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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat television chararacter did you you have a crush on, when you were younger. Mine was David Cassidy
leftieNanner
(15,689 posts)As Ilya Kuriakin. Man from UNCLE.
❤️
debm55
(35,903 posts)Silver Gaia
(4,847 posts)He was the first!
flor-de-jasmim
(2,158 posts)nycbos
(6,345 posts)Yes I am that dorky.
debm55
(35,903 posts)MaryMagdaline
(7,879 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)BlueKota
(3,643 posts)LymphocyteLover
(6,749 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)LSparkle
(11,748 posts)I liked him more as Bruce Wayne though ... 😁
debm55
(35,903 posts)mucifer
(24,828 posts)He turned into a cute little old Jewish man
debm55
(35,903 posts)KitFox
(23 posts)on Ozzie and Harriet. He would sing and play his guitar at the close of episodes. Whoa this really proves how ancient I am!😄 Thanks for your fun posts, debm55!
crazylikafox
(2,823 posts)Me too
debm55
(35,903 posts)debm55. Glad to finally be a member!
red dog 1
(29,287 posts)KitFox
(23 posts)red dog 1 ! After reading here for years, it is nice to finally be a member. 😊
livetohike
(22,963 posts)he did after that.
debm55
(35,903 posts)wryter2000
(47,431 posts)MiHale
(10,777 posts)Glad you feeling better.
debm55
(35,903 posts)hlthe2b
(106,327 posts)He was short but very well-proportioned and very athletic! LOL
Yeah, he was quite the conservative in his later years, but he cut quite the "suave" figure during the years that show was filmed.
debm55
(35,903 posts)kozar
(2,850 posts)From her early shows, to her cooking shows, today
Koz
As , one of us
Koz
debm55
(35,903 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)yourout
(8,062 posts)That poster was quite an inspiration.
kozar
(2,850 posts)As we had share a room, and I was younger, maybe, that's why, I still, to this day, like, brown eyed, brunettes.
Koz
debm55
(35,903 posts)Geechie
(928 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)Ninga
(8,610 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)ItsjustMe
(11,692 posts)From Lost In Space.
debm55
(35,903 posts)bedazzled
(1,852 posts)Still like him sixty years later!
Billy mumy at the same time
Later, Bobby sherman. He was so cute! What a smile
David was no slouch, either. You have good taste
debm55
(35,903 posts)their pictures.
CanonRay
(14,858 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)Tiny Tabby
(26 posts)He was Sugarfoot, a western
debm55
(35,903 posts)MichMan
(13,156 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)MichMan
(13,156 posts)Even though I was only eleven years old
debm55
(35,903 posts)ailsagirl
(23,801 posts)I remember reading...
lastlib
(24,901 posts)(joint w/ Phil D.) She signed it in the wrong place, and I had to send it back to them.
The two of them did VERY well that year. Let's just say it was more than seven figures........
Wiz Imp
(1,788 posts)as Barbara Cooper from One Day at a Time & Buddy Lawrence from Family respectively
debm55
(35,903 posts)kozar
(2,850 posts)Was just her tomboy attitude, with her roles.
Koz
Ilikepurple
(100 posts)GreenWave
(9,167 posts)A close second was Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies.
debm55
(35,903 posts)GreenWave
(9,167 posts)beaglelover
(4,051 posts)I think it had to do with the hairy chest and incredibly thick mustache!
debm55
(35,903 posts)Ilikepurple
(100 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)marble falls
(62,041 posts)... how are you?
debm55
(35,903 posts)marble falls
(62,041 posts)Wiz Imp
(1,788 posts)She's 10 years younger than me, but from the time that show debuted, I always thought she was the ideal "girl next door".
debm55
(35,903 posts)Goatguy
(9 posts)Linda Carter
debm55
(35,903 posts)ArnoldLayne
(2,159 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)iwillalwayswonderwhy
(2,661 posts)One of the Monkees.
