Life in the Ville by Jimmy Del Ponte

I figured if we always talk about the old days, we need to talk about one of our favorite past times, well mine anyway, and that’s watching old TV shows.

I have mastered the art of maneuvering my remote without having to look at it! That’s how much TV I watch. All I ever wanted to do was stay home and watch TV and now I can do it since I retired a few years ago.

Jerry Mathers (Beaver Cleaver), me and Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell).

We still love the shows that we grew up with like Andy Griffith, F Troop, Gomer Pyle, My Three Sons, and Leave it to Beaver to name a few.

My favorite channels are the ones that air the old classics. Black and white or in color, I love them. I have at least one TV on whenever I am home. The stations I watch most are Nickelodeon, MeTV, TBS and TV Land.

I asked these question to my friends. What old TV show /sitcom themes do you remember? Here are some of your responses.

“Well, let me tell ya story ‘bout a man named Jed…”

“Have gun, will travel reads the card of a man. A knight without armor in a savage land”

“Here’s the story of a lovely lady who was bringing up three very lovely girls. All of them had hair of gold like their mother, the youngest one in curls…”

“Let me tell ya about my best friend, he’s a warm-hearted person who would love you ‘til the end … he’s my best friend.”

Me and Larry Storch (Sgt. Agarn from F-Troop)

“Flintstones, meet The Flintstones!”

“Give us any chance, we’ll take it, read us any rule, we’ll break it, we’re gonna make our dreams come true…”

“When drilling and fighting get them down they know their morale can’t droop, as long as they all relax in town before they resume with a bang and a boom F-Troop!”

“They’re creepy and they’re spooky…”

“It’s Howdy Doody Time!” We’d sit on the sidewalk in front of a tv store to watch it, go home, and beg for a TV!

“Green Acres is the place to be. Farm living is the life for me. Land spreading out so far and wide, forget Manhattan, just give me that countryside. No, New York is where I’d rather stay. I get allergic smelling hay. I just adore a penthouse view. Darling, I love you, but give me Park Avenue! The chores! The stores! Fresh air Times Square! You are my wife. Goodbye city life. Green Acres we are there!”

“Boy the way Glenn Miller played…”

“Love. exciting and new. Come aboard we’re expecting you.”

Me with Al Lewis aka Grandpa Munster.

“Welcome back … your dreams were your ticket out … welcome back … to that same old place that you laughed about…”

“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale … a tale of a fateful trip…”

“Making your way in the world each day takes everything you got…”

“Believe it or not, I’m walking on air, I never thought I could feel so free…”

“A horse is a horse of course of course and no one can talk to a horse of course…”

“You take the good you take the bad you take them both and then you have The Facts of Life…”

“Here’s Cathy who’s lived most everywhere, from Zanzibar to Barclay Square, but Patty’s only seen the sights a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights, what a crazy pair … but they’re cousins, identical cousins all the way, one pair of matching bookends, different as night and day!”

I’m happy to report that MeTV just recently added The Honeymooners to its Sunday lineup. I’m thrilled! “Bang ZOOM!”

One more thing before I end this story … “STOP FLIPPING THAT CHANNEL DIAL SO FAST!”

Me and “Marcia, Marcia Marcia!” Maureen McCormack from The Brady Bunch.

Tony Randall, me and Jack Klugman – The Odd…Trio!