What Shows Do You Remember Watching When You Were Young?

[PixarFan2006]

When I was young, I remember mainly watching cartoons like Garfield and Friends, Muppet Babies, Tale Spin, and Doug.
What about you?

i regret watching Bobby's World. I dont know why I ever liked that show. The voices are annoying and the animation is kind of bad.

[Ting Ting]

I was all about Rugrats and Scooby Doo, Where Are You?. I was overly obsessed with Rugrats though. I had a Rugrats themed bedroom, Rugrats toys, Rugrats school supplies, etc. There was even a year that everything on my Christmas list had to do with Rugrats!

[TheSequelOfDisney]

Rugrats

[numba1lostboy]

I remeber watching Boy Meets World, The Secret World Of Alex Mack, Aladdin, Recess, The Wild Thornberrys, and America's Funniest Home Videos (with Bob).

[lord-of-sith]

Hmm...most notably Aladdin, early Rugrats, early All That, Wild Thornberrys, The Little Mermaid, and of course, Scooby-Doo.

[Enchantress]

'Poddington Peas' (classic!), and that weird cartoon with a racoon family and they had weird pink elephant friends, and there was a talking dog that was a mechianic or something.

Barbar as well, even though I don't think it was much good. Poddington Peas was a favourite of mine too, if only for the theme tune!

As I got a bit older, and going to school, I watched 'Maid Marian and her Merry Men' and Animaniacs, and Pokemon .

[castleinthesky]

We've already had a topic very similar to this.

http://www.ultimatedisney.com/forum/vie ... kas+castle

[Wonderlicious]

Let's see...as a small child (aka ten and under), I remember watching Playdays, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Taz Mania, How Too, Blue Peter, The Flinstones, Care Bears, Scooby Doo, Rugrats, Bump in the Night, The Brollies, Fireman Sam, Postman Pat, The Simpsons, Mike and Angelo (some British TV series about an alien in human shape who comes to live with this American kid living in England), Astro Farm, Wizadora, Julia Jeckyl and Harriet Hyde, Maid Marian and her Merry Men, Super Ted, 50/50, Art Attack, Fun House, Newsround, Pingu, TaleSpin, Bonkers, The Queen's Nose, It'll Never Work, Sooty, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Gummi Bears, Darkwing Duck, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, DuckTales, Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers and various old classic animated shorts (Popeye, Looney Tunes, MGM, Walt Disney etc). Gosh, I remember quite a bit. Then again, this was stuff that I watched in a period of about six years (seeing as most of this stuff would have been watched when I was between two and ten). Then there was a whole load of stuff that I hated but was generally made to endure either because I couldn't be bothered changing the channel or people in the same room made me watch it.

'Poddington Peas' (classic!), and that weird cartoon with a racoon family and they had weird pink elephant friends, and there was a talking dog that was a mechianic or something.

That weird thing was The Racoons. That recycled background song score haunts me to this day.

[Finchx0rz]

Here's my big ol' list. The cutoff date is 1995.

<b>Nickelodeon:</b>
Mork and Mindy (Nick at Nite), Taxi (Nick at Nite), Get Smart (Nick at Nite),
Looney Tunes (before they lost the rights!), Muppet Babies (reruns), Roundhouse, Fred Penner's Place, David the Gnome, Salute Your Shorts, Hey Dude, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Clarissa Explains it All, Danger Mouse, Eureeka's Castle, Picture Pages with Bill Cosby, Ren and Stimpy, Doug (pre-ABC), Rugrats (before it went stale!), Rocko's Modern Life, and reruns of The Muppet Show.

<b>Disney Channel:</b>
Mouse Tracks, Quack Attack, Care Bears (reruns), Ocean Girl, Lunch Box, Music Box, Under the Umbrella Tree, and Adventures in Wonderland.

<b>Network TV</b>:
Hey Vern! It's Ernest!, Garfield and Friends (original run), Gummi Bears (original run), The New Adventues of Winnie the Pooh (original run), DuckTales (original run), Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers (original run), Perfect Strangers, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Family Dog, Phenom,
The Simpsons (WHEN IT USED TO BE FUNNY!), and any Hanna-Barbera cartoon in syndicated rerun.

<b>Comedy Central</b>:
The Critic (reruns), Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist, and Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Joel episodes!). I also have a vague memory of The Higgins Boys and Gruber but I'm not sure if that's my mind playing tricks on me.

<b>PBS</b>:
Zoobilee Zoo, and, of course, the staples: Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood and Sesame Street.

I actually watched more than all of this, but I wanted to keep the list from getting monstrous. Despite my TV habits, I'm a literate, law-abiding citizen at an appropriate weight for my height and body type.

[Enchantress]

Julia Jeckyl and Harriet Hyde

Ah!! Thank you Joie, I was trying to explain this programme to a girl at work the other day, but I couldn't remember the name. It was such an awful programme, I just remember the really terrible humor.

Example:
Mum: 'well...she didn't think that through!'
Dad: 'you can say that again!'
Mum: 'well....shee didn't think that through!'
*Canned laughter*

'Poddington Peas' (classic!), and that weird cartoon with a racoon family and they had weird pink elephant friends, and there was a talking dog that was a mechianic or something.

