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leftieNanner
(16,159 posts)As Ilya Kuriakin. Man from UNCLE.
❤️
debm55
(60,568 posts)Silver Gaia
(5,361 posts)He was the first!
flor-de-jasmim
(2,282 posts)nycbos
(6,715 posts)Yes I am that dorky.
debm55
(60,568 posts)MaryMagdaline
(7,964 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)BlueKota
(5,342 posts)LymphocyteLover
(9,842 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)LSparkle
(12,182 posts)I liked him more as Bruce Wayne though ... 😁
debm55
(60,568 posts)mucifer
(25,666 posts)He turned into a cute little old Jewish man
debm55
(60,568 posts)KitFox
(566 posts)on Ozzie and Harriet. He would sing and play his guitar at the close of episodes. Whoa this really proves how ancient I am!😄 Thanks for your fun posts, debm55!
crazylikafox
(2,924 posts)Me too
debm55
(60,568 posts)debm55. Glad to finally be a member!
red dog 1
(33,062 posts)KitFox
(566 posts)red dog 1 ! After reading here for years, it is nice to finally be a member. 😊
livetohike
(24,277 posts)he did after that.
debm55
(60,568 posts)wryter2000
(47,940 posts)MiHale
(13,032 posts)Glad you feeling better.
debm55
(60,568 posts)hlthe2b
(113,947 posts)He was short but very well-proportioned and very athletic! LOL
Yeah, he was quite the conservative in his later years, but he cut quite the "suave" figure during the years that show was filmed.
debm55
(60,568 posts)kozar
(3,312 posts)From her early shows, to her cooking shows, today
Koz
As , one of us
Koz
debm55
(60,568 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)yourout
(8,820 posts)That poster was quite an inspiration.
kozar
(3,312 posts)As we had share a room, and I was younger, maybe, that's why, I still, to this day, like, brown eyed, brunettes.
Koz
debm55
(60,568 posts)Geechie
(1,044 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Ninga
(9,012 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)ItsjustMe
(11,971 posts)From Lost In Space.
debm55
(60,568 posts)bedazzled
(1,885 posts)Still like him sixty years later!
Billy mumy at the same time
Later, Bobby sherman. He was so cute! What a smile
David was no slouch, either. You have good taste
debm55
(60,568 posts)their pictures.
CanonRay
(16,171 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Tiny Tabby
(59 posts)He was Sugarfoot, a western
debm55
(60,568 posts)MichMan
(17,149 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)MichMan
(17,149 posts)Even though I was only eleven years old
debm55
(60,568 posts)ailsagirl
(24,287 posts)I remember reading...
lastlib
(28,258 posts)(joint w/ Phil D.) She signed it in the wrong place, and I had to send it back to them.
The two of them did VERY well that year. Let's just say it was more than seven figures........
Wiz Imp
(9,991 posts)as Barbara Cooper from One Day at a Time & Buddy Lawrence from Family respectively
debm55
(60,568 posts)kozar
(3,312 posts)Was just her tomboy attitude, with her roles.
Koz
Ilikepurple
(672 posts)GreenWave
(12,640 posts)A close second was Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies.
debm55
(60,568 posts)GreenWave
(12,640 posts)beaglelover
(4,466 posts)I think it had to do with the hairy chest and incredibly thick mustache!
debm55
(60,568 posts)Ilikepurple
(672 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)marble falls
(71,919 posts)... how are you?
debm55
(60,568 posts)marble falls
(71,919 posts)Wiz Imp
(9,991 posts)She's 10 years younger than me, but from the time that show debuted, I always thought she was the ideal "girl next door".
debm55
(60,568 posts)Goatguy
(19 posts)Linda Carter
debm55
(60,568 posts)ArnoldLayne
(2,263 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)iwillalwayswonderwhy
(2,728 posts)One of the Monkees.
Marigold
(230 posts)Everyone liked Davey Jones, but Peter Tork was my guy.
debm55
(60,568 posts)spooky3
(38,631 posts)Detailed fantasies about Mike Nesmith.
debm55
(60,568 posts)HoosierDebbie
(450 posts)Even before that was Roy Rogers. Later was Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock for many years.
