If you could live in any tv family which one would it be
By winterose
@winterose (39887)
Canada
July 5, 2008 1:52am CST
the 1950's was a great time for TV, kids were respectful and wives and husband's got along,
okay maybe it was a fairytale and not reality but they shows had wholesome values, which is more than I can say for most of the tv programming of today.
If I could live the tv life of of a show on tv,
I would love to be Jane Wyatt in fathers knows best, I think that Robert Cummings was the greatest husband and dad.
which show would love to live in and what person would you love to be in that show?
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@Grandmaof2 (7578)
• Canada
5 Jul 08
Oh my Goodness no thinking goes into this. I would want to be in the family of Bonanza. I'd have to be little joes wife. Like as if Micheal Landon would have ever been interested in a deal like that. But OOOOLAlalalala.
@Grandmaof2 (7578)
• Canada
6 Jul 08
% minutes nothing he's have just had to touch my hand amd I'd have collasped. OOOOLAlalalala
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
6 Jul 08
yea that was a good show, and the family was nice,
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
7 Jul 08
Great topic! Even though if we watched the old shows from the 1950s and even the 1960s would think that family life as depicted in the old shows were kind of cornball now, they did depict a much simpler, less complicated time, when family values meant something...and at least there WAS a real family life and not they way it is now. Who knows? maybe that's why later on, shows like Happy Days and The Waltons had such an appeal because it was reminiscent of earlier family values even though, those shows were made in the 1970s. The Waltons was actually one of my favorites..yes, it was about the Waltons family life (based on Earl Hamner's life) growing up in the Depression years, but it showed how a family kept together despite the struggles of those times
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
7 Jul 08
I never missed the waltons or little house on the prairie, they were fabulous.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
8 Jul 08
Goodness you just reminded me of Little House on the Prairie...I loved that series and had even read the books as a kid.
@tyc415 (5706)
• United States
5 Jul 08
Good question but hard to answer for me. There are several that would be nice to have grown up in. I had forgotten about Father Knows Best but that would be a good family to live with or Leave it to Beaver with the Cleavers or even with the Cunningham's in Happy Days. I think Happy Days is more realistic or at least back in it's time. It would have been a riot to live in the house/apt. with Lucy and Ricky. hahahaha
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
5 Jul 08
I thought of lucy and ricky too, but they were a bit to crazy for my liking lol.
@rckayla09 (113)
• United States
5 Jul 08
I would love to be Lucy Ricardo and live in the "I Love Lucy" TV show. Although Desi Arnaz wasn't considered the greatest husband and dad, like Robert Cummings of "Father Knows Best" was, Ricky Ricardo was a loving husband and dad (to little Ricky). And life never seemed boring in the Ricardo household :)
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
6 Jul 08
somehow I knew that you would say Lucy, lol, but that would be a little too much for me, she was always getting into hot water, I like a quiet life.
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@Nana530 (286)
• United States
5 Jul 08
Well, this is a cool discussion winterose.
I would like to be Clair Huxtable on the Bill Cosby show. I think it would be awesome to spend time with Bill Cosby who is so funny even when he isn't trying to be. And the kids are pretty interesting on that show. They sure keep her on her toes. But I would also love her job. Being a lawyer and having a doctor for a husband sounds pretty interesting.
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@cyberfluf (4996)
• Netherlands
9 Jul 08
I would love to live in the 'family' of friends, actually this is not a family as in blood relatives but I would love to be a part of such a close friend group that live close together and share both good and bad times.
It would be much easier moving out knowing you have such good friends supporting you and having around the house so you are never alone.
@kareng (80243)
• United States
5 Jul 08
Well this one is not the typical choice but I think I Love Jeannie and the role of Jeannie would be the "ultimate" fun choice of roles! My second choice would be Samantha from Bewitched! Both roles sound like a lot of fun :) This was a great question you came up with and I had to think a bit!
I also liked the answer someone else gave about Bonanza and being Little Joe's wife. This is a great choice too and my favorite so far of those that answered. I love the outdoors and that would be a great atmosphere :)
Have a great weekend, winterose!
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
11 Jul 08
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a Brady.I thought it would be fun having all these sisters and brothers.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
11 Jul 08
yes it is nice, a family big family I often wondered about that too because it was just me and my grandmother.
