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What television chararacter did you you have a crush on, when you were younger. Mine was David Cassidy (Original Post) debm55 Nov 14 OP
David McCallum leftieNanner Nov 14 #1
Me too. Always watched Man from UNCLE. Thank you leftieNanner. debm55 Nov 14 #5
Same! Silver Gaia Nov 14 #27
I think he was my first TV crush. flor-de-jasmim Nov 14 #57
Amy from the West Wing nycbos Nov 14 #2
Thank you nycbos. and no you are not dorky. debm55 Nov 14 #16
Manolito from High Chapparal MaryMagdaline Nov 14 #3
thank you MaryMagdaline. debm55 Nov 14 #26
I remember that show. BlueKota Nov 15 #194
I had a crush on his TV sister, Susan Dey LymphocyteLover Nov 14 #4
Yes she was cute. thank you LymphocteLover. debm55 Nov 14 #29
Adam West as Batman LSparkle Nov 14 #6
Yes, LSparkle , He was good on the eyes. debm55 Nov 14 #36
Henry Winkler "The Fonz" mucifer Nov 14 #7
Thank you mucifer. I saw him on a commercial the other day and he still looked good. debm55 Nov 14 #43
Ricky Nelson KitFox Nov 14 #8
Forgot about him crazylikafox Nov 14 #39
Thank you KitFox and welcome to DU. I vaguely remember the show. But I do remember he had beautiful eyes. debm55 Nov 14 #44
Thank you KitFox Nov 16 #215
Welcome to DU! red dog 1 Nov 16 #213
Thank you KitFox Nov 16 #216
James Garner in Maverick. Loved him and everything livetohike Nov 14 #9
Thank you livetohike. I loved his smile. debm55 Nov 14 #48
Totally agree wryter2000 Nov 14 #159
Annette Funicello...Mickey Mouse Club. MiHale Nov 14 #10
Thank you, Annette was very beautiful. Yes, feel better then yesterday. debm55 Nov 14 #49
My older sister had a big crush on Robert Conrad (Wild Wild West) so of course her little sister had to too... hlthe2b Nov 14 #11
I loved that show. and you are right. Robert Conrad was very easy on the eyes, Thank you hlthe2b. debm55 Nov 14 #56
Valerie Bertinelli kozar Nov 14 #12
She, aged, kozar Nov 14 #52
Yes, but we all do. debm55 Nov 14 #67
Thank you Koz. debm55 Nov 14 #66
Farrah Fawcett... yourout Nov 14 #13
LOL, my brother, had that poster kozar Nov 14 #23
HAHAHAHAHH. Every guy I knew at the time , had that poster. Thank you yourout debm55 Nov 14 #68
Morgan Freeman in The Electric Company Geechie Nov 14 #14
Thank you Geechie. debm55 Nov 14 #69
Phil Donahue. Started watching him in 1968. Ninga Nov 14 #15
Thank you Ninga. Very handsome man. debm55 Nov 14 #70
Angela Cartwright ItsjustMe Nov 14 #17
Thank you ItsJustMe. She was also in the Sound of Music. Love her eyes. debm55 Nov 14 #71
Kurt russell - jungle boy on gilligan's island bedazzled Nov 14 #18
As you do , It was a tie between David and Bobby on Here Comes the Brides. Would buy those teen magazines and cut out debm55 Nov 14 #72
Annette Funicello CanonRay Nov 14 #19
Thank you CanonRay. She was beautiful. debm55 Nov 14 #73
Will Hutchins Tiny Tabby Nov 14 #20
Thank you very much Tiny Tabby. And welcome to DU debm55 Nov 14 #74
Marlo Thomas in "That Girl" MichMan Nov 14 #21
Oh yes, loved her in that. did she ever marry Donald on the show? debm55 Nov 14 #25
They did not, so I still had hope MichMan Nov 14 #31
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHh. thank you MichMan. debm55 Nov 14 #75
No, but they had an affair in "real life" ailsagirl Nov 17 #221
When I worked at IRS, I worked on her tax return. lastlib Nov 14 #160
Valerie Bertinelli & Kristy McNichol Wiz Imp Nov 14 #22
Thank you very much, Wiz Imp debm55 Nov 14 #24
I forgot about Kristy, kozar Nov 14 #28
These would be on my short list too, especially Buddy Ilikepurple Nov 14 #35
Rhonda Shears. GreenWave Nov 14 #30
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA, Oh you. Thank you GreenWave. For real-granny? debm55 Nov 14 #77
No, just joking. GreenWave Nov 14 #78
Magnum PI, for sure! beaglelover Nov 14 #32
