name a favorite tv show from your youth.
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fairsheet
Senator
Nope. We weren't allowed to watch much teevee in general, except perhaps, for weekend mornings. Except for the aforementioned "Combat" then, and "Jackie Gleason", all of my teevee experience comes from reruns.Not even The Real McCoys?
Shameful...
I'm one of those David Byrne kids...grew up in a house with the tv always on. Lots of old movies...and Jackie Gleason too. Ed Sullivan. The Red Skelton and Dean Martin shows were also on that list.
True story. My folks had retired to Florida and I was visiting. Dad went out to play golf and I turned the tv off. When he came home and walked into the family room, he said..."what's wrong with the tv?...
fairsheet
Senator
American history tells us that the American cowboy west, was probably only about a decade long. As well, it tells us that guns weren't nearly so ubiquitous back then,as popular media would allow.
So what?......"Spartacus", "Wuthering Heights", Islands in the Stream"*, and "Sleepless in Seattle" are just as bogus, yet we enjoy them too!
*Sorry, this is the only Hemingway I've ever read - with good (imho) reason.
So what?......"Spartacus", "Wuthering Heights", Islands in the Stream"*, and "Sleepless in Seattle" are just as bogus, yet we enjoy them too!
*Sorry, this is the only Hemingway I've ever read - with good (imho) reason.
Twilight Zone
The Sage of Main Street
Governor
William Boyd looked like President Eisenhower.
resident_evil
Senator
Why the age limit? Re-runs of shows have been around for a long time and even more so on cable.
Wahbooz
Governor
It was either westerns or Milky the Clown. And Saturdays were one western after another. Hell, even on certain nights that was all there was. Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and one one night each week it was a different cowboy. Sugarfoot one night, Cheyenne the next week, and then someone else the next week.
Haha, and thank god for 77 Sunset Strip.
Wahbooz
Governor
You're absolutely right, there were similarities between Ike and 'Hoppy'.
fairsheet
Senator
The olden days must've been kind of boring, since everything was in black and white!
Wahbooz
Governor
Hahaha, hey... we had a plastic sheet that you attacked to your tv screen. It was green at the bottom, and blue at the top. Another invention that didn't go over very well.
Ha...snap snap...
I think Efrem Zimbalist is the best name ever...
Kookie, kookie, lend me your comb...
fairsheet
Senator
Hah! We thought the whole world was black and white back then!
The Sage of Main Street
Governor
His daughter Stephanie starred in Remington Steele. His partner Roger Smith married Ann-Margaret, quit acting, and became AM's agent.
fairsheet
Senator
When I was young, only the "rich" people had color teevees. Btw, remember
when every supermarket, drugstore, and hardware store had a tube tester in it?
Wahbooz
Governor
Oh yes, we used to take the tubes to the drug store and test them. the first color broadcast was in 1954, but most all stations and networks was still in B/W or greyscape. It was a shock to the system when I saw the first color tv.
Our first tv was about the size of a lunchbox, and must have had half a dozen knobs or more on it.
Queen Titania
Senator
Oh God you lot, after reading this thread I ended up watching a whole episode of the Lone Ranger last night!
Wonder what I might find tonight?
Hawkeye? Roy Rogers?
Wonder what I might find tonight?
Hawkeye? Roy Rogers?
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Benny Hill?
