The Best of Children's TV and the Day it ended.
My personal account of
growing up with good TV
Each show is in no particular order within it's catagory.
In the beginning there was....
Morning Shows:
3-2-1 Contact & Mathnet
The Beatles cartoons
The Electric Company
The Greatest American Hero
Super Woman
Popeye
The Hulk
Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood
Sesame Street
The Littles
Conjunction Junction
Captain RJ Readmore (that book loving cat -not sure if I spelled the name right
though)
Dennis the Menace (overkilled)
Heathcliff (overkilled)
Ewoks
The Flintstones (overkilled)
Huckleberry Hound and the gang (overkilled)
Scooby Doo (waaaay overkilled)
The Land of the Lost (the original)
Captain Kangaroo
Fraggles
The Muppet Show
Carebears (the original)
Strawberry Shortcake (the original)
Clifford
Heathcliff
The Berenstein bear family (spelled that right?)
Pound puppies
My Little Ponies (the original)
BananaMan
GI Joe (the good years)
Heman
Shera
Jem and the Holograms (didn't really watch)
Pink Poochie (very brief)
The Smurfs
The Snorks
Rainbow Brite
Bionic 6
The Monchichis
Punky Brewster
Voltron / Transformers
Pink Panther (the original)
Loony Tunes
The Wuzzles
The Getalong Gang
Batfink
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Richie Rich
ThunderCats (neon slime was being sold about this time in 25-cent machines)
Popples (toy was better)
Teddy Ruxpin cartoon (short lived)
Cabbage Patch Kids cartoon (even shorter lived)
Punky Brewster cartoon
ALF cartoon
Turbo Teen
Afternoons:
Buck Rodgers
Incredible Hulk
Monkees
Isis
ALF
Macgyver
Hogan's Heroes
Fame
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Silver Spoons (didn't much get into)
Small Wonder
Fantasy Island
Love Boat
Gilligan's Island (overkilled)
Lavern & Sherley
Dukes of Hazzard (overkilled)
Flipper
Three's Company (overkilled)
Gidget
The Carol Burnett Show (awesome comedy)
Mama's House (bored me)
Golden Girls (bored me)
Bussom Buddies (understood it later on and love it)
The Mickey Mouse Club (didn't have Disney though - it was a terrific family channel but you had to pay order it)
Charles in Charge (didn't interest me)
The Facts of Life (didn't interest me)
Different Strokes
The Andy Griffith Show
The Brady Bunch (overkilled)
Dragnet
Batman & Robin
A-Team
The Superfriends
Evenings:
Star Trek
Happy Days
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeanie
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
My Three Sons
Family Ties
Donna Reed
That Girl
Get Smart
Police Squad
The Cosby Show
Battlestar Galactica
Green Acres
Later additions...
Mornings:
Nickelodeon -
Today's Special
Pinwheel
Spartacus
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Cartoon shorts (Chefs trying to find way to cook a frog, and a computer colorized
narative by a black&white girl who wants to be beautiful)
Picture Pages (Bill Cosby's magic bee pen show)
Mr. Wizard (Mister Wizard's World)
Danger Mouse
The Little Prince
The Adventures of the Little Koala
Sullvanian Families (spelled that right?)
Belle and Sebastian (anime - boy who had two dogs - a large white sheepdog and
a mini small one who sat in his pocket)
Noozles
Garfield
Count Duckula
Simon and the Land of Chalk drawings
Pattington Bear
Cartoon shorts (teddy bear wears green corduroy overalls...don't remember much though)
Swat Kats
Ronin Warriors
Rocko's Modern Life
The Real Ghostbusters
Popeye & Son
PeeWee's Playhouse
Muppet Babies (overkilled)
Help! It's the The Hair Bear Bunch (only remember the name and what they looked
like)
Disney Morning / Afternoon:
The Gummy Bears
Duck Tales
Dark Wing Duck
Chip N Dale's Rescue Rangers
Tale Spin
Gargoyles
USA Cartoon Express:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Mario Brothers Show (live w/ cartoon)
Legend of Zelda
Qbert
Pacman Adventures
MegaMan
Captain N & the N Team
Afternoons:
Nick in the Afternoon -
Fifteen (a teen drama show)
Salute Your Shorts
Welcome Freshman (comedy)
Hey Dude
Double Dare
Wild N' Crazy Kids
Lassie
Nick Jr. -
The Sharon, Lois, and Brahm Elephant Show
You Can't Do That on Television
Cappela & Company (don't remember when this came out or if it's more recent)
David the Gnome
The Littl' Bits
Curious George
Maple Town
Inspector Gadget
Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics (anime) - Storytime -
Maya The Bee (the start of the new wave)
Eureka's Castle
Evenings:
Nowhere Man
Forever Night
The Flash
Hercules and Xena series (the series movies and the series itself before it
got out of control)
Mystery Science Theatre (dedicated to it since season 1 - only loved the Joel
years)
The Adventures of Alex Max (new wave Nick but I added it in cause it was still
fun)
Nick at Night -
Ren & Stimpy
The Adventures of Pete and Pete (also the start of the new wave)
Roundhouse
Link 1 / Link 2
Are You Afraid of the Dark
Quantum Leap
I'm not going into the annoying and/or highly commercialized and/or politically correct "children's television" later shows such as Gullah Gullah Island, Allegra's Window, Clarissa Explains it All, Blue's Clues, Rugrats, Monsters, Everything that is Disney, etc.
ALL the OLD Nickelodeon Network songs!
TV ACRES (lots of resource)
TV THEMES (good)
Adventures in Television (I found this link which has some obscure show tunes)