B2Y - You can watch the Donna Reed Show on Hulu for free. http://www.hulu.com/the-donna-reed-show

I have in my list of shows to watch. You listed a bunch of great shows. I don't have cable so I'm limited to what I can watch. I have Netflix and Hulu. Some of the shows I loved to watch aren't on either one. But, The Donna Reed Show is on Hulu. Not sure about Netflix.

Star Trek and Combat, I wasn't real young at the time though, early teens.

Great thread.
So much fun to recall all these old shows.
I may be showing my age but, don't you think TV was so much better back then?
It was at least more wholesome.
I still love "Leave it to Beaver".

Don't know if it was mentioned but,
"Courtship of Eddie's father" ...so sweetly dealing with the loss of a parent.

D.

I do think TV shows were much better back "then." I don't know how or why that all changed. I guess when color TV became the norm. Things were so much better in black and white. j/k Leave it to Beaver was great!! I don't remember Courtship of Eddie's Father. I'll have to look that one up.

I remembered some more shows I liked to watch, and still do...

The Andy Griffith Show
Ironside
Rockford Files
Abbott and Costello (Reruns)
MASH

There were some more but I forgot. I'll eventually remember and post them.

I don't think it is from my childhood, maybe my kids. Hey, hey we're the Monkees!!!!!! We loved that show

Thanks, Doydie! I now have that song stuck in my head again!

Flipper was always fun to watch as was Lassie.

I remember watching a game show with my Mom called Concentration. I think Art Linkletter hosted it. You had to solve a puzzle made of pictures. My Mom loved that show.

I also loved The Wonderful World of Disney. Every Sunday night we'd get to pop popcorn and watch whatever movie was showing.

There was also a show called Born Free about lions in Africa. I can't remember if it was ever a series but there was a movie that I loved.

Finally, I loved to watch Family Affair. Mr. French was the "gentleman's gentleman" and there was Buffy and Jody. And Sissy. And Uncle Bill! Buffy had a doll named Mrs. Beasley and I always wanted one. I got one for Christmas one year but it just never seemed the same as watching the one on TV.

I remember Concentration. It was memory type game. I think they actually made a board game based on the show. Password was another game show that they made in to a game.

I totally forgot about Born Free!!! I loved that show.

We did the Walt Disney and occasionally popcorn Sunday night ritual as well. It was a magical night for us and the movies were always so good.

I never really watched Family Affair. I'm not sure why. Lots of my friends did and some of them had the Mrs. Beasley doll. I wanted one so bad but never got one.

Having lived for a few years in Colorado during my childhood, I probably watched more than my fair share of TV westerns.

Four of my favorites:

Gunsmoke (James Arness was the epitome of the classic good guy marshal)
Rawhide (Clint Eastwood’s first popular role)
Rifleman (There was always a moral lesson for rifleman Chuck Connors’ son)
Have Gun Will Travel (What else can I say, I liked Richard Boone)