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Quote: DocNaturally, I have to reply. As I recall, our TV had a rotory mechanical switch (dial) for selecting among the 12 possible channels (2-13), and we were ecstatic when a second station began to broadcast and give us variety and options. Of course, those two stations were only on the air for part of the day.
So did ours! I can remember when we had only black & white television. What a luxury it was to get our first color TV. I grew up in the Los Angeles area and even we had only VHF channels of 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13. Boy, did I waste a lot of time watching channel 5. On the UHF dial there were maybe 10 channels you could pick up and half in Spanish. The only one I was familiar with was 28, Public Televsion, which I watched the Electric Company on.
p.s. Zoom sucked!
Trivia Time!
Name the second actor from the left.
Quote: WizardTrivia Time!
Name the second actor from the left.
No idea. That was way after my time. I think one of my kids may have watched that show. To hit my generation, you have to pose TV trivia like:
(a) Name five (or 8 or whatever) characters from the Howdy Doody show.
(b) Who was the pal of Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent?
(c) Name the animal (non-human) that was a regular on the Today show.
Quote: DocTo hit my generation, you have to pose TV trivia like:
(a) Name five (or 8 or whatever) characters from the Howdy Doody show.
(b) Who was the pal of Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent?
(c) Name the animal (non-human) that was a regular on the Today show.
a. Buffalo Bob and Clarabell
b. Dang. I haven't heard that show mentioned in about 40 years. I recall a boy with a beanie who rode Cecil but that's about the best I can do.
c. Didn't Lambchop make an appearance once in a while? If so, I imagine she would have brought Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy along too sometimes.
R A G G M O P P ragmop! DOODLE DO DE DOO DE...
they sang it all the time.
The Today show had a chimp, think it was Fred Muggs or something.
Quote: WizardSo did ours! I can remember when we had only black & white television. What a luxury it was to get our first color TV. I grew up in the Los Angeles area and even we had only VHF channels of 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13. Boy, did I waste a lot of time watching channel 5. On the UHF dial there were maybe 10 channels you could pick up and half in Spanish. The only one I was familiar with was 28, Public Televsion, which I watched the Electric Company on.
p.s. Zoom sucked!
Trivia Time!
Name the second actor from the left.
thus I am a bust at early morning 50s/60s tv trivia. I was sometimes watching a neighbor's tv later on, sometimes even early evening. In fact it puzzles me now why Dobie Gillis didn't have a lot of reruns, even through to running today. But maybe it sucked and I just didn't know it.
Later: Sunrise Semester. General Electric Theater. Alfred Hitcock Presents.
Didn't like that stupid Lost on an Island somewhere but did like the many loves of dobby gillis, mainly for the hippie guy who didn't like to hear the word 'work'.
Quote: JohnzimboWiz, you never watched UHF channel 52? That was where we got our fix of Speed Racer, Kimba the White Lion and The Three Stooges
Not that I can remember. As I recall, channel 5 had the Three Stooges and 13 had Speed Racer. Kimba I never liked but it was on somewhere because one of my brothers liked it.
Evidently, by the time I was watching it, there were several seasons in the bank and they would air them indiscriminately.
Ever notice the vices of various cartoon characters?
UnderDog would get his ass kicked, pop a magic pill and win.
AquaBoy would get his ability from chewing gum.
To bar, the Eighth Man would meet a foe he couldn't handle, whip out an Atomic powered cigarette and supercharge his system.
Most notable for H. R. Puf n stuff
Siegfried and the sea monsters
Also Land of the Lost
YAWN
It always started with something about the American flag and patriotism, then switched to "Modern Farmer" (WTF? In the NYC area?)
Then on to Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Loved those "Fractured Fairy tales."
As a really little guy, I think I watched "Romper Room" but I can't really recall much if anything about that show.
