How well do you remember the classic TV shows from the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s? In Bewitched, did Darren know Samantha’s talents before they were married? In the Andy Griffith show, was it Ronnie or Ronny Howard? How did the Long Ranger come to be, and why did Tonto save him? Answers to these and more can be found online, where many of the classics have been given new life.

Sites like TV Land, Sony’s Crackle, Hulu, Fancast, CBS, NBC, and more have brought back many of the classics, fully restored, and placed them online for free. People can watch such classics in higher quality today than they ever could with broadcast TV from those decades long ago.

For the 1930’s and 1940’s, some of the classics online are The Three Stooges and The Lone Ranger. For the 1950’s, Leave it to Beaver, Casper The Friendly Ghost, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, and many more are online. For the 1960’s, The Addams Family, The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewithed, Bonanza, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Hogan’s Heroes, I Dream of Jeannie, The Jetsons, Star Trek, and much more are online.

While the classic TV shows are free online, the shows will play with limited commercials. It is only fair that we recognize the sponsors who made such an amazing library of online TV possible for us to enjoy.

So where do you find the right places to watch such classics online? Simple: Spreety TV Online. From the main Spreety.com site, go to the “Classic TV” tab, and select the decade of choice. Find the show of interest, and click the graphic to launch the show from the right place to watch online.

With the extensive library of classic TV online, there should never be a dull day. Simply put, there’s more than anyone can watch.

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The article was written by Spreety co-founder, Ron Laughton. Spreety TV Online is a fun and free television guide for the Internet.

To keep pace with demand, starting midnight (ET) on Thursday, June 18, Spreety will commence a complex series of upgrades. The result will be improved speed and capacity.

While the intent is zero downtime, the complexity may lead to something unexpected.

With the upgrade, there will be a few changes:

1. Decades will be renamed to Classic TV.
2. The “Surprise Me” feature will be retired. This will allow a 25% improvement in speed.
3. The Bubbles Game will still exist, but will be more difficult to find (use this link). Our decision to deprecate is due to the excessive ads recently appearing with that game.

For the tech lovers, parallel environments will run while the Spreety domain name changes IP address. The entire process may take a few days to update across the Internet.

Wish us luck.

As a promotion, CBS has online the original 1966 Star Trek TV series with:

• New Special Effects
• Surround Sound
• High Definition Video

Considering most people were introduced to Star Trek on black and white TVs using over the air transmissions and mono sound, the CBS remastering makes a good case for a new look, even for those who know every script by heart, have dressed up as a Klingon, and really wish they were Spock.

For newcomers to the Star Trek franchise, the updated originals provide good stories, and some clarification to characters, such as Captain Pike, in the upcoming movie.

• Pre 1950s Online TV Shows
• 1950s Online TV Shows
• 1960s Online TV Shows
• 1970s Online TV Shows
• 1980s Online TV Shows
• 1990s Online TV Shows
• 2000s Online TV Shows
• New This Year Online TV Shows