Early TV

[Kim_in_MN]

Anybody else remember "The Courtship Of Eddie's Father," starring Bill Bixby?

I do! Just thought of another one too: Family Affair (Isn't that the show with Buffy and Jody?). I used to have a Buffy doll LOL.

Gumby: I had a Gumby board game at one time.

Most of the other shows I remember watching have been listed: Captain Kangaroo, etc. I remember getting home from school and watching Gilligan's Island at 3:30 - that was children's programming before cable <g>.

Kim

[weathermom]

Captain Kangaroo and Romper room were my kid shows.

I also remember watching Jackie Gleason (Sat? nights). As for Sun morning religious shows, I read somewhere recently that Davey and Goliath is coming back. Remember that one?

I was just telling my kids the other day how the TV stations would sign off at night. I hated having to babysit so late that the stations were off the air.

[GalvestonDuck]

Yup, I recall back in the days before cable and long before the emergence of informercials -- stations signed off and left that wonderful test pattern on the screen for hours.



Back in the mid- to early-70's, our version of "cable" was having the independent stations (not affiliated with the Big Three - NBC, CBS, or ABC). Those were the local stations that aired rerun upon rerun of classic shows like "Leave It to Beaver," "I Love Lucy," "The Flying Nun," etc. as well as having an "Afternoon Matinee" movie on Saturday and/or Sunday. Then when cable came about, it was nothing more than our local stations, a few independent stations from around the country (in KY, I remember we got Atlanta's WTBS and Chicago's WGN), HBO, Cinemax, TMC, and I vaguely remember Lifetime and A&E being early cable networks also. That was way before there was a network for anything and everything.

Uh, and duh... MTV, back when they played music.

Anyone remember when the FOX network first premiered? The only thing I liked was "The Tracey Ullman Show," "21 Jump Street," and "In Living Color."

[feederband]

C.H.I.P.S !!!!! [/b]

[Kim_in_MN]

Uh, and duh... MTV, back when they played music.

I grew up in the country, so we had to make do with "Friday Night Video"; although I guess the town kids didn't get their MTV right away either here - the owner of the cable company watched MTV somewhere when it first started up and decided that he needed to protect our small town morals against such filth.

Kim

[TexasStooge]

Here's my list of WAY Back shows I watched when I was a kid:

- Looney Tunes (I still watch them)
- The Twisted Tales of Felix The Cat
- Nightmare Ned
- Popeye The Sailor
- Tom & Jerry (Still watch them)
- Tom & Jerry Kids
- Animaniacks
- Tiny Toon Adventures
- Woody Woodpecker (Old and new versions)
- Beakman's World
- Bill Nye, the Science Guy
- The Three Stooges (Still watch them)
- Toontown Kids
- Mickey MouseWorks/House of Mouse
- MacGyver
- I Love Lucy and The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour

That's about it.

[streetsoldier]

Yup, I recall back in the days before cable and long before the emergence of informercials -- stations signed off and left that wonderful test pattern on the screen for hours.



Back in the mid- to early-70's, our version of "cable" was having the independent stations (not affiliated with the Big Three - NBC, CBS, or ABC). Those were the local stations that aired rerun upon rerun of classic shows like "Leave It to Beaver," "I Love Lucy," "The Flying Nun," etc. as well as having an "Afternoon Matinee" movie on Saturday and/or Sunday. Then when cable came about, it was nothing more than our local stations, a few independent stations from around the country (in KY, I remember we got Atlanta's WTBS and Chicago's WGN), HBO, Cinemax, TMC, and I vaguely remember Lifetime and A&E being early cable networks also. That was way before there was a network for anything and everything.

Uh, and duh... MTV, back when they played music.

Anyone remember when the FOX network first premiered? The only thing I liked was "The Tracey Ullman Show," "21 Jump Street," and "In Living Color."

THIS you call a "test pattern"? The one I remenber consisted of a Native American's feathered head in the center of a "bullseye".

[GalvestonDuck]

THIS you call a "test pattern"? The one I remenber consisted of a Native American's feathered head in the center of a "bullseye".

More like this, maybe.






STOOGE!!!! Who was your favorite assistant on Beakman's World? I got hooked watching Josie (Alanna Ubach). When she was gone, it just wasn't the same.

[iceangel]

-The Lynn Tony Show(Local kids show)

Bringing back the memories. I was on this show several times and had one of my birthdays while on the show.

I went to the show often. My mom said I did a local commercial for them.

I jumped up and down on a mattress.

[TexasStooge]

Yup, I recall back in the days before cable and long before the emergence of informercials -- stations signed off and left that wonderful test pattern on the screen for hours.



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In the late 1990s here in the DFW area, we have some stations that sign off, put the test pattern and/or station logo up on there, then it's static for hours.

Nowadays, very few stations here sign off.

[TexasStooge]

If you wanna talk about ol' school test pattern, take a look:

[streetsoldier]

OH, yes...that's the one! Seems to me it would be good for sighting in my .303 Enfield (of course, changing the "Chief" head for Osama bin Laden).