That weird thing was The Racoons. That recycled background song score haunts me to this day. [/quote] Haha, that's the one, I never quuite understood that programme, did they write a newspaper? :S

[slave2moonlight]

Here are a few:

Any Disney animated shows all the way back to Wuzzles and Gummi Bears on Saturday mornings.

Teen Wolf the animated series and lots of Saturday morning stuff at the time, like ABC Weekend Specials, Ace Ventura, Looney Tunes, Chipmunks, Scooby Doo and Flintstones incarnations, Spider-Man Hulk Hour, Laff-A-Lympics, Superfriends, and all that good stuff! Earliest ones I remember are shows like Drac Pack, Richie Rich, Fat Albert, and stuff like that!

Bozo Show, Kolchak the Night Stalker, the Dark Shadows revival series, You Can't Do That on Television, Wonderful World of Disney incarnations, Mouse Factory, Sesame Street, Muppet Show, Thundercats, He-Man, and Transformers (though I was never obsessed with those 3 like most guys), The Monkees, Goldar, Batman the Animated Series, Gilligan, Munsters, Addams Family, The Charmings, Elvira, Captain USA, USA Cartoon Express,Tom and Jerry, Pink Panther, The Incredible Hulk, The Flash, Mighty Mouse, Avonlea, Charles in Charge, What's Happening... Just tons of stuff, and I'm only mentioning stuff from when I was REALLY little through Jr. High.

More recent favorite shows would be Smallville, Frasier, Monk, Adult Swim, Kim Possible, Sailor Moon, MST3K, classic Dark Shadows, Doctor Who, Emperor's New School, Lilo and Stitch, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Who Wants to be a Superhero, and stuff like that...

Yeah, I left A LOT out. And yet, I don't seem to watch TV much.

[Hogi Bear]

DuckTales, Gargoyles, Samari Pizza Cats, Voltron, Spider-man, Captain Planet, Scooby-Doo, Looney Toons, The Simpsons, The Muppet Show, Fresh Prince of Belair (?), The Pretenter (Great until it got canceled and condensed into TV movies), there's a heap more, but I can't be bothered thinking about it at the moment.

[magicalwands]

Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, Spider-Man, Captain Planet, Gargoyles, and Sesame Street

That's all I can recall. And Rugrats back when they were still good.

[jediliz]

Pinwheel (it was on NICK)
Today's Special (again, on NICK)
Mysterious Cities of Gold (guess what channel)
Sebastian and Belle (guess what channel)
Sesame Street
Reading Rainbow
Square ONE (with Math Net - George Frankly and Kate Monday)
Garfield and Friends
Bugs and Tweety Show (Looney tunes cartoons on ABC)
Rugrats (I remember the premiere episode - Tommy's Birthday)
He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
Smurfs
Chipmunks
Muppet Babies
Family Ties
Full House (I know I watched reruns cause I came upon a tape that I had taped a rerun on)

I am sure there are many more, but that's what I can list now.

[littlefuzzy]

Well, lets see... Some of these were reruns from earlier decades, and some may have been when I was a bit older...

The Adventures of Superman
The Lone Ranger
Speed Racer
The Munsters
The Addams Family
The Wild Wild West
The Jetsons
The Flintsones
Starblazers
Teknoman
Star Trek TOS
STTNG
Battlestar Galactica
Buck Rogers
Land of the Lost
Ark II
Misfits of Science
Automan
various Looney Tunes shows
various Disney cartoon shows (stuff with Mickey, Donald, Chip 'n' Dale, etc.)
various Disney full-length cartoons - Gargoyles, Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, etc.
various DC shows (Superman, Superfriends, etc.)
The older Scooby Doo shows

I know there were many others, but I can't place them right now... Some stuff I watched after I was grown, like Doogie Howser, MD, The Adventures of Beans Baxter, and so on.

EDIT to the original list, from reading the other posts: These may be from my childhood, teenage years, or even early 20s...
Animaniacs
Bonkers
Talespin
Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers
Darkwing Duck
Woody Woodpecker
Popeye
MGM cartoon shorts
Tom & Jerry
Mork & Mindy
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Get Smart
The Muppet Show
Garfield & Friends
Perfect Strangers
Night Court
The Incredible Hulk
Thundercats
Transformers
Fat Albert
The Monkees
Gilligan's Island
Different Strokes
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Electric Company (especially the live-action Spider-Man sequences...)
Family Ties
Full House
The John Byner Show (w/ Super Dave Osbourne)
Benny Hill
The Super Mario Bros/Zelda show
Mr. Rogers
Captain Kangaroo
Airwolf
A-Team
Magnum P.I.
Hogan's Heroes
The Brady Bunch
The Facts of Life
Growing Pains
The Hogan Family
Saved by the Bell
Inspector Gadget
Dungeons & Dragons
Underdog
Rocky & Bullwinkle
My Favorite Martian
Lost in Space
Bewitched
Family Affair
Beverly Hillbillies
Green Acres
Petticoat Junction
Mission Impossible
Leave it to Beaver
the 70s Spider-Man
Batman: the Animated Series
the first X-Men series
Dukes of Hazzard
I Dream of Jeannie
Family Matters
Dick Van Dyke show
Knight Rider

[RyougaLolakie]

