My Early Years in T.V.

coalder · Post by **coalder** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 3:50 pm

Yeah Man Pappy Boynington, almost forgot about that one!! Great show!!
Jim

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 4:13 pm

What a bunch of youngsters !

Watched Tugboat Annie, The Howdy Doody show, Andy's Gang, The Mickey Mouse Club ,and lots of westerns. Roy Rodgers, Sugar Foot, Maverick, Bat Masterson, Raw Hide, Gun Smoke, The Rifleman, The Rebel, - all on a small screen, black & white TV.

Paul

coalder · Post by **coalder** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 4:46 pm

Paul, then we gotta be about the same age. I was just reminiscing back about four decades & a lustrum trying to remember all the Saturday night westerns. I remember Gunsmoke, The rebel, Have gun will travel, "Paladin", Bonanza, Possible Daniel Boone with Fess parker, And there was one with Clint walker which Is beside me. God, it sucks getting old!!
Lets see what the rest of the other "OL timers " remember.
Jim

johnjoseph · Post by **johnjoseph** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 5:12 pm

I m not an old timer at 45...but I remember watching gun smoke and bonanza. ..anyone remember the beach combers? It was on Canadian television....oh and the Lawrence Welk
Show on Sunday s just before the wonderful world of Disney

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 5:30 pm

Now we're talkin Paul.

Sunny Boy wrote:What a bunch of youngsters !

Watched Tugboat Annie, The Howdy Doody show, Andy's Gang, The Mickey Mouse Club ,and lots of westerns. Roy Rodgers, Sugar Foot, Maverick, Bat Masterson, Raw Hide, Gun Smoke, The Rifleman, The Rebel, - all on a small screen, black & white TV.

Paul

lsayre · Post by **lsayre** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 5:46 pm

I'm at nigh on 15 years without a TV.

rberq · Post by **rberq** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 6:22 pm

lsayre wrote:I'm at nigh on 15 years without a TV.

Same here. But I remember fondly the Watergate hearings, as the last time Congress did something more or less right.

coalder · Post by **coalder** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 6:30 pm

What about Sky King, The lone Ranger, & Capt kangaroo with Mr Green jeans. Wait a minute I recognize Mr Green Jeans!! It's FRED as an apprentice farmer!!

Jim

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 6:49 pm

Damn, ain't nothing sacred anymore?????

johnjoseph · Post by **johnjoseph** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 6:51 pm

J F Graham wrote:What about Sky King, The lone Ranger, & Capt kangaroo with Mr Green jeans. Wait a minute I recognize Mr Green Jeans!! It's FRED as an apprentice farmer!!
Jim

Holy crap. ...that was fred! I will never look at ping pong balls the same!

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 6:52 pm

J F Graham wrote:What about Sky King, The lone Ranger, & Capt kangaroo with Mr Green jeans. Wait a minute I recognize Mr Green Jeans!! It's FRED as an apprentice farmer!!
Jim

You must have stayed home from school to watch Capt. Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans. I seem to remember they were on weekday mornings ? And Clint Walker was in Cheyenne. Those are a bit later than some of the ones I (and Fred

) remembered above - about the same time as Wells Fargo, Bonanza, and F Troop. What I call the "late western period"

, when TV was starting to switch over more to variety and police shows.

Paul

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 6:54 pm

That was a real sad day in my world.

coalder · Post by **coalder** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 7:06 pm

Sunny Boy wrote:
J F Graham wrote:What about Sky King, The lone Ranger, & Capt kangaroo with Mr Green jeans. Wait a minute I recognize Mr Green Jeans!! It's FRED as an apprentice farmer!!
Jim
You must have stayed home from school to watch Capt. Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans. I seem to remember they were on weekday mornings ? And Clint Walker was in Cheyenne. Those are a bit later than some of the ones I (and Fred ) remembered above - about the same time as Wells Fargo, Bonanza, and F Troop. What I call the "late western period" , when TV was starting to switch over more to variety and police shows.

Paul

Never stayed home, just was compelled to ride on "the little bus".

Jim

Hambden Bob · Post by **Hambden Bob** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 7:17 pm

The Mr. Ed Show,The Little Rascals,The Three Stooges,The Original Godzilla,The Giant Behemoth...All made before 1960.....

Caught the first runs of 12 O'Clock High,The Adams Family,The Munsters,Batman,Ultraman,Robert Goulet's "The Blue Light",Combat!,McHales Navy,The Beverly Hillbillies,Time Tunnel,The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,Get Smart,I Spy,Mission Impossible,The Invaders,FBI and of course,Dragnet

Cartoons like the Original Johny Quest,Bugs Bunny,The Roadrunner,and God knows what else...

Unfortunately,for The Old Man,Vietnam was on every night. He was always pissed and say that Our Guys were being held back,and that We couldn't afford to give Charlie a break.....He was right....

johnjoseph · Post by **johnjoseph** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 7:21 pm

Hambden Bob wrote:The Mr. Ed Show,The Little Rascals,The Three Stooges,The Original Godzilla,The Giant Behemoth...All made before 1960.....

Caught the first runs of 12 O'Clock High,The Adams Family,The Munsters,Batman,Ultraman,Robert Goulet's "The Blue Light",Combat!,McHales Navy,The Beverly Hillbillies,Time Tunnel,The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,Get Smart,I Spy,Mission Impossible,The Invaders,FBI and of course,Dragnet

Cartoons like the Original Johny Quest,Bugs Bunny,The Roadrunner,and God knows what else...

Unfortunately,for The Old Man,Vietnam was on every night. He was always pissed and say that Our Guys were being held back,and that We couldn't afford to give Charlie a break.....He was right....

I hear ya on all points shared ...my mom was dead set against my joining the military due to Vietnam. ...and she said there would be a war as soon as I joined the Navy. ..She was correct. ...I did 3 tours via ship during the first gulf war