Your earliest TV memories?
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lugonian — 14 years ago(March 28, 2012 05:35 AM)
Hard to say, growing up in the early 1960s. In New York City, I do recall watching kiddie shows with cartoons in between, namely "The Sandy Becker Show," "The Chuck McCann Show," and on Sundays, "Wonderama" all on WNEW, Channel 5. Saturdays, I'd look at "Captain Kangaroo," but didn't care for it as much. He didn't have any cartoons in between human sketches. Later on, I turned to sit-coms, ranging from "The Beverly Hillbillies," "The Lucy Show," "Bewitched," and the list goes on. Cartoon (now called animation) viewing continued until my teen years in the early 1970s, especially Bugs Bunny. There was "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour" that started in 1968, and later extended to 90 minutes in the 1970s. "Popeye" on WPIX, Channel 11, aired under Officer Joe Bolton on weekday afternoons. So this is the best of my recollection regarding my earliest TV memories. Kiddie shows.
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 13 years ago(September 18, 2012 03:14 PM)
Oh, those good old days when my mom wouldn't let me and my sister watch "Three's Company"! We didn't have cable, but occasionally we'd catch "You Can't Do That on Television" while on holidays or at a friend's house.
Then came the days when my parents would send us kids off to bed so they could watch "Dallas" on their own. The series went off the air just in timeby the late eighties, Sis and I had taken over the TV on Friday nights to watch the TGIF segment on ABC (Full House, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers, and whichever TV show rounded out this Friday night prime-time fun). My mom was kinda strict, so shows like "Family Ties" and "The Golden Girls" were on her no-watch list. She approved of "The Cosby Show" and (surprisingly) "Who's the Boss".
I lost interest in TV in the early nineties, but came back to it about 10 years ago to rewatch "The Cosby Show" and to watch "All in the Family". Later, I turned to movies.
Now I love mystery TV series, like "Ellery Queen". This show was on the air when I was born.
I don't think my parents ever watched it. My mom was more interested in shows like "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "Maude", and "Rhoda" while she was carrying me. Once I was born, she had no more time for TV.
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thornnnn — 11 years ago(April 05, 2015 02:56 PM)
I remember hiding behind the sofa because lost in space was too scary to watch alone. And i remember hiding behind the same sofa when the robot got loose on the voyage to the bottom of the sea series. For six of my first 9 years we lived over seas where there was no television. Just an occasional visit to the base theater. 1969 is when the TV became a household fixture. Tv became an addiction after suffering without it for the first 9 years or so. I also remember our first computer, we wet the tv screen and stuck plastic overlays to it. The overlays would have the pong table etc. two paddles and a dot made up the rest of it.
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MikeF-6 — 10 years ago(December 03, 2015 05:48 PM)
The town I lived in didn't get a television station until the early 1950s and when it did, the sign on was 4:30 in the afternoon and sign off was at midnight. I would get home from school in time to go to my grandparents' house by sign on and catch an episode of
Crusader Rabbit (1949)
which was the first show of the day.
Also, very early on, another kid's show,
Winky-Dink and You (1953)
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My parents' let my sister and I stay up past our bedtimes the evenings
Dragnet (1951)
was on (under its name in syndication, "Badge 714").
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NewtonFigg — 10 years ago(January 07, 2016 09:59 AM)
Junior Frolics on Ch 13 WATV Newark with Uncle Fred Sayles narrating silent cartoons, mostly Terrytoons with Farmer Alfalfa (aka Farmer Grey). One cartoon was titled Hunting in 1950, which we were curious about because 1950 wasn't until next week. It turned out to be just another Farmer Grey cartoon. He also showed Bobby Bumps cartoons. Years later, the Walt Disney show presented a history of animated cartoons and there, right after Gertie the Dinosaur, was Bobby Bumps in about 1912. Uncle Fred's narration was essential because TV screens were so small and WATV's signal was so weak, we might not have figured out what was happening. For talking cartoons, we had to watch Big Brother Bob Emery on Ch 5 WABD. He had only three cartoons I can recall: a pudgy bespectacled middle aged dog walked around trying to catch butterflies in his net; the same dog, now a tramp, invaded a household so he could eat the pie Granny had left to cool on the windowsill; a colony of happy little elves bottled sunshine until a group of black clad sour pusses sprayed gloom everywhere from their Flit guns. Big Brother Bob showed them over and over, and we watched them over and over. Eventually, Pat Michol got hold of them for her show, the Magic Cottage, and played them until the film wore out.
Crusader Rabbit came on TV a little later on. It was a regular feature on Children's Theater with Ray Forrest on Ch 4 WNBT. He also showed a British cartoon series called Bubble & Squeak about a Cockney cabby and his talking taxi. He must have had a British connexion since I also remember seeing British mini-documentaries about nature studies. I couldn't swear to it but one might have been Stuffing a Wild Titmouse.
The dial on our TV did not click from one channel to the next. It turned like the tuning knob on a radio or the dial on a safe. On weekend mornings, before all the NY stations came on the air, you could fine tune the TV and get out of town stations. If Ch 5 wasn't on yet, we could get a New Haven, CT station Ch 6. Sometimes a Philadelphia station (Ch 8?) One morning, I got a variety show from distant Cincinnati. Unfortunately, the out of town shows were no better than the shows on the NY stations. -
opryphantom1 — 10 years ago(April 06, 2016 11:13 PM)
Uncle Milty (BERLE); Toast of The Town(Sullivan); Sid Caesar! But the one that won me at first: Live TV Wrestling! Lord Blears (Boo!) Handsome Johnny Berend (YAY). Why didn't the ref notice all the nasty things the bad guy was doing?