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Oh, yes. Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Family Affair. I forgot about Rockford Files. And Adam 12!!
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My teens love Hogan's Heroes. I get sucked in sometimes at night too, they are so funny.
We LOVE, I mean I LOVE Tales from Avonlea. I watch them when I am  . I love Aunt Janet's kitchen, wish I had her hoosier....
I Love Lucy, yes! Do you pop out at parties? Are you unpoopular?
Andy Griffith
Mr. Ed- harmless but they drive me nutty
Big Zorro fans, Disney version
Daniel Boone with Fess Parker
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My daughter has watched some Cosby Show...some of the topics are a bit mature, but handled well usually. I was bothered that Rudy was allowed to start dating at 12 years of age!  Those girls couldn't wear make up until 14, but they could date at 12, what's up with that logic??
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Series that we enjoy on DVD or Hulu (kids from 9 to 14 and their parents  ):
I Love Lucy
Andy Griffith
Father Knows Best
Ozzie and Harriet
Dick Van Dyke
The Muppet Show
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Oh my goodness, Carol Burnett would be fantastic.  I cracked up over the Gone with the Wind sketch. My dh had never seen it, so I had to find it on youtube and show it to him.
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My boys LOVE the Waltons.
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My dd loves watching re-runs of Full House. We also love Little House on the Prairie and The Muppet Show. One of my dh's favorites that he got the kids hooked on is Land of the Lost. I think it's unbearably cheesy, but they all love that show.
I remember watching McGyver and Quantum Leap with my parents when I was a kid. Older shows seem to be so much more family friendly. Why don't they make tv like that anymore??
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EmilyC wrote:
....I remember watching McGyver and Quantum Leap with my parents when I was a kid. Older shows seem to be so much more family friendly. Why don't they make tv like that anymore?? |
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Oh! 
Yes, I now feel officially old, old, old! MacGyver came out the year dh and I were married. And I was not a child bride. 
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"One of my dh's favorites that he got the kids hooked on is Land of the Lost."
My dh has gotten my daughter a bit hooked on Battlestar Galactica. Oh my, that's corny...I get dirty looks for wandering in and making comments like, "Oh, look, in the future everyone has Farrah Fawcett hair!"
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Whole family:
Gilligan's Island
Bonanza
Andy Griffith
Dick Van Dyke
Beverly Hillbillies
Whole family with very occasional screening:
*MacGyver
*Early Edition (only one episode in Season 2 needs screening) It's our family's favorite show!
*Home Improvement (another great one!)
*The Cosby Show(maybe one epidode per disc needs editing)
*The Monkees
*Maverick
*Knight Rider
Older kids, need to screen:
*Rockford Files
*Magnum P.I.
Adults (older teens):
24 (watch out, totally addictive!)
Lost (really dumb, but pretty addictive, too!
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EmilyC wrote:
| I remember watching McGyver and Quantum Leap with my parents when I was a kid. Older shows seem to be so much more family friendly. Why don't they make tv like that anymore?? |
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Well, having been out of commission today with dental work and having my husband home allowed me to search through Netflix for a little bit this afternoon. I started watching a few episode of Quantum Leap and was pretty shocked at some of the comments and content. I guess I didn't remember that. The character of Al is a pretty slimy guy and in the first episode I watched there were several scenes that I wouldn't be comfortable letting my children watch. I guess my memory isn't what it used to be!
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Charlotte,
I am afraid you are going to find that in most of the shows you thought were fine when you were younger, especially all those '80s shows! I am shocked, though, at the content of some of the older stuff. My kids were watching a Rockford Files that I hadn't screened that was quite objectionable. Luckily, I was within earshot and had them turn it off. It was one of my mom's favorite shows!
I tend to screen anything made in the last 40 years. 
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Hogan's Heroes, Rockford Files...I think some of my "favorite" shows when I was growing up were based on their theme songs! I just love the harmonica at the beginning of the Rockford Files, the drums before Hogan's Heroes,...I especially like the Old! shows that had orchestras/bands playing, like "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and, of course, "I Love Lucy."
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I know! I remember thinking about Family Ties, how great that show was and I loved it as a preteen...I got it at the library for my daughter and thankfully watched a few episodes first. Oh my goodness! What an unbelievably liberal show, and I didn't remember that at all!
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'The Good Life' (BBC)! It's fabulous:-)
(We are currently rewatching it, I got it for my birthday... we started watching it with the kids and the opening seconds had my husband and I staring at each other in horror as the first word was not something we expected! _Surely_ we would have remembered the swearing? But no... there was that one (used in jest) and that was it... the rest is delightful:-) )
I also love 'To the Manor Born' (also BBC), although I haven't re-watched it recently.
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teachingmyown wrote:
Charlotte,
I am afraid you are going to find that in most of the shows you thought were fine when you were younger, especially all those '80s shows! I am shocked, though, at the content of some of the older stuff. My kids were watching a Rockford Files that I hadn't screened that was quite objectionable. Luckily, I was within earshot and had them turn it off. It was one of my mom's favorite shows!
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I recall being in a hotel just before I was married and turning on a rerun of Knight Rider--my favorite show when I was little. My parents even stuck a TV Guide cover with David Hasselhoff in my scrapbook.
I. Was. Shocked.
My parents let me watch that? Now, I can honestly say I doubt I picked up on much given my entrenched naivete, but it had to have at least subtly influenced me! And my parents were hardly permissive. I was made fun of constantly throughout school for what I was not allowed to watch!!! It boggles my brain.
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CrunchyMom wrote:
I recall being in a hotel just before I was married and turning on a rerun of Knight Rider--my favorite show when I was little. My parents even stuck a TV Guide cover with David Hasselhoff in my scrapbook.
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Ditto for Dukes of Hazzard...I had the Daisy Duke look for a while, hmmmm, wonder why?
And V. I loved that show as a kid but I would never, ever let my kids watch it. The culture changed so gradually, I think, our parents didn't quite realize the damage.
It was like boiling a frog...
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There may be more to it than "boiling a frog".
Things that you could watch and not be damaging while society was more supportive of traditional values may be considered very damaging without that support.
And so we had two things happening..
- tv gradulally becoming more permissible and
- society gradulally supporting traditional values less
When society condemned teenage pregnancy.. seeing it on a tv show might be a bit shocking but it wasn't going to encourage anyone to try it out. And now we might say that the same thing is glamourizing it and helping girls decide to "go there". Maybe the tv show isn't different at all BUT society is.
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I second Andy Griffith and I Love Lucy as well as Little House on the Prairie.
Good Eats with Alton Brown is a series we all enjoy to check out of the library.
We loved Rescue 911 when the dc were smaller but I'm not sure if that one has been released on DVD.
What really has me excited is that Touched by an Angel is going to be released on DVD next week.
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