Thank you beaglelover. Yes he was a looker in Magnum PI debm55 Nov 14 #86
I was very young, but had a fondness for Karen Valentine Ilikepurple Nov 14 #33
Thank you ilikepurple. I loved her and the show Room 222 debm55 Nov 14 #88
Twiggy. But more importantly ... marble falls Nov 14 #34
Thank you . I it was a cyst. Had the three tests done. Very sore but fine today. I had a Twiggy haircut. debm55 Nov 14 #89
We are at an age 'just a cyst' is a good thing. One less thing to worry about! marble falls Nov 15 #163
Oh, and I forgot Danica McKellar as Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years. Wiz Imp Nov 14 #37
Thank you Wiz Imp. I really liked that show. and I liked the Winnie and Kevin angle. debm55 Nov 14 #93
Wonder women Goatguy Nov 14 #38
Thank you Goatguy. Linda Carter was very lovely. debm55 Nov 14 #94
Eve Plumb and Maureen McCormack from the Brady Bunch and Eva Gabor from Green Acres. ArnoldLayne Nov 14 #40
Thank you ArnoldLayne. Three good crushes of your youth. debm55 Nov 14 #95
Peter Tork iwillalwayswonderwhy Nov 14 #41
He was my favorite too Marigold Nov 14 #65
On the Monkees , he was my favorite. Thank you. debm55 Nov 14 #96
I liked Micky. My best friend at the time had rather, er, spooky3 Nov 15 #178
HHAHAHHAHHAAH. Thank you spooky3 debm55 Nov 15 #180
Johnny Crawford from The Rifleman HoosierDebbie Nov 14 #42
Johnny Crawford was mine too Walleye Nov 14 #81
Thank you , I remember Johnny Crawford. debm55 Nov 14 #97
I was beginning to think that I was the only one wnylib Nov 19 #233
Davy Jones of the Monkees biophile Nov 14 #45
Thank you biophile. He was easy on the eyes. debm55 Nov 14 #98
When I was seven I pulled my white communion BlueKota Nov 15 #196
haahahaha, That is so funny, Thank you BlueKota debm55 Nov 15 #197
I think I started with Mary Tyler Moore on the old Dick Van Dyke show. House of Roberts Nov 14 #46
They were all talented and beautiful women. I watched all the shows you named and can see why they were your crushes debm55 Nov 14 #99
Geeze,,,, which one do I pick? KarenS Nov 14 #47
Great crushes. Karens. Thank you debm55 Nov 14 #100
Emma Peel, the late great Dame Diana Rigg! lastlib Nov 14 #50
Oh YEAH! She could have turned me into a lesbian! LSparkle Nov 14 #102
Thank you lastlib. she was a great crush, debm55 Nov 14 #103
Emma Peel was the best. (nt) Paladin Nov 19 #234
Actually, Jan Brady if..fish..had..wings Nov 14 #51
Thank you if..fish..had..wings Great crush. debm55 Nov 14 #108
Maria on Sesame Street Ohiya Nov 14 #53
Thank you Ohiya. Very nice crush. debm55 Nov 14 #109
Don Johnson, Miami Vice Marigold Nov 14 #54
Very easy on the eyes. Thank you Marigold. debm55 Nov 14 #110
Spin (Tim Considine) Chipper Chat Nov 14 #55
Thank you Chipper Chat. Great crush. debm55 Nov 14 #111
Moms Willard123 Nov 14 #58
Thank you and welcome to DU debm55 Nov 14 #112
Julie Newmar cloudbase Nov 14 #59
Thank you cloudbase. the catwoman on Batman and Sam on Bewitched. Great choices. debm55 Nov 14 #113
Michael Landon (of Bonanza and Highway to Heaven)... Gone too soon. Jrose Nov 14 #60
Thank you Jrose. Michael Landon I liked on Little House too. debm55 Nov 14 #114
Used to like Barbara Eden JPPaverage Nov 14 #61
Thank you JPPaverage, two great crushes debm55 Nov 14 #115
Barbara Eden, in " I Dream of Jeannie" emulatorloo Nov 14 #62
Thank you emulatorloo. Jeannie and Samantha were good crushes. debm55 Nov 14 #116
A scene from "7 Faces of Dr. Lao" that I found inspiring as a lad -- Pinback Nov 14 #137
Dawn Wells. Mary Anne on Gilligans Island doc03 Nov 14 #63
I could never choose between her and Ginger. Shermann Nov 14 #82
Thank you doc03 she was my favorite. debm55 Nov 14 #117
This message was self-deleted by its author Nanuke Nov 14 #64
I preferred his older brother, Jason Bolt (Robert Brown) no_hypocrisy Nov 14 #119
