I loved WKRP. Having worked in broadcasting for a number of years, it struck many chords.

I'm enjoying a lot of the CBS classics now, because they simply were not available in our town. We had NBC and ABC, and that's it! I wish the powers that be would do a marathon of old Carol Burnett shows..they were available, but there are many I'd like to see again. Like Carol singing with Beverly Sills..and the time she called an audience member's bluff to come on up and sing..and he was great! And of course Tim Conway and Harvey Korman breaking each other up.

Oh, yeah, Carol Burnett was definitely a high point in television comedy. At least in retrospect, it seemed such a sweetly innocent and gentle time. Now I'm feeling all nostalgic...does that mean I'm finally starting to get old? lol

Harvey Korman died just a few days ago. What a talent he was.

I loved the show with the Smothers Brothers and Lily Tomlin...was that the one with the Church Lady? josh

Two comic geniuses at work.

Do you remember Soap? Such a cast and such characters!

OMG, I LOVED Soap! I wonder if it's ever shown anymore?

I can remember back when I was in high school, Nick at Nite had a weekend long marathon of The Bob Newhart show. I always liked that show and I think me and my mom watched TV that whole weekend.

I think Laverne and Shirley is probably my all time favorite "old" show.

Hadn't heard about Korman's passing. Lately I've been getting chuckles out of Frasier, which I didn't pay that much attention to when it was current. Seinfeld is still good too, although as with Red Dwarf it eventually slipped into a shockingly unfunny phase later on.

If we're going to talk about old TV shows, let's talk about OLD TV shows, like Mr. Peepers, Our Miss Brooks, The Gale Storm Show, Your Show of Shows.

Whoops! I'd best stop because now I'm really showing my age.

Here in Chicago, there are a couple of UHF channels that show old shows almost exclusively. We've been feasting on old episodes of Maverick, Twilight Zone etc. To see the same reruns I've been watching since I was 10 is sort of the television equivalent of comfort food for me. They go back as far as the Jack Benny show and mine some of the more obscure (to me, anyhow) 1950s westerns and detective shows (not that I plan on being up at 2 am to watch "Mr. Lucky," although I know the theme music and its spinoff, "Mr. Lucky Goes Latin"). They're also probably not getting nearly enough advertising revenue, so they show old commercials from the 1950s and '60s. So if one wants to be subjected to Mr. Whipple and Josie the Plumber a few more times, or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan shilling soap, MeTV is just the thing!

While back home in PA a few weekends ago, I could resist buying a DVD of some old Twilight Zone episodes. My all time favorite is "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (episode 123, aired Oct 11, 1963) with a very young William Shatner who has a nervous breakdown when he sees the gremlin on the wing of the plane. It scared me then and still makes my spine tingle to this day! DS thought I was crazy until he watched it. What a big baby!

One step beyond
Outer limits
Tales from the dark side
Night gallery

Lily Tomlin was on Laugh-In with Dan Rowan & Dick Martin.
That's the show that gave Goldie Hawn her start.

The Smothers Brothers were guests on a lot of variety shows, & then they had their own;
they were always at loggerheads with the censors, & eventually they got cancelled.

The Church Lady was on Saturday Night Live.

Censors were a biggie in the sixties;
remember the Carol Burnett episode about the nudists?
The writers had something in the script describing slow dancing, & the censors rejected the wording as too suggestive.
Frustrated, Carol Burnett asked them how they, the censors, would like the actors to refer to the dancing.
the answer....

"cheek to cheek"

& Our Miss Brooks-
wasn't Osgood Conklin, the principal, played by Gale Gordon, later of "Lucy" fame?
& Walter Denton, Connie Conklin's would-be suitor, was played by Richard Crenna!

Sylvia, Goldie didn't get her start on Laugh-In - she was a co-star in a sit-com before that. Not a good one and not a long lived one and not one I can remember the name of. Laugh-In made her famous, but it didn't give her her start.

In drama series I loved "The Naked City".

Mr Ed is my all time favorite. I still know all of the words to the theme song....im such a dork.

Sheila, yes Gale Gordon was Osgood Conklin. Great memory you've got!

Anothr great oldie was "Dobie Gillis" which featured a very young Warren Beatty & Tuesday Weld in supporting roles, as well as well as a pre-Gilligan's Island Bob Denver as Dobie's beatnik sidekick, Maynard G. Krebs.

Cop show: Hill Street Blues was the best

Have we mentioned what I think was the best "doctor show"? "St.Elsewhere".

I agree, Sheila

Except for that last episode where the whole thing turned out to be in the imagination of the autistic child. I thought that just bit the big one, to be perfectly honest.