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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 2024 OP
David McCallum leftieNanner Nov 2024 #1
Me too. Always watched Man from UNCLE. Thank you leftieNanner. debm55 Nov 2024 #5
Same! Silver Gaia Nov 2024 #27
I think he was my first TV crush. flor-de-jasmim Nov 2024 #57
Amy from the West Wing nycbos Nov 2024 #2
Thank you nycbos. and no you are not dorky. debm55 Nov 2024 #16
Manolito from High Chapparal MaryMagdaline Nov 2024 #3
thank you MaryMagdaline. debm55 Nov 2024 #26
I remember that show. BlueKota Nov 2024 #194
I had a crush on his TV sister, Susan Dey LymphocyteLover Nov 2024 #4
Yes she was cute. thank you LymphocteLover. debm55 Nov 2024 #29
Adam West as Batman LSparkle Nov 2024 #6
Yes, LSparkle , He was good on the eyes. debm55 Nov 2024 #36
Henry Winkler "The Fonz" mucifer Nov 2024 #7
Thank you mucifer. I saw him on a commercial the other day and he still looked good. debm55 Nov 2024 #43
Ricky Nelson KitFox Nov 2024 #8
Forgot about him crazylikafox Nov 2024 #39
Thank you KitFox and welcome to DU. I vaguely remember the show. But I do remember he had beautiful eyes. debm55 Nov 2024 #44
Thank you KitFox Nov 2024 #215
Welcome to DU! red dog 1 Nov 2024 #213
Thank you KitFox Nov 2024 #216
James Garner in Maverick. Loved him and everything livetohike Nov 2024 #9
Thank you livetohike. I loved his smile. debm55 Nov 2024 #48
Totally agree wryter2000 Nov 2024 #159
Annette Funicello...Mickey Mouse Club. MiHale Nov 2024 #10
Thank you, Annette was very beautiful. Yes, feel better then yesterday. debm55 Nov 2024 #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 2024 #11
I loved that show. and you are right. Robert Conrad was very easy on the eyes, Thank you hlthe2b. debm55 Nov 2024 #56
Valerie Bertinelli kozar Nov 2024 #12
She, aged, kozar Nov 2024 #52
Yes, but we all do. debm55 Nov 2024 #67
Thank you Koz. debm55 Nov 2024 #66
Farrah Fawcett... yourout Nov 2024 #13
LOL, my brother, had that poster kozar Nov 2024 #23
HAHAHAHAHH. Every guy I knew at the time , had that poster. Thank you yourout debm55 Nov 2024 #68
Morgan Freeman in The Electric Company Geechie Nov 2024 #14
Thank you Geechie. debm55 Nov 2024 #69
Phil Donahue. Started watching him in 1968. Ninga Nov 2024 #15
Thank you Ninga. Very handsome man. debm55 Nov 2024 #70
Angela Cartwright ItsjustMe Nov 2024 #17
Thank you ItsJustMe. She was also in the Sound of Music. Love her eyes. debm55 Nov 2024 #71
Kurt russell - jungle boy on gilligan's island bedazzled Nov 2024 #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 2024 #72
Annette Funicello CanonRay Nov 2024 #19
Thank you CanonRay. She was beautiful. debm55 Nov 2024 #73
Will Hutchins Tiny Tabby Nov 2024 #20
Thank you very much Tiny Tabby. And welcome to DU debm55 Nov 2024 #74
Marlo Thomas in "That Girl" MichMan Nov 2024 #21
Oh yes, loved her in that. did she ever marry Donald on the show? debm55 Nov 2024 #25
They did not, so I still had hope MichMan Nov 2024 #31
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHh. thank you MichMan. debm55 Nov 2024 #75
No, but they had an affair in "real life" ailsagirl Nov 2024 #221
When I worked at IRS, I worked on her tax return. lastlib Nov 2024 #160
Valerie Bertinelli & Kristy McNichol Wiz Imp Nov 2024 #22
Thank you very much, Wiz Imp debm55 Nov 2024 #24
I forgot about Kristy, kozar Nov 2024 #28
These would be on my short list too, especially Buddy Ilikepurple Nov 2024 #35
Rhonda Shears. GreenWave Nov 2024 #30
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA, Oh you. Thank you GreenWave. For real-granny? debm55 Nov 2024 #77
No, just joking. GreenWave Nov 2024 #78
Magnum PI, for sure! beaglelover Nov 2024 #32
Thank you beaglelover. Yes he was a looker in Magnum PI debm55 Nov 2024 #86
I was very young, but had a fondness for Karen Valentine Ilikepurple Nov 2024 #33