Marigold
(193 posts)Everyone liked Davey Jones, but Peter Tork was my guy.
debm55
(35,903 posts)spooky3
(36,193 posts)Detailed fantasies about Mike Nesmith.
debm55
(35,903 posts)HoosierDebbie
(388 posts)Even before that was Roy Rogers. Later was Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock for many years.
Walleye
(35,655 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)wnylib
(24,373 posts)who had a crush on Johnny Crawford as I read through this thread.
Later, it was Andy Williams (sang Moon River and had a TV show).
https://images.app.goo.gl/9jpQ1conGnggJdvb9
biophile
(349 posts)I totally would have married him ☺️
debm55
(35,903 posts)BlueKota
(3,643 posts)dress out of my closet , put it on, put the veil on my head, and picked flowers outside. When I came back in my Mom asked me what I was doing and I told her I was having a pretend wedding to Davy Jones. She laughed and said, "that's nice, and went back to cleaning.
debm55
(35,903 posts)House of Roberts
(5,683 posts)Somewhere in there I liked Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island, Lori Saunders on Petticoat Junction, And Marlo Thomas on That Girl.
Sally Field was and still is my continuous crush from back in her Gidget series.
Karen Valentine on Room 222 was in there also.
I had a lot of crushes while still only having black and white TV to watch them on.
debm55
(35,903 posts)KarenS
(4,631 posts)Maverick
Johnny Yuma
Rowdy Yates
Kookie
OK, I'll stop
debm55
(35,903 posts)lastlib
(24,901 posts)What a hottie!
LSparkle
(11,748 posts)Emma va va voom with those leather pants and boots!!!
debm55
(35,903 posts)Paladin
(28,755 posts)if..fish..had..wings
(814 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)Ohiya
(2,428 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)Marigold
(193 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)Chipper Chat
(10,027 posts)From Mickey MOUSE club
SPIN AND MARTY.
https://images.app.goo.gl/aDgPzGQQN224mQuS6
debm55
(35,903 posts)Mabley
& Susie Cowsill
debm55
(35,903 posts)cloudbase
(5,744 posts)and Elizabeth Montgomery.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Jrose
(1,338 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)JPPaverage
(577 posts)I Dream of Jeannie. And i liked Mary Ann on Gilligans Island.
debm55
(35,903 posts)emulatorloo
(45,561 posts)Also liked Samantha on Bewitched.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Pinback
(12,884 posts)doc03
(36,694 posts)Shermann
(8,636 posts)It would have to be a threesome.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Nanuke
(558 posts)no_hypocrisy
(48,778 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)WalkerinSC
(248 posts)Wilma Deering on Buck Rogers. Now there is a show that deserves a BSG style reboot.
debm55
(35,903 posts)PedroXimenez
(599 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,547 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)Diamond_Dog
(34,612 posts)Im so old!!!
I even married a man who looked like him when he was young. 🙂
debm55
(35,903 posts)Wicked Blue
(6,646 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)displacedvermoter
(3,023 posts)Last edited Fri Nov 15, 2024, 09:40 AM - Edit history (1)
Dawn Wells
debm55
(35,903 posts)hunter
(38,919 posts)I didn't know any real-world girls or women who were interested in radios and computers, and none who'd listen to me ramble on about telephone networks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyota_Uhura
I dreamed of flying away with her.
In college I did meet an engineer who was interested in radios and computers, and I did fly away with her, but that relationship ended in bloody catastrophe, mostly my blood smeared across a street in Berkeley after I jumped out of her moving car.
Some dreams don't turn out as we expect them to.
debm55
(35,903 posts)hunter
(38,919 posts)I followed her when she was accepted to graduate school in another state and we've been together since.
I'm still a computer and radio nerd, but I changed my major from Engineering to Biology after my second year of college. Biology fascinated me too. Engineering would have been the more lucrative course of study but then I wouldn't have met my wife!