Walleye
(44,797 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)wnylib
(26,008 posts)who had a crush on Johnny Crawford as I read through this thread.
Later, it was Andy Williams (sang Moon River and had a TV show).
https://images.app.goo.gl/9jpQ1conGnggJdvb9
biophile
(1,421 posts)I totally would have married him ☺️
debm55
(60,568 posts)BlueKota
(5,342 posts)dress out of my closet , put it on, put the veil on my head, and picked flowers outside. When I came back in my Mom asked me what I was doing and I told her I was having a pretend wedding to Davy Jones. She laughed and said, "that's nice, and went back to cleaning.
debm55
(60,568 posts)House of Roberts
(6,521 posts)Somewhere in there I liked Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island, Lori Saunders on Petticoat Junction, And Marlo Thomas on That Girl.
Sally Field was and still is my continuous crush from back in her Gidget series.
Karen Valentine on Room 222 was in there also.
I had a lot of crushes while still only having black and white TV to watch them on.
debm55
(60,568 posts)KarenS
(5,050 posts)Maverick
Johnny Yuma
Rowdy Yates
Kookie
OK, I'll stop
debm55
(60,568 posts)lastlib
(28,258 posts)What a hottie!
LSparkle
(12,182 posts)Emma va va voom with those leather pants and boots!!!
debm55
(60,568 posts)Paladin
(32,354 posts)if..fish..had..wings
(880 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Ohiya
(2,735 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Marigold
(230 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Chipper Chat
(10,868 posts)From Mickey MOUSE club
SPIN AND MARTY.
https://images.app.goo.gl/aDgPzGQQN224mQuS6
debm55
(60,568 posts)Mabley
& Susie Cowsill
debm55
(60,568 posts)cloudbase
(6,270 posts)and Elizabeth Montgomery.
debm55
(60,568 posts)Jrose
(1,532 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)JPPaverage
(638 posts)I Dream of Jeannie. And i liked Mary Ann on Gilligans Island.
debm55
(60,568 posts)emulatorloo
(46,155 posts)Also liked Samantha on Bewitched.
debm55
(60,568 posts)Pinback
(13,600 posts)doc03
(39,085 posts)Shermann
(9,062 posts)It would have to be a threesome.
debm55
(60,568 posts)Response to debm55 (Original post)
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no_hypocrisy
(54,899 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)WalkerinSC
(283 posts)Wilma Deering on Buck Rogers. Now there is a show that deserves a BSG style reboot.
debm55
(60,568 posts)PedroXimenez
(673 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,571 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Diamond_Dog
(40,569 posts)Im so old!!!
I even married a man who looked like him when he was young. 🙂
debm55
(60,568 posts)Wicked Blue
(8,866 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)displacedvermoter
(4,491 posts)Last edited Fri Nov 15, 2024, 10:40 AM - Edit history (1)
Dawn Wells
debm55
(60,568 posts)hunter
(40,688 posts)I didn't know any real-world girls or women who were interested in radios and computers, and none who'd listen to me ramble on about telephone networks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyota_Uhura
I dreamed of flying away with her.
In college I did meet an engineer who was interested in radios and computers, and I did fly away with her, but that relationship ended in bloody catastrophe, mostly my blood smeared across a street in Berkeley after I jumped out of her moving car.
Some dreams don't turn out as we expect them to.
debm55
(60,568 posts)hunter
(40,688 posts)I followed her when she was accepted to graduate school in another state and we've been together since.
I'm still a computer and radio nerd, but I changed my major from Engineering to Biology after my second year of college. Biology fascinated me too. Engineering would have been the more lucrative course of study but then I wouldn't have met my wife!
My wife's not a computer or radio nerd, she's a more general math and science enthusiast. On the Star Trek Enterprise she'd be working with Spock and McCoy.
debm55
(60,568 posts)IbogaProject
(5,911 posts)I guess I liked Marcia Brady and later there was a single season of Téa Leoni in 92 called Flying Blind and I had a brief crush on her then. I never really got that way about those in the media, I preferred to crush on those I knew in real life, LOL.
debm55
(60,568 posts)husband looks nothing like David Cassidy.
