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
The Simpsons was sacred in my house, we watched every new episode as a family, and taped them all on VHS to re-watch. I can quote from the first 12 seasons endlessly.
Seinfeld was my introduction to stand-up comedy, which has become a life-long passion and a personally fulfilling hobby. I liked the show, but I loved watching his stand-up bits.
Friends was a show I would watch with my mom whenever I helped her in the kitchen. I was always hanging out in the kitchen, and Friends was a staple on TV at the time. I connected very much with Chandler.
South Park was the show my older brother watched, and I only ever got to catch once in a while, but the show was groundbreaking in its concept and execution. While being vulgar, it also succinctly expressed complicated ideas that resonate with me still to this day (When Randy talks to Stan about marijuana is one of them).
Young:
Older:
(I'd add ATLA, but I didn't watch it until after it was completed and I was in college.)
Sailor Moon, Pokémon, Spongebob Squarepants.
Tom and Jerry, BAMZOOKi, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Man. Daria was so good! I still watch it occasionally.
From the picture: only Ducktales and Scooby Doo
Overall: probably Scooby, Cosby Show, and Dukes of Hazzard
The first three that come to mind are:
Ed, Edd, n' Eddy
Spongebob
Power Rangers
Danger Mouse (Repeats of the Original)
Doctor Who (Pertwee and Baker)
Black Adder (all of it, remember being about 12 and my parents telling me to come and watch it with them)
Gilligan's island
I dream of Jeannie
Perry Mason
Fun fact: both Jeannie and The Skipper (too) were extras on episodes of Perry Mason.
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!"
Dr. Who
HR Puffenstuff when I was tiny, I remember it freaking me out
Star Trek the Next Generation
Transformers
MacGyver
Star Trek TNG
I felt the exact same way about the X Files while I watched it too! It was on my personal honorable mentions ✅
The Simpsons Courage the Cowardly Dog What's with Andy
Star Trek the Next Generation
Night Court
X-files
Star Trek: TNG
Reboot
X-files
For me personally
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.
Looks like the montages creator here is an early millennial.
Byker Grove
Art Attack
Fawlty Towers
Wow I've not heard of a single one of these! I'll have to look into them.
Clearly you aren't British.
And on top of that, unfortunately I've only come across British TV in my college years. Even then, the shows I watched seemed to be of the same theme: WILTY, QI, 8 out of 10 cats, Mock the Week, and the like. Though I have seen Black Adder, which was great.
We do love a panel show, they can be great.
I tend to cleave to comedies more than much else, but if you're interested in more Black Adder esque things I can recommend the following:
Red Dwarf - old sci-fi sitcom about losers in space.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - an old drama in a hospital built on a rift to hell.
Green Wing - early 2000s comedy set in a hospital.
Toast of London - sit com following Toast, a pompous actor who feels he is better than the voice over work he earns his income from.
Fleabag - dramedy show based off of a stand up routine about being a horrible fleabag of a woman.
We Are Lady Parts - comedy following Amina, who is about to join a Muslim girl punk band.
Friday Night Dinner - comedy based around a weekly family dinner.
Black Books - sitcom in a book shop.
Many thanks! I'm intrigued by a lot of these haha
MASH
WKRP
Barney Miller
If only your third was a 4 letter acronym too. 🙃
The Ren & Stimpy Show
Saved by the Bell
You Can't Do That on Television
(But really, so many more.)
The Simpsons.
Stargate SG-1.
Star Trek Deep Space 9.
Earlier:
Later on:
Animaniacs
Gargoyles
Doctor Who (Classic)
Beverly hills, X-Files, Friends
As a kid.
As a teenager.
I didn't include The Simpsons since growing up in the 90s, that's a given.
SpongeBob, obviously
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.
Beverly Hillbillies, I Dream of Jeannie, Mission Impossible
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
In order, Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM), Pokemon, Digimon
Transformers, GIJoe, He-Man
Pokemon Scooby-Doo Demon king daimao
While the first two are probably fairly generic choices. The last one is the first anime i watched ( i dont count pokemon as anime ) when i was a teeneager ( naturaly it is a crazy schol fantasy harem anime , they were kinda trending at that time and they mostly sucked , similar to iseaki today . This one is probably no exception but i kinda look at it with rose tinted glasses and i havent watched it for a long time . ). Mostly because crunchyroll was an app on ps4 and i installed it and at that time everything was for free after a week. And boy o boy that was a start of journey through a very very deep black hole that im still very deep in.
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