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Please try your best to narrow it down to THREE! Can you recall which shows on TV feel synonymous with your youth? Can be your childhood phase, your adolescent phase, etc. - whatever you define as your youth!
For me: Jackie Chan Adventures, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Pokemon
Earlier:
Later on:
Animaniacs
Gargoyles
Doctor Who (Classic)
Dragonball Z introduced me to anime which became a life long enjoyment.
Clarissa explains it all exposed me (a guy) to more female lead content and I learned a bit more about other perspectives.
Captain Planet introduced me to the idea that we'll never really stop pollution because super heros aren't real lol
This is actually a pretty hard question. At first I couldn't think of any show but the more I thought about it the more came to my mind.
I narrowed it down to these three:
Not because I'm so old but because they where first aired in my home country in the early and mid nineties when I was at my granny's place a lot of afternoons.
Later I moved town, kinda lost touch to my grandma and wasn't really there when she got very old and then died.
Looking back it's really sad that I wasn't there for someone who spend a whole lot of my childhood with me and in fact was always there for me.
As a kid.
As a teenager.
I didn't include The Simpsons since growing up in the 90s, that's a given.
Knight Rider, The A-Team, MacGyver
Honorable mentions to Dukes of Hazzard, The Fall Guy, Magnum, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, TJ Hooker, Manimal, Automan etc
What a time to be a kid
In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them...maybe you can hire The A-Team.
Being the generation that grew up as kids of Vietnam vets was a trip. You had these dudes with BA Baracus looking like he was ready to fuck some fool up to pity them. After that, you had the privileged White middle-upper class family of the Brady Bunch being all corny af, saying shit like, "Gee whiz, Mom! That's positively fantastic!" There were eight people living comfortably off of one wage with a housekeeper.
Imagine that today. The A-Team would be four Afghan and Iraq vets all tatted up working out of a desert-colored F150 Raptor hunting down pedos. One of them would be called Ricky Recon with the signature phrase, "It's time for some group therapy!" They'd also have a lady with them that would be the reasonable one. Every episode would include one line where someone bitches about the VA. The next show would be Modern Family.
Sliders
The Tomorrow People
Family Ties
Honestly, I read a lot more than I watched tv. There are tons of books that shaped me, but I had to struggle to remember the shows that helped me along.
Cheers
Doug
X-Men
Fuck yea for Doug!
Tales from the Crypt
Monsters
Tales from the Darkside
Tales from the Crypt, what a throwback!
Batman the animated series
Captain Future
Home Improvement
Three's Company
Pee-Wee's Playhouse
Beavis and Butt-head
Man. Daria was so good! I still watch it occasionally.
Looks like the montages creator here is an early millennial.
Battlestar Galactica (original) Buck Rogers Dukes of Hazard
Honorable mentions McGuyver A-team
Ed, Edd, n' Eddy
Spongebob
Power Rangers
Buffy
Stargate SG1
Rugrats
star trek TOS. original twilight zone. doctor who.
Avatar the Last Airbender
Power rangers
Scooby doo
All from different eras of my childhood I think, some existing in more than one but I obsessed over all of them
Hey Arnold
My So-Called Life
Captain Planet
The first three that come to mind are:
Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, the Lone Ranger.
I'm not THAT old, but New Zealand didn't have television until late in the day, so we got cheap, years-old US kids' shows. I was ten before our region got TV and it was a few years after that when we got our own set. The first TV I ever watched was coverage of what must have been one of the early Saturn rocket launches. We went to my older sister's boyfriend's house to watch it. Very exciting!
I liked Lone Ranger best. "Hi ho Silver, and awaaaay!"
How It's Made (with the witty British voice over)
Myth Busters
Big Bigger Biggest
I would lay in front of the Discovery Channel for hours while playing with Lego. Wouldn't you know it, I grew up to be an engineer!
Thomas and Friends Spongebob Ed Edd n' Eddy
The Simpsons
Power Rangers
Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
These are from young child up to late teens/20s
The Simpsons
The Magic School Bus
Friends
Honorable mention to Sailor Moon
Dragon ball z Ren n stimpy Beavis and butthead
Beverly Hillbillies, I Dream of Jeannie, Mission Impossible
In chronological order from kid to teen:
Scooby Doo
Duck Tails
The Wonder Years
Beverly hills, X-Files, Friends
Star Trek: TNG
Batman: The Animated Series
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Star Trek
The A-Team
MacGyver
MacGyver
The Secret City
Mr. Wizard
Great question. I could list dozens of shows that were favorites, or have special meaning to me, or that I watched the most, or ones that had a more longterm impact on who I am. But, specifically about impacting my world as a young person, I'll say these three.
Honorable mentions: Looney Tunes, Cheers, MASH, Family Ties, The Young Ones, Doctor Who, You Can't Do That on Television, Ren and Stimpy.
Rocko's Modern Life
Ren and Stimpy
Spider-man: The Animated Series
Hilarious, because it appears as though none of you were alive in my youth... My parents were too damned smart to let me watch the "Boob Tube". Turns out they had wicked foresightedness - now you have hundreds of streams and almost all of it $hit.
So this is what I did see: Howdy Doody, only at my friend's house Captain Kangaroo which I could watch when I was sick That Was The Week That Was (TW3) which I could watch because it was intelligent, political satire.
I'm no worse for the deprivation, and probably better.