TV Broadcast (Animation)
- Heathcliff
- My Little Pony
- Rainbow Brite
- Strawberry Shortcake (the 80's version)
- Ralph Bakshi's The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse
- The Adventures of Pinocchio (the episodes, not a 90 minute movie)
- The Real Ghostbusters
- Teenage Mutant Ninja (Hero) Turtles (80's version)
- Captain Planet
- Duckman
- Beavis and Butt-Head
- The Simpsons (early ones that are truely hillarious)
- The Critic
- Various animated shorts (Famous Studios, Fleischer Cartoons, etc)
- Super Mario Brothers Super Show
- Super Mario All-Stars

TV Broadcast (Live-Action)
- America's Funniest Home Videos (with Bob Sagat)
- Alf
- The Muppet Show

Disney
- Donald's Quack Attack
- Mouse Tracks (I think its the same show as Donald's Quack Attack)
- Bonkers
- Gummi Bears
- Ducktails
- Tales Spin
- Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers
- Wuzzles
- Darkwing Duck
- The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Timon and Pumbaa
- Doug (Disney version)
- PB&J Otter
- Vault Disney Block (Old shows of Wonderful World of Disney, Ink and Paint Club, and various)
- Mickey Mouse Club (80's version)
- Adventures in Wonderland
- Welcome to the Pooh Corner
- Dumbo's Circus
- Carebears

PBS
- Barney and Friends
- Sesame Street
- Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
- Arthur

Nick (Animated)
- Ren and Stimpy
- Rugrats (early ones, I think)
- Doug
- Rocko's Modern Life
- Ahhhhhh! Real Monsters
- Kablam!
- The Angry Beavers
- The Busy World of Richard Scary
- Little Bear
- Tiny Toons Adventures
- Inspector Gadget
- Muppet Babies
- David the Gnome
- The Alvin Show
- Peanuts cartoons (The Charlie Brown and Snoopy show and various specials)

Nick (Live Action)
- All That (with original cast such as Kenan and Kel)
- Kenan and Kel Show
- My Brother and Me
- Nick Arcade
- Double Dare (the 80's version)
- Wild and Crazy Kids
- What Would You Do?
- Hey Dude
- The Elephant Show

Cartoon Network
- Space Ghost: Coast to Coast
- Cartoon Planet
- Looney Toons
- Tex Avery Show
- Dexter's Laboratory
- Powerpuff Girls
- 2 Stupid Dogs
- Cow and Chicken
- Courage, the Cowardly Dog
- Tom and Jerry
- older Scooby Doo shows (Scooby Doo Movies, Scooby Doo Where Are You?, etc)
- Early HB Shows (Huckleberry Hound Show, The Yogi Bear Show, Magilla Gorilla Show, etc)
- The Flinstones
- The Jetsons
- Sailor Moon (DIC version)
- Dragon Ball Z (before Funimation redubbed it)
- George in the Jungle
- Rocky and Bullwinkle
- Underdog
- Dudley Do-Right
- Tom and Jerry Kids
- Smurfs
- Garfield and Friends
- Alvin and the Chipmunks (80's version)
- Animaniacs
- Pinky and the Brain
- Freakazoid
- Taz Mania Show

There are more shows that I didn't put off the list, but I guess I leave them up for now.

[Mea]

My favorite shows were Rugrats, Are you afraid of the dark?, Action League (I'm not sure that is exactly what it is called), and Doug.

[Lazario]

Before I go into the longest diatribe you have ever been treated to in your life on this history of my youthful TV habits, I would like to take this opportunity to say, as a kid, I lived practically-completely inside my house and watched TV. Sounds disturbing? It is.



The Disney Shows

Music Box - only on occasion, I never liked that show

Dumbo's Circus - loved this one

Under the Umbrella Tree - I'll never forget the name of that show and when I see what the characters look like, same thing, but for some reason I never watched that much of this show. I never really liked it that much, but I was also a very young kid, so, they hardly have the most discriminating taste...

Adventures in Wonderland - one of my absolute favorite Disney Channel shows, I was psychotic about this, and would watch it every single Day before school, when I could catch it.

Those Educational shorts with Jiminy Crickett teaching us which kids were "Fools" and "Not Fools" - remember those??

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1989-whenever) - this always was and always will be my very favorite Disney Channel show, I loved this as a kid and when I occasionally catch it now on Disney, I have to watch it completely. It holds up better than more than 80% of recent Disney Channel children's programs. So much so that that percentage still works if you were to say it covers all Disney children's programs starting from today and going backwards into the late '90s!

DuckTales - this was my least favorite of all the Disney cartoon shows of it's time / Gummi Bears - I loved this one, but it was one of the ones I saw the least of / Tale Spin - loved it a lot / C'n'D: Rescue Rangers - saw the least of this show / Goof Troop - my 2nd favorite of all the Disney cartoon shows of my time / Darkwing Duck - my #1 favorite of all the Disney cartoon shows of my time



Shows That I Was Mostly Too Young to Remember, was Very Young When I Watched, Watched Before 3rd/4th Grade

David the Gnome - This sounds REALLY familiar... But I don't know what it is exactly.

HeMan - one of the first cartoon shows I ever remember watching, therefore I only remember what some of the characters looked like. I don't honestly remember anything else, even watching it. I remember it was very popular at one of my first babysitter's house(s).

