Classic Television Fan Gifts

Tony Hancock

'Forget this show. It doesn't even have a viewer warning.'

"Lassie, go get help!" "Oh Timmy! Not again!"

'I'm researching old Matlock episodes too.'

"Lassie, go get help!" "Oh Timmy you idiot! Not again!"

'The History Channel is all reruns.'

"Well, at least it's an improvement from last night."

'Come quick: Rin Tin Tin is on TV again...'

MEGASTUDIOS, INC., 'Just think of it -- 'CSI Mayberry,' with Robert DeNiro as Andy and Wesley Snipes as Barney!'

Somewhere in America... the day after "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" came to an end.

The Old Time Television Channel

Goldilocks and the Three Stooges.

Christmas TV...

"What would you like to watch again?"

'Time for my favorite soap opera, Nine Lives to Live.'

"It's your final warning...Quit playing the 'Beverly Hillbillies' theme song"

Night Life: L.A.

Tsars in their eyes.

'I've seen nothing I've liked since Victor Meldrew!'

John Laurie

"and when they woke up, the kids discovered that the house had just one 19", black & white TV that only got... 3 channels."

"There's a programme about people watching TV on the other channel."

George Baker

"Previously on..."

'When I was your age, 'classic episodes' were called repeats.'

"You've searched every streaming site there is and the best you can come up with is Gilligan's Island?"

'I don't have any formal training, but I do own the complet boxed set of 'Get Smart' DVD's.'

Lorne Greene

After traveling across the universe for thousands of years, an episode of "Leave It To Beaver" is received by an inhabitant of a distant galaxy.

You probably perfected your ability to mete out justice by watching "Perry Mason" as a kid. Personally, I perfected my ability to lie by watching "Leave It To Beaver."

This is a classic TV show called "Father Knows Best." Before Google obviously.

When I was a kid watching "Perry Mason" on tv, I always knew that when I grew up I'd spend a lot of time in courtroom. The only part I had wrong was that I always assumed I would be the defendant. ! !

"Popular astrologer and psychic Malder Tercado's contract with a national Spanish-language TV network was not renewed. Tercado was reportedly surprised by the news...saying he didn't see it coming."

"No, I'm not, no cellphones in high school old. I'm, I fell in love with Betty White in the Golden Girls old."

"I see a lot of Don Juan Complexes, but you're the first Don Knotts Complex I've come across."