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Started by trdsf, February 04, 2019, 09:44:37 PM

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trdsf

Okay, let's have your favorite TV shows from before you were ten!  Link the openings from YouTube, if at all possible.  I don't care if it hasn't aged well or you wish you could disavow it now, and to prove it, I'll go first.

In my case, that'll be 1973 and earlier.  Here we go.

1965: Jonny Quest.  Because JONNY FUCKING QUEST.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gNBFmlNUfM

1968: Marine Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41k8mvZKWU8

1969: H.R. Pufnstuf.  Because SID AND MARTY FUCKING KROFFT.  (And they're BOTH STILL ALIVE!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orUNj09oN4U

1969: The Pink Panther Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bii-PIGprv8

1969: My World... and Welcome To It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpYCQ5e8T60

1970: The Bugaloos.  Because SID AND MARTY FUCKING KROFFT AGAIN!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlqIB1T0-dA

1970: Tomfoolery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fK2r5JKpXU

1970: The Doubledeckers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAKobLjH3tA

1970: Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVbZId6BxWc

You know, the worst is, I am sure I'm forgetting something... and I should put in a word for the 1973 Watergate hearings, which I was absolutely mesmerized by:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovRCp06rSI&list=PLeTIjcXjuhIhWVkSAaMkri8YBHXiVx2ug

Special mention to Fred Rogers.  If you ever needed a half hour to just feel good, it was hard to beat Mr Rogers.  This clip is outside my time frame, but... Margaret fucking Hamilton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W23FRsHnegE
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Mike Cl

Does anybody else remember Range Rider?  I would be surprised if anybody else does remember it.
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trdsf

Quote from: Mike Cl on February 04, 2019, 10:56:28 PM
Does anybody else remember Range Rider?  I would be surprised if anybody else does remember it.
Ahead of my time, I'm afraid.
"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." -- Barbara Jordan


Mike Cl

My families first TV appeared in our household in about 1953.  It carried one station, which came on at 6 am and became a test pattern at 10 pm.  Black and white, of course.  I remember programs like Rin Tin Tin, Range Rider, Dragnet, Liberace, news, Arthur Godfrey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, I love Lucy, and Howdy Doody--and more, I'm sure.

Was also listening to the Lone Ranger, Winnie The Poo, and Gunsmoke on the radio.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?<br />Then he is not omnipotent,<br />Is he able but not willing?<br />Then whence cometh evil?<br />Is he neither able or willing?<br />Then why call him god?

Gawdzilla Sama

I was about 4.5 years old when we got a TV, c. 1955. First program was a travelogue with palm trees and beaches. Hawaii? I actually wondered how they got those little people in that box.

Then I discovered Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Green Jeans, and Howdy Doody.
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Baruch

A few years later ... Captain Kangaroo and Mr Green Jeans, Johnny Quest, Top Cat.
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Unbeliever

A few of my favorites have already been mentioned, like Jonny Quest. I recall a few others that I watched early on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ExD2DQMes



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yKFrI7KDxc



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NToYkBYezZA


Of course, at that age I only watched cartoons, except in the evening when we'd have to watch the grown-up stuff, like Perry Mason, or Lawrence Welk.


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LoriPinkAngel

When I was under ten I watched Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers.  Also Romper Room, I was always disappointed that Miss Sharon never saw my name in her Magic Mirror.  I lived in a good Christian home back then so on Sundays there was Davey and Goliath and a local Show called Jean's Story Time.

Unbeliever

I remember Davy and Goliath! I also just remembered Shari Lewis and Lambchop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qONgwRpoZ-g
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Mike Cl

Had the hots for Sheri Lewis--if a 6 yr old can even have the hots. :)) :huh:
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Unbeliever

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aitm

I got some stone tablets in the closet but they make for bad video....
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Unbeliever

Yeah, they probably work well for tenderizing meat, though.


;-)
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