Smurfs - this is one that was on when I was much, much younger, so I don't really remember it at all.

Snorks - a lot like the Smurfs from what I recall. Watched significantly more of this show than the Smurfs.

Noozles - absolutely adored and was enamored with this show when it was on Nickelodeon. But some time ago I was trying to remember what the heck this show was and came up blank. Thank goodness for the Internet Movie Database. I asked someone there and they told me that it was this show.

Count Duckula - I remember loving this show a lot and I don't remember anything else about it.

Jem - a show that I remember playing a lot at one time when I was young, very early in the morning and I never found it surfing channels or I would have watched more of it (probably one of the reasons I stuck to Sailor Moon, like I was catching up on something I missed), instead it was always playing on my TV when I would cross the living room to go into the kitchen to get cereal or change the dog's water, almost like the TV turned the program on by itself, no one else was in the room at the time. So I never sat down to watch it, but for what little I did see I ended up remembering the entire theme song, several characters' appearences, names like Synergy and Rio, and the fact that there was a lot of technology involved. I would buy it on DVD (probably would have already by now) except, all of the seasons once available have gone Out of Print and are really expensive now (some going up into the Hundreds) - last I checked.

The Littles - I don't remember what channel this was on, but when I watched it, it was my favorite cartoon show on television. I have noticed that some channel (something like PAX) reruns it in the very early morning on weekends or something. This one is about little rodents that were mostly human but were furry and had tails like mice and whiskers. One of them was goofy and had an aviator hat on his head, there were a little brother and sister who wore overalls and the boy wore a red cap, a very Skipper-like (Gilligan's Island Skipper, not Barbie's friend) grumpy older Uncle character with a brown jacket. And the parents, which we never saw much of because they were always in their house in a hole in the wall and they were always in danger from a cat or a land developer.

Remote Control - that MTV game show from the '80s where contestants sat in chairs and answered TV/movie trivia, "couch potato" stuff. I was quite obsessed with the set design and gimmick of this show.

Rude Dog and the Dweebs - caught maybe 1 episode of this when it was originally on CBS's morning kids programs slot, but I rented 2 VHS's a lot from our local town rental place (which I work at now, fate 'eh) and watched those over and over again.

The Real Ghostbusters / Slimer - I watched at least 9 or 10 episodes of this when it was originally on. Don't remember much about it, but my roomate has that Sony Ghostbusters 2-pack with the episodes of this show on the Ghostbusters 2 disc. I seem to remember Slimer got his own show at one point, for a short while.

Beetlejuice (the series) - another one of my absolute favorite cartoon shows at this age. I watched it when I could really remember some things about it. It was always very funny, was about Beetlejuice and Lydia's very special friendship that developed when she learned his Neitherworld was a great place to escape and they became very good friends. Anyway, it was a remarkably animated series and the storylines were very unique.

Pee Wee's Playhouse - this had it's original run in the 80's and was most popular when I was too young to remember, but for some reason this show left a more lasting impression on me. I even remember some episodes now and then.

Fraggle Rock - don't remember this one very well, but I watched at least 7 or 8 full episodes. The thing I remember the most is the opening Theme Song and all the openings with the old man and the dog. And the talking trash heap.

Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (one of the reasons I have always loved the vanguard-style of documentaries to this day!) - self explanatory.

The Flintstones / The Jetsons - a couple of shows I used to watch on TBS. I never really liked The Jetsons that much, so I watched more of The Flintstones, which they used to show back to back with Bewitched in the afternoon, so it was probably in the summer that they used to run this because it was the weekdays and I was old enough so that I'd have to be in school.

Scooby Doo, Where Are You? (and countless shows based on/around Scooby Doo) - my least favorite of these was, strangely, the one with Vincent Price and the 13 (?) spirits / ghouls they had to capture in a box. But I used to watch a whole bunch of these shows. My favorite was the classic series, without Scrappy. He always annoyed me. The second version of this show I remember watching just enough of to comment on it, was that version where all the characters were little kids - remember that one? I used to watch these shows again, when I was younger than 10.

My Little Pony - during one of those summers (I never liked summers all that much when I was really young) where I watched the most TV, I remember watching this show by myself and really loving the suspense of it. My favorite episode revolved around a bunch of flowers who were actually sort of nasty Weeds with buds / appearences that outwardly looked grand and lovely, but they were really Monsters and once they were planted and watered in the Pony's garden, they would grow strong and transform into Super-Monsters and were really scary to a young kid like myself. Though I'm not saying I was all that scared of them, I thought they were really cool and I never forgot this basic part of the show. There was also another episode about a flood, and just generally the show had a great deal of danger and suspense on it, and some surprisingly intricate plotlines. From what I remember.

Punky Brewster

Three Stooges - I still like this show. Without it, I would never have liked the Marx Brothers movies as much as I do.

Small Wonder - Damn, I liked this show a lot. But I can't remember it and it never plays in re-runs on any channel (that I know of). I've seen at least half of the episodes - I watched this show every day.

Jackson 5 - anyone remember this animated series? I do (not well) and I watched a lot of it.

Rocky and Bullwinkle, George in the Jungle, Underdog - these I remember watching a lot of, in the morning before school, my father would always leave for work at midnight or later, when I was already asleep and my mother would leave for work around 4am, and I would always get up early and watch... I think it was Channel 38 (the channel that UPN eventually became), and they would show about an hour of these aforementioned shows and Woody Woodpecker, so I'd watch them all together. They also showed Yogi Bear sometimes but I only ever watched maybe 2 of those episodes - I never cared much for Yogi Bear. And as for Dudley Do-Right, I think they put that on right with Yogi Bear because again I only remember watching 1 or 2 of that show as well.

Popeye - used to watch quite a bit of this as well, when it was on in the mornings before school. My favorite episodes, I've probably mentioned this before (I'm such a dork!), were when Brutus/Bluto/Bruto/Bruno (whatever his crazy name was) and Popeye would fight over Olive Oil and they'd drag her through the streets of whatever town/city they were in and whoever was carrying her / holding her hand would be waving and flailing her body around and she'd whack off of mailboxes, telephone poles, parking meters, cars, fire hydrants, the sidewalk pavement, buildings, street lights - and the whole time they were bashing her brains out, she'd only go, "oh gosh, oh dear, oh gracious, oh goodness, oh my!" That was always funny.

Alvin and the Chipmunks (80's version) - another one from my much younger days, I watched this quite a bit for awhile and remember watching it more vividly than a lot of shows I watched when I was that young.

Looney Toons / Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show - used to watch a lot of these when I was about 8 and 9, I used to watch all the TBS Superstation marathons and I'd always want to see the shorts with that Witch in them, the one that was always trying to outsmart Bugs Bunny. She was my favorite, but I also really loved the shorts with Daffy and Elmer Fudd or Bugs and Elmer Fudd. I was obsessed with this one short with Bugs and Elmer where Bugs does something to Elmer's rifle, Elmer thinks he's shot Bugs, Bugs pretends to die and puts on this whole hilarious slow dying scene to make Elmer feel sad about killing him, then screams at the top of his lungs, smacks him, and does something crazy / runs away. I used to rewind that one a hundred times. But now I'm thinking I was probably more like 7 then. Don't know.

Tom and Jerry - another one they showed a lot of on TBS. I was never a big fan of this one, but I watched at least 6 or 7 shorts every couple of years until I was about 11. / Pink Panther - saw a few, liked them all. As a show, liked them better than Tom and Jerry, The Jetsons, Woody Woodpecker, and Yogi Bear.

Muppet Babies - this was definitely one of my very favorite cartoon shows as a kid

America's Funniest Home Videos - watched a lot of this show but I couldn't stand Bob Saget's incredibly stupid narrations for the clips! / America's Funniest People - you might not remember this one, but it was hosted by Dave Coulier, another Full Houser with his own ABC Clip Show. This was exactly like Funniest Home Videos except it was videos of people telling jokes, doing silly things while they *knew* they were being filmed, interviews of people out of the streets who would tell jokes and do silly stuff, and other things that revolved around this sort of thing. This was a much better show because almost all of the video clips featured absolutely NO narration over the clips.

Babar (on HBO) - the best HBO cartoon ever, I don't remember it well but I remember loving it a lot. I would have watched more but HBO was a pay channel and my parents decided to get rid of it after a few years of TV bliss.

Care Bears - another one of my absolute Favorite cartoon shows as a kid. I love NoHeart and I worship the ground Shrieky walks on! I loved both the earlier and later series, I seem to remember one of their first villains was Professor Coldheart. But I really loved the later series with Beastley and company, because some of those episodes were just hilarious. My favorite was the one where Beastley and Hugs and Tugs were on a Game Show, called The Safety Challenge, and the question was, "What should you do if you are on fire?" and Beastley says, "That's easy! RUN AND SCREAM!!"

The Super Mario Bros/Zelda Show - wow this might be taking me back, but what the heck channel was this on?? I think one incarnation of this show was on USA and that's where I probably saw it, but I'm not sure.

You Can't Do That on Television - I only got to see maybe 6 or 7 episodes of this show, but I have always been OBSESSED with it and hope it makes it's DVD debut SOON.

Thundercats / G.I. Joe - probably saw at least 5 episodes of each in their entirety but I don't remember very much about them. Also, a lot of other kids I knew would watch a lot of these cartoons and talk a lot about the characters, so I probably have them all indexed somewhere in the back of my mind.

He-Man - of all the Superhero shows that were on, I remember being most familiar with this one

Transformers - watched a lot of this one but I was really young at the time so I barely remember any of it.

Reading Rainbow - this was a show I watched a bit of (never 1 full episode of, unless I was being babysit and couldn't control the TV) but there were things about it I liked even though I remember thinking it was really boring

Land of the Lost / The Amazing SeaMonkeys - saw quite a bit of each show and remember liking both

Eureeka's Castle - I used to watch a lot of this, but I don't remember anyone but her and the dragon. And some kind of bat.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989-1990 / early '90s version) - I was a HUGE fan of this series and I want to get the DVDs asap. I also was a huge fan of the first 2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, never much cared for Part 3, but I still really like those 2 TMNT movies, watched the first one last month - it still holds up well today in my opinion.

Tiny Toon Adventures - I don't know if I've named one yet, but this was my favorite cartoon of all time as a child.

