The same thing occurred with The Flintstones. The theme for the First Season was an instrumental piece called "Rise And Shine" (you can still hear it as background music in some episodes), which was replaced by "Meet The Flintstones" in the Second Season, and replaced the original theme for the First Season in reruns. Something I miss from old TV shows are true anthology shows like Love, American Style and The Twilight Zone. Although The Twilight Zone has been revived (twice), and anthology shows returned in the form of The Love Boat and Fantasy Island (which featured a regular cast and setting as a frame for the stories), it wasn't the same as the originals. I also miss Summer Replacement Series. During the Summer, after the regular series had finished their first and second runs, the Networks would often run summer replacement series to see if they might find an audience. The one that comes to mind is Three's Company, which started out as a six-episode summer replacement series and was popular enough to become a regular series. Another one that I remember was called A Year At The Top. The premise was the Son Of The Devil would make a deal with a performer for a year of fame and success in exchange for his soul. The series featured Greg Evigan (later in My Two Dads) and Paul Shaffer (later on Saturday Night Live and Late Night With David Letterman).
Variety shows, often with the star comedian/comedienne. Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton and many others. A little dancing, a little singing, some comedy sketches. I think the last true variety show was a summer replacement called: Presenting Susan Anton.
Me too! I loved Saturday morning's watching Bandstand and Soul Train. I also loved Dance Party U.S.A. I think a new dance show with music acts would be fun.
A little off topic but one annoying thing that has made it's way into today's "situation comedies" is the cast sitting around drinking beer. You would NEVER see that back in the day, how times have changed...
Boat size cars parking right in front of the destination. Also cops solving cases by hitting the streets as opposed to watching security cam video. But there is the parking situation.
Exactly what I was thinking....westerns. I recently started watching METV all day on Saturdays and their back to back western shows from back in the day.
Storyline-integrated commercials, featuring the cast of the show. Serious ones, not ironic ones. "Did you know that that two teaspoons of Geritol contain twice the iron in a pound of calf's liver?" - Kevin
The last few years I have been re-watching many of the T.V. shows that I watched as a kid. The more I watch them, the more I think to myself "Wow, I can't believe I actually liked this'. I can honestly say that I really don't miss anything. Then again I don't really like much that's on today so I probably won't be missing them either.
It started with "Friends", they would sit around the living room all drinking beer . Obviously not "Cheers"as it was set in a bar.
Comedy that doesn't rely solely on insults and vulgarity...quality westerns...action/adventure shows where a 5' woman doesn't knock a 6' man across the room with a single punch....men who are competent and intelligent... shows where you feel better and inspired after watching them...I don't know, I've pretty much stopped watching TV but those were some of the reasons I stopped.
It's rare that show's even last more than two season's without getting canned Some really good one's that I've liked a lot have been given the Axe, which I don't understand since they were really good But yet show's like "Big bang Theory" stick around and around...never understood how it did I miss show's like "Fringe" and the "X-Files"
To me, no show is old unless it's black 'n' white: Decoy, Father Knows Best, The Saint, early Perry Mason. I miss everything about those shows.
He was one of the Maverick boys: Brett (James Garner), Bart (Jack Kelly) Beau (Roger Moore) and Brent (Robert Colbert).
