Mr. Ed
2010 May 29
I loved these pet-centered shows when I was a kid:
How about you? What were your favorite tv shows with pets?
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I just love the tags to this post: Lassie, Mr. Ed, Rin Tin Tin
I’m creative like that, buddy.
I never talked to a talking horse (of course) and Timmy was a little too whinny for my taste and seriously a German Shepherd should be named Adolf or Heinrich not after a can… but I did enjoy the age of 30 minute solutions, rescues and all’s right on the home front! Even Beaver (is that another animal?) could find a place for an alligator that’s outgrown the bathtub in 30 minutes. Somewhere in all this I think there must be some great theology but then it was the age of black and white TV?
Ah, the age of black and white. What a good description in so many ways.
I don’t miss it.
When our son was a preschooler, I’d put his baby sister down for a nap every day and we’d pull his Little Tykes table up to the TV and watch Lassie while we ate lunch together. We didn’t have cable and it was on PBS. I know it wasn’t a good habit to eat in front of the television, but it was our time and we both have sweet memories of it. So my favorite pet show? Lassie. Definitely Lassie.
What about Flipper? Of course I have Craig around, so I get Flipper any time I need a fix.
I don’t know if these count as pets, but I always loved Gentle Ben and Flipper.
Does Alf count?
Wasn’t “Mr. Ed” on Sunday afternoons, around 5? It seems like we’d watch it right before heading to p.m. service. We girls would have to hurry after the show to slip on a dress, of course—-couldn’t be caught dead in our pedal pushers at “church”.
Daddy always thought June Lockhart was pretty, & would comment on it from time to time……my little sister & I named ourselves or our dolls “June” quite often in our imaginary play because of that, I think.
Loved all of the above as a child. By that time these shows were syndicated as reruns after school. I also loved the Lone Ranger’s horse–Silver, Gentle Ben, and any animal show.
Yes, Flipper too! He was faster than lightning, you know.
And Alf can count. But Jeanna, that’s an indication that you and I are not the same age! Alf was way after my childhood.
Yeah – I was a child in the late 70′s, early 80′s. I don’t remember any animal shows. If there were any, they just weren’t memorable.
The only one that I ever watched was Fury, a big black stallion. Seems like Flipper came on too close to church time to watch.
What about “Thing” in Addams Family? Oh yes, that was a hand.