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leftieNanner
(15,687 posts)As Ilya Kuriakin. Man from UNCLE.
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debm55
(35,774 posts)Silver Gaia
(4,831 posts)He was the first!
flor-de-jasmim
(2,158 posts)nycbos
(6,343 posts)Yes I am that dorky.
debm55
(35,774 posts)MaryMagdaline
(7,879 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)BlueKota
(3,639 posts)LymphocyteLover
(6,736 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)LSparkle
(11,746 posts)I liked him more as Bruce Wayne though ... 😁
debm55
(35,774 posts)mucifer
(24,820 posts)He turned into a cute little old Jewish man
debm55
(35,774 posts)KitFox
(20 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
(35,774 posts)debm55. Glad to finally be a member!
red dog 1
(29,254 posts)KitFox
(20 posts)red dog 1 ! After reading here for years, it is nice to finally be a member. 😊
livetohike
(22,951 posts)he did after that.
debm55
(35,774 posts)wryter2000
(47,418 posts)MiHale
(10,765 posts)Glad you feeling better.
debm55
(35,774 posts)hlthe2b
(106,295 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
(35,774 posts)kozar
(2,845 posts)From her early shows, to her cooking shows, today
Koz
As , one of us
Koz
debm55
(35,774 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)yourout
(8,048 posts)That poster was quite an inspiration.
kozar
(2,845 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
(35,774 posts)Geechie
(928 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)Ninga
(8,606 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)ItsjustMe
(11,679 posts)From Lost In Space.
debm55
(35,774 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
(35,774 posts)their pictures.
CanonRay
(14,855 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)Tiny Tabby
(26 posts)He was Sugarfoot, a western
debm55
(35,774 posts)MichMan
(13,135 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)MichMan
(13,135 posts)Even though I was only eleven years old
debm55
(35,774 posts)ailsagirl
(23,801 posts)I remember reading...
lastlib
(24,883 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
(1,754 posts)as Barbara Cooper from One Day at a Time & Buddy Lawrence from Family respectively
debm55
(35,774 posts)kozar
(2,845 posts)Was just her tomboy attitude, with her roles.
Koz
Ilikepurple
(95 posts)GreenWave
(9,167 posts)A close second was Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies.
debm55
(35,774 posts)GreenWave
(9,167 posts)beaglelover
(4,044 posts)I think it had to do with the hairy chest and incredibly thick mustache!
debm55
(35,774 posts)Ilikepurple
(95 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)marble falls
(62,041 posts)... how are you?
debm55
(35,774 posts)marble falls
(62,041 posts)Wiz Imp
(1,754 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
(35,774 posts)Goatguy
(9 posts)Linda Carter
debm55
(35,774 posts)ArnoldLayne
(2,157 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)iwillalwayswonderwhy
(2,661 posts)One of the Monkees.
Marigold
(184 posts)Everyone liked Davey Jones, but Peter Tork was my guy.
debm55
(35,774 posts)spooky3
(36,151 posts)Detailed fantasies about Mike Nesmith.
debm55
(35,774 posts)HoosierDebbie
(388 posts)Even before that was Roy Rogers. Later was Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock for many years.
Walleye
(35,540 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)wnylib
(24,338 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
(35,774 posts)BlueKota
(3,639 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
(35,774 posts)House of Roberts
(5,677 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
(35,774 posts)KarenS
(4,629 posts)Maverick
Johnny Yuma
Rowdy Yates
Kookie
OK, I'll stop
debm55
(35,774 posts)lastlib
(24,883 posts)What a hottie!
LSparkle
(11,746 posts)Emma va va voom with those leather pants and boots!!!
debm55
(35,774 posts)if..fish..had..wings
(812 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)Ohiya
(2,424 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)Marigold
(184 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)Chipper Chat
(10,024 posts)From Mickey MOUSE club
SPIN AND MARTY.
https://images.app.goo.gl/aDgPzGQQN224mQuS6
debm55
(35,774 posts)Mabley
& Susie Cowsill
debm55
(35,774 posts)cloudbase
(5,739 posts)and Elizabeth Montgomery.
debm55
(35,774 posts)Jrose
(1,334 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)JPPaverage
(577 posts)I Dream of Jeannie. And i liked Mary Ann on Gilligans Island.
debm55
(35,774 posts)emulatorloo
(45,553 posts)Also liked Samantha on Bewitched.
debm55
(35,774 posts)Pinback
(12,879 posts)doc03
(36,675 posts)Shermann
(8,635 posts)It would have to be a threesome.
debm55
(35,774 posts)Nanuke
(556 posts)no_hypocrisy
(48,745 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)WalkerinSC
(248 posts)Wilma Deering on Buck Rogers. Now there is a show that deserves a BSG style reboot.
debm55
(35,774 posts)PedroXimenez
(598 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,547 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)Diamond_Dog
(34,593 posts)Im so old!!!
