What childhood TV shows most directly influenced your personal aesthetic as an adult?
Mine are:
Bill Nye the Science Guy
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
Kratt's Creatures
Ghostwriter
Mine are:
Bill Nye the Science Guy
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
Kratt's Creatures
Ghostwriter
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Beavis & Butthead
Eerie, Indiana
The Simpsons
Pee-wee’s Playhouse
Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Johnny Quest,
The Addams Family
Sesame Street
Match Game ‘73, ‘74, PM, etc
Honorable mention for Gilligan’s Island and Star Trek for the way they color-coded characters
Yeah, I'm old. 🙂
Beavis and Butthead
Batman TAS
The Tick (animated)
The Munsters
Elvira
The Addams Family
Aardvark & Ant
Rocky & Bullwinkle
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Outer Limits
Dark Shadows
Night Gallery
Star Trek
Doctor Who (Tom Baker)
Jonny Quest (the 60s version)
The Bennie Hill Show
The Midnight Special
SNL
Twilight Zone
Star Trek
I wanted to be cool like the Fonz but tended to be more like Richie.
Additionally, sports were huge for me which primarily happened through TV. #DallasCowboys #TarHeels
Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp.
Speed Racer.
-Good Eats
-Mythbusters
-The Simpsons
-SpongeBob
Bewitched
Rawhide
StarTrek
Hopalong Cassidy
Gene Autrey
Gun Law
Magic Roundabout
77 Sunset Strip
Wells Fargo
Gunsmoke
Rawhide
Have Gun Will Travel
https://www.youtube.com/live/eemj-ggRdxo?si=W2qGV-yICEvS09kI
Mr. GreenJeans
Captain Kangaroo
Spin and Marty
Rin-Tin-Tin
My Friend Flika
National Velvet
You all missed out.
All in the family
Charlie's Angels
Mork and Mindy
China Beach
Okay. Here is my list.
It's just for fun!
1) Gilligan's Island, who can forget Tina's gowns?
2) The Brady Bunch
3) Oprah
4) Y&R
5) Care Bears, I need one of those tummy symbols!
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Lost in Space
The Beatles cartoons.
Fractured Fairytales
Schoolhouse Rock
Midnight Special
Sesame Street
Electric Company
Warner Brothers cartoons
David Letterman’s afternoon talk show
(Later) Monty Python
Sesame Street
Looney Tunes - Specifically Bugs Bunny
The Muppet Show
Mr. Rogers
The Magic Garden
Schoolhouse Rock
Electric Company
Brady Bunch
Schoolhouse Rock!
The Jetsons
Alvin & the Chipmuks (80s series)
The Littl’ Bits
Ducktales
Tiny Toon Adventures
Animaniacs
Skippy.
A Canadian children’s show about a group of youngsters who seemed to live in a fort and had a Native Canadian who taught them things??
Mr Ed
Lucy, I love Lucy
Dick van Dyke
Any Western
F Troop
My Favourite Martian
Probably more, our country TV started late.
The Muppet Show
Wonderful World of Disney
Wide Worlds of Sports
The Monkeys
I grew up thinking multicultural people working together as a team was normal.
Looney Tunes
Schoolhouse Rock
Wait—does Soul Train count?
Robotech
Different Strokes
Family Ties
Max Headroom
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Jonny Quest
I didn't get this at the time
Wish I could see it Chauncey, but I’m facing the other way.
And Square One. IYKYK. Mathnet continues to delight me and I show episodes to my kids (YouTube).
Kukla, Fran, and Ollie
Howdy Doody
The Mickey Mouse Club (original)
-- but Moose & Squirrel and Bugs Bunny remain solid parts of my personal mythology.
