Topic: Classic TV Shows ('90s, '80s or earlier)

[Sapphirus]

Just like the thread in the DOT com one.
Other than common classic shows like Warner's Looney Toons or Disney's Mickey Mouse, etc.
What classic show you've seen back in the '90s '80s or earlier as a kid, teen, or adult?
And I'm talking about GOOD ones (it can be a cartoon, anime, CGI, or even live action).

Here's the list of classic shows that I saw and liked-
anime
-G-force (Gatchaman)
-Speed Racer
-Voltron

american animation
-Swat Cats
-Centurion
-Gargoyles
-DarkWing Duck
-Tailspin
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
-Transformers Generation 1
-Captain Planet
-Wing Commander (the cartoon show)
-Men in Black (the TV show from the late 90s)
-Batman Beyond
-Underdog
-Doug
-Johnny Quest
-Mighty Max

CGI
-Reboot
-Transformers: Beast Wars

Miscellany
-Mrs. Munger's Class
-Home Improvement
-Star Trek (forgot which classic one)
-Fresh Prince of Belare (sic?)
-Stargate

(I do like common ones such as Scooby Doo, Yogi Bear, Flintstones, etc.)

[Scyphi]

Dang it, you've already named all the ones I used to watch back in the day...

Now wait, Stargate began in the 90's, didn't it?

Yeah, it did!

So...you missed one.

[Sapphirus]

Done and done. 
And my parents loves to watch Stargate.

[TechPro]

By the way ... "Johnny's Quest" was actually "Johnny Quest"  (minor detail)

Now let's see what I can still remember ....  (insert intense thought processes ....)

Back in my day ...  if anyone had a TV ... we watched live action shows like:

• Emergency
• Adam-12 (who remembers this?)
• Dragnet

As for cartoons ... Back in my day ...  we watched cartoons like:

• The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (totally awesome)
• Huckleberry Hound
• The Jetsons
• The Yogi Bear Show
• Space Ghost
• Hong Kong Phooey (but we don't like to admit it)
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (before Scrappy came on the show)
• Speed Buggy  (but we don't like to admit it)
• Super Friends (the original version, and always the best)
• The Ant and the Aardvark
• The Pink Panther Show
• The Inspector (usually part of the Pink Panther or Ant and the Aardvark shows)

When we got older we'd watch live action shows like:

• Happy Days
• The Dukes of Hazard
• Knight Rider
• The A-Team (oh, yeah!)
• Star Trek (TOS)
• Battlestar Gallactica (original, often campy)
• Buck Rogers (if we were desperate)
• Alf

Later on in life, I got to watch my children enjoy shows like:

• The Smurfs
• Teenage Mutant Turtles (the original show)
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
• Alf (the cartoon)
• Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures (cartoon take off of the movie)
• Back to the Future (cartoon take off of the movies)

Of course ... later there were some of these:

• Star Trek (TNG ... some of us)
• Star Trek - Deep Space 9
• Star Trek - Voyager
• StarGate SG-1

You know ... They just don't make 'em like the used to. :'(

[Sapphirus]

By the way ... "Johnny's Quest" was actually "Johnny Quest"  (minor detail)

Typo fixed.

[NUMBERZero]

IDK what cartoons were before the 90's so I'm just going to say a few that I watched when I was like 6.

Back when cartoon network actually showed good cartoons, I watched:

Swat Cats (Brief Discription: Couple of fighter pilot cats who had an awesome fighter jet.) My mom did not let me watch it because of the "violence." (tell that to the shows of today) Ironically, I want to become a fighter pilot myself.

Jetsons

Flintstones

Tom and Jerry (BEST SHOW EVER!)

Dexter's Lab

Bugs Bunny (who doesn't)


I can't remember much.

Cartoons that I watch today:
 
nothing

noghting

nothing...


Did you know that they had an Earthworm Jim cartoon?

[Sapphirus]

I believe they did have a Earthworm Jim cartoon.

And yes, I saw Swat Cats as a kid.

