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I've been buying up old 50's/60's TV series on Ebay and so enjoying all of them. Just received Naked City and have been watching this series and I ordered Seasons 2 & 3.
I ordered the first season of Get Smart and was so bowled over with Don Adams (hard to find a stone-faced comedian) I ordered all the other seasons as well.
I have all the series of Checkmate with Doug McClure and all so enjoyable.
And I have all the I Love Lucy series.
And there's Mission Impossible but I only enjoyed the first 3 seasons with Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, who left after the 3rd season, sadly, and the 4th season had Leonard Nimoy, who I detest.
From a guy perspective so I don't know if women would like these shows or not. I also don't find many shows from the 1950s and 1960s that really hold up over time. Most of them seem really dated. There hav been so many that I have never seen in re-runs, don't remember, and can't say if they have held up or not. Maybe I am missing a lot of rewatchable shows that are still good today. I don't know.
1950s
Wanted Dead or Alive, with Steve McQueen
Dragnet
Perry Mason
The Donna Reed Show (probably very quaint to modern audiences)
Make Room for Daddy, (the Danny Thomas Show)
Of course, I loved The Three Stooges. Yuck, yuck, yuck! Definitely a guy show.
Many 1950s shows probably do not hold up today. Shows like Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best, etc.
1960s
Star Trek
The Twighlight Zone
Route 66
Gilligans Island (over the top silly but eminently watchable)
The Patty Duke Show
My Grandmother was hooked on Dr. Kildare and Ben Casey
FWIW, westerns were huge in the 1950s -- Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Wagon Train, Have Gun Will Travel, Wyatt Earp, Tales of Wells Fargo, Branded, the Rifleman, and Maverick. Tons of westerns. Just sayin'.
What's quite shocking and surprising is the commercials they ran back then, particularly the cigarette commercials.
Yep. "9 out of 10 Doctors smoke Camel". but I will take them any day over the constant bombardment of drug commercials on TV today. I wish they were banned as well. People take all manner of these drugs without giving it a 2nd thought, then when Pfizer or whoever has to finally admit how dangerous the drug is, they make a minor change and push it out there again under a new name.
Plain evil.
At least with smoking, everybody knew it was dangerous. I was a kid in the 1960s and my dad would half-jokingly say, "here's another nail in my coffin".
Everybody knew even back in the 1950s that smoking was damaging to your health. Today's drug companies are forced to list side affects, and they say them in one lightning fast run-on sentence that nobody can digest. Then you go look them up and it is "may cause depression and suicidal thoughts, liver damage, infertility, heart murmur, blood clots, memory loss. Oh, and death. Don't forget death!
I just watched more episodes of Naked City tonight. Those episodes are timeless! The most unique plots and stories, and, oddly enough, with a compassionate detective.
Any time I see some of these old TV series and I spot someone that's an awesome actor, curiously, I look them up on Wiki just to see what happened to them.
I ran into Tom Pittman on one episode, the most natural outstanding actor I've ever seen. He rose to fame all too quickly, and his first big paycheck he bought a Porsche and crashed it while driving on Mulholland Drive, and the Porsche landed on top of him. A sad loss to Hollywood, he died at age 25.
I also bought the series of My Three Sons, Route 66, M Squad (Lee Marvin) and Adam 12. I love the old TV series and seeing all those old cars. I used to own a 59 Ford 2 door Coupe and I ran into a number of them.
THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW --- at least the first few seasons --- still hold up as one of the best TV shows of all time. It did go on too long. Once the show went to color it started feeling a bit tired. But those first few seasons in black and white? Classic.
batman tv show starring adam west! my brother and I never missed this tv show as little kids.
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