Your favorite black and white TV shows?

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  1. jbscotchman

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    Andy Griffith
    Gunsmoke
    The Twilight Zone

    Honorable mention: The Three Stooges
     
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    Andy Griffith
    Perry Mason
    The Fugitive
    Twilight Zone

    almost forgot! Mister Ed!

     
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    I've actually been watching ME TV in the mornings before work because the news sucks. Leave It To Beaver and My Three Son's has been really entertaining.
     
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    F-Troop FTW!....the early ones were BnW.
    Munsters
    Adams Family
    The OG Godzilla movie.
     
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    twilight zone
    munsters
    the saint
     
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    Twilight Zone
    Gilligans Island
    Flintstones
    Andy Griffith
    The Honeymooners
     
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    The little rascals
    Twilight Zone
    The invaders
    Danger man (the reason why the prisonner get in the village)
    Les chevaliers du ciel (the old french version)
    Zorro
    Supekutoruman (or Spectreman)
    Czterej pancerni i pies (or a dog and 4 tank crew)
     
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    Twilight Zone
     
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    Was that in black and white originally?
     
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    All 36 episodes of the first season were filmed in black and white and were later colorized for syndication.
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    First season, then color.
    Flintstones also, first two seasons B&W.
     
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    Totally forgot about The Little Rascals.
    Three Stooges
    Laurel and Hardy
     
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    Haven’t thought about these shows in years. This is the official “you are getting old” thread. :)
     
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    If a mod wants to change the title to that, I'm ok with it. YES, we're getting old damnit!
     
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    I always loved the b&w, i have a lot of thing that were made before my birth...
    With the all digital culture a lot of thing disapear (music and video) you can't imagine how many "monument" are just unaviable now due to internet culture.
     
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    With my dad in the military, the family moved around quite a bit. Or, sometimes my mother, older brother and myself would live with my grandparents. In almost every case, I managed to find some low-rent UHF station that would always show programs from the 1950s and 60s. (And, I thank The Creator for them doing so.) Things like,

    Dark Shadows
    The Wild, Wild West
    Have Gun, Will Travel
    (...which was a title I couldn't quite grasp the meaning of as a child.)
    Maverick
    The Twilight Zone
    Wanted Dead Or Alive
    The Beverly Hillbillies
    Secret Agent
    The Untouchables
    Alfred Hitchcock


    ...and others I can't remember the names of. (There were a lot of Westerns.) Every time we moved, I'd find my Dark Shadows episode sequence in complete chaos. (Probably saw the first season 38X, or so.) I remember watching, and absolutely loving, The Three Stooges and Laurel & Hardy, but I don't remember them as actual weekly programs, but rather something a regional, afternoon variety-show would throw in between cartoons. I find what passes for comedy today on television appalling by comparison. All this old-skool TV exposure gave me a distinct advantage when encountering certain Trivial Pursuit categories when I grew older.

    I've always found that the way both B&W television, and, most especially films, are illuminated is nothing short of genius. The reliance on proper lighting to convey the range of tones within a scene had to be challenging. Perhaps a lost art by now.
     
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    Mr Ed, they did a version in Te Reo, the language of the Maori people of New Zealand

     
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    Love all those, we got lots of US and British stuff, best of both worlds!
     
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    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    The Outer Limits
    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
    The Rat Patrol
    Car 54, Where Are You?
    I Spy
    Get Smart
     
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