The Simpsons

Power Rangers

Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

These are from young child up to late teens/20s

Spongebob

DragonBall Z

Ed, Edd, n Eddy

Avatar the Last Airbender

Power rangers

Scooby doo

All from different eras of my childhood I think, some existing in more than one

Earlier:

• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• The Simpsons
• ReBoot

Later on:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Invader Zim
• Futurama

In chronological order from kid to teen:

Scooby Doo
Duck Tails
The Wonder Years

• X-Men
• Alf
• the Simpsons

Dragonball Z introduced me to anime which became a life long enjoyment.

Clarissa explains it all exposed me (a guy) to more female lead content and I learned a bit more about other perspectives.

Captain Planet introduced me to the idea that we’ll never really stop pollution because super heros aren’t real lol

Hey Arnold

Ahh real monsters - idk about this one, but it’s the first one that came to mind

Captain Planet

• Bill Nye the Science Guy
• Reading Rainbow
• Wishbone

• Knightmare
• Bad Influence
• The Crystal Maze

Three’s Company

Pee-Wee’s Playhouse

Beavis and Butt-head

Tales from the Crypt

Monsters

Tales from the Darkside

Cheers

Doug

X-Men

Sliders

The Tomorrow People

Family Ties

Honestly, I read a lot more than I watched tv. There are tons of books that shaped me, but I had to struggle to remember the shows that helped me along.

Only three is hard, probably:

• Scooby Doo
• SpongeBob
• One of those local sitcoms that have raised about 3 generations on reruns and “would never be produced now” yet are still played on TV

Avatar the last Airbender

Star Trek TNG

Lizzie McGuire Show

MacGyver
The Secret City
Mr. Wizard

Great question. I could list dozens of shows that were favorites, or have special meaning to me, or that I watched the most, or ones that had a more longterm impact on who I am. But, specifically about impacting my world as a young person, I’ll say these three.

Honorable mentions: Looney Tunes, Cheers, MASH, Family Ties, The Young Ones, Doctor Who, You Can’t Do That on Television, Ren and Stimpy.

Hilarious, because it appears as though none of you were alive in my youth… My parents were too damned smart to let me watch the “Boob Tube”. Turns out they had wicked foresightedness - now you have hundreds of streams and almost all of it $hit.

So this is what I did see: Howdy Doody, only at my friend’s house Captain Kangaroo which I could watch when I was sick That Was The Week That Was (TW3) which I could watch because it was intelligent, political satire.

I’m no worse for the deprivation, and probably better.

Buffy the vampire slayer

Friends

And Dinosaurs

Samurai Pizza Cats

Star Wars The Clone Wars

Power Rangers

Animaniacs

Gargoyles

Doctor Who (Classic)

• Daria
• TNG
• South Park

This is actually a pretty hard question. At first I couldn’t think of any show but the more I thought about it the more came to my mind.

I narrowed it down to these three:

• MAS*H
• Hogan’s Heroes
• Dinosaurs

Not because I’m so old but because they where first aired in my home country in the early and mid nineties when I was at my granny’s place a lot of afternoons.

Later I moved town, kinda lost touch to my grandma and wasn’t really there when she got very old and then died.

Looking back it’s really sad that I wasn’t there for someone who spend a whole lot of my childhood with me and in fact was always there for me.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Deep Space Nine

Nova

• Simpsons
• Pokémon
• Power Rangers

• Star Trek The Next Generation
• The Simpsons
• Late Night with Conan O’Brien

• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Home Improvement
• Arther

• How It’s Made (with the witty British voice over)

• Myth Busters

• Big Bigger Biggest

I would lay in front of the Discovery Channel for hours while playing with Lego. Wouldn’t you know it, I grew up to be an engineer!

As a kid.

• Saved by the Bell.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• Ducktales.

As a teenager.

• The Wonder Years.
• Friends.
• Party of Five.

I didn’t include The Simpsons since growing up in the 90s, that’s a given.