My wife's not a computer or radio nerd, she's a more general math and science enthusiast. On the Star Trek Enterprise she'd be working with Spock and McCoy.
debm55
(35,903 posts)IbogaProject
(3,645 posts)I guess I liked Marcia Brady and later there was a single season of Téa Leoni in 92 called Flying Blind and I had a brief crush on her then. I never really got that way about those in the media, I preferred to crush on those I knew in real life, LOL.
debm55
(35,903 posts)husband looks nothing like David Cassidy.
Mr.Bill
(24,790 posts)I didn't like the show very much, because I had kind of outgrown sitcoms at that time. I remember being in my 30s in the 80s and getting up early to watch reruns of that show just to see her. Still like her today.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Xipe Totec
(44,061 posts)Elizabeth Montgomery had me idiotized. And I was just 8.
debm55
(35,903 posts)applegrove
(123,111 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,636 posts)Later, capt Kirk and spock
debm55
(35,903 posts)calguy
(5,767 posts)Mickey Mouse Club calendar gir
.
debm55
(35,903 posts)RB77
(24 posts)For some reason her demeanor really fired up my synapses and got my endorphins flapping. 🤓
debm55
(35,903 posts)macwriter
(213 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)LogDog75
(97 posts)Barbara Feldon from Get Smart
Jan Smithers from WKRP in Cincinnati
Catherine Bach from The Dukes of Hazard
Cathy Lee Crosby from That's Incredible!
debm55
(35,903 posts)4TheArts
(107 posts)played by Tuesday Weld, in The many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
debm55
(35,903 posts)MoonlightHillFarm
(57 posts)Mine was Tony Dow, the older brother on Leave it to Beaver. I was about 10.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Hotler
(12,153 posts)My first older women.
debm55
(35,903 posts)woodsprite
(12,199 posts)Randy Mantooth (Emergency!)
Edward Mulhare (The Ghost and Mrs Muir)
Brett Hudson (The Hudson Brothers)
Bobby Sherman
(Here Come the Brides and Getting Together)
Honorable mention for a movie star goes to:
Gene Kelly
Yul Brynner
I had commitment issues 😂
debm55
(35,903 posts)3catwoman3
(25,430 posts)And next would have been Spock. I have always found intelligence very attractive and sexy. I used to fantasize about being the one human woman who would be able to break thru Spock's 7 year pon farr cycle -
debm55
(35,903 posts)happybird
(5,113 posts)and Luke Perry on 90210 (Dylan McKay)
debm55
(35,903 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(12,552 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)Hope22
(2,841 posts)Does that make me a nerd? Stayed up late during High School because that was the only peaceful time in the house!😂🤣😁😂🤣😁🥰
debm55
(35,903 posts)Hope22
(2,841 posts)Gets me every time!😂🤣😁
Montauk6
(8,614 posts)I thought she was hotter than Carol, real talk.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Groundhawg
(928 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)The Wandering Harper
(609 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)LudwigPastorius
(10,782 posts)So cute...so wholesome...
debm55
(35,903 posts)BlueKota
(3,643 posts)and David Cassidy. In my teens and early twenties Rick Springfield(still a fan.) I admit I never grew out of crushing on handsome celebs. My most recent are cougar crushes on Julian McMahon and Colin O'Donoghue. Don't know whether it's my Irish roots but I have always been particularly fond of the black Irish type, with the black hair and blue eyes like Pierce Brosnan in his Remington Steele days
debm55
(35,903 posts)BlueKota
(3,643 posts)Gorgeous smile.
debm55
(35,903 posts)wryter2000
(47,431 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)jfz9580m
(15,487 posts)The Truth is Out There!
debm55
(35,903 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,255 posts)Randolph Mantooth
debm55
(35,903 posts)Emile
(29,778 posts)on Beverly Hillbillies
debm55
(35,903 posts)some_of_us_are_sane
(424 posts)I wanted one of the "Ben Casey shirts". They were all the rage at the time. He always kept those top buttons undone with the flap handing down.
(My mother ended up buying one WITH RUFFLES trim! LOL!!! I wore it anyway.)
debm55
(35,903 posts)catbyte
(35,763 posts)Hey, I was 9.