I remember a cartoon named Mighty Mouse. I was very very young. I remember wanting to kill Mighty Mouse. I didn't like that mouse. It wasn't normal. But I didn't have anyone to talk to about how much I hated him. A child councelor at that age might have been a good idea. I was a disturbed little f*ck.
Quote: FleaStiffHowdy Doody... I watched the early show, dialing for dollars, or other movies. Hated that darned kids show I had to watch once. Hated the yelling and screaming brats.
Later: Sunrise Semester. General Electric Theater. Alfred Hitcock Presents.
Didn't like that stupid Lost on an Island somewhere but did like the many loves of dobby gillis, mainly for the hippie guy who didn't like to hear the word 'work'.
I just vaguely remember dialing for dollars. I agree with the Wizard Zoom sucked.
Quote: Wizard
p.s. Zoom sucked!
C'mon Wizard! They had their own "Pig Latin". Hubbi frubbiends...
From the little ditty they would sing in their "letters" segment, I still remember the zip code for Boston, Mass: 0...21..34.
Her Mom and Aunt never forgave her.
Quote: WizardSo did ours! I can remember when we had only black & white television. What a luxury it was to get our first color TV. I grew up in the Los Angeles area and even we had only VHF channels of 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13. Boy, did I waste a lot of time watching channel 5. On the UHF dial there were maybe 10 channels you could pick up and half in Spanish. The only one I was familiar with was 28, Public Televsion, which I watched the Electric Company on.
In the 80s we only had the three networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, along with PBS and about 50 channels of snow. No cable, no Ninetendo. Then we finally started to pick up Fox in the 90s.
Got quite a fill of 60s era cartoons early Saturday morning: Bullwinkle, Mighty Mouse, Spider-Man, Archie's. Would stare at the color pattern waiting for it them to start. Laff-a-Lympics was my favorite, but Wikipedia says it was from the 70s. Watched Lost in Space reruns almost everyday one semester in college.
Watched Electric Company, along with 3-2-1 Contact many days after school.
Quote: PaigowdanFor slightly bigger kids, one of my favorite educational role models was Fire Marshal Bill Burns (Jim Carey). wink.
And here I always thought it was Lefty Rosenthal.
Quote: Wizardwe had only black & white television.
Wow! So many recollections, and none of my favorites.
What about the Mickey Mouse Club, with (ever so cute) Annette Funicello and (the youngest of the "club," Cubby, if I recall correctly). Singing the theme song, now: "Who's the leader of the band that's made for you and me? M - I - C (pause) K - E - Y (pause) M - O - U - S - E" (starting to march around my computer table -- down, boy...)
And, what about the Bugs Bunny cartoon show on Saturday mornings, with Foghorn Leghorn, the smart-aleck rooster, and the Beep-Beep Roadrunner with Wile E. Coyote?
Who cares about color TV, when you can watch shows like that.
Quote: LuckyPhow...And, what about the Bugs Bunny cartoon show on Saturday mornings, with Foghorn Leghorn, the smart-aleck rooster, and the Beep-Beep Roadrunner with Wile E. Coyote?
Who cares about color TV, when you can watch shows like that.
Yeah, then the retarded U.S. Gov't stepped in and ruined it...
https://youtu.be/3cpUDtW1cV8
Quote: ErnestoI have to take a nap now. Feeling old. My show went off air in 1957 Winky Dink and you. The plastic screen cost $1.00 , which including shipping and handling. No worry about radiation, a lot less than the fluoroscope machine at Buster Brown shoe store.
YAWN
That was good! Welcome to the forum.
Quote: MrVI think I watched "Romper Room" but I can't really recall much if anything about that show.
I haven't heard anyone say "Romper Room" since the Nixon administration. My youngest brother watched that but I didn't pay much attention. I'm a Sesame Street man myself. In fact, I think I was one of he earliest fans.
Extremely close: J. Fred Muggs.Quote: beachbumbabsThe Today show had a chimp, think it was Fred Muggs or something.