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@irishidid (8687)
• United States
6 Jul 08
The Addams Family. I'd fit right in. LOL
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
5 Jul 08
You know I thought of Samantha Montgomery too in betwitched, but since I already come from a dysfunctional family, I just wanted something normal, like father knows best, and since I never had a father figure growing up, I used to think as a little girl that he should have been my father.
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@DonnaLawson (4032)
• United States
5 Jul 08
In the 50's a lot of it was real and not fairytale.. I was a young girl in the 50's and a lot of what you saw on the shows was the way life was lived for real.. Some of it was sugar coated in the fact that kids were not the complete angels that some of them were portrayed to be, you were normal kids and got into trouble but your punishment was justifiable and fair.. There were trouble makers but they were not as bad as the troublemakers of today.. I loved the simpler times, I felt safe growing up, my mom was at home and my dad worked until he got too sick to work and passed away when I was 16.. But I had many friends whose dad worked and whose mother stayed home and cooked and cleaned and planned the Bridge parties for the evening... I remember a lot of these times and I do love the memories.. I married in 1968 and lived a portion of my earlier life in this manner.. It was truly a simpler, nicer, quieter time.. So many things were different from today.. I am not sure which TV family that I would live with I do lean towards Leave it to Beaver..
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
5 Jul 08
that was my point, the kids were close to angels etc, and that does work for a segment of society but even back in the 50's not for all society. In quebec where I live the girls still got pregnant but in stead of staying home and showing they were sent to boarding school run by nuns until their babies were born and then came home without the baby as if nothing happened.
I like the life fathers knows best, I never knew it.I was born in 1955 and didn't even live with a mother or father but shipped off to a grandmother, I had no father figure, that is why I wished as a child that Robert Cummings was my father.
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@DonnaLawson (4032)
• United States
5 Jul 08
That is so sad, that you didn't have a mother of father.. But you can be thankful for the grandmother taking care of you.. I can't imagine not having my parents for as long as I did.. My mom passed away about 15 months ago and she was 90 yrs and 1 month old exactly, but my dad passed away in 1963, when I was only 16, that was rough.. When I was going to school in the 60's, no girl ever dared to "go all the way", if you did, you were a tramp and talked about, in very hushed tones, by everyone.. If you did "go all the way" and got pregnant you were shipped to a girls home, you know the one where you whispered about it if you even passed it while driving.. It was set back from the road and run by some church, but I never heard anyone talk about it in their normal voices, just in whispered voices and we weren't even that close to it as we passed while driving down the road.. And you neveer had the opportunity to keep and raise your child, the parents made that decision for you..
As far as the boys were concerned, they did try and take advantage of the "bad" girls, the ones that were supposed to have a "bad" reputation, but the "good" girls were not bothered that much.. They openly dated the "good" girls and secretly dated the "bad" girls.. The "bad" girls were secretly stared at by the "good" girls and secretly admired by the "good" girls, because they had the nerve to do things the "good" girls never had the nerve to do.. It was a really good time to grow up but not a perfect time.. I would not change it for the world..
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
7 Jul 08
Well if I could be in any show I wanted it would be the Andy Griffith show with Don knotts and Ron Howard. I would have loved to have been Opies sister. That show was the greatest everyone was helpful and trustful and got along and was caring and loving towards each other even the neighbors and everyone helped each other without second thought in the little town of Mayberry. If not that show then the Brady Bunch and be Marsha or Eight Is Enough and be one of the girls not sure of their names.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
7 Jul 08
yes the andy griffith show was a great one, great family values there.
@sdmoonchild (731)
• United States
6 Jul 08
I think I would love to be in the Cosby family. Bill Cosby played a great tv dad and I think he made the show very realistic to family situations. I would love to be the mom, Claire, because she is a career woman who still finds time to be with her family and her husband.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
6 Jul 08
yeah, they are the ideal family and it was fashioned after his own family, the character theo after is own son, and bill's wife is a career woman as well.
@jasmine0728 (677)
• United States
6 Jul 08
I would want to be Laura Ingalls.As a child I always wished I could have a father like charles,I also love those times,when people seemed to care more about each other,and most people didn't put money above all.They helped each other,and could run a tab at the local store.If a barn burned down neighbors came to help repair it.Much better times I think.
Jas
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@mscott (1923)
• United States
6 Jul 08
I would live with the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, or what ever Will Smith's show was called. They had everything. I might also chose the Brady Bunch. I would never get bored, though I might not like sharing a room and the bathroom all the time. I would imagine though my sisters would have plenty of friends over though and that would be cool too, lol.
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