We watched all of these television shows as children and teenagers growing up in the 1960s and 1970s. Looking at them all from today's vantage point, I'd say that these decades were the golden age of television. And when I compare the television offerings on regular channels today to the shows from these decades, I'd have to say that the shows on regular channels (linear tv) cannot hold a candle to the old shows. Most of what passes for tv entertainment on the regular channels at present is a wasteland. Streaming channels like Netflix and HBO have supplanted the regular channels, and they are far and away a better deal in terms of watching good films and series.
Here are some of the shows we watched, enjoyed, and sometimes loved:
1960s shows
- Bewitched
- Bonanza
- Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
- Flipper
- Get Smart
- Gilligan's Island
- Gomer Pyle USMC
- Green Acres
- Hogan's Heroes
- I Spy
- Land of the Giants
- Leave It to Beaver
- Maya
- My Favorite Martian
- My Three Sons
- Petticoat Junction
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- That Girl
- The Addams Family
- The Andy Griffith Show
- The Avengers
- The Dick Van Dyke Show
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- The Donna Reed Show
- The Flintstones
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- The Lucy Show
- The Munsters
- The Prisoner
- The Twilight Zone
1970s shows
- All in the Family
- Columbo
- Kojak
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker
- M*A*S*H
- Night Gallery
- Quincy, M.E.
- Sanford and Son
- The Bob Newhart Show
- The Brady Bunch
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- The Partridge Family
- The Rockford Files
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- The Streets of San Francisco
- The Waltons
- WKRP in Cincinnati