By the time I was a teenager, I was too "cool" for TV crushes. I had a crush on George Harrison.
debm55
(35,903 posts)relayerbob
(7,019 posts)Well and catwoman, lol
debm55
(35,903 posts)cspanlovr
(1,475 posts)I used to watch Here Come the Brides just to see him.
debm55
(35,903 posts)MiKenMi33
(138 posts)He was sooo handsome.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Bobstandard
(1,660 posts)Most of you kids will have to Google that.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Different Drummer
(8,564 posts)Maureen McCormick (The Brady Bunch)
Susan Dey (The Partridge Family)
Connie Hines (Mr. Ed)
Dawn Wells (Gilligan's Island)
Yvonne Craig (Batman)
Judy Strangis (Room 222/Electra Woman and Dyna Girl)
Farrah Fawcett (Charlie's Angels)
Adrienne Barbeau (Maude)
Sally Struthers (All in the Family)
Kari Michaelsen (Gimme a Break)
Judy Landers (Madam's Place/various other programs)
Teri Copley (We Got It Made/various other programs/movies)
Mary Page Keller (Another World/various other programs)
Kristina Wagner (General Hospital)
Heather Thomas (The Fall Guy)
I don't think I forgot any, but I might have.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Different Drummer
(8,564 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)dhol82
(9,438 posts)Tales of the South Pacific.
Had a map of the world on my bedroom wall with the Pacific Ocean highlighted.
Swore that I would wander there. Curiously, thats one of the few areas I have not explored.
Oops, title of the show was Adventures in Paradise. It was supposedly based on the Michener book, but so very loosely that is wasnt. It still had great video of sailing the South Pacific.
debm55
(35,903 posts)defacto7
(13,609 posts)Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer on that old once a year TV special w/ Burl Ives.
Yeah. I know. I was weird.
6 or 7 yo?
debm55
(35,903 posts)Hassler
(3,676 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)soldierant
(7,892 posts)which probably shows how old i am. He was not a regular on any series so I had to chase hom around, and the characters he played were often not the nicest.
One Thanksgining with I was in the military far from home, I had the goo fortune to be invited to a family's dinner, and another guest happend to be a Broadway tech worker. Much of Weaver's work was on BRadway and I shy;y confessed my crush. She told me I had good taste - that IRL he was one of the nicest people one could ever hope to meet. One of my treasured moments.
I used to have (may still have - I still have a lot of vinyl) the original cast recording of "Sherlock Holmes" on Broadway in which he played Holmes. Conan Doyle, I suspect, would have hated it, but he didn't have a crush.
debm55
(35,903 posts)soldierant
(7,892 posts)BTW, my age still shows - the actuak title of that Broadway musical was "Baker Street. Lsrgely played for laughs - Moriaity sang abou getting rid of "the stately Holmes of England," for instance.
I just looked it up on Wkikpedia to check my mamory, and all the principals are now dead except the kid who played "Wiggins" (the head of the "Baker Street irregulars, a young boy.)
red dog 1
(29,287 posts)She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series (The Mod Squad)
debm55
(35,903 posts)electric_blue68
(17,977 posts)And while i didn't have any crushes; I loved Mod Squad.
debm55
(35,903 posts)ailsagirl
(23,801 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)malthaussen
(17,672 posts)Virtually every woman on TV from about 1961-1970, I'd say. I wasn't particular.
Standouts in no particular order:
Shelley Fabares
Carol Merrill
Angela Cartwright
Grace Lee Whitney
Bridget Hanley
Karen Valentine
Barbara Eden
Lori Saunders
However, Elizabeth Montgomery left me cold for some reason.
-- Mal
debm55
(35,903 posts)TommieMommy
(1,096 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)fmdaddio
(222 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)TlalocW
(15,624 posts)I half-kiddingly joke that she was one of the main reasons one of my degrees was Spanish.
debm55
(35,903 posts)surfered
(3,077 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)subterranean
(3,539 posts)At the time, I didn't realize it was Elizabeth Montgomery with a black wig and makeup. I thought there was a real actress named Pandora Spocks!