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What TV shows do you remember most from when you were a kid?

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Guts
Legends of the Hidden Temple
Double Dare
American Gladiators
Hey Dude
Doug
TaleSpin
Ninja Turtles
Inspector Gadget
Duck Tales
Darkwing Duck
Chip N Dale
Power Rangers

Once I started thinking through these the list got longer than I expected...must have watched more TV than I remembered.
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The Simpsons
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Rocket Power
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Mask
GI Joe
Transformers
GoBots
Batman: The Animated Series
TMNT
Cartoon Express on USA
Ghostbusters
The Real Ghost Busters
Care Bears
JEM
He-Man
The Jetsons
Flintstones
Gargoyles
The Gummi Bears
Aeon Flux (when my parents weren't around)
Voltron
ThunderCATS
Clarissa Explains it All
The whole TGIF Lineup
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Dino-Riders
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I feel like there were a ton of 80s cartoon shows that had cooler toys then the shows were themselves.

COPS
Robocop
Silverhawks
Centurions
Captain Planet
Bruce Almighty
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Transformers
Voltron
Muppet Babies
Heathcliff
Garfield
Dennis the Menace
TMNT
X-Men
Batman the animated series
Pirates of Dark Water
Mighty Max
Doug
Saved by the Bell
Hey Dude
Fresh Prince
Home Improvement
Cosby Show
Boy Meets World
Gilligan's Island
Sports center (when it was actually good)
Remote Control
American Gladiators
Double Dare
WWF Saturday Night wrestling
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They have X-Men on Disney+, but I'm afraid to watch it and ruin my memories. Did watch the intro cause it's awesome.
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Who watched the mini series of V in the 80s?
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Manimal
Automan
Misfits of Science
Tales of the Golden Monkey
Voyagers
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Robotech/Macross
Battle of the Planets/Gatchaman
Force Five

Bruce Almighty
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Aggie4242 said:

They have X-Men on Disney+, but I'm afraid to watch it and ruin my memories. Did watch the intro cause it's awesome.


Unfortunately, it hasn't aged well. Like most shows of the 80s and early 90s, it was plagued with bad animation and bad writing. With many of these shows available on streaming now, I've put them on for my son. I still enjoy Batman, TMNT and Garfield. Transformers was my favorite, but it's comically bad. He-Man is downright awful.
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MuckRaker96 said:

Who watched the mini series of V in the 80s?


I remember almost crapping my pants when they ripped off the human face of one of the lizard people.

I remember wanting to watch Alien Nation too, but I didn't understand it.
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Happy Days- Fonzie was the coolest guy on the planet
The Incredible Hulk- Lou Ferrigno and Bill Bixby
Those were my two favorites as a youngster.
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Gilligans Island - pretty sure I've seen them all multiple times. Oh and Mary Ann of course
Brady Bunch - AstroTurf yard baby
The Munsters - their poor ugly daughter
Addams Family - Gomez cracked me up.
What's Happening - Rerun and Dewayne lol
Wonderful World of Disney was must see TV on Sunday nights
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Think the ones I watched the most were Spider-Man, Gargoyles, Darkwing Duck, Tailspin, Digimon, and DBZ.

Tried watching Gargoyles and X-men in Disney plus and it felt pretty terrible.

I did rewatch all of Spider-Man and DBZ in college (DC++ boredom lol) and felt like those were decent enough.
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Pretty much the Nick-at-Nite and SNICK lineup:

I love Lucy
I dream of Jeannie
Gilligans Island
Bewitched

Clarissa Explains it all
All That
Ren & Stimpy
Are you afraid of the Dark?
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Everything else was second place. I couldn't wait for Friday night.
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All the above and ALF
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Happy Days
SWAT
6 million $ man
Spider Man

Roots
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Dukes of Hazard
Knight Rider
A Team
Airwolf
Battle of the Planets- G Force
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Exosquad. Anyone else watch that? L
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I really didn't have a TV until I was 11 in 1977.

Prior to that we lived so far out in the sticks we could not pick up much and it looked crappy. And then lived in Korea for 2 years and only had Armed Forces TV which ran some repeats but our TV was black and white.

I suddenly had to catch up on a whole lot of TV then and I made up for lost time.

Watched repeats constantly of
Andy Griffith
Dick van Dyke
Lucille Ball
Gilligans Island

and cartoons like Tom and Jerry and Bugs Bunny/Road Runner.

