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

KitFox

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

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

(35,774 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
Thursday

hlthe2b

(106,295 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
Thursday

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)
56. I loved that show. and you are right. Robert Conrad was very easy on the eyes, Thank you hlthe2b.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 03:09 PM
Thursday

kozar

(2,845 posts)
23. LOL, my brother, had that poster
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 02:34 PM
Thursday

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

(1,852 posts)
18. Kurt russell - jungle boy on gilligan's island
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 02:21 PM
Thursday

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)
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
Thursday

their pictures.

lastlib

(24,883 posts)
160. When I worked at IRS, I worked on her tax return.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 11:58 PM
Thursday

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

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

debm55

(35,774 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
Thursday

Wiz Imp

(1,754 posts)
37. Oh, and I forgot Danica McKellar as Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 02:46 PM
Thursday

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
Thursday

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

wnylib

(24,338 posts)
233. I was beginning to think that I was the only one
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 03:52 AM
32 min ago

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

(3,639 posts)
196. When I was seven I pulled my white communion
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 07:55 PM
Friday

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

(5,677 posts)
46. I think I started with Mary Tyler Moore on the old Dick Van Dyke show.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 02:55 PM
Thursday

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)
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
Thursday

LSparkle

(11,746 posts)
102. Oh YEAH! She could have turned me into a lesbian!
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 06:22 PM
Thursday

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

Diamond_Dog

(34,593 posts)
83. James Franciscus - "Mr. Novak"
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 05:04 PM
Thursday

I’m so old!!!

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

hunter

(38,910 posts)
90. Star Trek's Nyota Uhura
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 05:37 PM
Thursday

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

(38,910 posts)
148. I did. My wife and I met teaching science.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 09:54 PM
Thursday

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)
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
Thursday

IbogaProject

(3,644 posts)
91. Not a crush but I dug that cover he did of Do Run Run
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 05:52 PM
Thursday

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)
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
Thursday

husband looks nothing like David Cassidy.

Mr.Bill

(24,786 posts)
92. Susan Dey on The Partridge Family.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 05:56 PM
Thursday

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
Thursday

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

LogDog75

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

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

(12,142 posts)
132. Angie Dickinson, Police Women Sgt. Pepper Anderson. Hotter than donut grease.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 08:54 PM
Thursday

My first older women.

woodsprite

(12,192 posts)
135. Yes, David Cassidy, but also
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 08:59 PM
Thursday

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

(25,416 posts)
138. Another vote for David McCallum's Illya Kuryakin.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 09:04 PM
Thursday
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

(2,821 posts)
152. Dick Cavett!
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 10:05 PM
Thursday

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

BlueKota

(3,639 posts)
157. Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Bobby Sherman,
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 11:39 PM
Thursday

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)
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
Friday
168. Ben Casey!
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 11:53 AM
Friday

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

(35,754 posts)
177. Hadji from the Jonny Quest cartoon
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 12:17 PM
Friday

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

(8,541 posts)
193. I have had several, at various phases of my life.
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 06:26 PM
Friday

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

(9,433 posts)
201. Gardner McKay
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 08:56 PM
Friday

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

(13,607 posts)
204. Rudolph
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 09:11 PM
Friday

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

(7,882 posts)
208. Mine was Fritz Weaver
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 12:40 AM
Saturday

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

(7,882 posts)
212. He was a good guy in Holocaust, and pretty evil in Day of the Dolphin.
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 03:38 PM
Saturday

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)
214. Peggy Lipton
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 06:49 PM
Saturday

She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series (The Mod Squad)

electric_blue68

(17,928 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
Saturday

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

malthaussen

(17,670 posts)
223. All of them.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:21 PM
14 hrs ago

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

(15,624 posts)
228. Maria from Sesame Street
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 05:27 PM
10 hrs ago

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

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