Mr.Bill
(24,906 posts)I didn't like the show very much, because I had kind of outgrown sitcoms at that time. I remember being in my 30s in the 80s and getting up early to watch reruns of that show just to see her. Still like her today.
debm55
(60,568 posts)Xipe Totec
(44,558 posts)Elizabeth Montgomery had me idiotized. And I was just 8.
debm55
(60,568 posts)applegrove
(132,207 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)The Blue Flower
(6,490 posts)Later, capt Kirk and spock
debm55
(60,568 posts)calguy
(6,154 posts)Mickey Mouse Club calendar gir
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debm55
(60,568 posts)RB77
(84 posts)For some reason her demeanor really fired up my synapses and got my endorphins flapping. 🤓
debm55
(60,568 posts)macwriter
(256 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)LogDog75
(1,301 posts)Barbara Feldon from Get Smart
Jan Smithers from WKRP in Cincinnati
Catherine Bach from The Dukes of Hazard
Cathy Lee Crosby from That's Incredible!
debm55
(60,568 posts)4TheArts
(194 posts)played by Tuesday Weld, in The many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
debm55
(60,568 posts)MoonlightHillFarm
(85 posts)Mine was Tony Dow, the older brother on Leave it to Beaver. I was about 10.
debm55
(60,568 posts)Hotler
(13,747 posts)My first older women.
debm55
(60,568 posts)woodsprite
(12,582 posts)Randy Mantooth (Emergency!)
Edward Mulhare (The Ghost and Mrs Muir)
Brett Hudson (The Hudson Brothers)
Bobby Sherman
(Here Come the Brides and Getting Together)
Honorable mention for a movie star goes to:
Gene Kelly
Yul Brynner
I had commitment issues 😂
debm55
(60,568 posts)3catwoman3
(29,402 posts)And next would have been Spock. I have always found intelligence very attractive and sexy. I used to fantasize about being the one human woman who would be able to break thru Spock's 7 year pon farr cycle -
debm55
(60,568 posts)happybird
(5,393 posts)and Luke Perry on 90210 (Dylan McKay)
debm55
(60,568 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(16,387 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Hope22
(4,744 posts)Does that make me a nerd? Stayed up late during High School because that was the only peaceful time in the house!😂🤣😁😂🤣😁🥰
debm55
(60,568 posts)Hope22
(4,744 posts)Gets me every time!😂🤣😁
Montauk6
(9,339 posts)I thought she was hotter than Carol, real talk.
debm55
(60,568 posts)Groundhawg
(1,218 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)The Wandering Harper
(915 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)LudwigPastorius
(14,723 posts)So cute...so wholesome...

debm55
(60,568 posts)BlueKota
(5,342 posts)and David Cassidy. In my teens and early twenties Rick Springfield(still a fan.) I admit I never grew out of crushing on handsome celebs. My most recent are cougar crushes on Julian McMahon and Colin O'Donoghue. Don't know whether it's my Irish roots but I have always been particularly fond of the black Irish type, with the black hair and blue eyes like Pierce Brosnan in his Remington Steele days
debm55
(60,568 posts)BlueKota
(5,342 posts)Gorgeous smile.
debm55
(60,568 posts)wryter2000
(47,940 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)jfz9580m
(17,188 posts)The Truth is Out There!
debm55
(60,568 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,315 posts)Randolph Mantooth
debm55
(60,568 posts)Emile
(42,281 posts)on Beverly Hillbillies
debm55
(60,568 posts)some_of_us_are_sane
(3,183 posts)I wanted one of the "Ben Casey shirts". They were all the rage at the time. He always kept those top buttons undone with the flap handing down.
(My mother ended up buying one WITH RUFFLES trim! LOL!!! I wore it anyway.)

debm55
(60,568 posts)catbyte
(39,150 posts)Hey, I was 9.