I even married a man who looked like him when he was young. 🙂
debm55
(35,774 posts)Wicked Blue
(6,636 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)displacedvermoter
(3,021 posts)Last edited Fri Nov 15, 2024, 09:40 AM - Edit history (1)
Dawn Wells
debm55
(35,774 posts)hunter
(38,910 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
(35,774 posts)hunter
(38,910 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
(35,774 posts)IbogaProject
(3,644 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
(35,774 posts)husband looks nothing like David Cassidy.
Mr.Bill
(24,786 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
(35,774 posts)Xipe Totec
(44,059 posts)Elizabeth Montgomery had me idiotized. And I was just 8.
debm55
(35,774 posts)applegrove
(123,081 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,634 posts)Later, capt Kirk and spock
debm55
(35,774 posts)calguy
(5,763 posts)Mickey Mouse Club calendar gir
.
debm55
(35,774 posts)RB77
(24 posts)For some reason her demeanor really fired up my synapses and got my endorphins flapping. 🤓
debm55
(35,774 posts)macwriter
(213 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)LogDog75
(95 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
(35,774 posts)4TheArts
(107 posts)played by Tuesday Weld, in The many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
debm55
(35,774 posts)MoonlightHillFarm
(57 posts)Mine was Tony Dow, the older brother on Leave it to Beaver. I was about 10.
debm55
(35,774 posts)Hotler
(12,142 posts)My first older women.
debm55
(35,774 posts)woodsprite
(12,192 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
(35,774 posts)3catwoman3
(25,416 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
(35,774 posts)happybird
(5,113 posts)and Luke Perry on 90210 (Dylan McKay)
debm55
(35,774 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(12,544 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)Hope22
(2,821 posts)Does that make me a nerd? Stayed up late during High School because that was the only peaceful time in the house!😂🤣😁😂🤣😁🥰
debm55
(35,774 posts)Hope22
(2,821 posts)Gets me every time!😂🤣😁
Montauk6
(8,607 posts)I thought she was hotter than Carol, real talk.
debm55
(35,774 posts)Groundhawg
(924 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)The Wandering Harper
(597 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)LudwigPastorius
(10,774 posts)So cute...so wholesome...
debm55
(35,774 posts)BlueKota
(3,639 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
(35,774 posts)BlueKota
(3,639 posts)Gorgeous smile.
debm55
(35,774 posts)wryter2000
(47,418 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)jfz9580m
(15,459 posts)The Truth is Out There!
debm55
(35,774 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,253 posts)Randolph Mantooth
debm55
(35,774 posts)Emile
(29,707 posts)on Beverly Hillbillies
debm55
(35,774 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
(35,774 posts)catbyte
(35,754 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
(35,774 posts)relayerbob
(7,013 posts)Well and catwoman, lol
debm55
(35,774 posts)cspanlovr
(1,475 posts)I used to watch Here Come the Brides just to see him.
debm55
(35,774 posts)MiKenMi33
(138 posts)He was sooo handsome.
debm55
(35,774 posts)Bobstandard
(1,660 posts)Most of you kids will have to Google that.
debm55
(35,774 posts)Different Drummer
(8,541 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
(35,774 posts)Different Drummer
(8,541 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)dhol82
(9,433 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
(35,774 posts)defacto7
(13,607 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
(35,774 posts)Hassler
(3,670 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)soldierant
(7,882 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
(35,774 posts)soldierant
(7,882 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
(29,254 posts)She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series (The Mod Squad)
debm55
(35,774 posts)electric_blue68
(17,928 posts)And while i didn't have any crushes; I loved Mod Squad.
debm55
(35,774 posts)ailsagirl
(23,801 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)malthaussen
(17,670 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
(35,774 posts)TommieMommy
(1,087 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)fmdaddio
(222 posts)debm55
(35,774 posts)TlalocW
(15,624 posts)I half-kiddingly joke that she was one of the main reasons one of my degrees was Spanish.