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Back to the First 5 Most Family Friendly
and Exciting Shows of All Time.
Here's my take on the best of the best
family friendly TV DVD sets. These shows are compiled based on family
friendliness, content, and over all entertainment value. These
are the best of the best.
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your picks or my picks on the message board.
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5.
Monkees
The Monkees are just fun loving hippies. There's no sex and drugs
with this rock and roll though. Well there's probably a lot of
kissing, but that's as far it goes. Mostly it's just a lot of fun
watching the Monkees sing and flee from mostly everything including
monsters, mad scientist, gangsters, and anything else scary. The
DVD sets are a little expensive, but that's likely due to the fact
there's so much music on the sets. |
Just my
personal opinion here, but stay away from the
The
Monkees - Head Movie unless you are a super ultimate Monkees fan.
It's just a spaced out trip so to speak. It was the Monkees last effort
about the time the show was canceled, and I believe they were trying to
be hip or whatever the thing was back then. If you weren't alive back
at the time, then you probably would not only get this movie, you will
probably be freaked out by it's weirdness. I haven't really seen it
since I was a kid. I rented it out during the Monkees 80's craze, and
was just in a word, very bored. It's nothing like the great Monkees TV
episodes that are like a cartoon come to life.
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4.
Rifleman
The Rifleman stars the legendary Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain and
Johnny Crawford as Mark McCain. This is a perfect show to feature a
good strong father figure. Lucas McCain and his boy Mark must
survive the problems of the old west without the help of the boy's
mother who has passed away. I first saw the Rifleman back in the
80's in reruns and it quickly became one of my all time favorites. |
Everything is
top notch on this show including the musical score. Nothing is worse
than a show where the background music is dated like old synthesized
80's music. The background music from this show is timeless in a very
classic sense. The stories are always interesting, and the actors are
big screen quality. It's like a mini action packed movie in each 30
minute episode.
You can't
watch this show hardly in reruns. Even when it is shown it's usually
chopped to bits to make way for commercials.
One moment
from the show really sticks in my mind. Lucas was talking to his son
during a hard time, and he tells him the story of Job from the Bible.
That's something you wouldn't see on a TV show today!
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3.
Dick Van Dyke
What can you say about this show that hasn't already
been said? It's sophisticated comedy, great actors, and great
stories. It's clean wholesome entertainment your whole family can
watch together. Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore were at the top
of their game when they made this show. It's one of those classic
programs you can watch over and over again from now on. |
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2.I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy is probably the funniest show of all
time. It's just that well I have to give the number one spot to
another show that beats out Lucy on it's over all family theme, but
this show is great fun for the whole family. It's great fun for
anybody! They didn't call Lucille Ball the Queen of Comedy for
nothing. Desi and Lucy make the perfect sitcom team, and of course
you can't forget Ethel and Fred. |
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1.The
Andy Griffith Show
Family is what this show is all about. There just isn't anything
like it today. It's about loving your family, and your neighbor as
well. You laugh so much at this show because you feel like you know
these characters. Like they could live right next door. Don Knotts
made the comedy of the show as Deputy Barney Fife, and Andy gave
the show it's feeling of old fashioned home town wisdom with
dealing with all the antics surrounding him. |
Who can forget the great music from the
Darlins, the great lessons from episodes like, "Opie the Birdman",
all those wonderful characters like Otis the town drunk, Gomer Pyle the
town mechanic, and Floyd the Barber. True the color episodes went a
little dry after Barney left, but the show went out on top in 1968. The
last episode of the series went out number one, and it's been in
re-runs ever since.
Some notable mentions. I couldn't fit everyone of these shows into a
top ten format, but they could have easily fit.
Munsters
, Quantum Leap
,Amazing
Stories ,
Jack Benny,
Happy Days,
Home
Improvement,
Hogan's Heroes and the
Honeymooners.
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