Thread: Shows you watched as a kid

I wasn't old enough to remember radio shows but my Step dad had a record album of old W.C. fields and Charlie Mcarthy and Edgar Bergen Radio shows that I used to listen to when I was a wee lad.

We couldn't watch things on the radio.

Thundercats, the clangers, stop it and tidy up, Rolf Harris cartoon time (all the old looney tunes! Love 'em!), mask, transformers, trap door...

There were others but I can't think of them now! It's kinda late and my brains stopped working...!

I remember watching "Have Gun Will Travel," "Perry Mason," "The Lone Ranger," "Rawhide," "Our Miss Brooks," "The Defenders," "I Love Lucy," "Dragnet," and "Peter Gunn" in the fifties, early sixties

There were other TV westerns, detective shows and comedies I watched then too, but I can't remember the names of any of them. C'est la vie.

Originally Posted by nessmuck

Now that show gets you a free pass into the old farts club!!!

LMAO. Yeah we even had vinyl records

I told my sons, when i was a kid we had to get off the couch to change the channel on the TV,and there was only 3 channels that came in!!!!!!

Originally Posted by nessmuck

I told my sons, when i was a kid we had to get off the couch to change the channel on the TV,and there was only 3 channels that came in!!!!!!

How about the horizontal and vertical hold knobs on the old TVs. The picture would start rolling and you would have to get up to turn the knob one way or the other to make it settle down. Sometimes it would roll until you stood up and walked toward it and then stop. As soon as you sat down again it would start to roll.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

How about the horizontal and vertical hold knobs on the old TVs. The picture would start rolling and you would have to get up to turn the knob one way or the other to make it settle down. Sometimes it would roll until you stood up and walked toward it and then stop. As soon as you sat down again it would start to roll.

Right on Jimmy, i forgot about all the tweeking you had to do,damn rabbit ears,how about the tin foil on that UHF round cable on the back of the tv. My next door neighbor way back when ,had put one of those rotary antennas on his roof,He was the coolest guy on the block!!

All good shows you've mentioned! Thankfully, many are available on DVD, but I still think they need to release more of the classics for the benefit and maintaining the mental health of all the old fogeys who've posted here.

I really don't have much to add in terms of shows, but what was the first TV show you saw in color? Mine was Star Trek.

The vertical/horizontal hold reference was cool, too. When we turned our set off at night, the tube would fade to a little white dot that would finally go out. I asked my older sister what that dot meant, and she said it means, "go to bed."

I believed her!

Don

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