Over the last week there has been a show on a station I usually never watch but couldn't resist due to this one series.

The station is basically designed for young adults and teens.

The show that caught my eye was "I Love Toys."

Now who could resist that title? I chose not to listen to the patter as different comedians, actors, scriptwriters, etc. talked about the toys due to what I considered "tasteless" language.

Seeing the toys and even some of the old ads for toys, was great.

The show was doing a countdown of the 100 favorite toys from the 60's through today. It lasted over several days and I didn't see all of the shows.

I won't go through all the "countdown" as I missed some of the shows, didn't see the last "top 20" and didn't keep track of the rankings most of the time anyway.

Most of the toys were from my children's childhood more than my own. There was, of course, the jumprope! I was glad to see that recognized. If more kids jumped rope today they would be a lot healthier I think.

Roller skates came in as a perpetual favorite. These were the old four-wheeled kind we all grew up with. A nod was even given to the older version of skates that required a tightening key to hold them on.

Two that ranked in the top half of the countdown were every girl's favorite -- the tea set. The other was the teddy bear.

Raggedy Ann and Andy were there along with the Big Wheel and pogo sticks.

Remember the EasyBake Ovens that came out in the 60s? More of what I consider the "classics" were Lincoln Logs, Tonka trucks, Connect Four ("pretty sneaky, Sis,") and ViewMaster.

I'll just name some and you can drag up your own memories of toys from your childhood or your children's.

(All brand names are registered and although I didn't stick the little R in a circle next to each one please keep that in mind.) Rockem-Sockem Robots, the Frizbee, SeeN'Say, Mousetrap, dominoes, Classic Football (the first hand-held video game,) Strawberry Shortcake (which started out as a greeting card figure), Rainbow Brite, GI Joe, Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shrinky Dinks, Twister, Battleship (the old kind with pegs and not batteries,) LiteBrite (with real glass pegs that amazingly didn't kill us all off,) Scratch n'Sniff stickers, Operation, Voltron, little green army men, Godzilla, Gumby, Spiral-graph, My Little Pony, Care Bears, Tickle Me Elmo, Cabbage Patch dolls, Crayola crayons, Silly Putty, Lionel train sets, jigsaw puzzles, water pistols (and the later Super Soakers,) Live Baby (who drinks, eats and consequently needs a diaper,) Weebles "wobble but they don't fall down,) Erector sets, Candy Land, Uno, Memory, Clue, Slip N'Slide, walkie-talkies, Nerf footballs, original Nintendo with Mario and Duck Hunt, marbles, He-Man, Fisher Price Little People, Evel Kanevil on his windup stunt motorcycle and Pong (one of, if not THE first video game tying up the family television for hours.) Some they hadn't gotten to mention yet but certainly will I hope: modeling clay, Play Do, farm sets, miniature animals, Sea horses that you "grew" yourself, Chia pets that grew grass, Barbie, Monopoly, Legos, kites, chemistry sets (the cool kind with a working microscope with a mirror instead of a battery powered light,) paper dolls, paint sets (the old type in a tin box with a real brush,) Fort Apache, Red Flyer wagons, bicycles, BB guns, bubbles in a bottle with those drippy hoop things, rocking horses and the later "bouncing" horse, hula hoops, Hot Wheels miniature cars, coloring books with "tracing" pages inserted, Robie the Robot, yo-yos, race cars that ran on tracks and had to "zipped" with a "ripper" (don't recall the correct name of those but they took up a lot of room as I remember,) Chatty Cathy, toy pianos and other instruments, Morse code flashlights and Slinky.

They have 20 more to count down and I can't think of any more than the above.

What other toys do you remember from your childhood? I've often heard that the only reason Baby Boomers had children was to have an excuse to continue to buy toys.

Well, no comment, here! Until the next time friends remember; we all remember our favorite toys from our childhood. If you remember what made the toys you loved special, try to pass that feeling on to your own children or grandchildren.

The family that plays together stays together.