Sometime I just feel like being lazy and sitting on the couch and watching some TV. However there are times I just can’t decide what to watch. Either I don’t feel like searching for something to watch or just like to have something on that is not really something you have to pay a lot of attention to.
These are absolutely my go to shows. Used to be Andy was the way to go but here recently The Rifleman has really taken 1st place.
If it’s showing Andy in color it’s a no brainer and I flip it to the Rifleman.
Just two wholesome shows that never get old.

The Rifleman is a strange show, I've said it time and time again. Here's a rancher, who we never see doing any ranching. But about once a week or so he kills somebody and nobody seems to really mind.


" McCain attempts to solve as many problems as possible without resorting to shooting, yet still manages to kill 120 villains over the show's five-year run"

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The Rifleman is a strange show…But about once a week or so he kills somebody and nobody seems to really mind…

Ha…my bride and I recently discussed how individual judgement and action in support of setting a societal limit to public entitlement vice the current propensity for enabling government limitations to an individual’s freedom or independence is long, long overdue…

I am not quite sure the articulation of the correlation, but I am certain in the relation!

Godspeed and Good Hunting Y’all!…we are going to need it…

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The Rifleman is a strange show…But about once a week or so he kills somebody and nobody seems to really mind…

Andy Griffith didn't routinely carry a gun, but there were long guns on a wall and he unhesitatingly went to guns when necessary. Once he even let Barney fully load his revolver. Also, off-screen and prior to the in-universe events of the show, he shot and wounded a man. That man came back in one episode and everybody thought he was seeking revenge on Andy, but it was to actually thank Andy for turning his life around.

I thought the color episodes of Andy were pretty lame as well. But the show "jumped the shark" when Barney left.

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So no Hazel ? L I T. Beaver or l.h.o.t. prairie?

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So no Hazel ? L I T. Beaver or l.h.o.t. prairie?

On Antenna TV, MeTV and COZI-TV, respectively.

Need some McHale's Navy and Hogan's Heroes in there. Gonna have to pick Andy over Chuck Connors.

My go to TV program is the original Perry Mason.

I rank the best Western TV shows of the era:
1. Maverick
2. Rifleman
3. Paladin
4. Gunsmoke (pre-color)

FWIW, when all the shows went color circa 1966 > they were all instantly worse.

Andy Griffith is my all-time favorite show, and has been since my childhood!

Yeah, both ok, Gunsmoke may edge them out, for me.

Little known fact: Leave it to Beaver was originally supposed to be titled Leave it in Beaver.

I think Andy Griffith is probably the best television show in the history of the medium.

Someone took MeTV away from our market (I use the free channels transmitted, no cable or dish) so when I get hankering for '60s series it's the Heroes and Icons channel, or the DVD player with:

Wagon Train
Rawhide
Batman
Combat!
The Avengers (not the cartoon/comic book ones)
Have Gun Will Travel

may be a generational thing, or simply what was in syndication in my area growing up, ,

or what my parents watched,

however , I did not see a lot of westerns on TV, other than Wild Wild West, which was dropped in this area, but not in my grandparents area, in the 70's, so when there, we got to watch it,


I recall watching Hogan's Heros, petticoat junction, Green Acres, Beverly hillbillies etc,


and I think we watched most all the 'new' or primetime cop shows, Adam 12, Emergency(technically not a cop show) Chips, Beretta, Cannon, Mannix, the one with Jed Clampett, hawaii 5-0 and probably a handful I have forgotten,

Andy Griffith all the way for me.

And if the rotation of episodes is in color I roll to Hogan's Heroes.

Yes, the later episodes of Andy Griffith, after Don Knotts left the series, are nowhere near as good as the earlier episodes.

I was raised on a steady diet of Andy Griffith, Leave it to Beaver, Father knows best, and the ultra awesome Beverly Hillbillies.

Father knows Best,

And if absolutely nothing else was on during inclement weather, my three sons

The Andy Griffith show has everything. Humor, a handsome guy, cute girls, family, friendship, American values, a moral lesson, and music.