By the time I was a teenager, I was too "cool" for TV crushes. I had a crush on George Harrison.
debm55
(60,568 posts)relayerbob
(7,428 posts)Well and catwoman, lol
debm55
(60,568 posts)cspanlovr
(1,475 posts)I used to watch Here Come the Brides just to see him.
debm55
(60,568 posts)MiKenMi33
(231 posts)He was sooo handsome.
debm55
(60,568 posts)Bobstandard
(2,297 posts)Most of you kids will have to Google that.
debm55
(60,568 posts)Different Drummer
(9,083 posts)Maureen McCormick (The Brady Bunch)
Susan Dey (The Partridge Family)
Connie Hines (Mr. Ed)
Dawn Wells (Gilligan's Island)
Yvonne Craig (Batman)
Judy Strangis (Room 222/Electra Woman and Dyna Girl)
Farrah Fawcett (Charlie's Angels)
Adrienne Barbeau (Maude)
Sally Struthers (All in the Family)
Kari Michaelsen (Gimme a Break)
Judy Landers (Madam's Place/various other programs)
Teri Copley (We Got It Made/various other programs/movies)
Mary Page Keller (Another World/various other programs)
Kristina Wagner (General Hospital)
Heather Thomas (The Fall Guy)
I don't think I forgot any, but I might have.
debm55
(60,568 posts)Different Drummer
(9,083 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)dhol82
(9,650 posts)Tales of the South Pacific.
Had a map of the world on my bedroom wall with the Pacific Ocean highlighted.
Swore that I would wander there. Curiously, thats one of the few areas I have not explored.
Oops, title of the show was Adventures in Paradise. It was supposedly based on the Michener book, but so very loosely that is wasnt. It still had great video of sailing the South Pacific.
debm55
(60,568 posts)defacto7
(14,162 posts)Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer on that old once a year TV special w/ Burl Ives.
Yeah. I know. I was weird.
6 or 7 yo?
debm55
(60,568 posts)Hassler
(4,921 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)soldierant
(9,354 posts)which probably shows how old i am. He was not a regular on any series so I had to chase hom around, and the characters he played were often not the nicest.
One Thanksgining with I was in the military far from home, I had the goo fortune to be invited to a family's dinner, and another guest happend to be a Broadway tech worker. Much of Weaver's work was on BRadway and I shy;y confessed my crush. She told me I had good taste - that IRL he was one of the nicest people one could ever hope to meet. One of my treasured moments.
I used to have (may still have - I still have a lot of vinyl) the original cast recording of "Sherlock Holmes" on Broadway in which he played Holmes. Conan Doyle, I suspect, would have hated it, but he didn't have a crush.
debm55
(60,568 posts)soldierant
(9,354 posts)BTW, my age still shows - the actuak title of that Broadway musical was "Baker Street. Lsrgely played for laughs - Moriaity sang abou getting rid of "the stately Holmes of England," for instance.
I just looked it up on Wkikpedia to check my mamory, and all the principals are now dead except the kid who played "Wiggins" (the head of the "Baker Street irregulars, a young boy.)
red dog 1
(33,062 posts)She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series (The Mod Squad)
debm55
(60,568 posts)electric_blue68
(26,856 posts)And while i didn't have any crushes; I loved Mod Squad.
debm55
(60,568 posts)ailsagirl
(24,287 posts)
debm55
(60,568 posts)malthaussen
(18,567 posts)Virtually every woman on TV from about 1961-1970, I'd say. I wasn't particular.
Standouts in no particular order:
Shelley Fabares
Carol Merrill
Angela Cartwright
Grace Lee Whitney
Bridget Hanley
Karen Valentine
Barbara Eden
Lori Saunders
However, Elizabeth Montgomery left me cold for some reason.
-- Mal
debm55
(60,568 posts)TommieMommy
(2,900 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)fmdaddio
(240 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)TlalocW
(15,675 posts)I half-kiddingly joke that she was one of the main reasons one of my degrees was Spanish.
debm55
(60,568 posts)surfered
(13,455 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)subterranean
(3,762 posts)At the time, I didn't realize it was Elizabeth Montgomery with a black wig and makeup. I thought there was a real actress named Pandora Spocks!