Who was your favorite teen magazine/TV series/pop music heart throb?

[quote] Please don't link me to similar threads.

[quote] Please don't link me to similar threads.

One of those thread is two years old. The other one is six months old.

Just answer the fucking question.

Davy Jones forever.

Now that's more like it, mate.

Unbelievably he's 18 here -- I love the song. (Same night as the Beatles appearance.)

Growing up in the '70s, I used to occasionally pick up those magazines. One thing I always wondered was who actually found the Bay City Rollers or Leif Garrett attractive.

Vincent Van Patten is one heartthrob who has aged well.

Andy Gibb, before Victoria Principle and the cocaine

Robbie Benson

Parker Stevenson

Willie Aames

Bobby Sherman

JC from N Sync.

Yeah, Vince has aged well--and he's around my age. He looks a lot better than me. Still has his hair, too. Although he really doesn't look like he did as a kid--I mean, I'm not sure I'd recognize him unless i knew it was him. I think William Zabka probably looks more like young Vince than old Vince does.

R13 beat me to the punch

Johnny Deep

Leif Garret had that bad boy/wholesome contradictory vibe.

I wasn't a teen any more but Johnny Depp, yeah, for sure.

Growing up in CA a lot of girls were really into the blond surfer type. As a young gayling I was more interested in men like Robert Urich and David Soul.

Honestly? As a baby-gay, I didn't find the "teen dreams" all that much of a heart throb. I went for the older, "bear-ier", rugged men.

Vince is married to Y&R's Eileen Davidson!

R8, he HAS aged well. Is that picture recent?

Jim Morrison

COACH!

Keith Cassidy & later Sean Cassidy. So much hotness is one family! I liked Parker Stevenson too, but he was too much like a Golden Retriever in human form.

I can't find a good link, but Jonathan Taylor Thomas is 3 yrs older than me, and I was so in love with him when I was a young gayling in the 90s. I constantly fantasized about marrying him, and would always try to buy every magazine he was on. I threw them all away in college when I had to move, but I'm sure I had 100+ magazines with him on the cover.

Matt Dillon

I always thought Leif Garrett was gross.

But I also didn’t like teen heart throbs. I liked older men. I was obsessed with Jim Palmer and his underwear. I used to fantasize he would climb a ladder to my window in only those Jockeys. I was 11 and just hitting puberty.

Did anyone genuinely think Fonzie was attractive?

[quote] I was obsessed with Jim Palmer and his underwear.

I used to masturbate to those ads.

Kevin Brophy

R17 that picture is hot. I wonder if Depp and Peter DeLuise ever had each other.

Absolutely, R30.

I was in middle school when "Family Ties" was one of the big shows, and I was obsessed with Michael J. Fox. I even started wearing Oxford shirts to mimic his character's preppiness.

oh, another big influence: River Phoenix and Wil Wheaton after seeing Stand By Me in the theaters.

I think I wanted to be Wil's character and have River's as my best friend. I was too young to think about [italic]wanting[/italic] either of them. lol

But when Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon came out...

Chris Atkins all the way. I masturbated to him a lot. Like a LOT!!

R1’s cuntery is delicious. Unlike cunt itself.

Anyhow, I love you, R1.

"Please don't link me to similar threads"

You don't make the rules!!

R30, I used to be hot for Anson Williams, who I thought was so cute when he played Potsie.

Grant Goodeve. Playgirl offered him a centerfold. I wish he had taken up the offer.

I was all about Vince's brother Tim Van Patten, regularly shirtless as Salami (!) on "The White Shadow."

Zach Galligan was my first pin-up guy on the back of my bedroom door. Now I think what a dweeb, he's aging into Bob from Sesame Street.

The one who developed a meth habit and picked holes in his face.

R41 according to this thread it was Adam Rich.