[streetsoldier]

OH, yes...that's the one! Seems to me it would be good for sighting in my .303 Enfield (of course, changing the "Chief" head for Osama bin Laden).

This is the one I had in mind when hearing that old song...

"Countin' flowers on the wall
That don't bother me at all
Playin' solitaire 'til dawn
With a deck of 51
Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo
Now, don't tell me
I've nothin' to do-o-o-o-o..."

[Skywatch_NC]

Uncle Al (kids show from Cincy that Miss Mary mentioned...I was on it one time with my younger sister Retha and some close friends of our's Karla and Kenny)

Paul Dixon (talk show from Cincy...Mom was in the audience one time and won a complimentary gift of a bag of pinto beans)

Skipper Ryle (Cincy kids puppet show and also this same guy Glenn Ryle was a met for then ABC's WKRC-TV12 for a while, too)

Cool Ghoul (another Cincy kids variety show)

Captain Kangaroo

Mr. Rogers Neighborhood

Sesame Street

The Brady Bunch

Adam 12

Emergency!

Welcome Back Kotter

etc., etc.

Eric

[azskyman]

From Chicago again....when our huge antenna actually was working well enough to suck in the signal from 60 miles away!

Garfield Goose. Bozo's Circus, The Shari Lewis Show, the Garry Moore Show, Name That Tune, Concentration (with Hugh Downs), Beat The Clock, Your Hit Parade, Walt Disney Presents, Lassie, Dragnet, The Today Show with Dave Garroway and Jack Lescoulie, Jack Paar, Gunsmoke, Big Valley, The Rifleman, Bonanza, Davey and Goliath, My Friend Flicka, Mr. Ed, Green Acres, The Red Skelton Show, The Carol Burnett Show, The Twilight Zone, The Three Stooges, The Little Rascals, The Naked City, Ben Casey, I Love Lucy, The Donna Reed Show, Ozzie and Harriet, The Honeymooners, My Three Sons, Flash Gordon, Dr. Kildare, Perry Mason, The Groucho Marx Show, The Jack Benny Show, Andy Williams, The Monkees, The Lone Ranger, The Roy Rogers Show, Amateur Hour, The Gong Show, Let's Make A Deal, Gilligans Isle, Laugh In, The Ed Sullivan Show, Annie Oakley, American Bandstand, CHIPS, and I'm sure I can think of many more if I put my mind to it.

As you can see, today's generation of kids watch WAY more TV than we ever did. The country's kids are falling apart these days.

[Miss Mary]

My Three Sons! Steve, you just brought back a wonderful memory. My very favorite MTS episode is when the triplets were born. And Steve, the Grandfather, asks the nurse - are there anymore? LOL

Green Acres too. My dad loved that show. Of course now when kids watch it, they think Lisa is so incredibly stupid. They can't believe women were like that.

And Shari Lewis. Loved her show.

Mary

[azskyman]

While in Vietnam, the ONLY show that got us through each week on AFVN was Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. Uncut and unedited, I think...delayed, too, by a few days.

We always felt that if our enemy had any sense at all they would strike us when Laugh In was on TV. We were all so preoccupied with Goldie Hawn...hmm, I mean the jokes and laughs on that show! They could have overrun the camp and won the war 5 years earlier and it would have been Goldie's (I mean Laugh In's) fault.

And believe it or not...while in college we would have to skip our last classes of the day to get a seat in the TV room for Batman. To this day I remember being introduced to a lovely coed named appropriately (but for real), Nancy Zahor, during one of the commercials.

With a name like that, she must have retreated to the bat cave after the show. I never saw her again....HOLY CO-ED, Batman!

[Dee Bee]

When Sesame Street first came on the scene I was an undergrad at the U of Illinois at Chicago. Every afternoon at airtime, the "TV rooms" on the Montgomery Ward Floor of the Student Union were always on the same channel -- WTTW, the local PBS station -- and crammed with students!

azskyman: Do you remember a Chicago cooking show featuring a French chef which aired in the morning after either Romper Room or Princess Mary's Magic Castle? The theme music was from a relatively common French classical piece which I can't remember the name of and which has been playing in my head since this morning....

OK, it's an hour and a half later and suddenly out of nowhere while I was in the shower the show name came to me: Creative Cooking with Francois Pope. Also, I remembered that Princess Mary's "real" name was Mary Hartline. Girls coveted her merchandise line of clothing, accessories, and dolls.

[azskyman]

Sorry DeeBee but I don't remember your French chef...but glad you came up with it just the same.

However...out of no where came the name Frazier Thomas! Funny I remembered that tonight but forgot the name of the client who came in and payed me $2600 in $100 dollar bills just before I came home from work!

And how about early weather guys....John Coleman and Harry Volkman were my two favorites....and of course Tom Skilling is no youngster any more, but he is still a person I list among my friends.

[CajunMama]

It must have been around 1963-64 we were living in Houston...Flipper and then The Wonderful World of Disney or whatever it was called back then.

Then moving to Lafayette in 1965 the only show I remember is the dreaded Saturday nite at 9:00....Mission Impossible...how I hated that show but my parents insisted on watching it.