Television Shows from my Childhood

 To follow up with my post on the movies that I watched as a kid, I wanted to jot down some of the television shows that I watched when I was younger. In my family, television watching was usually limited to the PBS station, although occasionally my Grandma J would record television shows for us on VHS tapes. These are the television shows I remember watching the most:

• Little House on the Prairie. I loved this show, although I was a little distracted by Melissa Gilbert's large front teeth when she was a little girl (she played "Laura"). I have a very vivid memory of standing by the back door of our house in Cincinnati. My mom and I had just come back from grocery shopping, and I said, "Mom! It's 4:00! Can I watch Little House on the Prairie?!?" My mom gave me permission, and I remember bolting through the house to get to the television in the dining room area.
•  Perry Mason. I loved this show as a kid, even though the ending was always predictable - usually with someone in the courtroom audience impulsively standing up and shouting that they were the murderer.
• The Andy Griffith Show
• The Lawrence Welk Show. We would watch this every Saturday night at 7:00 pm. When we were young, V and I used to make our little brother A dress up in a suitcoat and dance with us. Then we would pretend to be the dancing duo, Cissy and Bobby. I also liked watching Arthur (the tap dancer) and Jo Ann (the honky-tonk pianist).
• Lassie. This is one of the shows that my grandma would record onto a VHS tape for us. She actually made this tapes for my brother, A, but I would watch them with him.

• Welcome to Pooh Corner. My grandma used to tape this Winnie the Pooh show for us as well. The song for the opening credits is still very familiar to me. We watched this show a lot, especially because my brother A loved it so much. In fact, V sewed a stuffed Tigger animal for A one year, because A loved Tigger (and liked to pretend he was a bouncy Tigger!).
• The Wonder Years. Ah, Fred Savage. I remember that one episode on TV ended with Winnie and Fred breaking up, and then the next week our local television station reverted to showing rerun of previous episodes. I watched the show for weeks faithfully, to see if a new episode would come on, but it never did. Did Fred and Winnie get back together?
• Boy Meets World. Ah, Ben Savage. I didn't love this show as much as The Wonder Years, but I just liked to watch it and think about how Ben Savage was not quite as cool (or as good of an actor) as his older brother, Fred.
• Family Matters: Steve Urkel never ceased to amuse me. I have a vague recollection of my mom laughing hard at something that Steve Urkel said/did, but I might be conflating that memory with a more recent memory of her laughing really, really hard at something Dwight said/did in The Office.
• Beverly Hills: 90210. Confession: I most definitely was not allowed to watch this show. This was one of the shows that I would watch if my mom wasn't home (or out of the room). It seems so silly now, but I was very curious about such hip teenagers when I was experiencing the awkwardness of middle school. I also thought Jason Priestly ("Brandon") and Luke Perry ("Dylan") were very handsome. If I was "sneaking" a show like this one (or The Jerry Springer Show or Ricki Lake or Saved by the Bell) or I always had to quickly change the channel if someone walked into the room.

Did anyone else watch these shows? What were the television shows that you were allowed to watch, and what were the shows that you were forbidden to watch?