Thank you no_hyprocrisy. You are correct about him. debm55 Nov 15 #203
Thank you Nanuke. I remember both of those actors. and I agree. debm55 Nov 14 #123
Erin Gray WalkerinSC Nov 14 #76
Thank you for your crush, WalkerinSC debm55 Nov 14 #121
Julie the cruise director on Love Boat PedroXimenez Nov 14 #79
Thank you PedroXimenez. She was a great crush to have. debm55 Nov 14 #122
Speed Racer. He was a demon on wheels. JenniferJuniper Nov 14 #80
Thank you JenniferJuniper. I agree with you. debm55 Nov 14 #124
James Franciscus - "Mr. Novak" Diamond_Dog Nov 14 #83
You and me both. I remember him. Be still my heart. thank you Diamond_Dog. debm55 Nov 14 #125
Richard Chamberlin as Dr. Kildare Wicked Blue Nov 14 #84
Thank you Wicked Blue and when I was older The Thorn Birds. the man never aged. debm55 Nov 14 #126
Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island displacedvermoter Nov 14 #85
Thank you displacedvermoter. she was very sweet on the show. debm55 Nov 14 #87
Star Trek's Nyota Uhura hunter Nov 14 #90
Oh my hunter. I hope you found your SO. even if she didn't like radios and computers. debm55 Nov 14 #130
I did. My wife and I met teaching science. hunter Nov 14 #148
I am smiling. Good for you and your wife. You have both gone through you loving journey together with different likes. debm55 Nov 14 #150
Not a crush but I dug that cover he did of Do Run Run IbogaProject Nov 14 #91
Thank you IbogaProject. Most of the answer are from when we were early teens and not old enough to date. My husband debm55 Nov 14 #133
Susan Dey on The Partridge Family. Mr.Bill Nov 14 #92
Thank you very much Mr.Bill. debm55 Nov 14 #136
Samantha from Bewitched Xipe Totec Nov 14 #101
HAHAHHAH. Thank you Xipe Totec . Your first crush. That's sweet. debm55 Nov 14 #140
Johnny from Emergency. Steve Austin, astronaught, man barely alive. applegrove Nov 14 #104
Thank you very much. applegrove. Great crushes. debm55 Nov 14 #145
The lone ranger was the first The Blue Flower Nov 14 #105
Thank you very much The Blue Flower. debm55 Nov 14 #142
Annette Funicello calguy Nov 14 #106
Thank you very much calguy. Great crush. debm55 Nov 14 #143
Morticia Addams RB77 Nov 14 #107
HAHAHAHHHAH that's funny and welcome to DU. debm55 Nov 14 #144
robert culp in I Spy NT macwriter Nov 14 #118
Thank you macwriter. Great choice debm55 Nov 14 #129
A couple of women LogDog75 Nov 14 #120
Thank you very much.LogDog75 Great list of crushes. Also, welcome to DU debm55 Nov 14 #127
Thalia Menninger 4TheArts Nov 14 #128
Thank you 4 theArts. debm55 Nov 14 #146
Crush MoonlightHillFarm Nov 14 #131
Thank you MoonlightHillFarm. He had very beautiful eyes. debm55 Nov 14 #147
Angie Dickinson, Police Women Sgt. Pepper Anderson. Hotter than donut grease. Hotler Nov 14 #132
HAHAHAHHHAHAH. thank you Hotler that is funny. debm55 Nov 14 #134
Yes, David Cassidy, but also woodsprite Nov 14 #135
HAHAHAHAHAHHAH. Thank you very much woodsprite; That is funny. debm55 Nov 14 #149
Another vote for David McCallum's Illya Kuryakin. 3catwoman3 Nov 14 #138
Thank you 3catwoman3, David McCallum. Used to watch the show just to see him when I was a kid. debm55 Nov 15 #167
Johnny Depp on 21 Jump St happybird Nov 14 #139
Thank you happybird. Two good crushes. debm55 Nov 15 #165
Keith Partridge & Johnny Gage MustLoveBeagles Nov 14 #141
As a preteen Keith Partridge was hot. Thank you very much MustLoveBeagles debm55 Nov 14 #151
Dick Cavett! Hope22 Nov 14 #152
Thank you Hope22. I thought he was cute. debm55 Nov 15 #170
....and smart! Hope22 Nov 15 #191
Agree. debm55 Nov 15 #192
Maude Findlay Montauk6 Nov 14 #153
Thank you Montauk6. I agree. debm55 Nov 15 #169
Marsha bradey Groundhawg Nov 14 #154
Thank you Groundhawg. I agree. debm55 Nov 15 #171
uh, Evil-Lyn and The Baroness The Wandering Harper Nov 14 #155
Thank you The Wandering Harper. We all had are own crushes. debm55 Nov 15 #172
