Please try your best to narrow it down to THREE! Can you recall which shows on TV feel synonymous with your youth? Can be your childhood phase, your adolescent phase, etc. - whatever you define as your youth!
For me: Jackie Chan Adventures, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Pokemon
Gilligan’s island
I dream of Jeannie
Perry Mason
Man. Daria was so good! I still watch it occasionally.
The first three that come to mind are:
- Daria
- Hey Arnold
- Round the Twist (Australian kids show)
Ed, Edd, n’ Eddy
Spongebob
Power Rangers
Dr. Who
HR Puffenstuff when I was tiny, I remember it freaking me out
Star Trek the Next Generation
Transformers
MacGyver
Star Trek TNG
Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, the Lone Ranger.
I’m not THAT old, but New Zealand didn’t have television until late in the day, so we got cheap, years-old US kids’ shows. I was ten before our region got TV and it was a few years after that when we got our own set. The first TV I ever watched was coverage of what must have been one of the early Saturn rocket launches. We went to my older sister’s boyfriend’s house to watch it. Very exciting!
I liked Lone Ranger best. “Hi ho Silver, and awaaaay!”
- Out of this world
- Gargoyles
- The Simpsons
MASH
WKRP
Barney Miller
If only your third was a 4 letter acronym too. 🙃
Star Trek the Next Generation
Night Court
X-files
Star Trek: TNG
Reboot
X-files
For me personally
The Simpsons Courage the Cowardly Dog What’s with Andy
Byker Grove
Art Attack
Fawlty Towers
Wow I’ve not heard of a single one of these! I’ll have to look into them.
The Ren & Stimpy Show
Saved by the Bell
You Can’t Do That on Television
(But really, so many more.)
- The Simpsons: From seeing Season 2 episodes someone had recorded from Sky TV on VHS before it was on terrestrial TV, through to Season 9 when it stopped being good many years later. It was on all the time and we never got bored of it.
- Red Dwarf: The first TV show I was allowed to stay up “late” for, when it broadcast at 9pm. Felt like I’d entered a new stage in my life watching a late-night comedy show.
- The X Files: Similar to the above, this was the first serious, “grown-up” TV show I watched, and I was hooked. I thought anything with a paranormal tinge was awesome at that younger age (I guess I still do, although through an admittedly far more sceptical scientific lens these days).
I felt the exact same way about the X Files while I watched it too! It was on my personal honorable mentions ✅
Are you me?
I’m going to strongly assume you’re about 40 in that case haha
The Simpsons.
Stargate SG-1.
Star Trek Deep Space 9.