OK-Let's see just how far back you go
. Mickey Mouse Club for starters and yours - - --
I was also a nut for westerns. Fury was a favorite with that beautiful black stallion! The lead kid and myself shared the same name, "joey" so the show has long stuck to my memory.
From a Mickey Mouse Club spin-off I really liked "The Adventures of Spin & Marty" about a spoiled rich kid learning to get along with others on a western ranch.0 -
1963. Our first TV was brand new when JFK was assassinated.
Not a lot of TV time for a farm kid. Chores, homework, 2 hours a day on the school bus(but at least I didn't have to walk 3 miles to school and back--uphill both ways).0 -
Y’all should feel sorry for me - my parents loved the Lawrence Welk Show. I am still traumatized. I believe it encouraged me to live the exciting life of an accountant...lol
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whaddya mean you didn't like Lawrence Welk? Janet Lennon was the BOMB long before Annette Funicello ever got her training bra 0 -
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Y’all should feel sorry for me - my parents loved the Lawrence Welk Show. I am still traumatized. I believe it encouraged me to live the exciting life of an accountant...lol
Same here. "Anda one anda two." How about that bubble machine?
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All the above, plus oddities like Beanie and Cecil. I Love Lucy, the genius of Sid Caeser and Imogene Coca, The Honeymooners. Three channels, all B&W. Anyone else remember the plastic overlay you could apply to your B&W TV to make it "color"? It had a blue band at the top, clear center and a green band at the bottom - sky and grass.
Sky King was my fave, years before I would have looked at niece Penny with lust. The first color shows were World of Disney and Bonanza on Sunday night - all B&W the rest of the week.
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The first shows I can remember was Daktari, and Lassie. Dad was a Star Trek fan, so we watched that every week. There was also Saturday Night at the Movies, Sonny and Cher,Laugh in, Gunsmoke, Andy Griffith, Adam 12, and Bonanza. 0 -
had an uncle who bought one of those overlays and bragged about it for days, when we finally got over to see his new "color" tv I don't think anyone was impressed but no one wanted to hurt his feelings......... 0 -
Gregor, your Daktari reminded me of more: Ramar of the Jungle and (of course) Weissmuller as Tarzan 0 -
I remember hearing 100 times a day, “where Is the clicker “.
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Here is one you guys might like. Our Gal Sal. Sally Star. Ms.Star was our neighbor until she passed a few years ago. She still did her radio show, from her restaurant, every Sunday, live. Her restaurant is located one street over from us, on Jackson rd and 5th street, in Atco NJ. She would stop by every table and greet everyone, on Sunday. She is our local hometown star!!!!!!!!!!! We sure do miss her. What a lovely soul she was. Rode her horse in our town parade every year. Rest in peace Sally. 3 -
We didn't have a TV until 1956. It was about 4 1/2' tall and 2' wide with a 6" B&W fuzzy screen. I couldn't watch it for more that 10-15 minutes before I got a headache. I would rather play outside anyway. Then in 57 Dad bought a 19" console TV that had a decent B&W screen, but we only got 4 channels. 0 -
Sherrie Lewis and Lambchop! Rocky, your mention of Beanie and Cecil hit a memory nerve! Capt Bob on his good ship Guppy IMMIC. A Bob Clampett Cartooooooooooooon! They sure don't make them like they used to!3 -
Brings back a flood of memories . Tom Terrific and Mr.Moose and the ping pong ball drop. Not to leave out Mr. Greenjeans and Grandfather Clock
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How about 1948??? The "SHADOW".... the 1st scene was the ugly guy blowing out a candle and scaring the shit out out a 4 year old....
JIM...................0 -
CAPT. TUGG......
Captain Tugg was the host of a local children's cartoon show that was broadcast in the early 1960s by WTTG, Channel 5, a Washington, D.C. television station. Captain Tugg was the master of the Channel Queen, a tugboat that plied the Potomac River, near the capital city. With his parrot, Fantail (a puppet), he fought spies Spike Marlin and Axel Grackle and the Sea Hag. Lee Reynolds, the actor who played Tugg, also played Commander Salamander and a number of other characters on the show. His skits and adlibbed lines were sandwiched between animated cartoons. On Christmas Eve, the captain would use his onboard radar to track Santa's progress as the jolly old elf made his international rounds.
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I for some reason was first noticeably impacted by television in 1976 - the bicentennial was going on and we had just left Lowell Massachusetts for Delran NJ...
I remember patriotic parades with veterans and the "Red - White & Blue" and "Stars & Stripes" color scheme and patriotic pattern or motif on everything...
Especially on cars - we are nearby on of the biggest corvette dealers in the country. They sold a corvette that had been painted in wide and bold flair - and that car was everywhere that summer and fall...
