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.