Our Favorite Foreign TV Shows

I was talking about TV shows at home before writing my last post and my mom popped into our conversation saying "Lucy was a fantastic show". And then a list of favorite foreign shows started building. Everyone had one or more to talk about. So I decided to write about Our Favorite Foreign Shows.

Since my mom finds Lucy fantastic, I'll talk about it first. I LOVE LUCY, four Prime Time Emmy winner. It was telecasted in mid or late 80s in India. Lucy Ricardo had funny situations in her life along with Ricky, Ethel and Fred (some other characters of the show) who were loved by everyone at that time.

Well when I was a kid I loved watching I DREAM OF JEANNIE (IDOJ) . Tony Nelson finds a bottle, opens it and Jeannie appears. I found the way Jeannie use to blink her eyes to do magic cute. Even her bottle house & her dress was cute. Me and my sister tried a lot to make a house like it for our doll. When it comes to magic shows I always remember Jeanie and BEWITCHED. Darrin Stephen after marring Samantha finds that Samantha is a witch and then the trouble in Darrin's life starts. Samantha's moving of her lips while doing magic was a style we use to try a lot to copy. I bet very few people could copy that. We used to find Samantha's daughter Tabitha very sweet and her voice was soooo innocent. The three shows IDOJ, BEWITCHED and THE THREE STOOGES came together on Sony TV. The Three stooges : Lary-Shemp-Moe, were three naughty guys fighting and arguing all the time. Their way of hitting each other and making weird faces, all those things were hilarious. Do you remember Mr. Wilson? Yes! I am talking about DENNIS THE MENACE. Dennis use to shout Hellooooooo Mr. Wilson and Mr. Wilson used to hide the moment he hears this sound. Martha, Henry and Margaret were also interesting characters of the show. Remember Margaret? She always tried to flatter Dennis. Another such show that I can watch a hundred times, is SMALL WONDER. Loved Vickie's Robotic accent and Harriet flirting with Jamie (Vickie's brother). I just wanted to see Vickie turning into human, but nothing exactly like that happened.

"The Three Stooges" Video

Not only Dubbed shows but the original English series on Zee English, Star World etc. were worth watching. My favorite were FULL HOUSE and FRIENDS. Love the friendship bond shown on these shows and one thing that I liked in Full House is that they have shown the same cast growing with time. It feels good seeing little Michelle growing so young in the series. And Friends is a I guess I don't need to talk about. One thing I would say, is that I liked Jennifer Aniston a lot in friends. Then there was HAPPY DAYS, SILVER SPOONS and DIFF'RENT STROKES. I still watch repeat telecast of Diff'Rent Strokes whenever I get time. Oh!! how can I forget REMINGTON STEELE starring Pierce Brosnan. Its mysteries where cool, it was a nice detective show, then there was hilarious DiDi's COMEDY SHOW also. Still Foriegn shows are loved by us. Disney is showing some really cool shows like HANNAH MONTANA, SUITE LIFE OF ZACK AND CODY, THAT'S SO RAVEN AND WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE etc.

From Lucy (I Love Lucy) to Miley (Hannah Monatana) foreign shows are always loved by us. Hope my post refreshed your memories.