1. Gunsmoke
   The Andy Griffith Show
2. Bewitched
   Petticoat Junction

The main character on Bewitched was Samantha Stephens, but she was supported by her husband Darrin, daughter Tabitha, and mother Endora. A few crazy neighbors and Darrin's boss rounded out the ensemble.

1. The Beverly Hillbillies
   The Brady Bunch
2. I Dream of Jeannie
   My Favorite Martian

The Beverly Hillbillies ran from 1962 until 1971. It focused on the newly-rich Clampetts, who relocate to live the good life in Beverly Hills.

1. Ben Casey
   The Blue Angels
2. The Andy Griffith Show
   Bonanza

Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor was a fixture on our TV sets during the 1960s. There never was a child cuter than Opie, a friend more loyal than Barney, or a small town so filled with strange but lovable characters.

1. The Dick Van Dyke Show
   Convoy
2. Burke's Law
   Lost in Space

Rob and Laura Petrie came into our living rooms in 1971, bringing along their son, Ritchie, and neighbors Jerry and Millie. We also got to know the comedy writers who worked with Rob on the Alan Brady Show.

1. The Danny Thomas Show
   Camp Runamuck
2. Green Acres
   Star Trek

"Star Trek" was a huge science fiction hit when it began airing in 1966. The crew of the Starship Enterprise became household names and the franchise continues to crank out movies.

1. Petticoat Junction
   The Munsters
2. The Addams Family
   Car 54, Where Are You?

Vampires, werewolves, and monsters galore. Poor Marilyn, the only non-monster family member, was considered the black sheep. "The Munsters" only aired 72 episodes, but left a lasting impression.

1. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
   Here's Edie
2. Father Knows Best
   Flipper

All Dobie Gillis wants is to find true love, and heaven knows he looks hard enough for it. He is aided and abetted by his bongo-playing friend, Maynard G. Krebs, and his doting mother, but his father isn't quite as sure of Dobie's abilities.

1. Dr. Kildare
   The High Chaparral
2. The Honeymooners
   Gilligan's Island

The hapless Gilligan was the star of "Gilligan's Island," but the supporting characters were fun as well. Who could forget the Skipper, Thurston and Lovey Howell, the professor, and the lovely Ginger and Mary Ann?

1. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
   Bonanza
2. Honey West
   Family Affair

Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin were agents for the United Network Command for Law Enforcement, better known as U.N.C.L.E. For four seasons, they fought criminal elements from the evil THRUSH organization.

1. Jericho
   Hazel
2. The Fugitive
   Get Smart

On "Get Smart," Don Adams played Maxwell Smart, a bumbling spy charged with saving the world. Fortunately, he had the help of Agent 99, who was as smart as she was beautiful, thankfully.

1. The Big Valley
   My Three Sons
2. The Virginian
   Ironside

"My Three Sons" debuted in 1960 and ran until 1972. It featured a widower who was bringing up his three boys with a little help from Uncle Charlie.

1. Lawman
   Mission: Impossible
2. Mannix
   Lost in Space

"Lost in Space" took place far, far into the future -- 1997, to be exact -- as the Robinson family struggle to find their way back to Earth after an interplanetary mission goes awry. The show only ran from 1965 to 1968, but it has become something of a cult classic.

1. Bonanza
   My Three Sons
2. No Time for Sergeants
   Love, American Style

"Bonanza" aired for a whopping 14 seasons, finally calling it quits in 1973. The show followed the lives of rancher Ben Cartwright and his sons on the Ponderosa ranch.

1. Get Smart
   Mr. Lucky
2. Hogan's Heroes
   Sam and Friends

If all of the Germans had been this clueless, World War II would have ended a lot sooner. In "Hogan's Heroes," Col. Hogan and his fellow POWs match wits with Col. Klink and his fellow officers, but it's not much of a contest.

1. Green Acres
   To Rome with Love
2. Pete and Gladys
   Twelve O'Clock High

Successful Manhattan attorney Oliver Wendell Douglas decides to give up the city rat race and buy a worn down farm in the weird town of Hooterville. His wife, Lisa, is less than pleased, but she stuck it out for the entire six-season run of "Green Acres."

1. Wagon Train
   The Addams Family
2. The Real McCoys
   Margie

"The Addams Family" starred John Astin as Gomez and Carolyn Jones as his wife, Morticia. The series featured a family whose interests veered toward the macabre, to say the least, and they were helped along by Uncle Fester and a giant butler named Lurch.

1. Manhunt
   Kentucky Jones
2. Fury
   Gunsmoke

At 20 seasons, "Gunsmoke" is one of the longest-running series on network television. It took place in Dodge City, where Marshal Matt Dillon dealt with gunfights and cattle rustling in the Wild West.

1. Petticoat Junction
   The Brady Bunch
2. Gentle Ben
   Hogan's Heroes

Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. She brings her three daughters and he brings his three sons. Laughter ensues.

1. Iron Horse
   Everybody's Talking
2. My Favorite Martian
   Here's Lucy

"My Favorite Martian" starred Ray Walston as a space traveler who gets stranded on Earth in Southern California. When Tim O'Hara rescues him, he can't very well tell people he's harboring a real live Martian, so he says he's his Uncle Martin. All is well unless Martin's antennae inadvertently go up.