[-<WillyP>-]

Tech Pro, you missed Road Runner! How could you forget Bugs Bunny? And UnderDog! Mr. Magoo! What about Mighty Mouse, and... oh yeah, Tom and Jerry!

And for truely classic tv: Get Smart, Rockford Files, Gilligan's Island, Hogan's Heroes.




TV sucks.

[PyroJockey]

Just a small slice of the odd-ball stuff I polluted my mind with during my childhood in the 1960’s

Anime before it was called Anime (I happened to live in range of WKBS in Philadelphia, one of the few stations in the US that showed Japanese cartoons):

• Speed Racer, mentioned before, worth mentioning again. It was not politically correct.
• Astro Boy, had guns shooting from his posterior. CGI movie coming out this year.
• Kimba, an orphaned lion cub with a baboon for a mentor, who will be king. Hmmm, sounds familiar.
• Marine Boy, had a topless mermaid in it. (woo hoo)
• Gigantor, probably the original giant robot. A movie is scheduled for 2011.
• Eighth Man, Tobor (robot spelled backward), was a not so giant shape shifting android. Had to be edited to remove anti-western sentiment.

Live action:

• The Twilight Zone (Rod Serling was a master)
• The Outer Limits, excellent writing (with low budget creatures). All time favorite episode, “Demon With a Glass Hand”.
• Batman, yes the campy one with Adam West. It was always a 2 part’er, first part on Wednesday with a cliffhanger, second part on Thursday (same bat time, same bat channel).
• Star Trek, THE original, first run.
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
• Lost in Space, the first 4 episodes were actually quite good, then they castrated and lobotomized Dr. Smith and the scripts went to hell from there.
• The Time Tunnel
• Ultraman, Japanese guy in a silver wet suit fighting other Japanese guys in rubber monster suits among small model buildings. (Damn, there goes the Tokyo tower again)

Sit-coms….no, I’m not going there. 

[SaladBadger]

I watched most of the stuff on Cartoon network when I was young, because it was actually good. I remember when They Might be Giants was creating music videos which featured cartoon characters, if I remember correctly in particular they worked with Johnny quest and Jabberjaw, mabye a few others, mabye not those two. It's been sooo long.

[D2Disciple]

Oh man. I was born in '89 and I hate modern television, so I really can't give you a lot of things I watched from the 90's. There was, however, Steve Purcell's Sam & Max: Freelance Police cartoon back in '97, and that's good stuff. Seriously. Go look "Sam and Max" up on YouTube and tell me what you think.

Okay, stuff from before my time (in no particular order).... AKA: the good stuff:

• Get Smart
• The Andy Griffith Show
• Police Squad
• Space Ghost: Coast to Coast
• Tom and Jerry
• Rocky & Bullwinkle
• Looney Tunes
• The Jetsons
• The Flintstones

Most of these were before my time... I remember Space Ghost: Coast to Coast as being one of the first adult-directed cartoons before they actually got really raunchy (the worst I remember Coast to Coast getting was one instance of "d***" from Zorak and a kinda off-color interview with "The Ramones"). Rocky and Bullwinkle rocked. Get Smart is basically the greatest show on earth.  

[TechPro]

Tech Pro, you missed Road Runner! How could you forget Bugs Bunny? And UnderDog! Mr. Magoo! What about Mighty Mouse, and... oh yeah, Tom and Jerry!

And for truely classic tv: Get Smart, Rockford Files, Gilligan's Island, Hogan's Heroes.

Oh wow!  How did I miss those? 

I also missed Loony Tunes, and BatMan (with Adam West, always a classic) .... can only have been "a senior moment" ...

[Scyphi]

Looney Tunes...I remember getting up at the crack of dawn every Saturday morning back when I was a kid to watch reruns of those. Who cares if I've already seen them all millions of times? They never get old!

But today...there isn't anything worth watching.

[Ronin RedFox]

TV sucks.

Agreed.

[Sapphirus]

But today...there isn't anything worth watching.

Yeah, due to the advent of the internet's Hulu, Youtube, and other stuff