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1975
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Scooby-Doo
The original "Scooby Doo, Where Are You?" series was the best, and then it all went downhill from there. They started bringing in guest stars like Sandy Duncan(?), relatives like Scooby Dumb....and then they hit bottom with S&*!#py Doo.
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1976
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Big John, Little John
I loved this show as a kid, but as an adult, nobody else seemed to remember it (and even trying to search for info online usually met with dead ends). I remember the theme went "Big John, Little John, what a way to grow...."
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1976
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Mr. Mouth
I used to cheat whenever I played this by managing to flip in two chips at a time. I was a little stinker, wasn't I?
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1977
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Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
This is a perfect example of a childhood memory that should remain just a memory. I enjoyed this show as a kid, and over the years I had such happy memories of watching it Saturday mornings. Then in 1996 they released some episodes on video (to cash in on the Olympics), and I bought them, hoping to relive the joy I experienced as a child. I was in for a huge disappointment. The animation was crude, the plot was threadbare, and the jokes were painfully unfunny to the adult I had become. I sat there stunned, thinking "I actually enjoyed this???"
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1978
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The Brady Bunch
Embarrassing childhood memory: when I was about 7 years old, I would stand next to the TV and play air guitar to the closing credits music.
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1978
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Barbapapa
I loved this bizarre little show as a kid. Barbapapa (taken from the French for "cotton candy") was a pink blob who had a family with his wife, Barbamama. I still find myself saying the catchphrase "Clickety-click, Barbatrick!"
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1978
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Helicopter Games
I remember playing the one on the left in the picture shown. A bunch of aliens would randomly pop out from the buildings and you had to position your helicopter to shine a light on them.
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1979
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The Pink Panther (series)
Whenever one of these movies would be on TV, my parents would come and get me out of bed to have some tea and watch it with them. (Years later I saw Mike Myers on David Letterman saying his parents did the exact same thing with him.)
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1979
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Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot
I saw this as the movie ("Voyage Into Space") back in the '70s and totally loved it. I can remember years later in high school still quoting "Giant Robot! Giant Robot!"
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1980
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The Littlest Hobo
Remember "Run, Joe, Run"? This was kind of the same canine variation on "The Fugitive" (with a husky instead of Richard Kimble): dog moves from town to town, meets people, and changes their lives before moving on.
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