My Early Years in T.V.

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 7:25 pm

Flyer5 wrote:
J F Graham wrote:I can still remember our first color TV. It was brown. Vividly remembering waking up Saturday morning and watching the peacock till cartoons came on. However my all time favorite was "Hogan's Heroes". John Banner playing Schultz was a scream. He was my mentor when I became a trooper; "I know nothing, I see nothing I say NOTHING". Just like Stalag 13 nobody ever escaped me cause I never arrested anybody.
Jim
Black Sheep Squadron. I have always had a love of Corsairs.

McHale's Navy here. I always had a love of PT boats - the Corsair of the seas !

Paul

coalder · Post by **coalder** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 7:38 pm

Shame on me; and all the while I thought you were a pup.

Jim

rberq · Post by **rberq** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 7:47 pm

J F Graham wrote:What about Sky King,

I had a crush on his daughter Penny.

Flyer5 · Post by **Flyer5** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 9:50 pm

I got rid of cable a few years ago now just local channels. Me tv is one of them and it has a lot of those old shows I dream of Jennie. Black Sheep , even All in the family. My 8yr old likes a lot of them. Now daytime TV they are saying "*censored* 'or "Piss " its ridicules whats on tv shows today. No wonder families values have mostly disappeared. Yet bugs bunny and Tom And Jerry are too violent?

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 10:41 pm

I remember when my dad came home with this new super high tech TV antenna. It had a dial on top of the set, and a mile-long wire that ran outside up the antenna - when the station came in fuzzy, we'd give it a tweak, and the thing would spin all by itself and move the motorized antenna around up on the roof! I remember lots of hole-drilling and swearing hooking that sucker up. Sure beat rabbit ears. We got another 2 stations!

That didn't last very long. A few New England winters and it seized up solid.

Wow I had forgotten about alot of those shows. Used to love Munster re-runs, Leave It To Beaver, Lassie, etc.. I remember that old claymation cartoon that used to come on on Sundays, David and Goliath. Imagine showing that on TV today? A CHRISTIAN kids show!

Militant atheists and the left would be starting a 3-ring media circus over that one ...

Chips was another fav of mine. We used to ride around on our bikes making fun of the intro with their super board-straight posture on the motorcycles, HAHAAHA!

Tom and Jerry was my all-time favorite - I could still watch that for hours and never get bored.

warminmn · Post by **warminmn** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 10:52 pm

Ironic that this post came while I am trying to restore a 1963 zenith black and white. My Dad bought it new and it was the first TV I watched. Nostalgia is my friend.

I just have over air free TV, and I get loads of channels as I'm on the top of the world here. 10 channels plus a couple more on occassions, plus all the sub-channels. I can watch watch all the old westerns at different times, the comedy shows, drama's, plus the crap they play new now. All in the Family, with I think the Jeffersons after that was the best! And I never missed I dream of Jeanie!

Pauliewog · Post by **Pauliewog** » Tue. Jun. 09, 2015 10:55 pm

I'm sitting here with a cold beer singing ......"See the USA in your Chevrolet "

And nobody watched The Diana Shore Show?
Or my all time favorite...... " Sea Hunt" with Loyd Bridges starring as Mike Nelson.

Paulie

lsayre · Post by **lsayre** » Wed. Jun. 10, 2015 5:50 am

If you remember Halo Shampoo you go back to early TV commercials.

nealkas · Post by **nealkas** » Wed. Jun. 10, 2015 6:29 am

Pauliewog wrote: Or my all time favorite...... " Sea Hunt" with Loyd Bridges starring as Mike Nelson.

Paulie

"By this time my lungs were aching for air."

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Wed. Jun. 10, 2015 6:38 am

Halo everybody, Halo

Flyer5 · Post by **Flyer5** » Wed. Jun. 10, 2015 8:48 am

Late 70s and early 80s had to be the best years for being a kid.

waldo lemieux · Post by **waldo lemieux** » Wed. Jun. 10, 2015 8:59 am

Ok Im in .... Rat Patrol, The Rifleman , and Audie Murphy westerns.

Now the Halo shampoo was that green or in a green bottle? And no Im not thinking of Prell and the little pearl floating slowly down in the bottle.

Pauliewog · Post by **Pauliewog** » Wed. Jun. 10, 2015 9:36 am

Ahhhh .... I can't stand watching TV anymore. Take me back when I was a young pup, before they put speakers in grandmas 9" Fada.

No noise, no commercials, the only sounds were the neighbor's laughter, as we watched Charlie Chaplin.

At least we can still buy Brylcreem ........ A little dab 'll do ya.

Paulie

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Wed. Jun. 10, 2015 10:21 am

A few more I grew up with from the 50's and early 60's,.... to shake loose the memories of our fellow senior members.

Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, The Little Rascals, Abbot and Costello, Zorro, Buck Rodgers. And, still one of my favorite comedians, The Red Skelton Show.

All are shows from the days of clever, often brilliant, humor. Unlike today where writers are so poor of ideas that they take the easy, low road with four letter words and toilet humor. It's just sad what real humor younger people are missing out on.

For those who want to do some more remembering, or just explore early TV shows, here's a link to a very long, alphabetical listing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1950s_Amer ... ion_series

Enjoy.

Paul

nealkas · Post by **nealkas** » Wed. Jun. 10, 2015 10:38 am

Don Knotts doing the "nervous man" interviews on Steve Allen.