My uncle traded up for an F-250 and the only one left in stock with the 390ci 4bbl mated to a C6 3 speed automatic transmission riding on all terrain tires and 16.5" steel wheels and already sporting a painted steel rear bumper with a 2" receiver.
He specifically needed this set up for work purposes and he was fine with the special 1976 year only Bahama Blue paint - no AC - but was not especially impressed with the additional $263.20 MSRP the dealer USD added to the option sheet above and beyond the normal sticker cost of a 1976 Ford F-250 Custom, when ordered with the factory Bicentennial Option Group.
This truck features all of the tri-color exterior accoutrements that Ford could throw at a truck in ’76 including the white accent panel, the gold stripe with the “Flying Eagle” design, and contrasting red and blue border stripes. Inside, Bicentennial Option Group trucks were just as patriotic, including unique interior seat upholstery with “Brodie” red-white-and-blue plaid cloth inserts and blue vinyl bolsters. Interior bonuses included a color-keyed floor mat and a special Bicentennial glove box door with an eagle ornament over the standard “Custom” emblems.
Custom tri color keys and a key chain consisting of a flat ovoid piece leather attached to a nearly identical piece of metal with the ford logo script atop a red white and blue background - the metal piece protected a layer of clear plastic...
A folded 3X5 American flag - a trio of Ford bicentennial T-shirts.
A plastic patriotic warranty card - and a single bicentennial quarter from the US mint in a protective clear plastic stand up case...
But after some haggling he purchased this special order only - kept it for 24 years before consignment sale / auction with mecum...
But that's neither here nor there - television programs that we watched during the bicentennial period.....
Happy Days
Mash
Sanford and Son
Bionic Woman
The six million dollar man
Welcome Back Cotter
Good times
60 minutes
Kojak
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Starsky & Hutch (+ Huggy Bear)
Wonder Woman
The Secrets of Isis
Barney Miller
H.R. Puff N Stuff
Speed Racer
The Muppet Show
Ark II
In search of with Leonard Nimoy
When the Boat Comes In
Star Maidens
Future Cop
Cos
Dino mech
Sailor
Space ironmen
Land of the lost
Super train
Lots of good and lots of bad TV.
MIKE
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Yes I remember test patterns an national anthem. Aslo the roaring lion after the movies. Mom didn't get us a color tv until late 70s 0 -
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All I remember from the 40's, is radio. "It's a bird, It's a plane, It's superman." Is something that sticks with me, for some reason. 0 -
Jerry Lester and DAGMAR !!!!WOW. 1950 0 -
Captain Kangaroo, and Mr Greenjeans........... had a guy who did local cartoons back in day, called him Mr. Cartoon, not sure how far he was broadcast... 3 -
Our Gang Comedy & Flash Gordon 0 -
I don't know much about Weissmuller but I do have a connection with Ron Ely, who also played Tarzan. He used to live in Amarillo, Texas and as a young guy delivered news papers. I threw a news route on Austin St. from about 1976 to 1980 (3rd grade to 7th grade)......and according to some of my subscribers.....Ron Ely used to throw the same route.......always thought that was cool.Rocky Raab said:Gregor, your Daktari reminded me of more: Ramar of the Jungle and (of course) Weissmuller as Tarzan
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I was probably 12 years old before I ever saw a TV. The first one i saw was in the window of a local hardware store. People would park out front of the store in the evening and marvel at the wonder of it. When we finally got a set we only had one fuzzy channel 50 miles away in Kansas City. We got our first color set in 1972 and the color went out the first night. I called the store the next morning and they said it would be two weeks before they could get a service man out to look at it. I told them I don't need a service man, just bring out a new set.
TVs are so good and so cheap now it's amazing how far it's come.
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I grew up with Bob Hope, Johnny Cash and Steve Jobs.
Now, there's no hope, no cash and no jobs.
Dear Lord, please don't let anything happen to Kevin Bacon!
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First it was Steve Allen then years later Jack Paar then Johnny Carson. I don't know what my parents were thinking. They were right there watching too. Especially when I was younger. Maybe I'm remembering it from the summer time. And Yeah, High Flight. When I got older. "I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, blah blah blah etc. and touched the hand of God." Like I said, I was older and there were two jets. Heck there were two TVs too. I could close one eye or try to watch the one in the middle. 0 -
I go back to when your name was spelled Aesop. Agamemnon and I were hitting the gun shows around Heraklion about that time. 0 -
I once carried a Hector Heathcoat lunch box to school every day. Hector was a cartoon Revolutionary War minute man who's companion was a big dog named Winston. I lost that lunch box and the thermos inside on the school bus one day and brown bagged it the rest of my elementary life. 0 -
Can’t forget old Uncle Miltie. Milton Berle Show.
”Sky Chief, fill up with Sky Chief” commercials!!0
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