Generation Gap

[Marlene]

In my opinion, no one should have to remember H.R. Puffnstuff!! The only show worse than that was Land of the Lost.

Well...there was Sigmund and the Sea Monster! THAT was pretty bad. And I do remember the Sleestaks from Land of the Lost.

I remember the Lawrence Welk Show. Unfortunately it's still on reruns in my area. Lots of retirees here LOL

Here's a blast...anyone remember watching the Dean Martin Variety Hour with the Golddiggers?

Lisa

 

[Grama-Herc]

OK guys! Here we go! How about Shindig???????? And the ever popular Mr Ed

 

[anni]

I loved Mr. Ed! :) I remember being so bummed when my mother told me he couldn't REALLY talk! I still am! And someone else was tormented through Lawrence Welk by their grandparents? There has to be a support group for us. That was just mean to have done to children. As if HR PuffnStuff wasn't enough. I'm STILL trying to get that STUPID song out of my head!

Oh my Jimmy, no worries on the old thing- I walked into that one with my chin up, I know! Old? I was dring my 11 year old somewhere and he had the radio controls ( of course-I never get them) and he turned on ZZ Top 'Sharp Dressed Man'. I thought wow, this is GREAT, and started singing like an idiot, and bopping with the music ( also like an idiot ) because I love ZZ Top. I asked Ike what on earth staion he found, because he never plays stuff I like and he said 'Mom, it's the Golden Oldies Hour, nothing else is on, Geesh!'.

Sea Hunt, Flipper, Lassie, Pix Ann, Captain Kangaroo, Lost In Space and Adam 12. :)

 

[Jestadud]

If you are talking about generation gap don't ever tell anyone how you used to like "Muffin the mule"

 

[catjudo]

Add me to the list of people who were tortured by having to sit quietly through her grandparents watching Lawrence Welk! Funny thing is, as much as I still would hate LW, I miss my grandparents so much that I'd give anything in the world to have them back for just a day, even if it meant having to sit through LW with them.

 

[Tiger Kitten]

Now I feel really old. My dad used to make us watch Lawrence Welk. This cannot be a major factor in being declared old. I am not old. I may be in denial, but I am not old yet.

 

[suzie q]

Annie...I knew eventually the music we loved and grew up on would end up oldies, but so soon??? I'm just waiting for those "oldies" to be playing in elevators! LOL That"s when I'll just shake my head and take the stairs.

I remember Lawrence Welk. My mom used to MAKE us watch Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, Laugh-In (which I still love...sock it to me baby!) Hogan's Heroes, Dark Shadows, Hee Haw to name a few.

 

[popeye]

Speaking of parents or grandparents forcing children to watch shows... I kid you not I was probably 8 years old and my mom had made me watch the Wizard of Oz about 50 times already. I was playing baseball with my friends In the field by our house and my mother came out there and dragged me by my ear all the way home to watch the Wizard of Oz AGAIN! I was screaming at her the whole way home and she kept saying shut up it's a classic!. To this day I refuse to watch that movie ever again.

You know something no one has mentioned Knight Rider as a classic. Or one of my favorites Air Wolf. Maybe I am just that much younger I don't know. But there were plenty of things like Candid Camera,I think someone mentioned Captain Kangaroo, Bonanza, Gun smoke, Dukes of Hazard, Tour of duty, M.A.S.H, Cheers, Night Court, Mr. Wizard, Reading Rainbow, Mr. Rogers, the smurfs, fraggle rock, Thundercats, He-man, Voltron not the early episodes but the later ones when they were cats, the Snorks, Care Bears, Strawberry short cake, The muppets, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, and that's all I can think of right now. But every one of these shows my kids know nothing about.

 

[catjudo]

I know most of the shows that you've listed (thought not quite all of them), but, yeah, it's a generation gap thing. You're just younger than a lot of us (the ones in this particular thread, anyway...not a lot younger than me, but just enough to make a slight difference in some of the things we would have watched as children). I'm wondering how old your kids are, though, because some of these "retro" shows that you've listed have come back and become quite popular with current kids...if not the shows themselves, the characters/toys at least. My daughter is five and knows/loves Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, Pound Puppies and My Little Ponies. Those are all things that were around when my younger sisters were kids.

 

[anni]

Oh Popeye!

They are my kid's shows! :( Hee!! SO funny! I'll give you Bonanza, but my children would give each other funny looks behind my back if I ever turned that on!

Hee again. I have to say that I REALLY love my grandparents, but once in awhile I still click by some re-run of LW and those dam bubbles still give me hives. Dark Shadows! My mother wouldn't let me watch that on the grounds that it was a soap opera, but I used to go to my best friend's house and see what Barnabus was biting that day. I wasn't allowed to watch The Three Stooges, either, but the Wizard of Oz, with melting witches and houses falling on people was just fine!

Oh my, the day they turn ZZ Top into elevator Muzak I'll take the stairs, if my arthritic knees will make it.

 

[Jimmy]

Hey Guys and Gals,

Now this has turned into a old movie review. Next you will be talking about music like ABBA and shows life F Troop.
I remember listening to an old song titled 'Mule Train' on a record, I think it was on a 78 (Not a vinyl either)
Children today don't even know what a record is. I still have an original 'Hits of 77' and its cover. It sure was better music and the songs actually had lyrics.

But hasn't money changed. In Australia now, our smallest note is $5, and the smallest coin 5 cents. Yet the retailers are still charging the odd prices and just rounding. Is that the same everywhere else.
I know the US still has $1 notes.

And I had to explain the other day to my 74 year old mother what a Visa Debit card was. She still writes cheques for everything. lol

 

[popeye]

Sorry Jimmy I was just kind of in a rant there about tv shows.