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What TV series identifies for you, your 'era' - perhaps something that everyone your age watched and you all talked about next morning?

I think for me it was Auf Wiedersehen Pet.. a series about a group of construction workers who went over to Germany to find work.. There were follow up series and we watched them grow and develop.. rise and fall, fall and rise.. The theme song was pretty cool.. A couple of clips below.. We also liked The Young Ones about a group of students, it was very cutting edge and anarchic - I guess it appealed to young people back then, when we all thought we were invincible :P


Posted - August 9, 2018
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  • 44652
    M*A*S*H
    It's also one of the best TV shows ever filmed.
    The Carrol Burnett Show.
    I love Lucy.
    The Honeymooners.
      August 9, 2018 5:16 PM MDT
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  • 16830
    M*A*S*H ran three times as long as the Korean war did .

    For me, it was Kimba (one of the very first animes to be successful outside Japan), Monkey, Basil Brush and the old Britcoms - Are You Being Served?, Mind Your Language, Love Thy Neighbour, Porridge, Man About The House (remade in the US as Three's Company) etc. And syndicated reruns of the Brady Bunch - as a ten-year-old I had a hopeless crush on Maureen McCormack, like every other prepubescent boy in the Western world. This post was edited by Slartibartfast at August 11, 2018 8:51 AM MDT
      August 11, 2018 6:51 AM MDT
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  • 10052
    As a child, The Facts of Life and Silver Spoons were the ones that we all watched and talked about. When I was a teen, the show Thirtysomething came along and gave us a completely false sense of what married/family life would be like. 

    As a young adult, it was ER, Friends, Seinfeld. 


      August 9, 2018 5:49 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    Johnny Carson
    David Lettermen
    Saturday Night Live

    When I was a child the only hour my sister and I were allowed to watch on tv was on Sunday Nights.
    Walt Disney and Mutual of Ohama's Wild Kingdom. 
      August 9, 2018 7:16 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    No Waltons or Little House on the Prairie? You poor, deprived girls! 
      August 10, 2018 6:58 PM MDT
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  • 11092
     All In the Family, M*A*S*H, Mary Tyler Moore and Bob Newhart . They aired in that order all on the same night. MTM was especially popular here because it was set in my city.
      August 10, 2018 3:22 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    The Monkees?  High Chaparral.  Both popular c. 1966 to '68 when I was 9 and 10. 
      August 10, 2018 4:50 AM MDT
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  • 11154
    Ya that was a good one very entertaining. Cheers!
      August 10, 2018 9:10 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    How were you 9 and 10 two years apart?
      August 10, 2018 9:14 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    OK I turned  9 October '66 and 10 Oct '67 but I remember watching the latter series in summer of 1968 when I was still 10.  Goodness you guys are sticklers for exactness.  Who knows maybe I even watched it in '69 when I was 11 so I stand accused and condemned.  Sorry. 
      August 10, 2018 9:19 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    Accused and condemned? Goodness, you take everything so seriously. I was just asking a question, not "accusing" you of anything. Try to lighten up!
      August 10, 2018 1:36 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    Hi Stu Bee! :) :)  You always make me smile when we are on together and even when we are not.  It's great to see you! 
    Happy! Happy!
      August 10, 2018 9:37 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    Right back at ya!
      August 10, 2018 1:34 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    !
      August 10, 2018 1:35 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    They lived in Hackney NE London before they were really famous...:) 
      August 10, 2018 1:48 PM MDT
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  • 53526

      One that immediately comes to mind was one of the first of the miniseries, "Roots". There are many others that fall into what you're asking, this is the first one I thought of. 



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      August 10, 2018 7:16 AM MDT
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  • 44652
    Shouldn't LaVar Burton be on that list?
      August 10, 2018 8:55 AM MDT
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  • 53526

      I didn't compose the list. 
    ~
      August 10, 2018 9:09 AM MDT
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  • 44652
    Seems unfair. Nobody ever heard of him at the time.
      August 10, 2018 10:46 AM MDT
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  • 6477
    There were others I could think of too... but I just mentioned the first two that came to my mind.. I think that's a good exercise in itself..
      August 10, 2018 11:42 AM MDT
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  • 11154
    The 60's  TV series Lost in Space and not just because the mom Mrs. Robinson made me feel like I was climbing the gym rope at school. Cheers!
      August 10, 2018 11:36 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    Friends ...I just loved Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox ...my dad use to sit and watch it with me to....I think he fancied both of them...:)  
      August 10, 2018 1:55 PM MDT
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