Tom Shales Quotes

I love watching old sitcoms. It's very inspiring to watch 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Golden Girls.' I have watched them over and over again for years.

When I grew up, my family, we sat down, all of us to watch 'Good Times,' 'Sanford and Son,' all those shows that were out at that time.

'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.

Growing up, I used to watch 'Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'All in the Family.' Those were the shows I watched growing up with my family. And, believe it or not, 'McMillan and Wife' and 'Columbo.'

I grew up watching 'The Lone Ranger.' I would get up every Saturday morning, earlier than all the other kids, to watch a black and white western with Clayton Moore that hadn't filmed a new episode since 1957.

I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' from an early age, 'Laverne & Shirley.'

'The Outer Limits' was one of those shows I grew up watching - that and The 'Twilight Zone.'

When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.

My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'

I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.

I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.

I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.

I'm really aging myself, but I grew up with 'Playhouse 90' and the plays on the air - 90 minute plays.

I watch a lot of classic movies - my TV guilty pleasures are 'The Wonder Years' or the original 'MASH' show.

If you go back and watch the original 'V,' you're like, 'Oh, I thought this was great. It kind of looks really cheesy.'

I watched 'Who' with a mixture of affection and exasperation through the eighties, always ready to cheer on the Doctor but seldom feeling that the series was playing to its strengths. Some of the adventures, revisited on DVD, turn out to be better than I remembered - others just as infuriating.

It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago.

I watched a lot of American TV, all those repeats of 'Star Trek,' 'Fantasy Island,' 'M*A*S*H,' 'Lost in Space.' All that stuff was the fodder of my childhood.

We lived a lovely, middle-class, suburban life in Philadelphia. And I really thought that the TV programs of the '50s, like 'Father Knows Best' and 'The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet' Nelson were documentaries filmed with hidden cameras in our neighborhood.

I loved when my folks would watch 'The Dean Martin Show.'

I remember watching 'Quantum Leap' when I was a kid with my family, so I think that's fun and nostalgic.

I do think there was an age of television back in the '90s that was a little bit more wholesome.

All those Bob Hope specials made me cringe when I was a kid.

I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.

My earliest memories would be 'Little House On The Prairie.' I also really liked watching 'Three's Company.'