, The Life of Riley was a popular radio show. They play that radio show often now on Sirius/XM satellite radio and I listen to it in my car. A blast from the past. Some years past, I used to have a cat I named Riley because I thought he was living the life of Riley, so he must be Riley!

Other TV sitcoms I really loved: The Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligan's Island, I Dream of Jeannie, I Love Lucy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Leave it to Beaver. One thing I always wonder about the Cleaver household: You can tell from the opening montage of shots of that house that their house is a big house. That house has at least five bedrooms. So WHY, I always wonder, do Wally and the Beaver have to share a bedroom?

-- Ron

[debm55]

38. OMG. I asked the same question here once. I guess it was for the interaction between Wally and Beaver. Same with the

Brady house.

[Rebl2]

25. Bewitched,

That Girl, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, The Monkeys, Batman, Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons, Ed Sullivan when he had that little puppet mouse on the show. Also Petticoat Junction.

[debm55]

39. I remember all of those. Loved the little mouseTobo Gego or something like that.

[Rebl2]

48. I liked that

mouse too. Will have to look it up to see how it’s spelled. Not sure either. We actually had a plastic one that stood about 8” tall. Maybe a Christmas gift at one time from Santa 😊

[AbnerBunny]

26. Andy Griffith Show.

Green Acres was another. And so many of the others mentioned here 🤗

[debm55]

40. I watched Green Acres. I could never understand why Oliver lived in a run down house? Did he ever fix it?

[debm55]

49. Watch Andy Griffith show, Loved it.

[ProfessorGAC]

69. I Watched Andy When A Kid

But, I became nuts about it when watching in syndication while in my 30s.
WGN TV ran episodes from 5 to 6 each weekday morning, and I'd watch them before I got ready for work.
It was then I started seeing how terrifically it was cast. And, they matured the characters over time, so even though it was just a silly sitcom, we cared about each of the people. Most went beyond the cartoon stage.
My wife actually bought me an AG Show Trivia Board Game, she knew I was so hooked on the show.

[debm55]

74. Wow Professor, that is great. Loved the show too, but not as much as you, I am sure. Yes. it was one of those shows were

characters matured and grew. They didn;t stay stagnant in their roles.

[Goddessartist]

29. All of those

and I Dream of Jeannie!

[debm55]

42. I forget what was on that I watched instead. But I didn't watch. Darn what did I watch instead.????

[riverbendviewgal]

33. I haven't seen Topper mentioned

It was about a couple and their St Bernard dog, who were ghosts. Only a older man could see all of them. They were funny pulling stunts on him in his home.

[debm55]

43. I don't remember Topper---might have been too young . TY

[no_hypocrisy]

83. First sitcom I ever watched, age 2, perhaps also the first re-run of the series.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topper_(TV_series)

Neal was the perpetually drunk Saint Bernard

Ann Jefferies and Robert Sterling portrayed the ghosts. They were married in real life.

Topper was Leo G. Carroll ("Wuthering Heights" ).

His wife was Lee Patrick ("Auntie Mame" )

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[riverbendviewgal]

84. Thank you so much

I had never seen the first episode.
Loved seeing how it started. I was very young when I watched this. Seeing George and Marion on the screen gave me a positive feeling about ghosts.

[Freethinker65]

34. I Dream of Jeanie, Get Smart

[debm55]

44. I liked Get Smart. It was a funny sort of James Bond, Loved the gadgets he had,

[area51]

41. The Addams Family n/t

[debm55]

45. I watched them and the Munsters.

[OAITW r.2.0]

46. Bob Newhart and Carol Burnett

[debm55]

47. Two of my favorites . Loved the original Bob Newhart and my family sat around my Grandmothers colored TV and watched

Carol on Saturday nights.

[Mr.Bill]

50. I pretty much watched all of them at one time or another.

If no one has mentioned them yet, let me add The Donna Reed Show, Father Knows Best, My Three Sons and The Patty Duke Show to the list.

[Ocelot II]

51. None of them especially. I was a weird kid who preferred The Twilight Zone.

[debm55]

56. Oh, I liked that too, You want to know how weird I was I liked the clips of Ripley's Believe it or Not when I was a kid

[AllaN01Bear]

52. my mother the car. green acres . gilligan's island i love lucy. others .

[AllaN01Bear]

53. beverly hillbillies . munsters . addams family.

[debm55]

58. Like these also. Thank you for posting.

[debm55]

57. You are the only person I know that liked My Mother the Car.But we all have different tastes for what we watched. I

liked Green Acres and gilligan's island. Wached I loved Lucy in reruns.

