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What are the Top 3 TV Shows that define your (personal) youth?

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

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  • This is actually a pretty hard question. At first I couldn't think of any show but the more I thought about it the more came to my mind.

    I narrowed it down to these three:

    • MAS*H
    • Hogan's Heroes
    • Dinosaurs

    Not because I'm so old but because they where first aired in my home country in the early and mid nineties when I was at my granny's place a lot of afternoons.

    Later I moved town, kinda lost touch to my grandma and wasn't really there when she got very old and then died.

    Looking back it's really sad that I wasn't there for someone who spend a whole lot of my childhood with me and in fact was always there for me.

    • Thanks for sharing your memory. I hope you are able to cherish the memories you had together.

  • Knight Rider, The A-Team, MacGyver

    Honorable mentions to Dukes of Hazzard, The Fall Guy, Magnum, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, TJ Hooker, Manimal, Automan etc

    What a time to be a kid

    • In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them...maybe you can hire The A-Team.

      Being the generation that grew up as kids of Vietnam vets was a trip. You had these dudes with BA Baracus looking like he was ready to fuck some fool up to pity them. After that, you had the privileged White middle-upper class family of the Brady Bunch being all corny af, saying shit like, "Gee whiz, Mom! That's positively fantastic!" There were eight people living comfortably off of one wage with a housekeeper.

      Imagine that today. The A-Team would be four Afghan and Iraq vets all tatted up working out of a desert-colored F150 Raptor hunting down pedos. One of them would be called Ricky Recon with the signature phrase, "It's time for some group therapy!" They'd also have a lady with them that would be the reasonable one. Every episode would include one line where someone removed about the VA. The next show would be Modern Family.

  • Avatar the Last Airbender

    Power rangers

    Scooby doo

    All from different eras of my childhood I think, some existing in more than one but I obsessed over all of them

  • 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!"

  • The Ren & Stimpy Show

    Saved by the Bell

    You Can't Do That on Television

    (But really, so many more.)

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