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What are your earliest television viewing memories?

NoDakObserver said:
I was born in 1973, and my earliest memories are of daytime TV. Captain Kangaroo, Sanford and Son, Hollywood Squares, Wheel of Fortune with Chuck Woolery, Price is Right, All in the Family, Little Rascals, Yogi Bear and even Match Game 76. For some reason I distinctly remember the change from Match Game 76 to 77.
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My earliest memories were of daytime TV too. Jim Perry hosting Sale of The Century, and Bob Barker hosting Price is Right. Bob Eubanks hosted Card Sharks on CBS before TPIR. I also watched Sesame Street too.
 
This thread is indeed timeless.

Bob Barker as host of TPIR is a given, and he was great. But how many remember him as the host of "Truth or Consequences"? A network show that went into syndication in the late 60's/early 70's. A great memory for this 1959 baby.
 
seatownmedia said:
This thread is indeed timeless.

Bob Barker as host of TPIR is a given, and he was great. But how many remember him as the host of "Truth or Consequences"? A network show that went into syndication in the late 60's/early 70's. A great memory for this 1959 baby.
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I remember him on Truth or Consequences. Although I would have been under 5, so it would have been the tail end of him on that show. ( I was born in 1973)
 
I was a '74 baby.

One of my earliest has to be watching snooker with my dad, and it suddenly went off and they showed some images of a building in London and not really understanding what they were talking about. That would have been the Iranian embassy siege of 1980.

I've also got vague memories of the 1979 general election the previous year, but I can't remember much more than a screen full of numbers and my mum saying they'd been up all night watching telly and there was going to be a new Prime Minister and it was going to be a lady for the first time.

This would all have been black and white on our Bush set- we didn't get colour til 83.
 
BMR said:
I was a '74 baby.

One of my earliest has to be watching snooker with my dad, and it suddenly went off and they showed some images of a building in London and not really understanding what they were talking about. That would have been the Iranian embassy siege of 1980.

I've also got vague memories of the 1979 general election the previous year, but I can't remember much more than a screen full of numbers and my mum saying they'd been up all night watching telly and there was going to be a new Prime Minister and it was going to be a lady for the first time.

This would all have been black and white on our Bush set- we didn't get colour til 83.
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So you were watching snooker in black and white? How frustrating must that have been? Or did the commentators tell you what color ball was the object ball on every shot and mention where the yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black balls were when they were moved off their spots?
 
CTListener said:
So you were watching snooker in black and white? How frustrating must that have been? Or did the commentators tell you what color ball was the object ball on every shot and mention where the yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black balls were when they were moved off their spots?
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It's surprising how quickly you get used to it. But yeah, sometimes the commentator would say something like "for black and white viewers- that's the green ball over the pocket". Allegedly one once said "and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green." :D

By the mid 80s most main sets were colour, but I was watching snooker in black and white on my bedroom set well into the 90s- a 14" colour set was my first big purchase when I started full time work....
 
seatownmedia said:
This thread is indeed timeless.

Bob Barker as host of TPIR is a given, and he was great. But how many remember him as the host of "Truth or Consequences"? A network show that went into syndication in the late 60's/early 70's. A great memory for this 1959 baby.
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1952 baby here. I remember Truth or Consequences well. It ran in prime time in the mid and late 1960s, for years in Los Angeles on KTTV 11. Speaking of TPIR, I also remember Bill Cullen as host. THAT"S how old I am.
 
When i was a baby, the shows i watched in the morning didn't vary that much- Sesame Street, then The $25,000 Pyramid, then Sale of the Century, Wheel of Fortune and Scrabble. then, when WSPA and WYFF had news, i'd watch Perry Mason on WHNS. then my mom would watch her soaps- All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital. but then, i'd to my bedroom because when the TV where we watched the soaps was a antenna source, the TV in my room had a satellite source, so i would watch Press Your Luck, then go back to my living room, where my mom would be watching Private Benjamin reruns on WLOS. This was in 1986.
 
Daily episodes of American Bandstand from Philadelphia and second run episodes of The Ann Southern Show and Amos & Andy. There was also a local cartoon show with Mr. Duffy. This would have to be about 1958 when I turned five.
 
My grandmom always watched her "stories"(soap operas)- she was a big fan of Another World, The Guiding Light, etc. She really hated Rachel on AW- played by a young Robin Strasser- back then, Rachel was a troublemaker, trying to steal Steve alway from Alice, played by Jacqueline Courtney. My grandmom always showed sympathy towards Alice if she cried over anything.(Lee Randolph, another AW character was also given that treatment by my grandmom). She also watched Love is a Many Splendored Thing too.
 
I could mention having a crush on Annette Funicello on the Mickey Mouse Club. I was shocked...SHOCKED...when informed that the shows I was watching were somewhere around 8 years old, and my sweet Annette was 21 or so doing beach blanket movies.
 
My grandmom did a lot of mix and matching of daytime shows. From NBC, it was Concentration, Hollywood Squares, Jeopardy! and Another World. From CBS it was Search for Tomorrow,
Love is a Many Splendored Thing, The Guiding Light, As the World Turns, and The Edge of Night. In the 1980s, i watched Sale of the Century, Wheel of Fortune from NBC, and the soaps from ABC. But if my grandmom visited, she had to watch AW and GL.

My grandmom also liked The Waltons too as well as Little House on the Prairie.
 
My earliest memories of television shows I enjoyed include Astroboy and The Soupy Sales Show.
 
Mine were cartoons mostly - Smurfs, Thundercats, Silverhawks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Muppet Babies - and Pee Wee Herman's Playhouse.
 
I guess my very earliest memories would be from around age 4, watching the old NET (predecessor to PBS) and their line-up of kids shows (The Friendly Giant, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, What's New?) on a 15 inch B&W Motorola television set. As the oldest of six television was probably my babysitter WAY too often.
 
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If i was alive then, i would have watched Jeopardy, The Doctors, Another World, Hollywood Squares and Concentration on NBC, and Search for Tomorrow,
Love is a Many Splendored Thing, The Guiding Light, As the World Turns, and The Edge of Night from CBS. If i watched anything from ABC, it would have been Let's Make a Deal.
 
Watching Saved By The Bell every morning on TBS before going off to school.
 
newsmark said:
My earliest memories are from when I was 3, watching Cisco Kid, The Honeymooners (old black and white episodes during the day on weekdays and color episodes on Saturday nights), and Looney Tunes on KTVT's Cartoon Carnival.

About that time, I got up one morning to watch Captain Kangaroo on KDFW. The signal was fading out badly, so I started flipping channels and noticed all the channels seemed "off." I was afraid I was going to get in trouble for "fine tuning" to much.

Eventually I found the Captain on Channel 10 and eventually heard them say it was "Waco." It was my first TVDX and I was hooked forever.
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I remember one time, staying up late on a Saturday night in the summer of 91, and watching American Gladiators at i think it was 1am. As soon as the Samuel Goldwyn logo came up, turned off the TV and went to bed. It might have been in 1989 too. That logo told me it was time for bed.:cool:
 
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