[Bettie]

54. Channel 18 in Milwaukee had

after school older sitcoms: Gillian's Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, Leave it to Beaver, and a bunch of others.

But, I remember Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, All in the Family, WKRP, One Day at a Time...

[debm55]

59. As an adult I enjoyed the bottom list also, That's neat the Channel showed older sit coms. All we got was the Three

Stooges.

[Emile]

55. I actually met Dick VanDyke when he

came home to Danville for a visit. So Dick VanDyke show was probably my most favorite of all. But I did like Mr Ed, Beverly Hillbillies, Leave it to Beaver, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, Mayberry, etc etc

[debm55]

60. Isn't he from Danville? I liked your choices also.

[Emile]

64. He grew up just down the street from the highschool.

Gene Hackman lived on the east end of town where I grew up. Yes Danville

[beaglelover]

61. Mary Tyler Moore

She looked like my Mom.

[debm55]

62. MTM was very pretty and talented. Your mom is beautiful.

[beaglelover]

63. She still is and she just turned 90!

Her look in Ordinary People is my Mom to a tee. Unfortunately, personality too!

[debm55]

65. Mary should have one an Oscar for that. I am sorry about writing about your mom in the past tense. I corrected it.

[beaglelover]

66. No problem at all.

I feel very fortunate to still have a Mom who is living. Hope I inherit her longevity!

[Elessar Zappa]

67. As a kid?

When I was young I watched Full House, Step by Step, and Family Matters. As I got a bit older, I liked Friends and Seinfeld.

[Aristus]

68. We watched sitcoms like "All In The Family".

Watching that show must have been a breath of fresh air for my mother, because her father, my grandfather, was Archie Bunker, only without the loveableness.

I used to watch re-runs of "That Girl" back in the 90's. I was strangely enchanted by that late 60's-early 70's vibe, the clothes, the hair, and the aura of wit, humor, and optimism that have since been drained from our country

[Niagara]

70. My answers are somewhere in the lounge but I can't find them

In the meantime, I will have a redo here.


The Wonder Years, Family Ties, Who's the Boss, Night Court and Quantum Leap.


Shows that were older than me that were luckily reruns that I enjoyed were Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Addams Family, and The Munsters.


By the Way, Rob Zombie is currently working on The Munsters reboot. And for information purposes, people who attack Rob Zombie in my presence go right on my shit list.

[debm55]

75. That's funny. You have a great list there Niagara. Your first list was from my early years of marriage. I loved them.

list I watched in my youth. PS where are the Monkees. I thought you loved the Monkees.

[Niagara]

79. Thank you, Debbie!

I have to admit, I don't believe that I've ever had the opportunity to watch the Monkees



I did discover during the pandemic that I like westerns tv shows and movies. I never expected that out of myself.

[rurallib]

72. watched a lot of the shows in the mid 60s but it was shows like the Monkees,

All In The Family, Mary Tyler Moore and Newhart that I would be sure to watch.

Smothers Brothers were an absolute do not miss show.

One that wasn't exactly a comedy but used to send me into howls of laughter was Batman.

[debm55]

76. Batman was campy--sort of like drama/comedy. The other shows i watched while I was in HS. BAAM/WOSH/ flashing across

the screen. da da dada BATMAN

[samnsara]

77. i still watch them! Ozzie and Harriet..I love Lucy...Dick Van Dyke and...

..even The Brady Bunch. Some I never watched as a kid/young adult but they were always on in the back ground.. like Taxi. I recently watched it and i like it! I even caught the Flintstones and the Jetsons the other day.

Didnt like Bewitched as both the Darrin's were too cranky and mean.

When the news gets too awful i will just turn on some b/w shows.

[debm55]

78. These were some of my favorite shows.. May I ask what channel you are watching on? TY

[Eugene]

80. Several 1970s-current shows and many 60s reruns.

Get Smart, All in the Family, Chico and the Man, Barney Miller, Hogan's Heroes...

the list is long.

[debm55]

81. Yes, the 70s were a great time for comedy on TY Always watched Get Smart, All in the Family, Barney Miller, Taxi, Night

Court. and so many others.

[pansypoo53219]

82. hogan's heros. monty python. to the manor born. good nieghbors.

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85. Thank you

[DFW]

86. My two were absolutely

Mr. Ed and I dream of Jeannie, although……

I always thought of the original Avengers as a comedy as well. Any pubescent guy who was NOT stuck on Diana Rigg at the time was probably without a TV set.

[debm55]

87. I loved her cat suit.

[soldierant]

89. Burns and Allen - Jack Benny.