RIDER STRONG

Brad Renfro. RIP

Brian Bloom

Rex Smith, Peter Barton and Rob Lowe

Robbie Benson has had 4 open heart surgeries. I just watched the intro to an interview with that guy who interviews has-been actors. (Harvey Brownstone.)

Come up with your own thread ideas, OP. Or are you incapable. Sad sack.

My favorite Vince's career wasn't illustrious. None of the sitcoms/series on which he was a regular made it, afaik. I remember Apple's Way, an Earl Hamner Jr. series. I think it was on two seasons. When VVP was 16-17. I saw him play tennis once at Longwood. He won a big tennis tournament in Japan, defeating John McEnroe.

Wesley Eure. Loved him on DOOL and Land of the Lost.

Since you're asking people who are now adults to name their teen heartthrobs from back in the day, when they themselves were very young, I'm curious as to why you felt you had to add the disclaimer that this is not a "pedo thread?"

R51, R54 What don't you try another thread, since you don't seem to like this one?

(Why don't you...)

R52 I loved Apple's Way as a kid. I even had the Apple's Way viewmaster reels.

R54 - I think you mean just "WESLEY"!!!

Ooops, not R54

[R53] - I think you mean just "WESLEY"!!!

R57 Apple's Way was a how featured by Viewmaster? That's wild.

Yeah, I actually liked it, too, but I think it was on Sunday nights (?)..and I must have had another show I wanted to watch because I didn't see it that much.

A church where I live, that has a coffeehouse, has had Ronny Cox (the dad on the show) play there a few times. Singer-songwriter. I should have gone.

From 2019:

Ronny Cox’s Wikipedia entry describes him as an actor, singer-songwriter and storyteller, but as far as he’s concerned, it’s the other way around. “Singing Storyteller” definitely comes first. That becomes evident as soon as he starts reeling off bits of his history, delivering one fascinating anecdote after another about his music career, his myriad stage and screen roles, and even his lengthy marriage to his high-school sweetheart, the only girlfriend he ever had.

In concert, using nothing more than the power of his projected words, Ronny captivates listeners with all kinds of stories. Some are spoken; some are sung. But either way, he’s employing that age-old art form to forge connections he says he can’t as an actor. Ronny is often recognized for appearances in Deliverance, RoboCop, Beverly Hills Cop, Dexter, St. Elsewhere, and recently in Nashville’s final season. However Ronny’s many recordings made him an award winning socially responsible singer-songwriter, in 2018 winning Best American Roots Song for “Bus to Baltimore” about Alzheimer’s disease. (RonnyCox.com)

If he'd have brought Vince with him I'd have gone to see him.

There's still a chance to relive the glory, folks.

There was an Apple's Way lunch pail.

They must have had high hopes for that show.

I never liked any of the teenaged guys. When I was a tween, I thought John Ritter was dreamy. Mostly because he had a nice butt and a hairy chest.

My next tattoo

I have vague memories of Apple’s Way — always the water wheel.

Dion

Frankie Avalon

Fabian

Yes, I'm old.

My vague memories are more about Vince Van Patten.

Fabian was so cute. He couldn't sing, but that was also cute, somehow.

(Scene from North to Alaska...)

Fabian had a cute little ass.

Fabian posed for Playgirl

It was Shaun Cassidy for me.

Vince van Patten was an underrated teen idol.

I don't think Timothy Van Patten was ever considered a teen idol, but he was smoking hot.

Sorry about that, let's try again:

I don't think Timothy Van Patten was ever considered a teen idol, but he was smoking hot.

R74 Thank you! Beautiful bush...

Yes, lovely bush on Fabian.

When I was a teen I wanted Joe from Rhoda.

Tim Van Patten was so fucking HOT. He's in some of those shitty 80s movies.

R78 He was sort of a teen idol-he was on The White Shadow.

He's a director and producer, has won Emmys. Bald now.

Tim.

