If you were an 80s kid you weren’t just zoning out to 80s-produced programming, you were exposed to re-runs from the very dawn of TV, many of them replayed on Nick at Nite. Here we list some of the shows from the 50s-70s that were still filling airtime from 1980-1990.
Space Kidettes
Victory at Sea
Wild Kingdom
The Magic Clown
Astro Boy
Fireball XL5
The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show (1st series)
The Pink Panther Show
The Ruff & Reddy Show
The Herculoids
The New Adventures of Superman
The Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm Show (first run)
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Scooby Doo, Where are You?
Space Ghost and Dino Boy
Tennessee Tuxedo and his Tales
Tom and Jerry
Shazam!
The Shazam! / Isis Hour
Underdog
CBS Funtastic Preview
The Adventures of Gulliver
Beany and Cecil
American Bandstand
The Beatles
The Bugs Bunny Show (1st and 2nd runs)
The Cattanooga Cats
Dudley Do-Right
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Voyage
George of the Jungle
The Groovy Goodies
The Hardy Boys
The King Kong Show
The Jetsons
Johnny Quest
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Hot Wheels
Hoppity Hooper
Linus the Lionhearted
Matty’s Funday Funnies
The Mickey Mouse Club (1st run)
Milton the Monster
The New Casper Cartoon Show
Peter Potamus
Spider- Man
Skyhawks
Top Cat
The Archie Show
Bugs Bunny/ RoadRunner Hour (1st run)
Captain Midnight
Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines
Milton the Monster
Pinky & Perky (UK)
Picture Booth (UK)
Play School (UK)
Wacky Races
Yogi Bear
The Huckleberry Hound Show
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Lassie
Quickdraw McGraw
Popeye
Flipper
Deputy Dawg
The Lone Ranger
Howdy Doody time
The Alvin Show
Andy’s Gang
Zorro
Dennis the Menace
My Friend Flicka
Roy Rogers
The Wonderful World of Disney (1st run)
Pogles’ Wood (UK)
Adult TV
American Bandstand
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Leave it to Beaver
The Donna Reed Show
Bewitched
The Beulah Show
Batman
The Green Hornet
Wagon Train
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
The Untouchables
The Twilight Zone
The Outer Limits
One Step Beyond
Naked City
The Virginian
The Rifleman
The Red Skelton Show
The Patty Duke Show
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
The Rat Patrol
The Real McCoys
The Munsters
You Bet Your Life
Zane Grey Theatre
My Favorite Martian
Mission Impossible
Mr. Ed
The Beverly Hillbillies
Gomer Pyle
My Three Sons
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Andy Griffith Show
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The Lawman
Bonanza
The Invaders
The Fugitive
The Flying Nun
The Everglades
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Defenders
The Carol Burnett Show
The Andy Williams Show
The Big Valley
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Star Trek (original series)
Sugarfoot
Surfside 6
Petticoat Junction
Perry Mason
Rawhide
Maverick
Lost in Space
Doctor Who (UK)
Laugh-In
Mannix
McHale’s Navy
Laramie
I’ve Got a Secret
I dream of Jeannie
Hogan’s Heroes
Hootenanny
Hullabaloo
Highway Patrol
Hawaiian Eye
Honey West
Green Acres
Gilligan’s Island
F-Troop
Get Smart
Dr. Kildaire
Dragnet
Car 54, Where are you?
Combat
Bronco
Candid Camera
Burke’s Law
Death Valley Days
77 Sunset Strip
Cheyenne
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Abbott and Costello Show
Sargeant Bilko
The Texan
The Thin Man
Amos ‘N Andy
Annie Oakley
Cisco Kid
Dragnet
Father Knows Best
The Mickey Rooney Show
Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
I Love Lucy
M Squad
It’s a Great ife
I’ve got a Secret
The Frank Sinatra Show
This is Your Life
The Three Stooges
The Untouchables
The Bell Telephone Hour
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Dean Martin Show
The Dinah Shore Show
The Ernie Kovacs Show
Five Star Jubilee
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Kraft Television Theatre
Letter to Loretta
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in
Robert Montgomery Presents
Run for Your Life
Sam Benedict
Saturday Roundup
T.H.E. Cat
Tarzan
Then came Bronson
Thriller
The Virginian
Wagon Train
National Velvet
Mr. Novak
The Name of the Game
Peter Gunn
The Philco Television Playhouse
Laredo
Laramie
Medic
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E
Goodyear Theatre
Goodyear Television Playhouse
The High Chaparral
I Spy
Ironside
The Cube
Daniel Boone
The Doctor
Dr. Kildare
The Eleventh Hour
Five Fingers
Dragnet
Adam-12
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
Armstrong Circle Theatre
Bat Masterson
Behind Closed Doors
The Bold Ones, :The Lawyers, :The New Doctors, : The Protectors
Branded
Bracken’s World
Stanley
The Tab Hunter Show
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Mona McCluskey
The Monkees
Mothers-in-law
Mr. Peepers
My Little Margie
My Mother the Car
My World and Welcome to It
Occassional Wife
The People’s Choice
Please Don’t eat the Daisies
Hank
Hazel
Harry’s Girls
Hey, Landlord
I Married Joan
The Jack Benny Program
The Joey Bishop Show
Julia
The Life of Riley
The Debbie Reynolds Show
Ensign O’Toole
Ethel and Albert
Father Knows Best
90 Bristol Court
Accidental Family
The Aldrich Family
Bachelor Father
The Bill Cosby Show
The Bob Cummings Show
Camp Runamuck
Car 54, Where are You?
The Eddy Arnold Show
The Frank Sinatra Show
Ozark Jubilee
Talent Varieties
The Grand Ole Opry
Where the Action Is
The Hollywood Palace
The Johnny Cash Show
The Lawrence Welk Show
This is Tom Jones
Turn on
The Second Hundred Years
Coronation Street (UK)
Gidget
Harrigan and Son
Here Come the Brides
The Brady Bunch
The Farmer’s Daughter
Love, American Style
McHale’s Navy
The Rat Patrol
Surfside 6
Twelve O’clock High
Land of the Giants
The Time Tunnel
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Custer
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Lash of the West
A Man called Shenandoah
Maverick
Wagon Train
The Outcasts
Marcus Welby, MD
The Mod Squad
N.Y.P.D.
Peyton Place
Court Martial
The F.B.I.
Felony Squad
Follow the Sun
Room 222
77 Sunset Strip
The Avengers
Ben Casey
Bourbon Street Beat
Burke’s Law
Bus Stop
Combat!
Camoflague
ABC’s Wide World of Sports
Directions
The Young Marrieds
One Life to Live
The Nurses
Never too Young
A Flame in the Wind
Tammy
That Girl
Wendy and Me
Dark Shadows
These are my Children
Three steps to Heaven
Today is Ours
The Way of the World
The World of Mr. Sweeney
The Wide Country
Date with Life
A Time to Live
Another World
Ben Jerrod
The Bennetts
Bright Promise
Concerning Miss Marlowe
The Doctors
Fairmeadows USA
First Love
Follow Your Heart
From these Roots
Golden Windows
The Greatest Gift
Hawkins Falls
Hidden Faces
The House on High Street
Kitty Foyls
Miss Susan
Modern Romances
Moment of Truth
Morning Star
Our Five Daughters
Paradise Bay
Sing along with Mitch
Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Colour
The Jack Paar Show
The Steve Allen Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson