FLIPPER?
GENTLE BEN?
THE RIFLEMAN?
DENNIS THE MENACE?
MAYBERRY RFD?

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Get Smart! ?
Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle?
Leave it To Beaver?
Father Knows Best?
Buns and Allen?
I Married Joan?
The Honeymooners?
Ding Dong School?

(oops! Time-travelling again!)

Actually, I'd guess "One Step Beyond"

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Originally posted by grasstains:
FLIPPER?
GENTLE BEN?
THE RIFLEMAN?
DENNIS THE MENACE?
MAYBERRY RFD?

No - I don't see any of these shows being much like TAGS, with the obvious exception of RFD, and not even that really!

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Originally posted by Braling II:
Get Smart! ?
Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle?
Leave it To Beaver?
Father Knows Best?
Buns and Allen?
I Married Joan?
The Honeymooners?
Ding Dong School?

(oops! Time-travelling again!)

Actually, I'd guess "One Step Beyond"

All fine guesses, all fine shows, all wrong, tho.

M*A*S*H is my second favourite American sitcom, and almost a mirror-image of TAGS in the style it was written, acted, and filmed.

Many episodes were written by some of the same folks who wrote many of the best Griffith shows.

I could tell you lots of good stories of TAGS - M*A*S*H connections. But I won't.

Little House On The Prairie
or
All Creatures Great and Small?
Therse were later than Andy Griffith, though...

You guys know...no tv in the fp451 household. But I do tape worthy programs at school for some m&d authorized family viewing: (ie, the following from TvLand - Munsters, Leave It To Beaver, Addams Family, Green Acres, Lil' House on Praire, and Bonanza - (what a Saturday night tradition that show was when we were kids! Scrub down in the tub after a full day of ball, trees, tag, swamps, hide n' seek, and rock throwing. Then pj's, some cereal, and: "Dumdeedeedum...deedeedum deedeedum...Dum,Dum,Dum.....Dum, Dum!" Then the map of Virginia caught fire. (Was I on key?)

It didn't get much better than that. What do they have today? Beavus and Butterbrain!

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Originally posted by fjp451:
"Dumdeedeedum...deedeedum deedeedum...Dum,Dum,Dum.....Dum, Dum!" Then the map of Virginia caught fire. (Was I on key?)

Practically.

I thought it was Nevada?

But wait - no TV in the house? How do you play the recordings?

It was a map of Nevada! The fire started in Virginia City, then a big town, now a touristy ghost town. I've been there and twice to the Ponderosa and done the tour of the Cartwright house, etc.
My dad, in some contest his company had, won a big RCA console color tv and our neighbours used to come over and gather round for Bonanza!

Doug, I believe Fjp, like me, uses his tv really only for recordings. Our home has been channel-free for over 25 years.

Right, "V. City."

25 years - now that is some quality (and admirable) reading and conversing time!

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Originally posted by Braling II:
The fire started in Virginia City, then a big town, now a touristy ghost town.

Maybe slightly larger than a ghost town, but certainly no metropolis!

Doug, somehow the start of the old Bonanza episodes would not have been quite the same had the opening map had the zooming in appearance your link (above) presents!!

[QUOTE]My dad, in some contest his company had, won a big RCA console color tv and our neighbours used to come over and gather round for Bonanza!QUOTE]

My parents bought our first color TV in order to watch Bonanza in 'Living Color!' It sure was color, Little Joe would be purple while Ben would be green.

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Originally posted by jkt:
My parents bought our first color TV in order to watch Bonanza in 'Living Color!'

You city folks! We didn't get our first colour TV until somewheres around 1980 or so!

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Originally posted by jkt:
It sure was color, Little Joe would be purple while Ben would be green.

TV's first sci-fi western! Clearly Ben was a Marsman and Joe a Venusian!