What were your favorite TV shows as a kid?

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

Through 2022 eyes they're incredibly bad. I avoided watching the remake of Battleship Gallactica until the show had been over for years and then binged watched it for a month. It was really good. I can't sit and watch a full episode of the old Battlestar Galactica as an adult but when I was a kid they would show the reruns on channel 9 and I was obsessed. It's just amazing the differences between shows today compared to back then: the acting and depth of the stories are worlds apart.



A-Team isn't as bad. I still find it amusing to watch. It's the only show from the 80s I can watch an entire episode despite every episode is exactly the same.


V was both a TV series and miniseries. Too young to have seen it when it originally aired.



Tour of Duty. The only show of the four that watched when it originally aired.

[Anglo-Celtic]

My dad almost always controlled the remote. We watched a lot of cop shows and detective shows like these.

The A-Team
Miami Vice
The Equalizer
Wise Guy
Mike Hammer
Remington Steele
Hardcastle & McCormick
Simon & Simon
Jake And The Fatman
T.J. Hooker

[ClassificationExpert]

All the Disney shows like Austin and Ally, Lab rats and many of em

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[Colonel Frank Grimes]

I really liked the show Roseanne for the first few seasons. I stopped watching it freshman year of high school because it got absurd. I liked when it was just about a working class family from Illinois trying to get by and then it turned into something else. The humor was very different from family shows at the time. I would say it was a groundbreaking show. A lot of family shows that came later were basically Roseanne rebooted.



A typical odd show from Canada. You can't do that on Television.



Not a show but I really liked watching Disney's Sunday Movie unless that week's movie was faggy....

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

My dad almost always controlled the remote. We watched a lot of cop shows and detective shows like these.

The A-Team
Miami Vice
The Equalizer
Wise Guy
Mike Hammer
Remington Steele
Hardcastle & McCormick
Simon & Simon
Jake And The Fatman
T.J. Hooker

I don't recall my dad having a preference for any shows but if there is a Western, action, or war movie he'll sit and watch it. My dad is a cool dude. We watched all the Porky movies together and if you know about that movie series it's very raunchy. I doubt I understood much of it when I was a kid but I remember enjoying the movie.

I do remember asking him about this scene because I didn't understand what was happening but he wouldn't tell me. He was laughing hysterically and I laughed because laughing is contagious.

[Paraguayo HFD]

Disney Shows and Cerro Porteño

[Ellethwyn]

I liked Family Matters when i was 6 & 7. My husband makes fun of me, because i told him how i wrote to the show... ok to Steve Urkel ( after the show they always gave the address to write in). I received a signed photo of Jaleel White (Steve Urkel) and a letter from him after sending my letter. I was so shocked to hear back.


I also liked My So-Called Life when i was like 12, and of course i grew up watching The Simpsons.

[Anglo-Celtic]

I really liked the show Roseanne for the first few seasons. I stopped watching it freshman year of high school because it got absurd. I liked when it was just about a working class family from Illinois trying to get by and then it turned into something else. The humor was very different from family shows at the time. I would say it was a groundbreaking show. A lot of family shows that came later were basically Roseanne rebooted.

The '90s might have been my fave decade for *network* TV shows. "Roseanne" definitely is in my top ten '90s sitcoms, but I'm not a big fan of the current incarnation (if it's still even on the air). I'm absolutely clueless about network dramas and sitcoms now. I watch so little TV that I replaced my big screen with an "antique" from my childhood after the superior technology went to electronic heaven.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

I liked Family Matters when i was 6 & 7. My husband makes fun of me, because i told him how i wrote to the show... ok to Steve Urkel ( after the show they always gave the address to write in). I received a signed photo of Jaleel White (Steve Urkel) and a letter from him after sending my letter. I was so shocked to hear back.


I also liked My So-Called Life when i was like 12, and of course i grew up watching The Simpsons.

My name here is of my favorite character on The Simpsons and so obviously I love The Simpsons. Episodes written by John Swartzwelder are always the best episodes. Unfortunately the show went downhill after the 10th season.

The best scene from The Simpsons ever.



I remember My So-Called Life. It was very different for the time.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

The '90s might have been my fave decade for *network* TV shows. "Roseanne" definitely is in my top ten '90s sitcoms, but I'm not a big fan of the current incarnation (if it's still even on the air). I'm absolutely clueless about network dramas and sitcoms now. I watch so little TV that I replaced my big screen with an "antique" from my childhood after the superior technology went to electronic heaven.

The show came back for I think a season but then Roseanne Barr got in trouble for what she wrote on twitter (muh racism...). Roseanne Barr is a nutjob. The show sucked anyway. I watched the first episode and the son of the Darlene character is a boy who dresses like a girl and they have a Black grandaughter. So it was clear the show would be a mess as it had been the last few seasons back in the 90s. Now the show has been renamed The Conners. They did the classy thing and killed off Roseanne by way of a drug overdose.

Most television does suck. Much of it is the fault of the people involved in the creative process because they put politics ahead of a good story and some of it is the fault of the audience for not appreciating when a show is actually good.

Some good shows that were canceled were too awesome for the average person because the average person sucks.

Freaks and Geeks was such a great show. I didn't watch it until a decade later. I didn't watch much TV when I was in college.


Space: Above and Beyond. Only lasted one season in the mid-90s.