Which were your parent's favorite TV programs?

My parents were born in the early 1940’s.

MASH
Odd Couple
SOAP
Hawaii 50

In addition to those my mom liked:
Mary Tyle Moore show
Dick Van Dyke show
Rhoda
The Joker’s Wild game show

Later she watched Golden Girls, Designing Women, Airwolf, A team, Jeopardy, and now CSI, and real life detective type shows.

My dad watched, in addition to the first shows I mentioned, Star Trek, when I was little.

Now, they both like to watch some travel shows, Antique Road Show, Big Bang Theory, and some other sitcoms I am sure, but I am not living with them to know all of them or at least I don’t remember, when they visit me we do watch shows with them, I just don’t remember which ones they regularly watch.

We weren’t big TV watchers, then. I only remember my parents watching M*A*S*H and All in the Family. Once my mother upgraded to a color TV in 1980, we were teens and cable TV had come to the neighborhood, so we commandeered the tube to watch HBO and MTV. My mom did watch Jeopardy and even tried out for it.

All In Family. I had forgotten that one.

Omnibus, Sid Caesar, Ed Sullivan, The Honeymooners, Playhouse 90 and other live dramatic anthology shows.

I forgot that my mother and I were glued to Masterpiece Theater‘s production of Brideshead Revisited — oh, how I lusted for Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews.

Father: Football
Mother: soaps particularly As the World Turns

I purged my memory of all traces of the shit my parents used to watch.

My parents were born in the mid 30s. My mother enjoyed Lawrence Welk, Hart to Hart and Bob Ross. My father enjoyed shows like Kojak, The Rockford Files and Baretta. They both also enjoyed watching Johnny Carson.

All in the Family and Hogan’s Heroes.

My dad was born in 1952, first and foremost his favorite show was Star Trek. Pretty much all of them. Then Colombo. Or something like that. It was this detective guy who talked to his dog.
And a French comedy show called La Petite Vie. (the little/small life)
He also liked car racing. Like those formula 1 car races.

@jonsblond: Now I have the theme to The Rockford Files in my head. We kids watched that one, I don’t think my parents were too into it.

I’m not sure which detective show @Symbeline is referring to – did Quincy, M.E. have a dog?

It also brought to mind Ellery Queen which starred Jim Hutton, and I watched that with my mother.

This. (I misspelled it)

Oh that reminds me, he also loved Law and Order. I like it too.

@Symbeline – I misunderstood when you said, “or something like it,” I thought you meant the show was something like Columbo – not that you weren’t sure of the spelling. Sorry!

Quincy ME
Columbo
Rockford Files
Trapper John, MD
Marcus Welby
I Love Lucy
The Jefferson’s
Ironside
Mission Impossible

More and more are coming back now that I see other people’s answers.

My mum regularly tuned into two shows…

Little House on the Prairie
Coronation Street

My mom wouldn’t let us watch Little House on the Praire or The Waltons. She said it was too sickening sweet. all my friends watched it, I felt like I was being deprived or something.

My dad, before he buggered off, watched only the one show & that was the genius that was Benny Hill.

Little House on the Prairie was awesome lol.

@Symbeline Sure was, the mum was hawt & I wanted to stroke her breasts before bedtime.

I also liked Anne of Green Gables.

They never missed the Tonight Show with Johnny.
They usually watched a movie at night.
Dad watched football on Monday nights.

Other than that, I don’t know that they watched much TV. Either that or I was outside and had no idea what they were watching.
On Sunday’s we watched Lassie and Disney and the Wide World of Sports (Dad would always come up with some new, dumb joke every Sunday that involved someone’s feet getting hurt so he could end it with the punch line “Oh the agony of da feet!”)

They liked Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, Walt Disney, 77 Sunset Strip, Bonanza. They were born in the 30’s.

@ucme your dad liked The One Show? :-P

That took way longer than I expected & the predictability still made me groan.

@ucme You line ‘em up, I just respond…