Thank you ilikepurple. I loved her and the show Room 222 debm55 Nov 2024 #88
Twiggy. But more importantly ... marble falls Nov 2024 #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 2024 #89
We are at an age 'just a cyst' is a good thing. One less thing to worry about! marble falls Nov 2024 #163
Oh, and I forgot Danica McKellar as Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years. Wiz Imp Nov 2024 #37
Thank you Wiz Imp. I really liked that show. and I liked the Winnie and Kevin angle. debm55 Nov 2024 #93
Wonder women Goatguy Nov 2024 #38
Thank you Goatguy. Linda Carter was very lovely. debm55 Nov 2024 #94
Eve Plumb and Maureen McCormack from the Brady Bunch and Eva Gabor from Green Acres. ArnoldLayne Nov 2024 #40
Thank you ArnoldLayne. Three good crushes of your youth. debm55 Nov 2024 #95
Peter Tork iwillalwayswonderwhy Nov 2024 #41
He was my favorite too Marigold Nov 2024 #65
On the Monkees , he was my favorite. Thank you. debm55 Nov 2024 #96
I liked Micky. My best friend at the time had rather, er, spooky3 Nov 2024 #178
HHAHAHHAHHAAH. Thank you spooky3 debm55 Nov 2024 #180
Johnny Crawford from The Rifleman HoosierDebbie Nov 2024 #42
Johnny Crawford was mine too Walleye Nov 2024 #81
Thank you , I remember Johnny Crawford. debm55 Nov 2024 #97
I was beginning to think that I was the only one wnylib Nov 2024 #233
Davy Jones of the Monkees biophile Nov 2024 #45
Thank you biophile. He was easy on the eyes. debm55 Nov 2024 #98
When I was seven I pulled my white communion BlueKota Nov 2024 #196
haahahaha, That is so funny, Thank you BlueKota debm55 Nov 2024 #197
I think I started with Mary Tyler Moore on the old Dick Van Dyke show. House of Roberts Nov 2024 #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 2024 #99
Geeze,,,, which one do I pick? KarenS Nov 2024 #47
Great crushes. Karens. Thank you debm55 Nov 2024 #100
Emma Peel, the late great Dame Diana Rigg! lastlib Nov 2024 #50
Oh YEAH! She could have turned me into a lesbian! LSparkle Nov 2024 #102
Thank you lastlib. she was a great crush, debm55 Nov 2024 #103
Emma Peel was the best. (nt) Paladin Nov 2024 #234
Actually, Jan Brady if..fish..had..wings Nov 2024 #51
Thank you if..fish..had..wings Great crush. debm55 Nov 2024 #108
Maria on Sesame Street Ohiya Nov 2024 #53
Thank you Ohiya. Very nice crush. debm55 Nov 2024 #109
Don Johnson, Miami Vice Marigold Nov 2024 #54
Very easy on the eyes. Thank you Marigold. debm55 Nov 2024 #110
Spin (Tim Considine) Chipper Chat Nov 2024 #55
Thank you Chipper Chat. Great crush. debm55 Nov 2024 #111
Moms Willard123 Nov 2024 #58
Thank you and welcome to DU debm55 Nov 2024 #112
Julie Newmar cloudbase Nov 2024 #59
Thank you cloudbase. the catwoman on Batman and Sam on Bewitched. Great choices. debm55 Nov 2024 #113
Michael Landon (of Bonanza and Highway to Heaven)... Gone too soon. Jrose Nov 2024 #60
Thank you Jrose. Michael Landon I liked on Little House too. debm55 Nov 2024 #114
Used to like Barbara Eden JPPaverage Nov 2024 #61
Thank you JPPaverage, two great crushes debm55 Nov 2024 #115
Barbara Eden, in " I Dream of Jeannie" emulatorloo Nov 2024 #62
Thank you emulatorloo. Jeannie and Samantha were good crushes. debm55 Nov 2024 #116
A scene from "7 Faces of Dr. Lao" that I found inspiring as a lad -- Pinback Nov 2024 #137
Dawn Wells. Mary Anne on Gilligans Island doc03 Nov 2024 #63
I could never choose between her and Ginger. Shermann Nov 2024 #82
Thank you doc03 she was my favorite. debm55 Nov 2024 #117
This message was self-deleted by its author Nanuke Nov 2024 #64
I preferred his older brother, Jason Bolt (Robert Brown) no_hypocrisy Nov 2024 #119
Thank you no_hyprocrisy. You are correct about him. debm55 Nov 2024 #203
Thank you Nanuke. I remember both of those actors. and I agree. debm55 Nov 2024 #123
Erin Gray WalkerinSC Nov 2024 #76
