The Rockford Files

The Rockford Files was an American television drama series which aired on the NBC from 1974-1980. The show starred James Garner as Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford.
Rockford had served time in California's San Quentin Prison in the 1960s due to a wrongful conviction. After five years, he received a pardon. His infrequent jobs as a private investigator barely allowed him to maintain his dilapidated mobile home (which doubled as his office) in a parking lot on the beaches of Malibu, California.

Rockford's father, Joseph "Rocky" Rockford, was an ex-Seabee, semi-retired semi-truck driver who often nagged his son to get more stable (and less dangerous) employment, often urging him to follow in his footsteps as a truck driver. The relationship of father and son was an integral part of the show.

Green Acres

Green Acres was an television series that was broadcast on CBS from September 15, 1965, to April 27, 1971.

It was about Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert), an accomplished and erudite New York City attorney, acting on his dream to be a farmer, and Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor), his glamorous, bejeweled Hungarian wife, dragged unwillingly from the privileged city life she adored to a ramshackle farm.

Much of the humor of the series derived from the pragmatic yet short-fused Oliver attempting to make sense of the largely insane world around him. There seemed to be a dual perspective of reality: Oliver versus everyone else. The latter envelops the Hootervillians – and inexplicably Oliver's affluent mother. Mother Douglas lampoons Oliver and mollifies Lisa. There were times when it appeared that Oliver himself lost his bearings, such as when he rented a rooster or climbed a telephone pole to make a call.

The dishonest, oily salesman Mr. Haney, who sold Oliver the Green Acres farm, continues to con his easy "mark" in most episodes. Haney, along with young, glib farmhand Eb Dawson, scatterbrained county agent Hank Kimball, and grocer Sam Drucker, make up the main supporting cast. Eb habitually addressed the Douglases as "Dad" and "Mom", much to Oliver's irritation.

Newton's Apple

Newton's Apple was an educational television program distributed to PBS stations in the United States that ran for fifteen seasons from 1983 to 1998. The title came from the story of Isaac Newton's "discovery" of gravity, which supposedly happened when an apple fell from a tree onto his head.

An occasional short feature appeared called "Science of the Rich and Famous" in which celebrities appeared to explain a science principle; as examples, rock star Ted Nugent explained guitar feedback, Olympic Gold Medalist skater Scott Hamilton demonstrated the angular momentum of a skater's spin, and Betty White showed how cats purr.

Hee Haw: "The Naggers" Skit

Hee Haw was an television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. It aired on CBS from 1969–1992.

Here is a skit called The Naggers. It featured routines with Gordie Tapp and Roni Stoneman as LaVern and Ida Lee, a backwoods bickering couple.

Chico and the Man

Chico and the Man was a sitcom which ran on NBC from September 13, 1974 to July 21, 1978, starring Jack Albertson as Ed Brown (The Man), the cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic Chicano street kid who comes in looking for a job.

A hard-drinking widower, Ed (Albertson) stubbornly refuses to fit in with the changing neighborhood and has alienated most of the people who live around him. Ed uses ethnic slurs and berates Chico in an effort to get him to leave. Yet Chico sees something in Ed, and sneaks back in at night to clean up the garage and move into an old van that Ed has parked inside. As Ed sees all the effort Chico has put in, he begins to warm to Chico. Eventually, Ed grew to see Chico as a son, although he will deny this on many occasions.

The Dukes of Hazzard

The Dukes of Hazzard is a television series that originally aired on the CBS television network from 1979 to 1985.

It follows Bo and Luke Duke, two cousins living in a rural part of the fictional Hazzard County, Georgia, with their cousin Daisy and wise old Uncle Jesse, racing around in their customized 1969 Dodge Charger, The General Lee, evading corrupt county commissioner Boss Hogg and his inept county sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane.

My Two Dads

My Two Dads was a sitcom that starred Staci Keanan, Paul Reiser and Greg Evigan. It aired on NBC from 1987 to 1990.

The show began when Marcy Bradford, played by Emma Samms in flashbacks, the mother of Nicole Bradford (Keanan), dies. The two men who had competed for the woman's affections — Michael Taylor (Reiser) and Joey Harris (Evigan) — before Nicole was born had been awarded joint custody. The mix-ups of two single straight men raising a teen-aged daughter provided the story each week. Judge Margaret W. Wilbur (Florence Stanley), a family court judge, would frequently visit the new family and served as Nicole's mentor. Nicole's actual paternity was never revealed on the show.
 

Cagney & Lacey

Cagney & Lacey was a television series that first aired on the CBS from 1982 to 1988. A police procedural, the show starred Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly as New York City police detectives who led very different lives: Christine Cagney (Gless) was a single, career-minded woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Daly) was a married working mother.

Hee Haw: "Hey Grandpa! What's for supper?" Skit

Hee Haw was an television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. It aired on CBS from 1969–1992.

The Hee Haw "Hey Grandpa! What's for supper?"  skit opened with Grandpa Jones cleaning a window pane (with no glass in it), then reciting a dinner menu in poetic verse. Often, he would describe a delicious, country-style meal (e.g., chicken and biscuits smothered in rich gravy, and collard greens), after which the audience would reply approvingly, "yum-m yum-m!"

Sanford and Son

Sanford and Son was a sitcom that ran on the NBC television network from 1972 to 1977.

The main characters were Fred G. Sanford, a 65-year-old junk dealer living at 9114 S. Central Ave. in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California; and Lamont Sanford, his 30-year-old son.