Jethro Bodine

Tom Sellek

Paul Michael Glaser

Burt Reynolds

(Yes, I got a certain dark hair type with hairy chest going on here)

Whatever happened to Eric Olson? He was cast in just about every family drama of the 70s.

The kid on Flipper, the older brother.

And Mitch Vogel on bonanza. He wasn't good looking, but then they didn't cast kid/teen actors for their looks back then.

(As much.)

Fabian at R74 had quite the brief Speedo tan line.

This goes back to me being age 13-14 and finding a bunch of these mags (Tiger Beat etc) in the brand-new town recycling dumpster just a quarter mile down the road.

John Schneider. Bo Duke. I thought he had the most kissable lips, and the most gloriously pouffy blond hair atop that nice tall solid man-dimensional body. He's become a cantankerous MAGA crudball later in life, but I was charged full of teenage lust for his 1980 self, way back then.

This photo of John in Teen Beat '80 may have begun my attraction to thick natural fit-fat men with pretty faces.

I still can’t believe Eileen Davidson married Vince Van Patten. lol

Bobby Rydell had big hair and a big cock.

John Schneider in his youth could never be described as "fit-fat." What the hell are you talking about, R92?

R93 She was arried twice before. Guess this one lasted.

First husband was "best known for portraying Vance Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard for 19 episodes during season 5 when cousins Coy and Vance Duke temporarily replaced Bo and Luke Duke (due to a salary dispute between producers and the original actors)."

Vince was previously married to actress Betsy Russell.

*married

Jason Donovan.

That other René, René Simard.

Vincent Van Patten also appeared in "Rock n Roll High School" with that other teen heartthrob, Clint Howard.

Duran Duran - bonus points for the drummer, but all of the rest as well, except one. You know who I'm talking about.

Vince Van Patten will always be Andy Sheffield, the bionic boy, to me.

Guest stars included Joan Van Ark and Greg Evigan!

Jermaine Jackson

It wasn't Bobby Sherman or David Soul...

Maybe we should say Nepo Babies Vince and Timothey Van Patten.

[quote]Vince was previously married to actress Betsy Russell.

Is that the mother of his sons? Eileen is best friends with her.

Eileen’s son is hot!

R107 I don't know, I just found it out today on Wikipedia.

Anyone like David Charvet?

Michael Bergin, David Chokachi?

Jaason Simmons?

I kind of had a crush on Matthew Laboryteaux (sp?).

Eileen Davidson was 44 years old when she had her only child. She's 66 years old now and has aged well. I'm sure she's had "work" done.

I really thought Johnny Depp was beautiful when he was on 21 Jump Street. That was the main reason that I watched it. I'm a year older than he is and I was never that good-looking. I did, however, age MUCH better. I never had his bad habits either.

By the looks of it, celebrity boys/men of the 70s were so ugly.

R114 OF COURSE, she has. And some damn good work at that. Bitch looks GOOD.

R116 I mean...you do realize that you're viewing them through a younger pillock's eyes, right?

The paradox of sexless American teen idol beefcake never stirred my loins.

I would love to have done the butt sex with Chris Lowe of Pet Shop Boys circa 1987.

In the early 80s, Scott Baio. I know, kill me now!

r118 I don't know what you are talking about. Male celebs in the 60s, 80s, 90s, etc were better looking than the 70s.

R121 Probably because many of them had longer hair, which gave them a somewhat androgynous look. It wasn’t everyone’s taste, but teenage girls at the time were definitely into it.

r122 I don't mind long hair, the 70s sex symbols were just ugly to me. Long or short hair.

R73 Cute ass indeed! I wish he’d shown it in Playgirl. Nevertheless, he has provided me with many great wanks over the years!! Thanks Fabe.

Larry Wilcox from CHiPs! I think he was my first masturbatory fantasy.

Never understood why Ponch (Erik Estrada) was always given more attention.

Michael Schoeffling

Rudy Vallée

May I link, at least, to an identical thread, OP?

Andy Gibb would have been 67 now.