Thank you for your crush, WalkerinSC debm55 Nov 2024 #121
Julie the cruise director on Love Boat PedroXimenez Nov 2024 #79
Thank you PedroXimenez. She was a great crush to have. debm55 Nov 2024 #122
Speed Racer. He was a demon on wheels. JenniferJuniper Nov 2024 #80
Thank you JenniferJuniper. I agree with you. debm55 Nov 2024 #124
James Franciscus - "Mr. Novak" Diamond_Dog Nov 2024 #83
You and me both. I remember him. Be still my heart. thank you Diamond_Dog. debm55 Nov 2024 #125
Richard Chamberlin as Dr. Kildare Wicked Blue Nov 2024 #84
Thank you Wicked Blue and when I was older The Thorn Birds. the man never aged. debm55 Nov 2024 #126
Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island displacedvermoter Nov 2024 #85
Thank you displacedvermoter. she was very sweet on the show. debm55 Nov 2024 #87
Star Trek's Nyota Uhura hunter Nov 2024 #90
Oh my hunter. I hope you found your SO. even if she didn't like radios and computers. debm55 Nov 2024 #130
I did. My wife and I met teaching science. hunter Nov 2024 #148
I am smiling. Good for you and your wife. You have both gone through you loving journey together with different likes. debm55 Nov 2024 #150
Not a crush but I dug that cover he did of Do Run Run IbogaProject Nov 2024 #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 2024 #133
Susan Dey on The Partridge Family. Mr.Bill Nov 2024 #92
Thank you very much Mr.Bill. debm55 Nov 2024 #136
Samantha from Bewitched Xipe Totec Nov 2024 #101
HAHAHHAH. Thank you Xipe Totec . Your first crush. That's sweet. debm55 Nov 2024 #140
Johnny from Emergency. Steve Austin, astronaught, man barely alive. applegrove Nov 2024 #104
Thank you very much. applegrove. Great crushes. debm55 Nov 2024 #145
The lone ranger was the first The Blue Flower Nov 2024 #105
Thank you very much The Blue Flower. debm55 Nov 2024 #142
Annette Funicello calguy Nov 2024 #106
Thank you very much calguy. Great crush. debm55 Nov 2024 #143
Morticia Addams RB77 Nov 2024 #107
HAHAHAHHHAH that's funny and welcome to DU. debm55 Nov 2024 #144
robert culp in I Spy NT macwriter Nov 2024 #118
Thank you macwriter. Great choice debm55 Nov 2024 #129
A couple of women LogDog75 Nov 2024 #120
Thank you very much.LogDog75 Great list of crushes. Also, welcome to DU debm55 Nov 2024 #127
Thalia Menninger 4TheArts Nov 2024 #128
Thank you 4 theArts. debm55 Nov 2024 #146
Crush MoonlightHillFarm Nov 2024 #131
Thank you MoonlightHillFarm. He had very beautiful eyes. debm55 Nov 2024 #147
Angie Dickinson, Police Women Sgt. Pepper Anderson. Hotter than donut grease. Hotler Nov 2024 #132
HAHAHAHHHAHAH. thank you Hotler that is funny. debm55 Nov 2024 #134
Yes, David Cassidy, but also woodsprite Nov 2024 #135
HAHAHAHAHAHHAH. Thank you very much woodsprite; That is funny. debm55 Nov 2024 #149
Another vote for David McCallum's Illya Kuryakin. 3catwoman3 Nov 2024 #138
Thank you 3catwoman3, David McCallum. Used to watch the show just to see him when I was a kid. debm55 Nov 2024 #167
Johnny Depp on 21 Jump St happybird Nov 2024 #139
Thank you happybird. Two good crushes. debm55 Nov 2024 #165
Keith Partridge & Johnny Gage MustLoveBeagles Nov 2024 #141
As a preteen Keith Partridge was hot. Thank you very much MustLoveBeagles debm55 Nov 2024 #151
Dick Cavett! Hope22 Nov 2024 #152
Thank you Hope22. I thought he was cute. debm55 Nov 2024 #170
....and smart! Hope22 Nov 2024 #191
Agree. debm55 Nov 2024 #192
Maude Findlay Montauk6 Nov 2024 #153
Thank you Montauk6. I agree. debm55 Nov 2024 #169
Marsha bradey Groundhawg Nov 2024 #154
Thank you Groundhawg. I agree. debm55 Nov 2024 #171
uh, Evil-Lyn and The Baroness The Wandering Harper Nov 2024 #155
Thank you The Wandering Harper. We all had are own crushes. debm55 Nov 2024 #172
Ann Marie AKA "That Girl" LudwigPastorius Nov 2024 #156
Thank you LudwigPastorius. Yes , Marlo was was very pretty. debm55 Nov 2024 #173
Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Bobby Sherman, BlueKota Nov 2024 #157
Thank you BlueKota. I agree with you on your crushes. When he was younger George Clooney was mine. debm55 Nov 2024 #174
George was hot back then. BlueKota Nov 2024 #195
Loved him on ER debm55 Nov 2024 #198
Captain Kirk wryter2000 Nov 2024 #158
Thank you wryter2000. For sure. debm55 Nov 2024 #175
Agent Mulder! jfz9580m Nov 2024 #161
Thank you . Used to watch and I agree. debm55 Nov 2024 #176
John Gage on Emergency! AwakeAtLast Nov 2024 #162
Thank you AwakeAtLast. Great crush. debm55 Nov 2024 #181
Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island and Elly May Clampett Emile Nov 2024 #164
thank you Emile. Very good crushes. debm55 Nov 2024 #166
Ben Casey! some_of_us_are_sane Nov 2024 #168
I had one of his shirts. Loved him when I was a kid. Thank you debm55 Nov 2024 #179
Hadji from the Jonny Quest cartoon catbyte Nov 2024 #177
Thank you catbyte. George was my favorite , too. debm55 Nov 2024 #185
Samantha Stevens and Emma Peel relayerbob Nov 2024 #182
Wow. Thank you relayerbob. Three great crushes. debm55 Nov 2024 #183
David Soul cspanlovr Nov 2024 #184
Thank you cspanlovr. , Same here, but watched Here Comes the Brides to see Bobby Sherman. debm55 Nov 2024 #186
Bobby Sherman MiKenMi33 Nov 2024 #187
Yes he was. David and Bobby were my crushes. I think it was the only reason I watched the shows. debm55 Nov 2024 #188
Gloria Winters, Penny on Sky King Bobstandard Nov 2024 #189
Thank you Bobstandard I remember Sky King debm55 Nov 2024 #190
I have had several, at various phases of my life. Different Drummer Nov 2024 #193
Thank you Different Drummer that is some list there. debm55 Nov 2024 #199
ETA: Marta Kristen (Lost in Space) Different Drummer Nov 2024 #210
Thank you Different Drummer. The older sister. Thank you. debm55 Nov 2024 #211
Forgot to mention, Bobby Sherman. debm55 Nov 2024 #200
Gardner McKay dhol82 Nov 2024 #201
Thank you very much dhol82. Don't give up, Maybe someday you will. debm55 Nov 2024 #202
Rudolph defacto7 Nov 2024 #204
Thank you defacto7 . I liked the Dentist Elf. debm55 Nov 2024 #205
Susan Dey! Hassler Nov 2024 #206
Thank you Hassler. debm55 Nov 2024 #207
Mine was Fritz Weaver soldierant Nov 2024 #208
Thank you soldierant. I remember him from movies and the series Holocaust debm55 Nov 2024 #209
He was a good guy in Holocaust, and pretty evil in Day of the Dolphin. soldierant Nov 2024 #212
Peggy Lipton red dog 1 Nov 2024 #214
Thank you red dog 1 , I liked her and and the other two characters on Mod Squad. debm55 Nov 2024 #217
James Darren/Time Tunnel, McCallum/Iilya and David Henderson/Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea... electric_blue68 Nov 2024 #218
Thank you electric_blue68 debm55 Nov 2024 #219
Hal Linden -- "Barney Miller" ailsagirl Nov 2024 #220
Thank you ailsagirl debm55 Nov 2024 #222
All of them. malthaussen Nov 2024 #223
Great list there Mal. debm55 Nov 2024 #224
Kurt Russell in the Travels of Jaimie McPheeters TommieMommy Nov 2024 #225
Thank you TommieMommy. debm55 Nov 2024 #226
Patty Duke fmdaddio Nov 2024 #227
Thank you fmdaddio. I liked her in The Patty Duke Show. Great choice. debm55 Nov 2024 #229
Maria from Sesame Street TlalocW Nov 2024 #228
Thank you TialocW. Someone on the thread mentioned her. I was too old to watch. debm55 Nov 2024 #230
Candice Bergen - Murphy Brown surfered Nov 2024 #231
thank you surfered. Agree I liked her. debm55 Nov 2024 #232
Serena on Bewitched... subterranean Nov 2024 #235
HAHAHHHAHAH. That's funny. Guess what? I thought the same debm55 Nov 2024 #236
Elisa Maza from "Gargoyles" sakabatou Nov 2024 #237
Thank you sakabatou. debm55 Nov 2024 #238
It's interesting how many are live-action/actors and not those on cels sakabatou Nov 2024 #239

