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February 24th, 2017 at 7:51:03 PM permalink
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Naturally, 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.

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February 24th, 2017 at 9:15:40 PM permalink
(Really hate to keep re-directing your thread, but I'm following your lead.)
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Trivia 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.
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February 24th, 2017 at 10:45:28 PM permalink
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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.



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.
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February 25th, 2017 at 12:34:27 AM permalink
The boy was named Beany. I was a big fan of that show when I was about 4, had the beanie and wore it, also had a Beany and Cecil puzzle I loved.

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.
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February 25th, 2017 at 3:40:40 AM permalink
i think Beany and Cecil was the "hippest" cartoon show, by far, of those that were broadcast in the 60's. Wherever they sailed, they always had to pass by the No Bikini Atoll. When JFK initiated the Peace Corps, Beany started Beany's Bean and Peas Corps. Puns, sly take-offs on current fads, what a difference Bob Clampett"s show was from all the Hanna-Barbera cartoons that saturated the airwaves in the early 60s.
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February 25th, 2017 at 3:57:13 AM permalink
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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.



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February 25th, 2017 at 4:14:06 AM permalink
I can out-do the "just a B+W tv" thing because we had no tv at all till 1965, my dad being a big hold-out

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.
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February 25th, 2017 at 5:21:23 AM permalink
Howdy 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'.
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February 25th, 2017 at 6:13:34 AM permalink
Wiz, you never watched UHF channel 52? That was where we got our fix of Speed Racer, Kimba the White Lion and The Three Stooges
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February 25th, 2017 at 6:35:52 AM permalink
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Wiz, 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.
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February 25th, 2017 at 7:23:26 AM permalink
I had a love hate relationship with Zoom.
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.
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February 25th, 2017 at 8:05:13 AM permalink
I was a sid n marty krofft guy. They had some big hits

Most notable for H. R. Puf n stuff

Siegfried and the sea monsters

Also Land of the Lost
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February 25th, 2017 at 10:16:18 AM permalink
I 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.
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February 25th, 2017 at 10:53:17 AM permalink
My brother and I used to get up early Saturday morning, share the comfy chair in front of the TV, and wait for the day's programming to begin.

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.
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February 25th, 2017 at 11:14:55 AM permalink
I 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.
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February 25th, 2017 at 2:22:04 PM permalink
I grew up in Los Angeles, I remember Engineer Bill. Sheriff John. Captain Kangaroo. I named my teddy bear after Captain Kangaroo's Dancing Bear. I think I carried it around till I was maybe 30 or so. I still have it, and I want it in my will to be buried with that same stuffed toy bear. We're the same age.

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.
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February 25th, 2017 at 3:15:42 PM permalink
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Howdy 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.
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February 25th, 2017 at 3:18:13 PM permalink
For us it was channel 56 ,speed racer and i think Godzilla or some Japanese monster show was on Saturdays.
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February 25th, 2017 at 3:20:36 PM permalink
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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.
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February 25th, 2017 at 3:40:05 PM permalink
My cousin Cookie, her mom and aunt watched dialing for dollars every morning too. One morning at her own house, Cookoe's daughter, a toddler turned down voice on TV, Cookie never hear the page number and line in phone book. It was hers and she missed a big jackpot.
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February 25th, 2017 at 3:52:48 PM permalink
Always watched "Ultraman" after school.
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February 25th, 2017 at 3:58:39 PM permalink
For slightly bigger kids, one of my favorite educational role models was Fire Marshal Bill Burns (Jim Carey). wink.
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February 25th, 2017 at 6:12:58 PM permalink
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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.



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.
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February 25th, 2017 at 6:30:02 PM permalink
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For 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.
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February 25th, 2017 at 8:01:31 PM permalink
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we 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.
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February 25th, 2017 at 8:11:31 PM permalink
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...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
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February 25th, 2017 at 8:35:17 PM permalink
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I 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



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February 25th, 2017 at 8:38:10 PM permalink
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I 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.
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February 25th, 2017 at 9:23:45 PM permalink
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The Today show had a chimp, think it was Fred Muggs or something.

Extremely close: J. Fred Muggs.

Quote: iamnomad

i think Beany and Cecil was the "hippest" cartoon show, by far, of those that were broadcast in the 60's.

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.

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a. Buffalo Bob and Clarabell

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:
Howdy Doody, Phineas T. Bluster, Cornelius Cobb, Chief Thunderthud, Princess Summerfallwinterspring, the Flubbadub, Howdy's cousin whose name I'm drawing a blank on, ....


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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.

"Here he comes to save the day...Mighty Mouse is on the way...." (Lyrics to a recurring song.)
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February 25th, 2017 at 9:38:46 PM permalink
And here are some questions unrelated to kids TV shows:

(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.
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February 26th, 2017 at 12:34:41 AM permalink
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I 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.

"THERE'S no need to fear... UN-derdog is here!"

Said as he arrives, once again, to save Sweet Polly Purebread.

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February 26th, 2017 at 2:53:30 AM permalink
The Warner Bros cartoons [bug bunny etc] of the day were made for movie theaters. The audience would be both kids and adults, so the humor was for both! Sometimes the adults got the joke and the kids had no idea.

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.
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February 26th, 2017 at 7:45:29 AM permalink
All 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
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February 26th, 2017 at 7:48:50 AM permalink
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(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.
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February 26th, 2017 at 8:02:17 AM permalink
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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'.

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?
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February 26th, 2017 at 8:13:35 AM permalink
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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.
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February 26th, 2017 at 1:42:30 PM permalink
I was born in 1963, so my prime after school TV time was from 1968 - 1975. We always watched these shows:

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.
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February 26th, 2017 at 3:56:00 PM permalink
Quote: HornHighYo11

All 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.
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February 26th, 2017 at 7:46:19 PM permalink
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"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.

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.
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February 27th, 2017 at 7:57:00 AM permalink
I was born in 1969 so I picked up TV etc in mid 70's

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 :)
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February 27th, 2017 at 8:13:51 AM permalink
Anybody remember Andy Devine in "Andy's Gang?"

"Pluck your magic twanger, Froggy."

How about Soupy Sales?
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February 27th, 2017 at 8:18:49 AM permalink
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Anybody 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.
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February 27th, 2017 at 9:03:12 AM permalink
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Anybody 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
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February 27th, 2017 at 10:32:01 AM permalink
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And 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.
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February 27th, 2017 at 12:45:44 PM permalink
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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.
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March 9th, 2017 at 8:31:51 PM permalink
People who grew up in Los Angeles probably remember Boss City. I barely remember it, it was a local music/dance show on channel 9 - KHJ. I think dj Sam Riddle was the host. There was this hot blonde named Kim or Kam something. Holy smokes she was hot. I remember The Doors were on the show once, or maybe just Jim Morrison, it was a long time ago. Maybe early 60s, mid-60s? I dunno, it had to be mid-60s if the Doors were on it.
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August 3rd, 2017 at 10:27:46 AM permalink
We should take guesses on who the nuker was. I am torn between face and mission but I think I will have to go with mission.
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August 3rd, 2017 at 10:47:43 AM permalink
I watched a couple episodes of Diver Dan the other night on YouTube.
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