Hey Vern! It's Ernest! - unfortunately this was one of those shows I always liked but never got to see much of.

Heathcliff - not a big fan of, but I used to watch a lot of this show, I won't lie

Peanuts cartoons - I only liked the Holiday Specials and the Paramount-made movies. The actual show they used to show on either The Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, or PBS or whatever channel they showed it on, I never liked because they didn't have the original voices (this was back when I really cared about that - which actually I still do, I don't watch new episodes of SpongeBob or Fairly Odd Parents just because the actors voices sound a little different) and because they were way too educational. Got nothing against teaching kids stuff, I'm all for it - but when that completely takes the place of entertainment value, it's no longer entertainment - it's school. And school was never really that much fun. Ask anyone.

Captain Planet - this was a TBS-er and I used to watch quite a bit of this for a few months. And I also remember there was a video game, probably for Nintendo (the standard NES system) that I played and it stunk because it was so darn hard and confusing! But I loved the show because the colors were cool (I always liked color-coded superhero teams where the members each had specific identities), I agreed with it's environmentalist themes, and I thought Captain Planet himself was sexy (yes I remember blasting everyone who says cartoons are sexy, but I was a kid when at this time and this was back when all kids / all my friends thought cartoons were sexy - I'm sure they still remember, as I do, what cartoons they thought were sexy, but we have grown up so it's hardly like we still think they're actually sexy).

Garfield and Friends - another one of my Absolute, Very Favorite animated series as a kid

The Jeffersons / The Addams Family / Bewitched / Beverly Hillbillies - put all these shows together because I know I watched enough of them to mention, but I honestly don't remember anything about them from my childhood days. Now, I care a little more for Bewitched, and I love The Jeffersons.

Happy Days - never liked this show, but I always had a crush on Ron Howard's character (I hate that name though, Richie Cunningham, it sounds snooty and... sexually suggestive) / Laverne & Shirley - always liked this show a little and had a huge crush on Carmine (I had a lot of TV crushes, you'll find).

Night Court - I remember absolutely loving this show, I used to watch it all the time on Nick @ Nite, but now that I see it on TV Land, I wonder what I ever liked about it. It's not funny at all. But I'm still a huge fan of Richard Moll = Bull.

Growing Pains - watched this a couple times, and never liked it. But there was 1 episode I liked, where all 3 of the teens had nightmares. The first 2 happened, then it was Mike / Kirk Cameron's turn for a nightmare, he sees himself in the mirror looking ugly (or something like that), but then says - "hey, this is a dream and I can do whatever I want," so he ends up having a great dream. But that show sucked. It was badly written, poorly acted (except by the parents, and sometimes the little blond kid was okay), and just plain stupid - not to mention Mike Seaver was a poor version of Saved by the Bell / Good Morning, Miss Bliss's Zack Morris. Even if Seaver came first, Morris was 50 times better!

Alf - another Night Court situation = loved it when I was seeing it on TV for the first time as a kid, but when I see reruns every now and then, I don't enjoy it very much.

Taxi / Gilligan's Island - these were the 2 classic TV shows I saw the most of. I don't remember Taxi very well, but the roomates have it on DVD. However, I remember Gilligan's Island much more vividly. And I never could understand why people got so mad at Gilligan. Now I know and it's all I can focus on, so I don't really watch the show anymore and don't care much if I never do again

Nick Arcade / Double Dare (first version) - I watched a lot of both these shows.

Ren and Stimpy - another TV show I hated when I was a kid and still hate to this day. It's disgusting, not funny, sickening, nauseating, barf-enducing. You'd better believe it, all it is are different ways of saying "it's gross." That's all it is. Gross doesn't equal funny, no matter how you slice it. There has to be something more to humor than fart, puke, low blow, and bodily fluid jokes.

Saved by the Bell - a terrible show. But I still love it, and I used to watch it psychotically when I was a kid, a teenager, and even now when I can catch it. I might get the DVD's sometime soon / whenever I can. I still have the hugest crush on Mark-Paul Gosselaar, but he was my Ultimate TV crush. I still worship his ultra-cool character too.

The Muppet Show - I used to LOVE watching this show in reruns. And of course, I always loved the musical guests, so Disney had better straighten up quick or I refuse to give them 1 cent for the DVDs. My favorite part of the show was Pigs in Space. Miss Piggy is the funniest character in Puppet character history. I laugh even when the character is not necessarily supposed to be funny. Except in The Muppet Movie, which I also love to death, where I felt a very special kinship with her character.


Shows from roughly 3rd/4th grade to 8th grade

Inspector Gadget - such a favorite of mine, I continued watching reruns until I was in, like, 7th grade. Great damn series!

Salute My Shorts / Hey Dude - didn't watch much of Hey Dude (but was a huge fan of dreamy Dan Gauthier), but watched a lot of Salute My Shorts. At least 14 or more full episodes.

Batman the Animated Series - this was my favorite of the 3 Fox Kids! Superhero shows (the others being Spider-Man and X-Men) -

Spider-Man, on Fox Kids! - I didn't want to like this show when it was on because my brother was a huge fan and I've always hated my brother. But it was, like X-Men the animated series, and Batman, insanely fascinating and engrossing. An excellent series for kids!