debm55

(43,871 posts)
43. Thank you mucifer. I saw him on a commercial the other day and he still looked good.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 03:52 PM
Nov 2024

KitFox

(267 posts)
8. Ricky Nelson
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 03:11 PM
Nov 2024

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

(43,871 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, 03:54 PM
Nov 2024

KitFox

(267 posts)
216. Thank you
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 07:56 PM
Nov 2024

red dog 1 ! After reading here for years, it is nice to finally be a member. 😊

hlthe2b

(108,914 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, 03:13 PM
Nov 2024

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

(43,871 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, 04:09 PM
Nov 2024

kozar

(3,053 posts)
23. LOL, my brother, had that poster
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 03:34 PM
Nov 2024

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

(1,865 posts)
18. Kurt russell - jungle boy on gilligan's island
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 03:21 PM
Nov 2024

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

(43,871 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, 05:43 PM
Nov 2024

their pictures.

lastlib

(25,629 posts)
160. When I worked at IRS, I worked on her tax return.
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 12:58 AM
Nov 2024

(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

(4,576 posts)
22. Valerie Bertinelli & Kristy McNichol
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 03:32 PM
Nov 2024

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

beaglelover

(4,225 posts)
32. Magnum PI, for sure!
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 03:38 PM
Nov 2024

I think it had to do with the hairy chest and incredibly thick mustache!

debm55

(43,871 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, 06:34 PM
Nov 2024

Wiz Imp

(4,576 posts)
37. Oh, and I forgot Danica McKellar as Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 03:46 PM
Nov 2024

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

(43,871 posts)
93. Thank you Wiz Imp. I really liked that show. and I liked the Winnie and Kevin angle.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 06:57 PM
Nov 2024

spooky3

(37,264 posts)
178. I liked Micky. My best friend at the time had rather, er,
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 01:18 PM
Nov 2024

Detailed fantasies about Mike Nesmith.

HoosierDebbie

(410 posts)
42. Johnny Crawford from The Rifleman
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 03:51 PM
Nov 2024

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

wnylib

(25,211 posts)
233. I was beginning to think that I was the only one
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 04:52 AM
Nov 2024

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

(4,131 posts)
196. When I was seven I pulled my white communion
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 08:55 PM
Nov 2024

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

(5,950 posts)
46. I think I started with Mary Tyler Moore on the old Dick Van Dyke show.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 03:55 PM
Nov 2024

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

(43,871 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, 07:14 PM
Nov 2024

LSparkle

(11,993 posts)
102. Oh YEAH! She could have turned me into a lesbian!
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 07:22 PM
Nov 2024

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

Response to debm55 (Original post)

WalkerinSC

(279 posts)
76. Erin Gray
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 05:54 PM
Nov 2024

Wilma Deering on Buck Rogers. Now there is a show that deserves a BSG style reboot.

