Sunday, 7PM
Decades before they became "woke" this time was reserved for sitting on the floor in front of the television. The Wonderful World of Disney was a must watch in our house. What will it be tonight? Davey Crockett battling his arch rival Mike Fink? Perhaps one of the movies starring Hayley Mills? Goofy and the gang or perhaps Chip and Dale those pesky chipmunks? Sleeping Beauty, Dumbo, Donald Duck and Mickey were all frequent guests in our house. Followed by Ed Sullivan and then Bonanza. Tonight, I just flipped through about 60 channels and nothing remotely interests me.
Sorry to reminisce, but DAMN I miss those days! Bob
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Do you remember the "Moon Cursers"??
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I can remember watching Disney on Sunday nights too. It was good times.
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Channel 4 at my house. I remember when we got our first color TV...it seemed like we were now watching in today's 5K!
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Ricci.Wright: 30486066660763/comments/30486078396699
Do you remember the "Moon Cursers"??
They be pirates, matey! Bob
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It was a treat to go to the neighbor's house for Disney. They had a color TV !
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And on Sunday, starting on Sep. 12, 1959, we had the Cartwrights.
And Moma would always tell me "You are too close to the TV."
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In the fall of 1954 there was a new series on Sunday night called Disneyland. In 1949 the neighbors invited my older brother and me over to watch the new Lone Ranger program. The year before there was just one tv station, KSTP ch. 5 - it's still here & still owned by the Hubbard family.
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Toolman286: 30486066660763/comments/30486098570267
It was a treat to go to the neighbor's house for Disney. They had a color TV !
My brother won a sales contest at the store he was working at in about 1965 and the prize was a color t.v.! He proudly installed it in my parents living room and it was a real eye opener. We could only get 3 channels that were clear, but that was o.k. because it covered the 3 major networks. Somehow I always found something interesting to watch on those few channels and today can't find a blasted thing that is worth watching on 60 channels! Bob
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I have a hard time understanding how anyone could actually sit down and watch shows like Dancing With The Stars, or The Masked Singer, or etc., etc......???
It is all pure crap (IMHO) they are producing today. If it were not for reruns of old shows and movies from my childhood along with DVD's of the same, I'd have turned the TV room into a live aquarium\terrarium!
I will also admit that there are some shows that I really liked back in the day but find them to be downright stupid when seeing them again. Shows like Gilligan's Island which has been rerun again and again for nearly 60 years!
Memories of Sunday TV for me includes Dennis the Menace, My Favorite Martian, The Adventures of Timmy & Lassie, Disney's Wonderful World of Color, and Ed Sullivan. Those memories also included family chicken dinners with all the fixin's where we all sat around the same table.
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Ahhh........1955 to 1965........the golden age of being a kid.
I'll always fondly recall those days.......some easy.....some tough.....but all memorable!! 😀
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I remember back in the 50's, our neighbor down the street Mrs. Brown, invited us down to watch her new color TV. We got there and she turned on the Ed Sullivan show. Everything was some shade of green. To say I was disappointed would be an extreme understatement.
Either she was playing with the knobs on the back of the set, or it wasn't calibrated before she bought it. We didn't have a color TV until after we got married and I bought one in 1970.
It was then that I realized what a deprived childhood I had.
Joe
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Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
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Our first color TV set came with the guy that sold it! 😁 He spent about an hour setting all of the color and other settings to his and our satisfactions. It was a Magnavox set brand new and the guys name was George.
Pretty good memory from 1967 ehh! 🙂
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toad67: 30486066660763/comments/30486093345435
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
You beat me to this......Good thing Jim was always there to grapple with the critters while Marlin gave color commentary !!!😀
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toad67: 30486066660763/comments/30486093345435
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
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Yes, I remember Sundays. It was Disney, Wild Kingdom or Ed Sullivan.
I lived with my grandparents and my grandfather had the first color TV in the area in the early 60's.
He bought it just to watch The Virginian in color
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We got our first color tv in '73 or '74, I believe it was either a 19 or 21 inch.
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