TV shows you only appreciated after years

[TBman]

If we're talking westerns (which I love) then its

Rifleman
Have Gun Will Travel
Wagon Train
Gunsmoke
Bonanza
Wanted: Dead or Alive

[Murphy Slaw]

Don Adams (Get Smart) was a comic genius.

As was Adam West (Batman).

As was (is) Micky Dolenz.

[godfreydaniel]

Gunsmoke. I didn’t watch it growing up. I think that was because my father was a Bonanza fan and both shows may have been on at the same time. Some western cable channel started showing the old ones a number of years ago and I got hooked. I definitely prefer the black and white seasons.

[chistrummer]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

Any TV shows that you only started watching or enjoying late in their run or after it went off the air? Talking about shows that you could have watched during their airing and not ones from before you were born or too young to watch.

Everyone Loves Raymond. I only started watching it during it's last couple of seasons. Great show.

Same thing with Seinfeld - I started in Season 4 or so before I watched my first episode.

Yea, King of Queens. I still look for the reruns.

[Bax Burgess]

Originally Posted by godfreydaniel

Gunsmoke. I didn’t watch it growing up. I think that was because my father was a Bonanza fan and both shows may have been on at the same time. Some western cable channel started showing the old ones a number of years ago and I got hooked. I definitely prefer the black and white seasons.

The early ones were dead serious - hard lessons on the frontier.

[FrankHudson]

Originally Posted by Bax Burgess

The early ones were dead serious - hard lessons on the frontier.

I may have to try a few of those. In it's day (when westerns were as dominant as detective/investigation shows are now) Gunsmoke was known as "an adult western" which may have reflected those themes.

Coincidently, James Arness was a local Twin Cities MN boy, and last summer I'd bike past his childhood home every day with my son on the way to some summer activities.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by chistrummer

Yea, King of Queens. I still look for the reruns.

Same for me. King of Queens is a show I didn't watch until the last season or perhaps even after it was off the air. Kevin James always makes me laugh, even in his movies.

[Muddslide]

The only show I can think of that fits this bill for me is the Andy Griffith Show. As a kid I hated this boring show about a bunch of hicks.

Now I love it. Maybe because I am a boring old hick (?)

Other shows I didn't like as a kid I never came to like much really.

There are, however, some shows I used to like that I now find painful to watch, or are just not entertaining to me now.

[Nymuso]

Perry Mason

Peter Gunn

[bkwrm]

Originally Posted by Johnny K

Ayeeeee Yup!

With Lost, I was ready to drive to his house and beat him to death with his own pitards.

Star Wars is dead to me.

How he managed to not screw up Fringe is beyond me. But I'm glad there was probably an adult present to reign him in.

JJ Abrams had very little day-to-day involvement with "Lost" after season one, and didn't have much of hand at all in "Fringe" other than his production company producing it.

[Tony Burns]

I dont know about that Dru ?
A few of the shows i loved as a kid , i rewatched an episode or two
wonder how i could of been so brainwashed as a kid -they were terrible-

Lost in Space
Mission impossible
My favorite genie
etc.

[Shuksan]

Originally Posted by Tony Burns

I dont know about that Dru ?
A few of the shows i loved as a kid , i rewatched an episode or two
wonder how i could of been so brainwashed as a kid -they were terrible-

Lost in Space
Mission impossible
My favorite genie
etc.

I guess My Favorite Genie must have been on the network we didn't get where I lived as a kid in southern Oregon. I never saw that one.

[Acousticado]

Originally Posted by Tony Burns

I dont know about that Dru ?
A few of the shows i loved as a kid , i rewatched an episode or two
wonder how i could of been so brainwashed as a kid -they were terrible-

Lost in Space
Mission impossible
My favorite genie
etc.

Originally Posted by Shuksan

I guess My Favorite Genie must have been on the network we didn't get where I lived as a kid in southern Oregon. I never saw that one.

I don’t recall a show by the name of My Favorite Genie either. Maybe you meant My Favorite Martian?

[Shuksan]

Originally Posted by Acousticado

I don’t recall a show by the name of My Favorite Genie either. Maybe you meant My Favorite Martian?

Or I Dream of Genie. Or possibly, I Dream of My Favorite Martian.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by bkwrm

JJ Abrams had very little day-to-day involvement with "Lost" after season one, and didn't have much of hand at all in "Fringe" other than his production company producing it.

Lost was a show I only watched after it's full run was completed. I don't think I even saw a single episode during the run. What a great show!

Fringe was another great one which I missed the original airing but watched it all afterwards. That's one I'll watch again in a few years.