Television and movies have lost their appeal to me. Most of TV shows today do little to interest me. I really don’t care much about reality shows. I have enough problems of my own without spending an hour listening to someone read off their scripted problems. Now there has been a couple of reality shows that I have watched but not many. And every series seems like it has to throw the gay agenda in the programming. I have nothing against gays but I don’t need it shoved in my face constantly.
For instance, I really did like the show Nashville and I did watch it for the first four seasons. Then the gay storyline seemed to take over and I lost interest. I have to say that wasn’t really country music either.
So now I spend much more time reading or writing or doing other hobbies. But sometimes I yearn for some of the older family type TV shows and thank goodness I can still find some of them on ROKU. That’s what I watch now.
Great Family Shows Of The 70s And Early 80s
Two of the best shows were The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie. Both were good shows the whole family could watch without seeing naked people or freaky looking people.
The Waltons series was on from 1972 until 1981. There were also several Walton movies starting with The Homecoming movie. The show was about a large family, seven children, their parents and grandparents during the depression years and later World War II. It reminded many of us of how we grew up, poor but with a loving family. The show would end with everyone saying goodnight. Goodnight JohnBoy, Goodnight Mary Ellen Just like my family used to do.
with John Walton and Olivia Walton
Little Hose on the Prairie was another good family show featuring Ma and Pa Ingalls and their three daughters and the townspeople of Walnut Grove in the late nineteenth century. The Ingalls lived in a small house before modern kitchens, cars and electricity. The Ingalls were just a poor farming family.
Another show that wasn’t exactly a family show was Dallas which ran from 1978 until 1991. It was about a family but it was more of a nighttime soap opera about a rich powerful family dealing in oil and cattle, two of the things Texas is best know for. It was about greed and power and a feud between the powerful Ewing family and the lesser powerful Barnes family.
Other Great Shows
There’s too many other good shows to mention but here is a short list of some of the best TV of the 70s, 80s and early nineties.
Westerns like Bonanza, Gunsmoke and the Big Valley. Those three cowboys from The Big Valley were real good looking men.
Comedies
There were some really great comedies from the 60s,70s and 90s.
The Beverly Hillbillies 1962-1971
The Brady Bunch 1969-1974
Bewitched 1964-1972
I Dream Of Jeanie 1965-1970
I love Lucy From the fifties.
Everyone Loves Raymond 1996 until 2005
I really miss good clean family shows, movies, westerns and comedies that actually make you laugh. It seems those shows and movies are gone for good except in our memories and on ROKU TV. Thank you ROKU.
