What TV did you watch as a kid?

[ultrarunner]

I forgot Lawrence Well...

Grandma would let us stay up if we we could be quiet and Enjoy the program and we were.

I did ask her if she had Tired Blood once as Geritol sponsored the program...

 

[MossRoad]

Lawrence Welk comes on and I leave the room.

My mother in-law has to watch it every Saturday at 7:00pm on PBS. She'll hang up the phone on you if you call during the show if it's not a life or death situation.

When I'm doing projects for her, I'll purposely plan to do it while she's watching it. I know I'll have an hour where she won't be looking over my shoulder. Not that I mind. She worked on assembly lines much of her life, and knows her way around a chainsaw. But she's right there and if I turn I tend to bump into her!

 

[tacticalturnip]

Star Trek, The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, that was my favorite; before DS9 was on it was Walker Texas Ranger, which I always found silly fun.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I was a kid during the heyday of the western.

Maverick.
Have Gun Will Travel.
Wagon Train.
Sugarfoot.
The Rifleman.
Death Valley Days.
Roy Rogers.
Hopalong Cassidy.
Gunsmoke.
Cheyenne.
The Lone Ranger.
Bat Masterson.
Zorro.
The Cisco Kid.
Jim Bowie

 

[ultrarunner]

As a kid Dad was just Dad but through sports he would meet interesting people and introduced me to Fess Parker and Ed Ames of Daniel Boone fame and Robert Conrad of Wild Wild West.

Being a kid I was a little too young to appreciate.

We had local programming that was very popular… Marshall Jay, Honey West, Mayor Art, Captain Satelite, Captain San Francisco and Romper Room… national Captain Kangaroo, Guns of Will Sonnet, Batman and Beverly Hillbillies and Flying Nun.

 

[Jstpssng]

I was a kid during the heyday of the western.

Maverick.
Have Gun Will Travel.
Wagon Train.
Sugarfoot.
The Rifleman.
Death Valley Days.
Roy Rogers.
Hopalong Cassidy.
Gunsmoke.
Cheyenne.
The Lone Ranger.
Bat Masterson.
Zorro.
The Cisco Kid.
Jim Bowie

I didn't realize how many westerns had been made until Youtube came out.
I've watched every episode of The Guns of Will Sonnett."... also everything available of ""Have Gun, Will Travel" and "Tombstone Territory."
The Restless Gun was another good one.

 

[Oaktree]

Red Skelton on Monday night

That came on a channel we didn't get (CBS maybe?), so I didn't see it but I remember other kids at school referring to it as "Red Skeleton"...I figured the show was about a skeleton.
Wasn't until several years later I was at my aunt's house (who had cable) and discovered it was just another variety show. Was sort of disappointed it wasn't about a red skeleton...

I forgot Lawrence Well...

Grandma would let us stay up if we we could be quiet and Enjoy the program and we were.

That must have been on ABC, my parents would never miss it, with the lovely-uh Lennon-uh sisters, the guy that played the accordion and of course all the bubbles.

 

[Jstpssng]

Was sort of disappointed it wasn't about a red skeleton...

Ditto here.
The Lawrence Welk show came on too late, I never saw it until well after high school. That's when I realized what a friend was doing when we played Monopoly and he would count "A wunna, a twoa, a threea", as he advanced around the board.

 

[Sigarms]

As I child watching TV Saturday morning, watched many previously listed per cartoons, the one I didn't see mentioned yet which I liked was the Magilla Gorilla show.

However, my all time favorite hasn't been mentioned yet. I'd like to think that my parents instilled in me to watch "Quality TV" as a child

May I present Ultraman

 

[ultrarunner]

That came on a channel we didn't get (CBS maybe?), so I didn't see it but I remember other kids at school referring to it as "Red Skeleton"...I figured the show was about a skeleton.
Wasn't until several years later I was at my aunt's house (who had cable) and discovered it was just another variety show. Was sort of disappointed it wasn't about a red skeleton...