You're a decade late for the show I was referring to. The cartoon show you watched was a revival of a puppet show that aired around the same era as Howdy Doody.Quote: iamnomadi think Beany and Cecil was the "hippest" cartoon show, by far, of those that were broadcast in the 60's.
That's two. The actor who played Clarabell has been mentioned already in another post in this thread, under the alias of the character he played after Howdy Doody went off the air. A friend once told me that Clarabell spoke on the very last show of the series, but I didn't see that myself. Here are some additional characters:Quote: Wizarda. Buffalo Bob and Clarabell
"Here he comes to save the day...Mighty Mouse is on the way...." (Lyrics to a recurring song.)Quote: bobbartopI remember a cartoon named Mighty Mouse. I was very very young. I remember wanting to kill Mighty Mouse. I didn't like that mouse. It wasn't normal.
(1) Why does this thread show up in the forum for "Defunct Casinos"?
(2) Why does this thread show up on the Forum Overview page but not show up on the Recent Threads page?
(3) When I searched for this thread under my own profile and list of posts made, why does the thread show up as having no thread starter? (My guess is that is the result of it having been split off.)
Obviously, I don't really understand the mechanics of a discussion forum web site.
"THERE'S no need to fear... UN-derdog is here!"Quote: onenickelmiracleI liked Underdog and still do. I like how he speaks with rhymes. People remember what you say when you rhyme. If I can think of one, I'll use it when I'm done.
Said as he arrives, once again, to save Sweet Polly Purebread.
13-inch B&W TV, one channel if the weather wasn't bad. Antenna snapped off with a coat hanger wire stuck in the stub that was left. Fan of all the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shows with all those characters voiced my Mel Blanc.
It is a sad change today where very few cartoons have that formula, usually they are just for one age group. One exception was "Rocko's Modern Life" - although that's 20 years old now. "Sponge Bob Square Pants" seems to be for multiple age groups but I haven't really checked it out much.
Friendly Giant was fun too. All the little chairs and tables had me confused for a while.
Best was Hammy Hamster. His diving bell stuff was awesome. Seemed to have subconsciously nudged my career choices later in life.
Ps Don't forget Thundar The Barbarian
Quote: Doc(1) Why does this thread show up in the forum for "Defunct Casinos"?
(2) Why does this thread show up on the Forum Overview page but not show up on the Recent Threads page?
(3) When I searched for this thread under my own profile and list of posts made, why does the thread show up as having no thread starter? (My guess is that is the result of it having been split off.)
This thread was a split-off. There is a bug in the process of splitting a thread that causes these problems.
If the comment about the stupid show you didn't like is a reference to Gilligan's Island, are you aware that the actor (Bob Denver) who portrayed the title character had previously played "the hippie guy" (Maynard G. Krebs) that you liked on Dobie (not "dobby") Gillis?Quote: FleaStiffDidn't like that stupid Lost on an Island somewhere but did like the many loves of dobby gillis, mainly for the hippie guy who didn't like to hear the word 'work'.
Quote: odiousgambit
It is a sad change today where very few cartoons have that formula, usually they are just for one age group. One exception was "Rocko's Modern Life" - although that's 20 years old now. "Sponge Bob Square Pants" seems to be for multiple age groups but I haven't really checked it out much.
Both of those are great. Fairly Odd Parents is another god one.
Disney films are for kids and (i feel) way too many inuendos for the parents. I watch and enjoy them with my 7 yr old but cringe a bit with some of the humor.
Strangely enough, a lot of the cartoons are geared to "adults", meaning "man-child" and "women-child" of GenX. Go to any comic convention and you won't see any "kids" there. Just a pile of grown people spending mountains of cash on toys. The Hollywood machine is feeding this customer base with tons of feature films (which, i think are reasonably good entertainment) and they bring their kids...
