Oy! Let me take you back to the early ’90’s for a few minutes. Say hello to Nanny Fine, Mr. Sheffield, Niles, C.C. Babcock, Margaret, Brighton, Grace, Sylvia, Val and Yetta. These were all of the friendly and quirky characters from the television show The Nanny. There was just something about Fran Drescher and the rest of the amazing actors on the show. Once you looked beyond her nasal voice, it was oddly captivating.
Thanks to Nick at Nite, I can once again watch The Nanny each night as I settle into bed. I love just sitting there, laughing (while sometimes knitting) and catching each of the fabulous punch lines. The timing on the jokes, often said by Daniel Davis as Niles the butler, still hold up today. As an adult I appreciate many of the items that likely went right over my head as a high school student. Now I enjoy how The Nanny makes me laugh, and melts the stresses of the day away.
So my question this week:
What television show from the past would you, or do you, love to watch? I suppose you can call it your guilty pleasure. It could be a cartoon (like Muppet Babies), drama (like Little House on the Prarie), or another comedy (like Mork & Mindy, The Nanny, Dinosaurs . . . . or countless others) or something else.
Now I will leave you with the fun theme song from The Nanny:
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Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the Mr. Linky there if you are participating.
Aloha #59
haha I loved that show! My favorite tv show that I love to watch from my childhood would have to be…. ALF… I love that show and own it on DVD… I even have a 2 foot tall stuffed ALF on display in my bedroom!! :)
I look forward to watching The Honeymooners late on Sunday nights.
Hard to say but honestly, I miss the X-Files before they got WAY WAY out there with the movies and all. Also Friends….still hard to let that one go.
I recently discovered MacGyver was available on Netflix. I loved that show as a kid. It seems like they don’t make good shows anymore. Maybe I’m just getting old. :)
I used to love watching Happy Days!
We’ve been trying to find some coyote vs. roadrunner cartoons. I know that they are silly, and I didn’t like any other looney toons cartoons but I liked those. My kids have never seen one.
Hm…. I used to watch Party Of Five all the time…
There are so many…I love Charles in Charge, Punky Brewster, California Dreams, Saved by the Bell, Full House…too many to name. (I’m a child of the 80’s)
I miss Mr. Belvedere and Punky Brewster especially!
The Nanny, Roswell, MacGyver, Little House on the Prarie.
I loved the Nanny! Let’s see …. ya know I don’t catch too many old shows. For awhile 7th Heaven was playing while my kids napped and I loved watching that everyday.
I have to watch Seinfeld every night. I DVR the reruns. That show never gets old to me or my husband.
I don’t watch any of the old shows. If I did it would probably be the X- Files.
Lately it has been Bewitched, But a do like watching the Nanny.
Man lately thats all i been watching roseann, gunsmoke, bonanza love them all
I loved watching The Golden Girls, they always got me to laugh, even now on reruns.
I love The Nanny :)
Brady Bunch and pretty much anything before 1980 I’ll watch.
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Oh wow, there’s so many….but, even though I’m a child of the 80s, my favorites to catch reruns of are WKRP, One Day At A Time, Alice, All In The Family.
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I LOVED “The Facts of Life!” That’s right – I’m an 80’s nut! And my favorite was Joe on the show. I wanted to knock the beejeebers out of Blair for picking on her all the time! LOL
I love to watch Gilmore Girls, Party of Five, Felicity, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, and Road to Avonlea. I get all of them on Netflix; I just wish they’d release all the seasons of Party of Five!
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That’s kind of a hard one because I generally don’t like watching anything twice. But, I have been finding that I still laugh at Friends every time on the syndications that I catch.
I haven’t been watching many old shows these days. But some of my favorites from the past are Friends, Gilmore Girls, MacGyver, etc.
I love to sit and watch old episodes of Home Improvement, also on Nick at Night. Another of my favorites that isn’t all that old is Everybody Love Raymond.
I love the NightStalker
Everybody Loves Raymond – to me it’s still the funniest of all!
CSI would have to be my favorite!
Good question! I liked Quantum Leap, the older X-Files and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
aahhhh. every once in awhile saved by the bell. or 90210 repeats ;)
I love Bewitched, The Addams Family, and The Munsters. Oh, and I Love Lucy too! She cracks me up!
I haven’t watched TV at all in years and I’ve never been too addicted to it, but recently we got the old Star Trek episodes from the library to watch with the kids. That was fun.
E.R. I’ve been watching past seasons, I’m up to season 10 I believe.
Oh I love the Nanny. When I lived at home with my parents during my year and a half in grad school my mom and I would watch the Nanny reruns on lifetime 11-12 I think they ran at night. They just started putting them on DVD so I have been buying both of us a copy so we can watch them whenever we want.
Glad to see other Nanny fans out there. :)