That must have been on ABC, my parents would never miss it, with the lovely-uh Lennon-uh sisters, the guy that played the accordion and of course all the bubbles.

For the longest time I really thought Anacani's name was Lovely Anacani because she was always introduced that way... or Mexican Senorita...

Then there was Bobby and Sissi, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney and of course Myron Floren.

With over a thousand shows and several cast marriages Welk always said our musical family...

Definitely a different time in America...

1951 to 1982 is quite a original release history span...

 

[Rebeldad1]

Red Skelton, Lone Ranger, tailspin Tommy, Disney (Spin and Marty) cartoons

 

[MossRoad]

 

[CH4Ohio]

I was a kid during the heyday of the western.

Maverick.
Have Gun Will Travel.
Wagon Train.
Sugarfoot.
The Rifleman.
Death Valley Days.
Roy Rogers.
Hopalong Cassidy.
Gunsmoke.
Cheyenne.
The Lone Ranger.
Bat Masterson.
Zorro.
The Cisco Kid.
Jim Bowie

I tried to always see the opening of Death Valley Days just to see the 20-mule Borax team pulling that big ore wagon. That was quite a sight.

I think one of the best Westerns of the 60's was The Guns of Will Sonnet. Walter Brennan was the Grandpa and the "fastest gun in the West". His grandson was 2nd fastest. "No brag, just fact . . . "

 

[goeduck]

TV was only allowed to be turned on between 8pm and 11pm other than for a major football game.

 

[ultrarunner]

Westerns as well as some of the actors of the Golden Age have not fared all that well as society has changed…

Could come a time when they are effectively banned similar to Disney’s Song of the South…

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I tried to always see the opening of Death Valley Days just to see the 20-mule Borax team pulling that big ore wagon. That was quite a sight.

I think one of the best Westerns of the 60's was The Guns of Will Sonnet. Walter Brennan was the Grandpa and the "fastest gun in the West". His grandson was 2nd fastest. "No brag, just fact . . . "

I've never seen that one. I've been less than happy about Walter Brennan since my Nez Perce friends filled me in on his personal life. He hated Indians with the fire of a thousand sons. He had a ranch at Joseph, which was named after Chief Joseph, but wanted to wipe the natives from the face of the earth.

 

[CH4Ohio]

Right after school for a couple years was Dark Shadows.

Later, Star Trek reruns were late afternoon right after school.

Ironside was a good show when Perry Mason petered out.

I named my dog Bandit after Johnny Quest's dog.

Fractured Fairy Tales and Mr. Peabody and the whole Bullwinkle crowd had hilarious subtle jokes and puns woven through the script.

Had forgotten all about Spaaaaaaace Ghoooooooooooooost!

Lots of cool memories in this string. I watched the first season of the Beverly Hillbillies a while back. Laughed out loud a lot!! It was comic genius.

You couldn't produce any of these shows these days. Too many stereotypes and too much "offensive" material. We'd have to put warnings in front of every Warner Brothers cartoon . . . I think I saw that they cancelled Pepe Le'Pew. (I always loved that little stinker . . .)

 

[CH4Ohio]

I've never seen that one. I've been less than happy about Walter Brennan since my Nez Perce friends filled me in on his personal life. He hated Indians with the fire of a thousand sons. He had a ranch at Joseph, which was named after Chief Joseph, but wanted to wipe the natives from the face of the earth.

I was unaware of his personal life and attitudes. But he still stands out as a memorable character in a lot of those old movies. Kinda like Jack Elam and a lot of those guys that managed to get a supporting role in dozens of movies.

 

[ultrarunner]

Under a microscope I’m sure there are few Saints among us especially now when even a real Saint is considered evil like Junipero Serra.

The Information Age brings out all the flaws that might not have even been considered short comings at the time…

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I was unaware of his personal life and attitudes. But he still stands out as a memorable character in a lot of those old movies. Kinda like Jack Elam and a lot of those guys that managed to get a supporting role in dozens of movies.

I liked "The Real McCoys".