Ann Marie AKA "That Girl" LudwigPastorius Nov 14 #156
Thank you LudwigPastorius. Yes , Marlo was was very pretty. debm55 Nov 15 #173
Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Bobby Sherman, BlueKota Nov 14 #157
Thank you BlueKota. I agree with you on your crushes. When he was younger George Clooney was mine. debm55 Nov 15 #174
George was hot back then. BlueKota Nov 15 #195
Loved him on ER debm55 Nov 15 #198
Captain Kirk wryter2000 Nov 14 #158
Thank you wryter2000. For sure. debm55 Nov 15 #175
Agent Mulder! jfz9580m Nov 15 #161
Thank you . Used to watch and I agree. debm55 Nov 15 #176
John Gage on Emergency! AwakeAtLast Nov 15 #162
Thank you AwakeAtLast. Great crush. debm55 Nov 15 #181
Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island and Elly May Clampett Emile Nov 15 #164
thank you Emile. Very good crushes. debm55 Nov 15 #166
Ben Casey! some_of_us_are_sane Nov 15 #168
I had one of his shirts. Loved him when I was a kid. Thank you debm55 Nov 15 #179
Hadji from the Jonny Quest cartoon catbyte Nov 15 #177
Thank you catbyte. George was my favorite , too. debm55 Nov 15 #185
Samantha Stevens and Emma Peel relayerbob Nov 15 #182
Wow. Thank you relayerbob. Three great crushes. debm55 Nov 15 #183
David Soul cspanlovr Nov 15 #184
Thank you cspanlovr. , Same here, but watched Here Comes the Brides to see Bobby Sherman. debm55 Nov 15 #186
Bobby Sherman MiKenMi33 Nov 15 #187
Yes he was. David and Bobby were my crushes. I think it was the only reason I watched the shows. debm55 Nov 15 #188
Gloria Winters, Penny on Sky King Bobstandard Nov 15 #189
Thank you Bobstandard I remember Sky King debm55 Nov 15 #190
I have had several, at various phases of my life. Different Drummer Nov 15 #193
Thank you Different Drummer that is some list there. debm55 Nov 15 #199
ETA: Marta Kristen (Lost in Space) Different Drummer Nov 16 #210
Thank you Different Drummer. The older sister. Thank you. debm55 Nov 16 #211
Forgot to mention, Bobby Sherman. debm55 Nov 15 #200
Gardner McKay dhol82 Nov 15 #201
Thank you very much dhol82. Don't give up, Maybe someday you will. debm55 Nov 15 #202
Rudolph defacto7 Nov 15 #204
Thank you defacto7 . I liked the Dentist Elf. debm55 Nov 15 #205
Susan Dey! Hassler Nov 15 #206
Thank you Hassler. debm55 Nov 15 #207
Mine was Fritz Weaver soldierant Nov 16 #208
Thank you soldierant. I remember him from movies and the series Holocaust debm55 Nov 16 #209
He was a good guy in Holocaust, and pretty evil in Day of the Dolphin. soldierant Nov 16 #212
Peggy Lipton red dog 1 Nov 16 #214
Thank you red dog 1 , I liked her and and the other two characters on Mod Squad. debm55 Nov 16 #217
James Darren/Time Tunnel, McCallum/Iilya and David Henderson/Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea... electric_blue68 Nov 16 #218
Thank you electric_blue68 debm55 Nov 16 #219
Hal Linden -- "Barney Miller" ailsagirl Nov 17 #220
Thank you ailsagirl debm55 Nov 17 #222
All of them. malthaussen Nov 18 #223
Great list there Mal. debm55 Nov 18 #224
Kurt Russell in the Travels of Jaimie McPheeters TommieMommy Nov 18 #225
Thank you TommieMommy. debm55 Nov 18 #226
Patty Duke fmdaddio Nov 18 #227
Thank you fmdaddio. I liked her in The Patty Duke Show. Great choice. debm55 Nov 18 #229
Maria from Sesame Street TlalocW Nov 18 #228
Thank you TialocW. Someone on the thread mentioned her. I was too old to watch. debm55 Nov 18 #230
Candice Bergen - Murphy Brown surfered Nov 18 #231
thank you surfered. Agree I liked her. debm55 Nov 18 #232
Serena on Bewitched... subterranean Nov 19 #235
HAHAHHHAHAH. That's funny. Guess what? I thought the same debm55 Nov 19 #236
Elisa Maza from "Gargoyles" sakabatou Nov 19 #237
Thank you sakabatou. debm55 Nov 19 #238
It's interesting how many are live-action/actors and not those on cels sakabatou Nov 19 #239