1. I Dream of Jeannie
   Bewitched
2. Hawaii Five-O
   Here Come the Brides

Before he was J.R. Ewing on Dallas, Larry Hagman played astronaut Tony Nelson on "I Dream of Jeannie." When he finds and releases a genie named Jeannie, he finds he can't get rid of her and she complicates his life enormously, but in delightful ways.

1. Green Acres
   Flipper
2. Journey to the Center of the Earth
   Petticoat Junction

Billie Jo, Betty Jo, and Bobbie Jo Bradley are the most beautiful residents of Hooterville on "Petticoat Junction," which debuted in 1963. They work at the family-owned Shady Rest Hotel with their mother, Kate, and their eccentric Uncle Joe.

1. Mod Squad
   Marcus Welby, MD
2. Naked City
   Karen

Pete, Linc, and Julie were young people in trouble with the law. Instead of punishing them, Captain Greer recruits them as undercover agents who can blend in with people their own age, and they become the Mod Squad.

1. Bonanza
   Many Happy Returns
2. The New Breed
   Mister Ed

You wouldn't think you could milk a show about a talking horse for six seasons, but "Mister Ed" managed to do it. Wilbur Post is the only person to whom his horse, Mister Ed, will talk, but he manages to stir up trouble for a much wider range of people.

1. Dr. Kildare
   Hong Kong
2. Gidget
   Dark Shadows

In the late 1960s, teenage girls all over the country raced home from school in order to watch "Dark Shadows." The campy horror/soap opera centers on the wealthy Collins family, whose estate is soon populated by witches, werewolves, vampires, and cheap scenery that routinely fell down during the episode.

1. Leave It to Beaver
   Hogan's Heroes
2. The Flying Nun
   Here's Lucy

"Leave It to Beaver" debuted in 1963 and ran for six seasons. During that time, Wally made it through high school, Beaver got countless lectures from his father, and Eddie Haskell grew less sincere by the day.

1. Love, American Style
   McHale's Navy
2. Frontier Circus
   Jericho

"McHale's Navy" starred Ernest Borgnine as Lt. Commander Quinton McHale, who commanded the crew of PT-73 in the South Pacific. The men are good at their jobs, but sometimes need to go rogue and blow off steam, much to the dismay of Ensign Parker, who's a by-the-book guy.

1. Harry's Girls
   The Flintstones
2. Father Knows Best
   Ben Casey

Welcome to Bedrock, home of the 1960 animated series, "The Flintstones." While Barney and Fred sweat it out at the rock quarry, Wilma and Betty are stay-at-home moms enjoying all the newest technology, like a woolly mammoth that serves as a shower and a camera that contains a bird that taps out the photo with its beak.

1. Batman
   Bewitched
2. Destry
   I'm Dickens, He's Fenster

A DC comic book hero came to life in 1966 when "Batman" began its three-season run. The show was good campy fun as Batman and Robin kept Gotham City safe from all manner of criminal elements, employing a series of gizmos and the ongoing support of Alfred the butler.

1. The Big Valley
   Ironside
2. Ensign O'Toole
   The Farmer's Daughter

The Big Valley starred Barbara Stanwyck as single mom Victoria Barkley. She runs a large ranch in the San Joaquin Valley while also riding herd on her adult children, including one who is the illegitimate son of her late husband.

1. Jambo
   The New Breed
2. Julia
   Dennis the Menace

The beloved comic strip Dennis the Menace became a live action series starring Jay North as Dennis. Today he'd probably qualify for Ritalin, but in the '60s, he wore out his parents, Henry and Alice Mitchell, when he wasn't pestering next-door-neighbor Mr. George Wilson.

1. The Nurses
   Car 54, Where Are You?
2. My Mother the Car
   To Rome with Love

"Car 54, Where Are You?" starred Fred Gwynne and Joe Ross as a couple of cops working a beat together in the Bronx. One was short and loud, the other was tall and smart, and they shared misadventures from 1961 until 1963.

1. That Girl
   Please Don't Eat the Daisies
2. Tombstone Territory
   Pete and Gladys

Marlo Thomas starred as Ann Marie, a struggling actress trying to make it in New York City. She also has a writer boyfriend and a set of parents who worry about their little girl's safety in the big, bad city.

1. Then Came Bronson
   The Avengers
2. Ironside
   Here Come the Brides

Jason, Jeremy, and Joshua Bolt are brothers running a lumber business in 1860s Seattle. When they have trouble keeping a crew together because the men are lonely, they bring in 100 young women who hope to find husbands on the new frontier in "Here Come the Brides."

1. The Wild Wild West
   The Rifleman
2. The Tall Man
   Run for Your Life

After his wife dies, Lucas McCain takes his son, Mark, to start over at a ranch in New Mexico, where uses his good sense and a quick trigger finger to help the local marshal keep the bad guys at bay. Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford were the lead actors.

1. Jericho
   The Flying Nun
2. Johnny Ringo
   Hawaiian Eye

"Hawaiian Eye," which ran for four seasons on ABC, followed the professional and personal lives of private investigators Tracy Steele and Tom Lopaka, owners of a Honolulu detective agency. Connie Stevens co-starred as photographer and lounge singer Cricket Blake.