Gosh, there's a whole bunch.
Like you I was a big Sea Hunt fan and I grew up in Vancouver where the show was shot in Seattle nearby.
I was determined to become a scuba diver, and I took lessons but alas I had terrible sinus problems and could not tolerate diving undersea.
By far, though, Star Trek was by big favourite, and one of the first shows I got to see on my parent's new colour TV.
Then there was The Man From Uncle, The Wild, Wild West, The real Avengers with Patrick McKnee and Diana Rigg, not the Marvel comics.
Of course The Twilight Zone.
I was also a fan of The Smothers Brothers, and of course. Rowan and Martin's Laugh In.
 

Inspector Gadget.
Global aired it on weekday mornings before school. 

'Sky King', 'Clutch Cargo', 'Captain Kangaroo', 'Rocketship Seven', 'I Love Lucy' reruns.

Batman was my absolute favourite TV show as a kid, followed by Wild, Wild West, Daktari, Get Smart and Laugh In, sock it to me! Saturday morning cartoons included Aquaman , Jonny Quest  Roger Ramjet and Astroboy. Good times!

No mention of The Flintstones, Ed Sullivan , Wonderful World of Disney or The Littlest Hobo yet. I also liked Get Smart, I Dream of Jeannie , The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman, Leave it to Beaver, Hogan's Heroes, The Munster's and The Fugitive. 

I used to love Red Skelton as a kid, especially when he'd ad lib off script. I've seen a few episodes since then and they don't hold up the way I remember. But as a young TV watcher, he always made me laugh. And it's one of the first TV shows I ever saw in colour.

(By the way, has anyone seen Gertrude & Healthcliffe? I think they finally flew away...)

Let's see - as a young kid I watched Commander Tom and Rocketship 7 as well as Friendly Giant and a number of shows on TVO. I loved H.R. Pufenstuf (my dad loathed it though and once faked a power failure by unscrewing a fuse so that I wouldn't watch it) I liked Professor Kitzel on CFTO and Rocky and Bullwinkle as well as the Flintstones, the Addams Family, and the Munsters. Laurel & Hardy films as well. Bewitched was a favourite and also the Mary Tyler Moore Show and Carol Burnett and later WKRP. Used to watch King of Kensington. Doctor Who and Star Trek were favourites and also MASH and Barney Miller. Oh and I loved the Goodies, a BBC show that was on CBC in the afternoons for a year or two. Also Monty Python and SCTV.

Also, old British films used to air a lot on Canadian TV such as the Mouse that Roared and Passport to Pimlico. I also used to watch the 1967 trainwreck Casino Royale which used to air on CHCH a lot (Mike Myers used to watch it as well - it heavily influenced Austin Powers).

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   Used to enjoy watching the test pattern for CBC Ottawa when visiting my grandmother in the capital city.   Could hardly wait until real programs started in both French and English on the same channel.  Eventually our home north of Kingston could receive Watertown, New York and then CKWS TV .  Time frame was in the middle 1950's.   Boy am I old!!

When I was very young, certainly before I was 10 years old, I liked Emergency!, The Streets of San Francisco, Get Christy Love, Wonder Woman, Soap, WKRP, Three’s Company, The Love Boat, Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes, Dallas, Dynasty. As a teenager my favourite shows were Miami Vice and Tour of Duty.

Growing up in Barrie, especially before CKVR signed on, we could get all the Buffalo stations (WKBW,WBEN,WGR) thus I could enjoy both Dave & Tom on their versions of the "Rocketship 7" show plus Capt. Kangaroo and I have vague memories of Howdy Doody. Plus Daktari, Razzle Dazzle (Alan Hammel), Kiddo the Clown, Uncle Bobby, all the Saturday morning cartoon, Sea Hunt, Sky King, Have Gun Will Travel, Uncle Milty & Make Mine Country(CKVR), Hogan Heroes, and all the 60's comedies plus many Brit comedies like Benny Hill, On the Buses and later Monty Python. Oh such a misspent youth traded in for an adulthood in radio.

Danger Man and The Prisoner with and by Patrick McGoohan. 

Eee-Yaw-Kee...

Lassie... sponsored by Lowney's and that chocolate and cream-covered cherry.
 

Just to follow up on RA's cartoon comment, I don't remember US stations showing cartoons on their Thanksgiving, but I do remember when the new season of cartoons premiered, usually in the fall.
I used to wake up at about 6 am to watch the new cartoons on Saturday as they debuted.
Some of them were the cartoon version of Star Trek, the Beatles, Space Ghost, and of course Spider Man which was voiced by Canadian actor Paul Soles.
Later, when I was a bit older I watched Rocket Robin Hood, which was also a Canadian creation, and rather odd. It was actually quite adult in it concepts as it still was aimed at kids.

 

I loved The Rifleman and Have Gun Will Travel. A good guy wearing black. That was certainly different. And that ominous theme song with the gun pointed to the viewer. Always watched the Friendly Giant in the morning and The Professor's Hideaway in the afternoon. Does anyone remember having to turn the tv on 20 minutes before Saturday Morning cartoons began [to let the tubes warm up}? Snow, test pattern, Canadian and U.S. National Anthems, announcing of the stations audio/visual power then finally... [station call letters] begins another broadcast day. For me that was WGR ch 2 which always began their Saturdays at 7:30 with Felix The Cat.

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