I used to watch a lot of the stranger stuff myself when i used to have free time (ie. 7 years ago) mostly because the dialogue is what I enjoyed: Undergrads, Bob's Burgers, AquaTeenHungerForce, Home Movies. Now its only a guilty pleasure on occasion.
Speed Racer
Ultraman
Gilligan's Island
The Munsters
My brother and friends liked Johnny Socko & his Giant Robot, but i never got into it. Saturday mornings were almost always the Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner hour, Rocky & Bullwinkle (and friends), and later, the Star Trek cartoons.
Quote: HornHighYo11All i remember from Romper Room was the freeky magic mirror frame that the lady would look through and it would fill-in with a swirly image. It challenged my "how the heck does that thingy work?" part of the brain.
Friendly Giant was fun too. All the little chairs and tables had me confused for a while.
Best was Hammy Hamster. His diving bell stuff was awesome. Seemed to have subconsciously nudged my career choices later in life.
Ps Don't forget Thundar The Barbarian
The part about the magic mirror on Romper Room that sticks with me is that the lady looking through it would tell us the names of the kids she could see watching the show. "I see Katie. I see Jimmy. I see Scott. I see...". I was ecstatic when she called out my name, and disappointed when she didn't see me watching her that day.
I watched it in the late 70s, early 80s. 26 inch Zenith, it was the first show of the day, dont remember what was displayed when off the air, but they opened with the American flag and national anthem to start the day. I'll repeat a fact, apparently nobody knows the original order of the shows, which episodes were originally aired on which dates.Quote: BleedingChipsSlowly"THERE'S no need to fear... UN-derdog is here!"
Said as he arrives, once again, to save Sweet Polly Purebread.
13-inch B&W TV, one channel if the weather wasn't bad. Antenna snapped off with a coat hanger wire stuck in the stub that was left. Fan of all the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shows with all those characters voiced my Mel Blanc.
My favorites were:
Ultraman
Lost in Space
Land of the Lost
Space Giants
I watched some of these recently on YouTube and was horrified at how bad special effects were :)
"Pluck your magic twanger, Froggy."
How about Soupy Sales?
Quote: MrVAnybody remember Andy Devine in "Andy's Gang?"
"Pluck your magic twanger, Froggy."
How about Soupy Sales?
Andy's Gang I never even heard of. I guess I'm too young to remember the Soupy Sales show but do recall him seeing him on Hollywood Squares or somewhere like that.
Quote: MrVAnybody remember Andy Devine in "Andy's Gang?"
"Pluck your magic twanger, Froggy."
How about Soupy Sales?
Yes! Finally somebody who recalls the golden age. I still remember watching Soupy's "White man speak with forked tongue" routine. And how about
Quote: TumblingBonesAnd how about
Never heard of Adventures in Paradise. However, some of my friends watched Rin Tin Tin but I never got into it. Arguments over which was the better show, Rin Tin Tin or Lassie were frequently seen and heard. Sometimes Old Yeller came up too.
When I was around 7th or 8th grade Where the Red Fern Grows was my favorite book. Read it many times.
Quote: Wizard
Never heard of Adventures in Paradise. However, some of my friends watched Rin Tin Tin but I never got into it. Arguments over which was the better show, Rin Tin Tin or Lassie were frequently seen and heard. Sometimes Old Yeller came up too.
When I was around 7th or 8th grade Where the Red Fern Grows was my favorite book. Read it many times.
"Adventures in Paradise" was about "the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure". Sort of a "Route 66 afloat" with a boat instead of a Corvette. And since that covers land and sea transport, we might as well include airborne travel.... anybody else remember "Sky King"?
On a side note, since you brought up Lassie, in the late 80s I met June Lockhart (we were partners in a croquet match which is a whole story in itself). She had some great stories about her time on Lassie. She could also swear with great gusto whenever she missed a shot. It was really weird hearing those 4 letter words coming from Timmy's mom.
Management note: Good bye.
The barricuda wasn't nearly as frightening as I remembered him being as a kid.