The first network shows I watched Live were
Happy Days
Threes Company
Battlestar Gallactica
Laverne and Shirley
MASH
Love Boat
Soap
Mork and Mindy
All in the Family
Welcome Back Kotter
Charlie's Angels
Taxi
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Saved by the Bell
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Martin
The Simpsons
California Dreams
Family Matters
Full House
Tom and Jerry
Reading Rainbow
X-Men
The Price is Right
The Joy of Painting
Captain Planet
Sabado Gigante
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Duck Tales
Animaniacs
Malcolm in the Middle

If you can't tell, we didn't have cable.
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Good Times
The Rifleman

The Late Late show with Jeff Kilbourn
Friends
Seinfeld

Batman The Animated Series is the greatest animated super hero cartoon ever made. Completely ahead of it times by 20 years. Even now the writing is excellent.

Don't forget the 1 season of Super Mario Super Show
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Head Ninja In Charge said:

Saved by the Bell
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Martin
The Simpsons
California Dreams
Family Matters
Full House
Tom and Jerry
Reading Rainbow
X-Men
The Price is Right
The Joy of Painting
Captain Planet
Sabado Gigante
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Duck Tales
Animaniacs
Malcolm in the Middle

If you can't tell, we didn't have cable.


Great list!
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Weekday afternoons in the early 90's, I was the first one to get dropped off by the bus. I spent so many afternoons watching:

DuckTales
TailSpin
Aladdin: The Animated Series
Tiny Toons
Ninja Turtles
Batman: The Animated Series


Saturday mornings were so much better in the 80's and early 90's:

Pretty much every Saturday show already listed, with the addition of Pirates of Dark Water. I LOVED that show.

EDIT: Also, Toy Galaxy on YouTube will pretty much confirm that every cartoon in those days that was part of the Saturday lineup HAD to have toys and a cereal/snack before getting approved for production.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCjoe3Qo_DymYyBR6X9VxFjQ
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Forgot about 6 Million Dollar Man, loved that show.
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gggmann said:

Manimal
Automan
Misfits of Science
Tales of the Golden Monkey
Voyagers
Streethawk


Dang, I know none of these.

But I'll add:

Gargoyle (something?)
Rugrats
David the Gnome
Doug
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Combat
Rat Patrol
12 O'Clock High
Garrison's Gorillas
Lost in Space
Perry Mason
Bonanza
Gomer Pyle
Wagon Train
I Dream of Genie
Wagon Train
Big Valley
The Rifleman
Route 66
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Sea Hunt
Flipper
Gentle Ben
Johnny Quest
Rex Cargo
Hogans Heroes
Red Skelton
Leave it to beaver
Lassie
Gunsmoke
Batman
b_rad
The Kraken
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First favorite TV shows (Kindergarten era):

Sesame Street
Emergency!
Adam-12
(Pretty much anything with police or firemen)

4th/5th Grade:
Happy Days
Laverne and Shirley
Welcome Back, Kotter
Baa Baa Black Sheep
6 Million Dollar Man
Bionic Woman
Mork and Mindy
Little House on the Prairie
Battlestar Galactica
Fantasy Island
Dukes of Hazzard
Grizzly Adams
BJ and the Bear
Dallas
Pretty much watched every Monday Night Football game with my Dad

Saturday mornings and afternoon animated:
Looney Toons/Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner Show
Superfriends
Captain Caveman
Scooby Doo
Land of the Lost
Speed Buggy
G Force
Speed Racer

Summers and afternoons after school we watched lots of syndicated reruns of 50's, 60's and early 70's shows
I Love Lucy
Gilligan's Island
Star Trek
I Dream of Jeannie
Beverly Hillbillies
Andy Griffith Show
Gomer Pyle, USMC
Gunsmoke
Perry Mason
Bonanza
The Big Valley
The Rifleman
The Twilight Zone
The Honeymooners
The Little Rascals
Three Stooges


plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
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Not all kids shows for sure, but these stand out in my mind when I was young:
Dukes of Hazzard = #1 of course.
The Fall Guy - Heather Thomas in a bikini. Yes.
Simon & Simon - Loved that Power Wagon
Buck Rodgers - That Vilma Dearing had my attention as a youth
Dallas/Dynasty - Who shot JR was the most important thing in America at the time
Miami Vice - Remember the Willie Nelson episode? Pastels everywhere
CHiPs - I was convinced millions died on California highways every year
Magnum, PI - This show holds up... still great.
The A-Team - I loved it when a plan came together
Airwolf - Much better than "Blue Thunder".
Night Court - Great show, underrated
Different Strokes - What cho talkin bout Willis
The Facts of Life - I can still sing that stupid "Take the Good, you Take the bad" song intro
The Jeffersons - Great for cut downs.
Scooby Doo - was good before they jumped the shark with "Scrappy Doo"
The Price is Right - A staple on mornings I was home sick from school.
Constant Reruns of Gilligan's Island.

High School:
Cheers
Johnny Carson
Saturday Night Live
Beverly Hills 90210
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