This is a listing of the most popular over the air television show by year since Nielsen began ratings. I have never seen American Idol but a lot of people apparently have.
We have been called several times by Nielsen representatives and asked to participate but I turned them down each time. Apparently, they pay you something but I still don't care to participate.
We don't watch local news anymore unless something is brewing. We read the Denver Post and watch national news on cable alone. All of our evening viewing is on cable rather than the over the air network programs.
1951 Texaco Star Theater NBC
1952 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts CBS
1953 I Love Lucy CBS
1954 I Love Lucy CBS
1955 I Love Lucy CBS
1956 The $64,000 Question CBS
1957 I Love Lucy CBS
1958 Gunsmoke CBS
1959 Gunsmoke CBS
1960 Gunsmoke CBS
1961 Gunsmoke CBS
1962 Wagon Train NBC
1963 The Beverly Hillbillies CBS
1964 The Beverly Hillbillies CBS
1965 Bonanza NBC
1966 Bonanza NBC
1967 Bonanza NBC
1968 The Andy Griffith Show CBS
1969 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In NBC
1970 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In NBC
1971 Marcus Welby, M.D. ABC
1972 All in the Family CBS
1973 All in the Family CBS
1974 All in the Family CBS
1975 All in the Family CBS
1976 All in the Family CBS
1977 Happy Days ABC
1978 Laverne & Shirley ABC
1979 Three's Company ABC
1980 60 Minutes CBS
1981 Dallas CBS
1982 Dallas CBS
1983 60 Minutes CBS
1984 Dallas CBS
1985 Dynasty ABC
1986 The Cosby Show NBC
1987 The Cosby Show NBC
1988 The Cosby Show NBC
1989 The Cosby Show NBC
1990 The Cosby Show & Roseanne NBC & ABC
1991 Cheers NBC
1992 60 Minutes CBS
1993 60 Minutes CBS
1994 Home Improvement ABC
1995 Seinfeld NBC
1996 ER NBC 1997 ER NBC
1998 Seinfeld NBC
1999 ER NBC
2000 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? ABC
2001 Survivor: The Australian Outback CBS
2002 Friends NBC
2003 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CBS
2004 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CBS
2005 American Idol Fox
2006 American Idol Fox
2007 American Idol Fox
Do you think we could back to the 60's, 70's and early 80's?
I was thinking the same thing when I saw some of those recent programs but I would go back even earlier.
One of the cable channels here has carried the Texaco Star Theater with Milton Berle and the Martin and Lewis Colgate-Palmolive programs from the late 40s and early 50s. Those were recorded live with something called kineoscope, in which they apparently set up a motion picture camera in front of a TV monitor and filmed the show as broadcast.
They have also had Your Show of Shows with Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, and gang.
They were just as funny now as when I watched them as a kid.
They also had Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town but I never was interested in it when I was a kid and this time around, I had to turn to something else.
I wish that more of the old shows were shown here. They had more sense than the shows today.
You may need to watch it twice; once to watch the Burma shave signs change and once to catch all the pictures plus listening to the music of the Statler Brothers. You may need to copy and paste.
For those of you too young to remember 'too bad you missed it!!'
http://oldfortyfives.com/DYRT.htm
That is really cool.
I have heard that song by the Statler Brothers many times but never in that light.
A lot of that stuff seems like yesterday.
I had to play this again this morning and then set a bookmark on my browser.
This is somewhat reminiscent of my grandmother going around singing "Bicycle Built for Two."
I dont recall movies being taboo on Sunday but then I dont ever remember back then going to a movie other than on a Friday or Saturday night.
That was fun. I remember most of it, some as a child, some as an adult.
I missed this post last night but was sure great to wake up to this and get me moving. I remember all of this, I'm afraid.
But very lucky too. Make sure you view the rest of the site - 50's, 60's, cars etc. Ther songs certainly bring back memories. The Longton Cafe use to have a little dancing floor where all of these songs were played. I was at the Cafe in Longton when I heard about the plane crash with Buddly Holly, Big Bopper etc. We played Chantilly Lace over and over. Still makes me sad. Staler Brothers were always my favorite.
Ole Granny
Bonnie and I remember well the dance floor at the Longton Cafe, don't we, Bonnie?
What wonderful times we had there and the memories are fond ones, that is for sure.
Jo, I was thinking about all of the good dancers that came from learning to dance in that "back room dancing floor!" It seemed like all of the good guy dancers from Longton pretty much had the same steps, I always thought it was a "Longton thing," until I "got out of Longton!" "Jitterbugging" was the dance of the day! What fun! Who do you think was the best dancer? Besides Fred, and Bob, of course? Tino Delatore was really a good dancer, Virgil Allen, the Shanks boys, my cousin, Darrell Hare, to name a few! Was that really that long ago?