I'm curious what your favorite classic TV shows are. I'm referring to shows from the 1950s through the 1980s. Here are some of my favorites:

The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Carol Burnett Show
The Andy Griffith Show
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Twilight Zone
I Love Lucy

*sigh* Well, if Star Trek: The Next Generation is "classic" than so am I. I'd say the original Star Trek is "classic" but TNG only qualifies as a "new classic" because otherwise I'd feel too darn old. Besides, TNG was more 90's than 80's.

If we include the 1980's, then I'd have to throw in some of the cartoons, since that is when I grew up, and I remember them fondly. Those would be: Galaxy High and Wildfire (two one-season shows from 1984?), the Smurfs, He-Man and She-ra, and my personal favorite, GI Joe (is the codename for America's daring, highly-trained special mission force. It's purpose: to defend the human freedom against COBRA, a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world. Knowing really IS half the battle, darn it!!). Hmm. I was a tom boy.

*Aside* My husband is chasing our toddler around with a toy chicken, clucking the theme song to Star Wars.

Anyway, if we're going really classic, I'd say Dick Van Dyke, MASH and Bewitched (but only the episodes with the original Darrin). And speaking of Elizabeth Montgomery, she also starred in one of my favorite episodes of another of my favorite classics, The Twilight Zone. She and Charles Bronson in "Two"... Oooh, spooky!

Yes, Ladymacb, that's right. And TNG ranks as a modern classic in my book, although my heart truly lies with the older classics from the '60s and '70s.

Well, now you two are just TRYING to make me feel old. So, not to sound snipish, but with 2 and a half seasons in the 80's and 4 and a half in the 90's, it IS more 90's than 80's. Like I said, I can consider it a new classic, but I'll fight it's status as a classic just the same way that I'll struggle against Def Leppard being played on my local "classic rock" station.

I thought it started in 87 and ended in 94? Ok, so that would be 3 seasons that start in the 80s...

And I remember when it first started airing, too.

Definitely "Bewitched". I had a big time crush on Elizabeth Montgomery as a kid, and have approximately 140 recorded episodes. I still watch it on TV Land.

my favorite is easily all in the family thats one of the funniest shows ever.

I don't know if it qualifies as a classic TV show, but I loved Quantum Leap. It was so different from anything else.

The Dukes of Hazzard (78-85)
MASH
Bewitched
Happy Days
Man About the House
Robins Nest
Are You Being Served? & most other British sitcoms.. they beat all others hands down

MASH
All in the Family
Magnum P.I.
Simon and Simon
The Muppet Show

There are so many that I liked it's hard to name. But here's a few.
1. M*A*S*H (all time favorite)
2. All in the Family
3. The Carol Burnett Show
4. Saturday Night Live (the old ones)
5. The Midnight Special
6. The Odd Couple
7. The Munsters

Newhart by far is the one I'd call my all-time favorite "classic" TV show. Then I'd have to say The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Carol Burnett Show would have to rate up there too...

Would Knots Landing and Dallas qualify for this category? Or The Love Boat and Fantasy Island They were must see tv way back in the late '70s/early '80s.

Benny Hill shows (which were repackaged for American TV), especially his Fred Scuttle skits, were probably my favorite. The old Carol Burnett show used to crack me up—that sketch with Tim Conway as a bumbling dentist who sticks himself with a Novocain shot is a classic.

- The Fugitive
- The Twilight Zone
- The Mod Squad
- Mission: Impossible
- Bewitched
- The Time Tunnel
- Laugh-In
- Peyton Place (it wan't as bad as they said...)
- Bonanza
- Gunsmoke
- Combat!

There. I think I just relived my childhood .

I love the Andy Griffith Show...Barney always crack me up!

My mother would never let me watch Peyton Place, Gats! You must've had a little more relaxed childhood than I did. And being a girl, I made myself scarce when my brothers turned to Rat Patrol or Combat.
But I did love things like the Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The Virginian, High Chapparal and The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Illya was the cutest thing that ever breathed, as far as I was concerned.

MASH
Bewitched
Doctor Who (my personal fave. esp. Tom Baker aka the Fourth Doctor)
Red Dwarf (totally Hilarious!)

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Illya was the cutest thing that ever breathed, as far as I was concerned.

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Did you know that the guy who played Illya is now playing Dr. Mallard aka "Ducky", the Medical Examiner on Navy:NCIS? Also, they actually referenced "UNCLE" in one episode? Someone comments to Gibbs that they can't picture Ducky young and Gibbs replys that he looked kinda like Illya Kuryakin. ROFL!

I Love Lucy
Father Knows Best
Bewitched
The Brady Bunch
Family
Fantasy Island
Benson
Family Ties
The Cosby Show
Growing Pains
Full House
Two Of A Kind
So Little Time

The Andy Griffith Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The original Star Trek
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
Little House on the Prairie

Just to name a few. I think these are my top six!

Andy Griffith
Dick VanDyke show
I Love Lucy
Starsky and Hutch
Ironside

I have recently rediscovered Quincy, M.E. (got it on DVD for Christmas). What a great show!

I like these too, as well as Leave it to Beaver.

How about the Golden Girls? It started in the 80's. I love that show!!

My absolute favorite classic would have to be MacGyver! I always had big crush on him.