What's the best show that started before 1970?

My top 5:

1. The Twilight Zone
2. The Honeymooners
3. Star Trek
4. The Andy Griffith Show
5. The Addams Family

Very Good list.....

1. The Andy Griffith Show
2. The Honeymooners
3. I Love Lucy
4. The Twilight Zone
5. Gomer Pyle

1. I Love Lucy
2. The Twilight Zone
3. The Dick Van Dyke Show
4. The Munsters
5. Alfred Hitchcock Presents


[Edited by RobCA on 02-25-01 at 06:45 PM]

1. Star Trek
2. The Twilight Zone
3. The Outer Limits
4. Batman
5. Gilligan's Island

Here's Mine:

1. The Twilight Zone
2. Mr. Ed
3. The Honeymooners
4. Green Acres
5. Gilligan's Island

1. The Dick Van Dyke Show
2. Star Trek
3. The Andy Griffith Show
4. I Love Lucy
5. The Twilight Zone
6. The Outer Limits
7. The Honeymooners
8. The Addams Family
9. Dragnet
10. Gunsmoke

1) The Adventures of Superman
2) Batman
3) Dragnet
4) The Fugitive
5) Gilligan's Island
6) The Lone Ranger
7) I Love Lucy
8) My Three Sons
9) Star Trek
10) The Twilight Zone

RoboDad, I forgot "The Dick Van Dyke Show." Great show. I want to move it to #5 on my list.

I know. It was hard even keeping my list down to ten shows. There are some really great shows listed in this thread, and even more that haven't been mentioned (yet).

I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned Bilko / You'll Never Get Rich / The Phil Silvers show. Maybe because it hasn't been widely seen in a long time; Nick stopped showing it about 3-4 years ago.

This show is phenomenal. Very few better examples of matching an actor with a premise or character.....

My top 5 6:

1. The Andy Griffith Show
2. Green Acres/Petticoat Junction
3. Mr. Ed
4. Gomer Pyle
5. Dennis The Menace

The Honeymooners
The Jack Benny Show
Burns and Allen

My favorites:

Star Trek
Hogan's Heroes
Gilligan's Island
Batman
Twilight Zone

Good stuff already listed. I would add the original Mission: Impossible show, which I believe started in the 60's. And Bugs Bunny!

The Andy Griffith Show is the best of all time.

Charles in Charge!

Playhouse 90


Blake - LoL!



[Edited by guyot on 02-27-01 at 11:49 AM]

Always heard those episodes are great but never seen any. Do they rerun them anywhere or are you just really, really old?

Small Wonder

Loved the Addams family!

I've never seen them rerun as an actual series. Bravo ran a lot of them back when they were doing that history of television thing a couple of years ago.

I've seen most at the Museum of Television & Radio out here in LA.

second Small Wonder

talk about defining 'Lil Cutie'

1) Star Trek
2) The Beverly Hillbillies
3) Monty Python's Flying Circus
4) The Dick Van Dyke Show
5) The Andy Griffith Show

1. The Twilight Zone
2. I Dream Of Jeannie
3. The Munsters
4. Wild Wild West
5. The Addams Family

Hill Street Blues
All in the Family
The Cosby Show
L.A. Law
Taxi