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For me it was TBS; they had Leave it to Beaver, Brady Bunch, Bewitched, Addams Family, The Flintstones... a lot on that list for after-school viewing.

Thinking in terms of shows I could still watch today I'd vote Dick vanDyke, Addams Family, Bewitched, the B/W Beverly Hillbillies and, not on the list, Leave It To Beaver (the older ones when Beave was a cute kid). The Munsters was pretty good, but the wife annoyed me. I liked Jeannie and Gilligan, but I don't think I could watch them today.

Yeah, TBS. That's how I started out a Braves fan. Braves games were on and they had Maddux, Glavine, Smoltz, Justice, and the immortal Otis Nixon.

Didn't they always start their shows a few minutes late? I think that's why I watched it. I would surf around (all 20 channels) and if I didn't find anything, I would settle on something from TBS. Like Captain Planet.

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We didn't have cable ... we got 3 stations when I as growing up - Channel 20(NBC) out of Springfield, 17(ABC) out of Decatur, and 49(CBS) out of Champaign. The CBS channel didn't always come in (that's 80 miles from Springfield), so 5:00 Flinstones was dependent on weather and atmospheric conditions. But Gilligan was on our local station as well as I Dream of Jeanie. So these shows weren't just on the superstations.

btw watched episode #1 last night of Gilligan and I didn't realize that the cave they used to hide from the Mirabi head hunters that they feared was the same cave where the giant spider was in the following year. I also noticed that when Gilligan tripped the trap and the rocks blocked them in the cave, when they were crawling out the Skipper was crawling right behind Mary Anne sniffing her ass like a dog in heat. He put his hand right on her ass to "help her". I'm going to keep my eye on this as the show develops. I think I missed this when i was 10.

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"Boy, that was exciting. I always say it ain't over til it's over, but that one should've been over a while ago." ~ Yogi Berra

Yeah, :05 and :35 of every hour. Their thinking was just as you described, surf other channels then come to them. However, they caught some flak because if you watched their program and switched, you missed the first five of any other show.

That was back when about the only programming they had was 20-year old TV series(es) and Ted's Braves. I was watching during the Dale Murphy days -not good programming.

Alan Hale was preparing for a "first mate," as the old salts call it.

Alan Hale wasn't too subtle on the set about his conquests.

This.

Don Knotts was brilliant as Barney Fife... The DVD Show is 1-A for Carl Reiner's comedic genius, and the fact that circa-1962 Mary Tyler Moore was gorgeous beyond words.

Honorable mention for Gilligan, Get Smart, and F-Troop.....

I used to think the same thing.

But, when I was looking back at both shows, I noticed that Bewitched premiered in 1964 and Jeanie the year after.

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Adam Carolla has a hilarious rant about these beautiful, magic women eager to please and how they found the only two guys on the planet who really weren't interested in any that. The premise makes zero sense whatsoever.

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The producers of Bewitched tried to make up for the scripts by hiring actors named Dick Sargeant and Dick York.