Adventures of Pete & Pete / Clarissa Explains It All - bigger fan of Clarissa, which I also watched for longer. But P&P was a decent show, which I watched more than 11 full eps of.

Animaniacs - probably my favorite animated show, not just when I started watching it, but of all time. I bought 3 of those VHS's in the mid-90s, had 2 audio cassette tapes (which I think I still have somewhere even though I have no cassette player) which I used to play incessantly and still know almost every word to "I'm Mad" ("I'm mad, I'm mad, I'm really, really, really mad, you poked me with your elbow in my side," "No, I didn't," "yes you did, you did, and I'm just a little kid! You're lying, don't deny it!" "Oh yeah? I'm gonna hit you!" "Yeah?! Just try it!" "Will both of you be quiet 'cause we're driving in a car?" "Ow! He hit me!" "She bit me!" "He says he's gonna get me!" "No, I didn't!" "Yes you did!" "Alright! That's it! Now I forbid either one of you to say another word" "Are we there yet? I'm tired. I'm hungry. How far? My nose is snotty, need to move my body, gotta use the potty, betta stop the car")

Bobby's World - Great show! Anyone who disagrees is a moron. No, they just don't understand how much that show was like real life. Say the characters were annoying - that was their point. The show was about how annoying your family is and how in the end you have to love them no matter what, and you have to put up with a lot of crap either way. This show was much smarter than Rugrats and much better entertainment. A BRILLIANT show, Howie Mandell will never top this.

Taz Mania Show - watched about 6 episodes, remember it only vaguely.

The Secret World Of Alex Mack - watched quite a bit of this one, enough to remember the kid who played Ray when I saw him in the movie, Shrunken Heads.

Fresh Prince of Bel Air - I remember really liking this a lot when I was younger, I like it a lot less now. But I liked Hilary and Carlton a lot. I never liked Will's character.

Full House - a show I initially started watching because I had a crush on Uncle Jesse and because I used to watch Bob Saget on America's Funniest Home Video's and Dave Coulier on America's Funniest People, but I do want to take this opportunity to point out that Jesse was never sexy with that stupid mullet hair, rather he looked disgusting.

Family Matters - was never a big fan of the series, but I watched it quite a bit for awhile.

Are You Afraid of the Dark? - Only watched maybe 4 or 5 full episodes, so I wouldn't exactly call myself a fan. I always hated that show Unsolved Mysteries, and the way this was filmed always reminded me of a cross between Unsolved Mysteries and an R.L. Stine Goosebumps book - which I was never too crazy about.

Doug - I watched this more regularly than most of the Nick Toons. For awhile, that is. I caught it whenever I passed it by when flipping channels.

Rugrats - I watched this more than a few times, I enjoyed it very much when I first used to watch it. But it's one of those shows you can grow out of fast, so I soon only watched it when there was nothing else on. But I always liked Angelica.

Rocko's Modern Life - gross as hell. But I liked it. Especially the theme songs!

Space Cases - was on Nickelodeon for about a year and I watched the first 5 or so episodes of it. I enjoyed most of what I saw but went astray.

Ahhhhhh! Real Monsters - watched this one every now and again. But I didn't like it very much.

Sandra Bernhard's Up All Night - I remember watching this quite a bit. For those of you who don't know, she was a real trash movie fan and used to play and comment on movies they wouldn't show on MST3K because they were too new or Joe Bob Briggs' Monstervision because they were too sleazy and TNT wouldn't touch them with a 10-foot pole. But USA was a perfect venue for these very low budget straight-to-video features, and I loved this program because it immediately recalled the Cinemax glory days of the early '90s where I used to watch (and was a huge fan of) the sort of low-rent Traci Lords / Cynthia Rothrock action-sleaze hooker-cop movies (hey, some people watch Steven Seagal and Patrick Swayze action films and are embarassed to admit it), and Troma-esque stuff about college kids turning into mutants or college kids getting killed in the woods during a Cheerleader team competition.

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers - heheheh, I will never lie about the fact that I was obsessed with this show. It initally, originally took me awhile because I've always hated hype for anything, any show. But when I started watching it, I just fell IN LOVE with it. I first started watching re-runs of the first couple months of shows and started only watching the : New Episode days / afternoons (which after awhile I never missed!) in 1995 when they were showing the last 10 or so Rita Repulsa episodes, the Lord Zedd episodes began, and The Movie went to theaters, which you'd better believe I saw in the theater.

The Simpsons - I didn't start really watching this show until about it's 6th or 7th season. From there on, I was a fan. And this is still perhaps the funniest, smartest TV show ever made, animated or Live Action. It's THAT good and THAT classic. New episodes, schmew episodes. They'll never ruin the show completely.

The Critic - about 4 episodes of, before it came to Comedy Central. Just like Cartoon Network, our house didn't get Comedy Central until like 2000. This show ran on Fox after/right before The Simpsons for a few months and I used to watch some episodes when it did. The one I remember the most was about Sherman in the desert, or there was a scene with him in the desert.

All That - only the shows with the original cast. The only good cast member this show ever had after the original 7 (Anjelique, Lori Beth, Kenan, Josh, Kel, Alicia, and ). I'll never forget some of those sketches. Like the 2 cooks who only cooked with chocolate, Ross Perot, Kenan's middle-Eastern foreign exchange student, and especially... the little girl at the lemonade stand!