KitFox

(53 posts)
8. Ricky Nelson
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 02:11 PM
Nov 14

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!

debm55

(37,398 posts)
44. Thank you KitFox and welcome to DU. I vaguely remember the show. But I do remember he had beautiful eyes.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 02:54 PM
Nov 14

hlthe2b

(106,571 posts)
11. My older sister had a big crush on Robert Conrad (Wild Wild West) so of course her little sister had to too...
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 02:13 PM
Nov 14

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.

kozar

(2,910 posts)
23. LOL, my brother, had that poster
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 02:34 PM
Nov 14

As we had share a room, and I was younger, maybe, that's why, I still, to this day, like, brown eyed, brunettes.

Koz

bedazzled

(1,853 posts)
18. Kurt russell - jungle boy on gilligan's island
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 02:21 PM
Nov 14

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

(37,398 posts)
72. As you do , It was a tie between David and Bobby on Here Comes the Brides. Would buy those teen magazines and cut out
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 04:43 PM
Nov 14

their pictures.

lastlib

(24,961 posts)
160. When I worked at IRS, I worked on her tax return.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 11:58 PM
Nov 14

(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

(2,117 posts)
22. Valerie Bertinelli & Kristy McNichol
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 02:32 PM
Nov 14

as Barbara Cooper from One Day at a Time & Buddy Lawrence from Family respectively

debm55

(37,398 posts)
89. Thank you . I it was a cyst. Had the three tests done. Very sore but fine today. I had a Twiggy haircut.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 05:34 PM
Nov 14

Wiz Imp

(2,117 posts)
37. Oh, and I forgot Danica McKellar as Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 02:46 PM
Nov 14

She's 10 years younger than me, but from the time that show debuted, I always thought she was the ideal "girl next door".

HoosierDebbie

(388 posts)
42. Johnny Crawford from The Rifleman
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 02:51 PM
Nov 14

Even before that was Roy Rogers. Later was Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock for many years.

wnylib

(24,552 posts)
233. I was beginning to think that I was the only one
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 03:52 AM
Nov 19

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

BlueKota

(3,690 posts)
196. When I was seven I pulled my white communion
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 07:55 PM
Nov 15

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.