Highlander
Knight Rider
-and-
The Lone Ranger 🥸🐾
The Jetsons
Late night with Conan O'Brien
Night Stand with Dick Dietrick
Batman the Animated Series
The Raccoons
Kids in the Hall
Anything on free Disney week
Captain Planet
Ding Dong School
Shari Lewis
Soupy Sales
Are You Afraid of the Dark
Pete and Pete
Rugrats
The incredible Hulk
Mash
I’m kinda old
Reading Rainbow
Punky Brewster
Jem & the Holograms
Inspector Gadget
Today’s Special
3-2–1 Contact
Double Dare
Pinwheel
You can’t do that on Television
A-Team
GI Joe
The Muppet Babies
He-Man & She-Ra
Thundercats
Duck Tales
Voltron
The Little Prince
Jem
GI Joe: RAH
Punky Brewster
80s MTV
Silverhawks
-Electric company
-Tie between Looney Tunes, Scooby Doo, and Superfriends
(loved that arc)
[watched with my kids]
Abbot & Costello,
Gilligans Island,
Hogans heros
I became a cartoonist when i grew up. Chuck Jones is on my personal Mt Rushmore of cartoonists.
- Adventures of Pete and Pete
- Electric Company
- Bill Nye the Science Guy
- Captain Kangaroo
- Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
Schoolhouse Rock
Sesame Street
Fraggle Rock
Danger Mouse
Pee-Wee’s Playhouse
Rainbow Brite
She-Ra
Sister’s shows
The Transformers
Teen Titans
Samurai Jack
This, you see the heroic clown .....
Star Trek
The Bionic Woman
Captain Kangaroo
Big Blue Marble
Dark Shadows
Bat Man & Robin
Sesame Street
Electric Company
Buck Rodgers
The Muppet Show
Mork & Mindy
Schoolhouse Rock
Animal Magic
Why Don't You (stop watching your tv and do something interesting instead)
The Magic School Bus
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog/SatAM
Dexter's Lab
Ed, Edd, n' Eddy
Ducktales
Chip n' Dale's Rescue Rangers
Darkwing Duck
Those are just a few I can think of.
- Rooty Kazooty
- Paul’s Puppets
(local Baltimore)
- Winky Dink & You
- Tommy & Jimmy
Dorsey Show
Star Trek, U. F. O. and every music (rock/pop) show
The Richard Simmons Show.
The Frugal Gourmet.
Sanford and Sons.
Good Times.
The Jeffersons.
My grandpa was a janitor, and my fondest memories were of summers cleaning the building with him and then going home and cooking with him. We were poor, and I didn't grow up to be a villain.
Star Trek
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
Warner Brothers cartoons
Thunderbirds
Bill Nye: The Science Guy
Animaniacs
Reading Rainbow
The Craft
Madonnas disco cowgirl era
Weekday afternoon game shows
USA Cartoon Express
Danger Mouse
Jonny Quest
The Brady Bunch
Julia (w/Diahann Carroll)
Bill Nye was alright, but Beakman was the best. So like the generic non-cable version of your list. Recess was a big one.
The Magic School Bus
Daria
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Arthur
Doug (Roger Klotz's outfit in particular)
Hey Arnold!
All In The Family
The Odd Couple
Columbo
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Mr. Rogers
Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
Looney Toons
The Smothers Brothers
Columbo
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (thx, PBS!)
The Avengers
Superfriends
Great Space Coaster
The Muppet Show
The Incredible Hulk
Ed Sullivan Show.
The Smothers Brothers.
The Electric Company
Cargo pants FTW.
Wonderama
Perry Mason
SeaQuest DSV
All That
Rocko's Modern Life
Back to the Future (cartoon)
Hadji and Bandit
Yosemite Sam
Thunder Cats
HBO Up All Night
Mr Rogers Neighborhood
Electric Company
Romper Room
Captain Kangaroo
Feeling old here ….
Looney Tunes
The Muppet Show
MST3K
Fury
The Star Trek Original Series era Movies (Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home, etc.)
Star Trek The Next Generation (and spinoffs DS9 and Voyager)
The Original Star Wars Trilogy
Reboot (This was an actual kids show).
Howdy Doody
Lone Ranger (radio and tv)
Have Gun Will Travel
Gunsmoke
Gilligan's Island
Star Trek