Beavis and Butt-Head - LOL! I used to hate this show when I was a kid. When I became a teenager, I grew to like it. Now, I absolutely adore it!

The Brady Bunch - I never used to watch this show when I was a kid, but watch it occasionally now on TV Land since I'm obsessed with the 2 Paramount movies (I know there's a third, but I haven't seen it - if it doesn't have the movies' Jan and Marsha in it, forget it, I don't care).

2 Stupid Dogs - I didn't watch a lot of this show, but I'll never forget that line that military guy would always use, "Aw, isn't that cute... BUT IT'S WRONG!!!" If that were available to buy on DVD, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. And I remember the basic dynamic of the characters too, a little.

Sailor Moon - this used to show on Fox and they began playing it in the mid to late '90s, so I was a teenager when I started watching this show. I quickly became a rabid fan, so it's still one of my favorite shows from that period in my life. I still have every episode they ran on Fox at that time, and I don't think they ever showed it on Fox Kids! when they had that lineup.

The Real World / Road Rules - one time and one time only I watched a significant amount of Road Rules (okay, 3 seasons appealed to me but I don't remember them well- one of them was a season of only Real Worlders- my favorite). But eventually, into my high school years, I ended up watching a great deal of The Real World, all the first 9 seasons (it became near-permanently unwatchable in it's 2001 season - in fact, the only good season since New Orleans has been Philadelphia, and after that it went right back to stinking!).

The Jenny McCarthy Show - one of the funniest shows I've ever seen. I loved it! Jenny McCarthy is beyond hilarious.

Daria - Watched at least 48 episodes. Is one of my favorite TV shows.

Cartoon Sushi - MTV show with animation clips. Fantastic! And killed off well before it's time. Funny as HELL!

The Blame Game - MTV game show with contestants "on trial" for being a bad boyfriend or girlfriend. The audience has to decide which is more to blame for their break-up and the winner gets some Beach/Island vacation. I watched a surprising amount of episodes for this show. At least 20.

TNT's Monstervision with Joe Bob Briggs - I get the feeling I only caught this just as it was about to cancel, because I started watching this in August of either '96 or '97 and quickly became a salivating hound for it. One of the greatest horror / schlock feature shows of our somewhat modern times. From this point in time, the entire format quickly changed so that it turned into some sort of Old Hollywood Classics show which lasted maybe 4 months and then it plummeted and Joe Bob disappeared from all TV (that I know of). But I did catch it in time to see him interview both Tippi Hedren (of Hitchcock's The Birds) and Linnea Quigley (who, if you don't know, is the most famous Scream Queen of the 1980's and still acts in straight to video horror films today).

Kenan and Kel Show - I always liked this show.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 - I was never a regular watcher of this show, but I used to watch it a few times when something better was on a commercial break. When I first started watching MST3K, I would laugh my butt off, but after a very short time, they weren't funny anymore, so I would actually find myself watching (and loving) whatever cheesy movie they'd play. My favorites weren't the sci-fi movies, but rather 1 gritty inner-city movie about people with supernatural powers taking over the world but the budget could only afford to show 1 city (sort of a Scanners / Maniac Cop combo) and this movie on a farm about a woman burned at the stake to come back and haunt the land as a witch.

Arthur - love this show. I was about 17 when I started really watching it, but it's a very subtly smart and funny show. There was this 1 episode that mostly took place in a supermarket that I laughed at so hard, it was one of those "call an ambulance, QUICK" moments.

Dexter's Laboratory - saw this when I was about 17 and I still like it a lot. Didi Rules!

Powerpuff Girls / Courage, the Cowardly Dog - I was a mid to late teenager when I finally saw these shows for the first time. I don't watch either regularly anymore, but I still really like Courage. When my house finally got Cartoon Network as part of their basic cable package, I was about 18 or 19, so... that's about the end of the line for this exercise.

[Disney-Fan]

For me it's mostly been Xena: Warrior Princess most of my childhood. I was IN LOVE with the whole concept, with Xena herself, with ancient Greece, everything in short. Other shows I watched a lot during childhood:
* The Little Mermaid
* Hercules (just a bit, I think I started growing out of it by then)
* Aladdin
* Batman: TAS
* Spiderman: TAS
* Rugrats
* Hey, Arnold!
* Tiny Toons
* Gummi Bears (not sure that's the name. That classic Disney animated show)
* Animaniacs
* Looney Tunes -- ALL the time. Especially Taz's show
* Beverly Hills 90210
* Pinky and the Brain
* Timon and Pumbaa
* Power Rangers - The original show

Edit:
* The Muppet Show - Some of my fondest memories are from watching that show. Ahh, good times
* Care Bears - I don't recall the difference between this and the Gummi Bears, but I loved 'em both.

[Dottie]

These are the ones that popped into my mind right away:

Fraggle Rock
Sailor Moon
Mila, Attack No. 1
TLM
The Waltons
I dream of Jeannie
Little House on the Prairie
Muppet babies
Barbar the Elefant
Sesame Street
Talespin
Alvin and the Chipmunks (my mom hated it!! )
CDRR
The Peanuts

I know there were more, but I can't remember all of them now.