House of Roberts

(5,727 posts)
46. I think I started with Mary Tyler Moore on the old Dick Van Dyke show.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 02:55 PM
Nov 14

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

(37,398 posts)
99. They were all talented and beautiful women. I watched all the shows you named and can see why they were your crushes
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 06:14 PM
Nov 14

LSparkle

(11,784 posts)
102. Oh YEAH! She could have turned me into a lesbian!
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 06:22 PM
Nov 14

Emma va va voom with those leather pants and boots!!!

Response to debm55 (Original post)

Diamond_Dog

(34,991 posts)
83. James Franciscus - "Mr. Novak"
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 05:04 PM
Nov 14

I’m so old!!!

I even married a man who looked like him when he was young. 🙂

hunter

(39,004 posts)
90. Star Trek's Nyota Uhura
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 05:37 PM
Nov 14

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.

hunter

(39,004 posts)
148. I did. My wife and I met teaching science.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 09:54 PM
Nov 14

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

(37,398 posts)
150. I am smiling. Good for you and your wife. You have both gone through you loving journey together with different likes.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 10:01 PM
Nov 14

IbogaProject

(3,710 posts)
91. Not a crush but I dug that cover he did of Do Run Run
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 05:52 PM
Nov 14

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

(37,398 posts)
133. Thank you IbogaProject. Most of the answer are from when we were early teens and not old enough to date. My husband
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 08:56 PM
Nov 14

husband looks nothing like David Cassidy.

Mr.Bill

(24,828 posts)
92. Susan Dey on The Partridge Family.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 05:56 PM
Nov 14

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.

RB77

(24 posts)
107. Morticia Addams
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 06:27 PM
Nov 14

For some reason her demeanor really fired up my synapses and got my endorphins flapping. 🤓

LogDog75

(135 posts)
120. A couple of women
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 07:30 PM
Nov 14

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!

Hotler

(12,328 posts)
132. Angie Dickinson, Police Women Sgt. Pepper Anderson. Hotter than donut grease.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 08:54 PM
Nov 14

My first older women.

woodsprite

(12,232 posts)
135. Yes, David Cassidy, but also
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 08:59 PM
Nov 14

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 😂

3catwoman3

(25,574 posts)
138. Another vote for David McCallum's Illya Kuryakin.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 09:04 PM
Nov 14
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illya_Kuryakin

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 -

Hope22

(3,032 posts)
152. Dick Cavett!
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 10:05 PM
Nov 14

Does that make me a nerd? Stayed up late during High School because that was the only peaceful time in the house!😂🤣😁😂🤣😁🥰

BlueKota

(3,690 posts)
157. Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Bobby Sherman,
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 11:39 PM
Nov 14

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

(37,398 posts)
174. Thank you BlueKota. I agree with you on your crushes. When he was younger George Clooney was mine.
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 12:05 PM
Nov 15
168. Ben Casey!
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 11:53 AM
Nov 15

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.)

catbyte

(35,894 posts)
177. Hadji from the Jonny Quest cartoon
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 12:17 PM
Nov 15

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.

Different Drummer

(8,699 posts)
193. I have had several, at various phases of my life.
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 06:26 PM
Nov 15

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.

dhol82

(9,457 posts)
201. Gardner McKay
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 08:56 PM
Nov 15

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, that’s 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 wasn’t. It still had great video of sailing the South Pacific.

defacto7

(13,627 posts)
204. Rudolph
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 09:11 PM
Nov 15

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?

soldierant

(7,945 posts)
208. Mine was Fritz Weaver
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 12:40 AM
Nov 16

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.

soldierant

(7,945 posts)
212. He was a good guy in Holocaust, and pretty evil in Day of the Dolphin.
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 03:38 PM
Nov 16

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.)

electric_blue68

(18,445 posts)
218. James Darren/Time Tunnel, McCallum/Iilya and David Henderson/Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea...
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 07:51 PM
Nov 16

And while i didn't have any crushes; I loved Mod Squad.

malthaussen

(17,738 posts)
223. All of them.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:21 PM
Nov 18

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

TlalocW

(15,631 posts)
228. Maria from Sesame Street
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 05:27 PM
Nov 18

I half-kiddingly joke that she was one of the main reasons one of my degrees was Spanish.

subterranean

(3,540 posts)
235. Serena on Bewitched...
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 03:23 PM
Nov 19

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!

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