My Favorite TV Shows from Childhood

Why is this here? Well, I was inspired to put this list together after Jake­Sully over at the Techn­odrome Forums posted a huge, impres­sive list of all his favorite TV shows from when he was a kid. So I thought it would be great to have a per­ma­nent place to list all of mine, both for nos­tal­gia and pos­ter­ity.  Because the older I get the harder it is to remem­ber all of the awe­some things that defined my childhood.*

Even­tu­ally I’ll get around to updat­ing this page with anec­dotes, video clips, cap­tures, theme songs and other nos­tal­gic good­ness, but for now just the list will have to do:

Favorite Cartoons:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur­tles
X-MEN
Gar­goyles
Bat­man: The Ani­mated Series
Thun­der­cats
Cap­tain N: The Game Mas­ter
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show
Sailor Moon
Mas­ters of the Uni­verse
She-Ra
Ani­ma­ni­acs
Tiny Toons
Garfield and Friends
Mup­pet Babies
Inhu­manoids
M.A.S.K.
Jayce and the Wheeled War­riors
Prince Valiant
Ren & Stimpy

Favorite “Filler” Cartoons:

(Explainer: These were the shows I didn’t nec­es­sar­ily make an effort to watch, but I enjoyed them in between the shows I really tuned in for.)

Eek! The Cat
Bobby’s World
The Tick
Den­ver the last Dinosaur
Grimm’s Fairy Tale Clas­sics
Camp Candy
Cap­tain Planet and the Plan­e­teers
David the Gnome
Police Academy

Favorite Live-Action Kid’s Shows:

Sesame Street
Frag­gle Rock
Punky Brew­ster
Out of this World
Saved by the Bell
Pee Wee’s Play­house
Are you Afraid of the Dark?
Mr. Wiz­ard
Eureeka’s Cas­tle
You Can’t Do that on Tele­vi­sion
Leg­ends of the Hid­den Tem­ple
Wake, Rat­tle and Roll
Read­ing Rain­bow
Shel­ley Duvall’s Fairy Tale The­ater
Today’s Spe­cial
My Secret Iden­tity
Fif­teen
Hey Dude
The Worst Witch (the HBO series + the orig­i­nal made-for-TV movie star­ring Fairuza Balk & Tim Curry)
Mr. Rogers Neigh­bor­hood
Shin­ing Time Sta­tion
Pin­wheel
The Ele­phant Show

Favorite Sitcoms:

Three’s Com­pany
Full House
Who’s the Boss?
Fam­ily Ties
Mar­ried with Chil­dren
Small Won­der
Roseanne
The Won­der Years
ALF
Just the Ten of Us
Dinosaurs
Herman’s Head
The Golden Girls
Mr. Belvedere
Kate & Allie
My Two Dads

Favorite TV Dramas:

Lois & Clark: The New Adven­tures of Super­man
Beauty and the Beast
Rags to Riches
For­ever Knight
21 Jump Street
Doo­gie Howser
Life Goes On
Amaz­ing Stories

Favorite Game Shows:

The Price is Right
Shop ‘Till You Drop
Leg­ends of the Hid­den Tem­ple
Find­ers Keep­ers
Nick Arcade
Dou­ble Dare
GUTS

Favorite “For­bid­den” Shows:

(Or the shows I wasn’t tech­ni­cally allowed to watch but I did any­way!)

Tales from the Crypt
Freddy’s Night­mares
Tales from the Dark­side
Dream On
Twin Peaks
The Tracy Ull­man Show
Studs (my older sis­ter and I would sneak & stay up late to watch this hilar­i­ous dat­ing show on Fox)

*I’m sure I’m for­get­ting stuff. I’ll update this list as I think of more.