What TV did you watch as a kid?

[IndyJay]

My great-grandmother (4'11" tall, 90 lbs soaking wet) me 6'1, 200lbs.

When Gram was in her early 90s, she would look up at me and say "Your still not too big for a whooping!!!!"

My grandmother, God rest her soul, would often express her affection to us by threatening, "I'll put a boot up your ass". Such sweet memories!

 

[IndyJay]

Mary Ann, Ginger, or Mr. Ed?

"of course, of course"....

 

[buckeyefarmer]

2 TVs and rarely on anymore

Mary Ann any day of the week.

 

[Alan46]

Mary Ann or Ginger?

The Ginger!

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I'd repair a TV, people would pick them up then call an hour later "all I get is snow!". They thought all you do is plug it in to outlet, no antenna or cable.
One service call an old guy had the back off and a trouble light going saying "can I help? Need tools? Water? Another light?" on and on. Finally I said yes there's something you can do. He got all excited! "See that chair over there?" "Yea-yea-yea...I see it!" he said.
"OK...have a seat". "Ok,ok,ok,ok...now what?"
"You see that lever?"..."yea,yea,yea,...I see it!"
"Ok...pull it!" I said as the foot rest flips up.
"Now what?now what?" He says all excited.
"When I say go, I want you to pull that lever again!"
So 20 minutes go by, I fix the TV as he pouts, fill out invoice and say "now pull the lever, I'm ready for a check".

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

The Ginger!

If I was Gilligan Mary Ann Mon,Wed,Fri,Sun...Ginger Tue,Thur,Sat.
None of the cast wore the same clothes twice! And for a three hour tour. Except Gilligan's hat was the same. If I were Gilligan I'd probably marry Mary Ann. If our kid started building radios out of coconuts I'd divorce her and go for Ginger.

 

[Alan46]

I never noticed the clothes thing……. I guess I was too busy with GINGER!!!

 

[JasperFrank]

My grandmother had a very old still working, high end TV, that would scan for active channels. This was many years ago. One night I set it to scan and it found analog cell phone transmissions I could hear clearly. My memory was it was on Channel 33, but have since read that it must have been on Channel 83.
At the time, I thought it was interesting that this was illegal. How did anyone pass a law, that made a simple act of tuning, which the TV did automatically, illegal?

 

[Alan46]

My grandmother had a very old still working, high end TV, that would scan for active channels. This was many years ago. One night I set it to scan and it found analog cell phone transmissions I could hear clearly. My memory was it was on Channel 33, but have since read that it must have been on Channel 83.

Did you hear anything good?

 

[JasperFrank]

Actually I did, since Doctors were the ones that could afford the technology.