Sanford was a sarcastic, stubborn, and argumentative antiques and junk dealer, whose frequent money-making schemes routinely backfired and created more troubles. Lamont dearly would have liked to enjoy independence but loved his father too much to leave him to his devices and schemes. Although each owned an equal share in the business and technically Fred was the boss, Lamont often found himself doing all the work and having to order his father to complete tasks and duties. Often, Sanford can be heard insulting his son, usually calling him a "big dummy". Lamont also insulted his father, sometimes referring to him as an "old fool".

American Bandstand

American Bandstand was a television show that aired from 1952 to 1989, hosted from 1957 until its final season by Dick Clark.

The show featured teenagers dancing to Top 40-type music and at least one popular musical act would usually appear in-person to lip-sync one of their latest singles.

Check out the clothes and dance moves in this 1985 American Bandstand clip... (too funny!!)

Hee Haw: Samples Sales Skit

Hee Haw was an television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. It aired on CBS from 1969–1992.

Samples Sales: Used car salesman role for Junior Samples, with Misty Rowe as his later assistant, in his guise as a magician called Junior the Great, would try to palm off a major 'clunker' and then hold up a sign to remind viewers that his phone number was "BR-549".

Sha Na Na "Those Magic Changes"

"Those Magic Changes" was a pop song from the 1978 musical Grease which was performed by Sha Na Na in the film version.

Here is Sha Na Na performing it on their self-titled TV show! Love it!

The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls was a sitcom that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1992. The show centered on four older women sharing a Miami, Florida home.

The owner of the house is widow Blanche Devereaux, who had recently been joined by widow Rose Nylund and divorcee Dorothy Zbornak, who had both responded to a room for rent ad on the bulletin board of a local grocery store. The three were later joined by Dorothy's mother, Sophia Petrillo, when Sophia's retirement home, Shady Pines, burned down.

Eight Is Enough

Eight Is Enough was a television comedy-drama series which ran on ABC from 1977-1981.

The show is centered around a Sacramento, California family with eight children (from oldest to youngest: David, Mary, Joanie, Susan, Nancy, Elizabeth, Tommy, and Nicholas). The father Tom Bradford was a newspaper columnist for the fictional Sacramento Register. His wife Joan took care of the children. The second season began with the revelation that Tom had become a widower. Tom fell in love with Sandra Sue "Abby" Abbott, a schoolteacher who came to the house to tutor Tommy. They were later married.

Hee Haw: Doc Campbell Skit

Hee Haw was an television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. It aired on CBS from 1969–1992.

Doc Campbell Skit: This long-running skit featured Archie Campbell playing the part of a doctor who often gave out terrible advice and bizarre medical "facts". Patients would often be one of the show's cast-members. The skit is also remembered for cast-member Gunilla Hutton's role as the doctor's assistant, Nurse Good-Body. Sometimes the skits would feature only the doctor and his nurse...with Archie hollering "Nurse Goodbody! Nurse Goodbody! Get in HERE!" to which she'd come into the scene looking nervous.

Life Goes On

Life Goes On was a television series that aired on ABC from 1989 to 1993. The show centers on the Thatchers: Drew and his wife Elizabeth and their children Becca, who was gifted but socially awkward with her fellow classmates, Corky, who had Down syndrome, and Paige, their eldest daughter.

During the show's first year, the focus mainly was placed upon Corky. Much of the show examined the challenges of a family whose son had Down Syndrome. In addition, during the first three seasons, episodes included Tyler Benchfield, Becca's high school crush, who also had a brother with Down syndrome. Eventually, Becca and Tyler would start a relationship.

In the third and fourth seasons the show's focus centered on Becca and a new character named Jesse. As the two became friends, Jesse told Becca he was HIV positive. Becca and Jesse began a relationship, despite his HIV, much to the surprise of those around them.

Charles in Charge

Charles in Charge was a sitcom series which aired on on CBS from 1984 to 1985 and 1987 to 1990. It stared Scott Baio as Charles, a 19-year-old student at the fictional Copeland College in New Jersey, who worked as a live-in babysitter in exchange for room and board.

Charles first worked for the Pembroke family: wife Jill, husband Stan, and their three children, Lila, Douglas, and Jason. When the show ended its run on CBS, and entered first-run syndication in 1987, the story explained that the Pembrokes sub-leased their house and moved to Seattle, and the Powells moved in instead, thereby allowing Charles to live downstairs yet again. This time, the family consisted of grandfather Walter, mother Ellen (whose husband was in the military, and consequently could only visit his family sporadically), and her three children, Jamie, Sarah, and Adam.

Intro with Pembroke Family


Intro with Powell Family

The Monkees

The Monkees, running from 1966 to 1968, on NBC, was a sitcom that followed the adventures of the then-fictional pop-rock quartet of the same name.

The stars were Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork. Each of the four was given a different personality to portray: Dolenz the funny one, Nesmith the smart and serious one, Tork the naive one, and Jones the cute one.

Hee Haw: Hee Haw Salutes...

Hee Haw was an television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. It aired on CBS from 1969–1992.

"Hee Haw Salutes..." : Two or three times in each episode, Hee Haw would salute a selected town (or a guest star's hometown) and announce its population, which was sometimes altered for levity, at which point the entire cast would then 'pop up' from the cornfield, shouting "SAA-LUTE!!"