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Shows you were into when you were a kid


Like what are some of the first shows that you got into growing up? Grew up towards the end of the 90s. Here are some of my firsts

1. The adventures of Sinbad (1996) - This was my first actual tv show. My friends & I were obsessed with it. We looked up to Sinbad. He was our Hero. We wanted to be him.

2. Conan the adventurer (1997) - I don't remember this one THAT much. I have vague memories of it

3. WWE (Back when it was called WWF) - My grandma & I absolutely loved watching it. It was entertaining as hell. The Rock, Stone Cold, Hulk Hogan, Kane, Triple H, The Undertaker & countless others. What an era of wrestling!

4. Mortal Kombat Conquest (1997) - This show got me into Mortal Kombat. Another show that my friends & I really loved.

5. Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) - From that awesome theme song to the action, loved this show as a kid.

6. Martial Law (1998) - We watched this one as a family. It was awesome.

7. Superman: The Animated series (1996) - This show is the main reason I'm such a HUGE Superman fanboy. I'm one of the few people who prefers him over Batman. And this show is why.

8. Batman Beyond (1999) - Rewatched it recently during the lockdowns & was genuinely amazed at how well it holds up & it's honestly pretty mature for a 'kids show'

9. Justice League animated series (2001) - This one was my jam! This show made me fall in love with DC. So fantastic!

10. Charmed (1998) - I don't know how well this one holds up but I absolutely loved it growing up.

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So many. Too many in fact. Watched a lot of serious shows mixed with a lot of kids shows.

Sailor Moon, which started my lifelong love for anime.

Art Attack

X-Files

Party of Five

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Sam Raimi's Hercules and later Xena: Warrior Princess.

Babar

Madeline

Recess

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Pingu

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I remember Babar from books. I loved Babar and then elephants in general. I know there was some TV stuff but I really remember him from books.

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Recess was great

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I never knew about the books till I was too old for them, sadly. I watched the show and the only other time I heard of Babar was in Coming To America.

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I was born in the mid 60s so most of my childhood years were in the 70s. Really big into reruns of Star Trek, Gilligan’s Island and Batman. In the later 70s The Dukes of Hazzard.

Edit: I forgot The Six Million Dollar Man

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'Speed Racer'. Animated show in the late 1960s. Me and my friends all loved that show. I didn't know until a few years ago it was Japanese.

'Land of the Giants'

'The Thunderbirds'. Animated/puppet-ish show of the 60s. Loved the cool aircraft/spacecraft.

In the early 70s:

'Hot Wheels'. Saturday morning cartoon about car racing.

'Banana Splits'

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Ah yes The Banana Splits. Quite a memorable theme song. Same with Speed Racer. I was especially interested by Racer X, who was a real adult when the rest were just kids. There was a certain pathos there as well, unable to reveal his identity as Speed's brother. Other Japanese cartoons I remember are Gigantor and Tobor the 8th Man (I didn't know they were Japanese, either).

From 1970 I'll add Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp.

I definitely remember "Supermarionation" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarionation
Remember the lovely Marina from "Stingray" google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=marina+stingray

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I remember all those you mentioned as as well!

Another Japanese animation was 'Marine Boy', again, never knowing it was Japanese until much later in life.

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The same producers who made the Thunderbirds made UFO and Space: 1999.

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The Real Ghostbusters
The 80s Incredible Hulk Cartoon
The 90s Batman cartoon
The 90s Spider-Man cartoon
Animaniacs
Gargoyles

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Dick Van Dyke Show, Sea Hunt, McHale's Navy, Green Acres, Jetson, Flintstones, My Three Sons, Petticoat Junction, Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Monkees, Carol Burnett Show, Whirlybirds, Lost in Space, Flipper, Time Tunnel, Ripcord, Lone Ranger, Mannix, Land of the Giants, Beany and Cecil.
Okay, I'll stop there.

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Ah, The Time Tunnel. I was 7 when it premiered in the fall of 1966, and it was my 2nd favorite show, after Batman. James Darren was my first model of what a cool, good-looking guy was. Adam West was certainly a good-looking guy, but he was very square. I was always mystified by what they were tumbling through here -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MByhY6aSUo&t=300s

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I also wondered what that was supposed be. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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The Mickey Mouse Club

Zorro

The Adventures of Superman (“Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird!” “It’s a plane!” “NO! It’s SUPERMAN!”)

Make Room For Daddy. (Danny Thomas, in addition to bring a comic savant, CREATED ST. Jude’s Hospital. St. Jude is the patron saint of hopeless causes. The hospital provides breakthrough care and research for pediatric cancer patients. I didn’t know any of this as a child watching this show, but I loved Danny Thomas’s energy, and now I know why.)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E

The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. (Stephanie Powers as April Dancer. No pubescent boy could resist her. Not for nothing, the
U.N.C.L.E. concept was created by Ian Fleming.)

The Wild, Wild West

Gunsmoke

Have Gun, Will Travel (Called “the thinking [person]’s Western,” probably the best “cowboy” TV show ever; and keep in mind that ALL of what we Americans call “cowboy” entertainment is a ripoff of the Samurai tradition. The “fast draw”? Look up Iajitsu.)

Star Trek (cancelled by someone’s genius brother-in-law)

The Twilight Zone (cancelled by someone’s genius brother-in-law)

The Outer Limits

One Step Beyond

Hullabaloo

Shindig

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In

The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Jackie Gleason Show

Lot of Disney, lot of cowboy stuff, lot of imaginative stuff, and some funny stuff. If you want to familiarize yourself with the dawn of broadcast consumer TV, please watch My Favorite Year, perhaps Peter O’Toole’s breakout performance. In her critique (NOT a mere “review”) The New Yorker’s Pauline Kale (as good a movie critic [NOT a mere reviewer] as has drawn breath,] wrote, “O’Toole is a revelation.”

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"Danny Thomas, in addition to being a comic savant, CREATED St. Jude’s Hospital."

This is an example of how celebrities should act. Thomas used his wealth and "star power" influence to open this hospital for children with cancer. And these patients receive care without charge.

I haven't seen much of Thomas' work outside of some episodes of his 1960s sitcom, and don't know much about his history. But the guy gets nothing but respect from me.

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Dammit ! You beat me to The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
That's the first show that popped into my head.
I think I saw a couple episodes not long ago and they weren't that good, but as a kid I thought they were ultra-smooth and cool, and I thought I resembled Ilya Kuryakin, (or however it's supposed to be spelled).

Apparently ... women disagreed.

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tarzan

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If I exclude some Swedish shows I don't think that you're familiar with, these were my favorites:

1: "Barbapapa".
2: "Babar" (Nelvana cartoon)
3: "Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers"
4: "Asterix"
5: "Widget the World Watcher"
5: "Captain Planet"
6: "Tintin" (Nelvana cartoon)
7: "My little pony"

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