Diamond_Dog

(36,459 posts)
83. James Franciscus - "Mr. Novak"
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 06:04 PM
Nov 2024

I’m so old!!!

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

hunter

(39,437 posts)
90. Star Trek's Nyota Uhura
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 06:37 PM
Nov 2024

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

(43,871 posts)
130. Oh my hunter. I hope you found your SO. even if she didn't like radios and computers.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 09:51 PM
Nov 2024

hunter

(39,437 posts)
148. I did. My wife and I met teaching science.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 10:54 PM
Nov 2024

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

(43,871 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, 11:01 PM
Nov 2024

IbogaProject

(4,194 posts)
91. Not a crush but I dug that cover he did of Do Run Run
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 06:52 PM
Nov 2024

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

(43,871 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, 09:56 PM
Nov 2024

husband looks nothing like David Cassidy.

Mr.Bill

(24,906 posts)
92. Susan Dey on The Partridge Family.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 06:56 PM
Nov 2024

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

(30 posts)
107. Morticia Addams
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 07:27 PM
Nov 2024

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

LogDog75

(368 posts)
120. A couple of women
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 08:30 PM
Nov 2024

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

(12,933 posts)
132. Angie Dickinson, Police Women Sgt. Pepper Anderson. Hotter than donut grease.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 09:54 PM
Nov 2024

My first older women.

woodsprite

(12,380 posts)
135. Yes, David Cassidy, but also
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 09:59 PM
Nov 2024

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

(26,454 posts)
138. Another vote for David McCallum's Illya Kuryakin.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 10:04 PM
Nov 2024
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 -

debm55

(43,871 posts)
167. Thank you 3catwoman3, David McCallum. Used to watch the show just to see him when I was a kid.
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 12:51 PM
Nov 2024

Hope22

(3,806 posts)
152. Dick Cavett!
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 11:05 PM
Nov 2024

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

BlueKota

(4,131 posts)
157. Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Bobby Sherman,
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 12:39 AM
Nov 2024

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

(43,871 posts)
174. Thank you BlueKota. I agree with you on your crushes. When he was younger George Clooney was mine.
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 01:05 PM
Nov 2024

some_of_us_are_sane

(1,033 posts)
168. Ben Casey!
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 12:53 PM
Nov 2024

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

(36,647 posts)
177. Hadji from the Jonny Quest cartoon
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 01:17 PM
Nov 2024

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

(43,871 posts)
186. Thank you cspanlovr. , Same here, but watched Here Comes the Brides to see Bobby Sherman.
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 01:32 PM
Nov 2024

debm55

(43,871 posts)
188. Yes he was. David and Bobby were my crushes. I think it was the only reason I watched the shows.
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 01:50 PM
Nov 2024

Different Drummer

(9,079 posts)
193. I have had several, at various phases of my life.
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 07:26 PM
Nov 2024

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

(9,528 posts)
201. Gardner McKay
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 09:56 PM
Nov 2024

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

(14,014 posts)
204. Rudolph
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 10:11 PM
Nov 2024

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

(8,316 posts)
208. Mine was Fritz Weaver
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 01:40 AM
Nov 2024

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

(8,316 posts)
212. He was a good guy in Holocaust, and pretty evil in Day of the Dolphin.
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 04:38 PM
Nov 2024

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

(30,562 posts)
214. Peggy Lipton
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 07:49 PM
Nov 2024

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

electric_blue68

(20,600 posts)
218. James Darren/Time Tunnel, McCallum/Iilya and David Henderson/Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea...
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 08:51 PM
Nov 2024

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

malthaussen

(18,054 posts)
223. All of them.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 03:21 PM
Nov 2024

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

(15,632 posts)
228. Maria from Sesame Street
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 06:27 PM
Nov 2024

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

subterranean

(3,591 posts)
235. Serena on Bewitched...
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 04:23 PM
Nov 2024

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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